Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-07-08
B- y. Taylor i'm COngress-.IFe describas
three Ohio COugRessInen,

From the Chicago journal of Wednes-
day, we clip the following pen portraits.
Small, frail dark-eyed as William
Susan but less than half as true; long satin
haIr as black as the regions that sit in
darkness, quick as cat, and. as Powhstan
might have described him, "face all ovar7'
and you have a rude sketch of the author of
The Buckeye Abroad S. s. Cox of Ohio
bis literary fame troubles him. for mis-
chlevousmembers often produce thevolume
and choice extract is read from it where
IN he describes his attendance ut st
Peters St Pauls, or somewhere abroad
upon mlnlstrations of negro clergyman
and was edited. He would fain make il
out a miracle now, and put the African
and the Beast Of Balaam on the same cir
cut, He.is 'as smart as a whip," as the
jockeys say, but his matter loses sometime
from his manner; he is too devils darning
needieish, or, to go step higher in the
scale OF beng for an illustration, he flies at,
and darts about, his subject and his op-
ponent ike frantic humming bird.
Exactly IN front of me is face with a
good deal Of character. of the German
cast and reminding you of De Kalb and
Steuben; the wel-balanoed head set
squarely upon the shoulders; hair short
and light and tinged a little like ths
~tawny Fiber; upper lip shaded bv =
moustaehe; eyes small and keen, possibly
indicating not so much intelleeu5I
breadth as acUteness; chin iuttine out
from the throat at a right angle; well nut
together but not large-it is the chairman
OF the Committee on Military Affairs
at whom you are looking: Robert G
Schenck, Of Ohio, and late Major General
of Volunteers. He is an emphatic man.
uses short words and puts them in the
right places when he talks; takes short
steps and sets his feet down firmly when
he walks. Impatient enough to belong
to the irritable genus and be a poet when
amused has face laughs all over. and. I
rather think that when angry-and I
fancy he may not be so very aslow" To
that emotional disturbance-the frown
slips down from his brow and lowers e,,e1,
to the chin, but it doesn't last, l imagine
but elea saway ike a storm in the tropics.
Somewhere up in the fifties, Mr.. Schenck
Is IN full Vigor of manhood. Loyal 10 the
heart Of hearts, his record both upon floor
and field is ''honor bright -IEE
About as close to the Speakers desk as
he can get is another General, who per-
haps, eannot quite abandon his old fashion
Of being IL the front. Looking, Inst now
more like q schOolmaster than Ike a dash
g Oficers with hair so bright a brov-n
Iat, in his boyhood, it must have Looked
Nidraw1 from distaf, you would hardly
suspect that the mild eyed man, not tall
and little stout in a short skirted bust
ness coat 4imost brief enough TO be witty
VINO goes about as if he were mending
pens For the scholars, could be James A,
UaTheld, Of Ohio His eyes do not fash
swords, the CRIME of battle is all washed
away, and he is no longer a star-bearer in
the brilliant constellation of Rosecrans'
staff but, only and merely, 'the gentleman
from Ohio" He carries his head italicised
well thrown back, l mean-a head lib
orally rounded out in the propelling
regions. Entering Congress with a sol,
dier's prestige, if he has not attained the
rank to which his advocates laid claim, if
proves, not so much his lack of ability as
their excess of enthusiasm, for the two
things in the world that require a hand
ling the most unlike, are words and swords