Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1864-01-07

but he seems not at ell incorporeal.
He looks as if he might last a score
Of years yet; God grant he may-to
kindle at the altar of American hearts,
the prophets sacred and renewing
nres. 1881
There, in the ladies' gallery, is a
woman who will not finch under my
pencif--or anybody's. Mrs. Jane G.
Swisshelm, of Minnesota, one of the
sharpest politicians among American
women, I think, and, for all that, a
good housekeeper / know, for have
eaten her biscuits. She has very
large head, high over firmness and
self-esteem, wide at combativencss,
massive in the ntellcctual-moral re-
gions, and a forehead as square as q
marble block-causalty ia.ting out in
the most defiant manner. Added to
this, face full of self-assertion, q
controversial mouth, which plainly
says, No compromise IAN inquisi.
tive nose, sharp almost to ferccnese.
and eyes four times as sharp as her
nose. Fifteen years ago she was ed
itor Of the Pittsburgh Saturday Eisitor,
and the most widely-read and popular
female writer in this country. Her re-
cent miscellaneous articles, show the
same Observation-Disclosures and genial
style, but party warfare has wearied
and worried her, and on political top
les, the ink flows acrid from her pen.
As an opponent she 10 disagreeably
witty, and in debate as unrelenting as
Parson Brownlow. She leads off the
applause in the ladies' gallery to-day,
and when the mild Copperhead Clerk
utters his mild reproof, she looks as
If she would delight In tweaking his
nose. In religion, she maintains the
doctrines Of the old Scotch Covenant
ers, and as she makes jealous cham
pion, | am certain.she would make an
admirable martyr-for she would pisk
the stake at any time for the priyi1oge
Of the last word. She is poe ((ve,
progressive and aggressive. and usu-
ally on the other side" Her deci.
sion, courage and selE.rcliance, the
availability Of her knowledge and the
power Of her personal magnetism, en-
dow her with the qualities Of lead.
err /; and il she, with FIVE hundred 9th
or Americanswomen, should be wreck
ed some fine morning, on any desolate
island in the Pacific, Mrs. Swisshelm
woald be elected Queen in fifteen min
utes, and have provisional govern
ment organized before dinner.
] turn to meet tall and patriarch.
al looking man. with most benig.
nant face, advancing down the hall.
My old, Young friend. John, Pierpont.
old. Cor he will turn the four-score cor
ner next winter, and wrote rhymes be-
fore the present century began. Young,
for though the decades are Tailed of
in wrinkles on his face, and his hair
and beard white and flowing. like o
Druid's. yet he retains freshness,
elasticity and buoyancY that many .
young man might cnvy.A His face is
rosy, his step free and firm, and his
form ~ straight as . wild Indians.
There is an air of rejuvenescence
about him, which the contrast or his
age turns into perpetual surprise.
Two years ago, = few anti-slavery
young men here called meeting Of
their kind, for the organization of
society whose object was to be to
assist in placing this community on q
higher plane, with regard to Litcra-
ture, Loyalty and Liberty The eve-
ming came--so did Mr.. Pierpont. /
know | do not intrude." he said to us,
:" | saw the call to Young Men, and
/ looked within my heart and found
that answered to the description y
His wit is always at hand his good
nature imperturbable. He attributes
his long enjoyment of his faculties,
and Of life, to his abstemiousness. His
teeth are sound. for he never chewed
tobacco bis digestion is good, for he
never smoked his eyes do not need
the glasses at the opticians, for he
has never damaged them with the
glasses at the corner grocery. Az
everybody knows, Temperance and
Freedom have no more ardent lovers
than he. His poems are known where
yer the English language is spoken.
and will be read with admiration when
oblivion shall have swallowed up all
the wrestling politicians of the hour.
He writes now betimes, and as Park
ct raid of his poems twenty years
ago. his xritings Of today also ring
with tho screAns Of the wild eagle
A hpbbub in the hail. All ID to.
multi. Somebody shouts something
to the Speaker. Tho members jump
up and put on their hats, as if to run
to a fire. Tho Speaker says "'Tis
moved and seconded that the House
now adjourn. Many as favor it say
! AVE. Contrary NO." Nobody
says; anything. except the Speaker,
who says Ayes have it. House
st&nds adjourned And we will ad-
jonrn onr sitting. too, Mr.. Editors.s u