Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1863-03-05

of his voice, and his calm. mellihuous Pc
riods arrest and fascinate the attention,
even of those progressives who believe
that Senator Harris, like his favorite gen.
eral, is altogether too slow for the present
state of affairs. Across the aisle is no.
BILE trio: Senators Colamer and Foot of
Vermont and Senator Fessenden of Maine.
It would be impossible to find two
grander representatives of honorable age,
than we see in the senators from Vermont.
Judge Collamer, it is impossible to hear
from the galleries, but when he speaks,
the senate listens, which is the greatest of
all compliments, for the senate does not
always exert itself to use its ears; but it
pays due respect to an oracle on all points
touching the Judiciary" Senator Foote
carries his seventy years with unbent
shoulders and an unwrinkled face. His
hair is perfectly white, his head massive,
his features finely cut, his piercing eyes
undimmed, his smile full of sweetness.
He is the most senatorial of senators, and
as president pro TEN he presides with un-
approachable dignity; the slightest buzz
bringing down the ivory mallet with
promptest unction, and the stentorian
voice calling the senators to their seats
like so many school boys Mr.. Fessen-
den is perhaps the most powerful debater
in the Senate. He is somewhat irritable
and sarcastic, always keen, the edge of his
argument cutting deeper than he knows,
He has partrician head one has only
to look at the brow to know that it must
be controlling force wherever it is seen.
Senator Morrill,, his colleague has face
as serenely smiling as his is severe /; be
has clear far-gazing, blue eyes which seem
to have caught vision ofthe future, yet
to be quickly alive to all the concerns of
the present. He is man of learning, and
Of the most comprehensive views, exerting
powerful influence in this august body
Senator Clarke of New Hampshire, tall,
easy, elegant, in his bearing, with a
strong face, deeply lined, seems like a
Boston lawyer A man of the deepest
convictions, the most uncompromising
principle, he never betrays the one, nor is
false to the other, and on no one does the
burden of our national sorrow seem 10 lie
with heavier weight.
Here behind an avalanch of papers sits
Garrett Davis, Of Kentucky, little, gar
rulous old man, who spends the greater
portion of each session in jumping up to
defend his own personal dignity. When
ever clever thing is said to him, he loses
his temper, attempts to say something in
tensely sarcastic, which is only intensely
ill-natured He has no love for Massa-
chusetts, detests abolitionists, speaks of a
slave precisely as ne does of horse, pro-
fesses to be a disciple of Henry Clay, and
is without doubt heartily, truly devoted to
''the Union as it was" In striking con-
trast with this irascible gentleman is Sen
ator Harlan, of Iowa, calm, kind man
in seeming, with clear, pure face, look
ing as if he could not be ill-natured if he
tried. An utter lack of all pretension
marks the bearing Of this gentleman. lie
evidently spends very little time studying
the perfections of Senator Harlan. If his
face tells the truth, he does the work Of
life quietly and faithfully, because it is
the work given him to do, without blow
ing a trumpet to tell how we'll he has done
it. The struggling, the needy, the sor.
rowful, would instinctively know him as a
friend.