New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-07-08

frequently differs with his great relative matters
public policy. snd independently acts ia square opposi
ton TO him and confess that in the reporters gallery
where there is stratum Of Jacobnisui ills square
ness Of opposition has entitled him 10 fraternity
and already won love. RICE OF Massachusetts,
Is on the floor careworn thinner than in January last
whiterthan when at great sacrifice lie reluctantly lef
previously neglected business 10 a second tint
to a Congress TO which he was the only man his con
sttnents could elect lie is the Chairman Of the House
Naval Committee, and the business he las done la,
been load iOI the strongest man In the nation TO stag
ger under. lis the era of iron Earships-the period
Of transition from wooden figates to monitors, from
oaken seventy fours TO ironclad the period Of re
from unsatisfactory experiment in iron again to
wood. All questions all disputes, oil doubts. all re
sponshiies growing OF this vast change burdened
this mans head and heart Disputes and questions
about the ancient sieamengines OF tie ancient navy;
about shsllow.draft steamers; about nayyyards-
the latter immensely fought In the lobby as well as
in the commtceroom about sailors that could not be
had and sailors that should be in the navy. butwere
carrying InnsLcs in tho army aboat everything that
concerned the efficiency and honor OF that branch Of
the service which wages this immense war the riv-
Of quarter of this continent and has plated with
frowning cannon the entire coast line OF the Rebellion
from Matamoros to Cape Henry.
ASHLEY Of Ohio with head of brown curls gil
might envy sits already in the enjoyment of bis yaca-
ton from hard work. lie is Chairman Of the Commit
tee on Territories and he has got through The House
everything that the Territories needed and the country
required. But he should have baptized his last born
territorial babe sho-shone, and not Montana.
And there ia General ScuENoK the head of the Mill.
ary Committee, with brows and jaws of bronze hard
and strength, ready and pointed debater with
ths will Of true leader which the irritation Of old
gunshot wound received IN battle occasionally smarts
into Impotence passion-a clear seeing straightfor
ward practical maB who with his colleagues GARFIELD
and others, deserve well of the country for their
ceasing labor and peinsaking TO enlarge the armies
and increase their efficiency. And near him is the
vacant seat Of KAssoS Of Iowa. natural born legisa.
tor, and destined to influence and distinction. He
supradds TO the power and habit Of labor the talent to
think clearly and continuously his legs. He is blessed
with exemption from the vanity TO produce rhetorical
effects. lie speaks right on what he thinks with sus-
tanned Aueney, and with voice whose Volume
aud cut reach TO and fill oil parts of the Hall Legisa
ton is business with him. and he works hard at it for
permanent results Few men on the floor are listened
to with pleasure than this young Iowan and if
his District is wise it Will measure the length of his
And there is Henry WINTER DAVIS, a young man.
yet OF national fame His speech the reconstruction
of the Union delivered without notes. but with unin
terrupted flow OF law and reason, Of the most
complete exhibitions Of parliamentary oraory Of the
highest order heard IN the House in the last twenty
years When tue politics Of Maryland lose their Bor-
derSatc isolation aud sayageIy and the States posi-
ton in the Union is without fermentation this mans
Al. l.. .,,I, of,
national
KELLEY philadelphia stands reading an opon let
ter-slighy noticeable for Disagreement of the lid Of
one Of his eyes received in a machine shop in which
his youth was educated-a man who literally hammered
his way up in life and who is capable of hammerDg his
representative way through life on whatsoever paths
social tyranny or political injustice seek to bar mans
progress to pure democracy KELLEY is an orator Of
rare and marked qualities. He IS peculiar in thor
oughy dramatic information of his anger his pathos his
defiance his irony-an intonaon which IS the purest
and most unconscious nature while seemingly studied
art He enjoys far outside of Pennsylvania, the rcpu-
alton of being useful legislator lover of art and of
literature, fiery humanitarian and an honest man. 1t
is said that lis District going honor itself by re-
electing him.
So with Pike of Maine. / hear that he is to be re
elected Can it be possible that the North is at last
learning tho wisdom that intuitivo with the South
the wisdom of continuing Congressman In Office
Why, Congressman an efficient. useful sCongresS
man is product like locomotive engineer
a scholar, a shp.buider. He is never born The
Shareholders carefully trained these men by keeping
them in their places term after term, until they acquired
the power which results sheery from familiarity with
past legislation and year.long use Of the rules, aid
vearong habit in all the ways of legislation, AID until
they had acquired over and above the power OF con-
stanty embarrassing and chcckmaing the green rep
rosentatiycs from the Free States the monopoly Of that
experience more essential than talent to the chairman
shin of Committees and the leadership Of the House. to
make no mention of the empire of the Speakers Office
Yes Send back the good members. All you constit'
uencies that have representatives like Pike, Blaine
Thaver Smithors Garfield Anderson, Ortiz Dumont
Julian Arnold Farnsworth Norton Beaman, Kellogg
Ciooch Epson, Highly, Littlejohn, Donney, Rollins
Elliott remember that you the office of Represent
alive in Congress and that politicians have no right or
title whatever to that property. And when these pol
ticans banker after this your heredtament and howl
the "how of locality TO make ii drop into their hungry
mouths, pray you to stop the noisy holes with DIS
appointment and neglect, and TO send back here ana TO
keep sending back here, the men who serve you well
But the House is In session, and how speedily IL is
passing out OF session Dy the expiration VI Jus "pPoe
time wAsHBURNE of Illinois strong, vehement, dex'
ferrous experienced. and successful psrlameotarian
save ~ his not unfrequcn moods Of passion leads the
proceedings win the effective reading of paper at
once military song of victory, and an invocation 70
courage and peTsisenoy. Unanimous consents to sus
pend rules to refer bills for reeftde passage of unim
portant bills for reief-an addition Of twenty per cent
to the customary compensation Of the employees OF
the House that for brief moment staggered the virtue
Of a few members but too strongly pushed by the