The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1864-02-16
Lights and shadows at the State Capital.


AUGUSTA, Feb. Is, 1864.
Knox county is represented in part in the
Senate, by Hon. JOHN b. WALKER of Union,
a gentleman of fine attainments and Of great
personal worth. Mr.. Walker is a physician, a
graduate of the Maine Medical School at Bow
doin, is SO years of age, and has practised
medicine seventeen years, having commenced
when but 21 years old. He was born in Union
and has always resided there. DIR. Walker is
a stoutly built man, weighing 2l0 pounds and
measuring five feet nine inches in hight. His
political antecedents were Of the Wing school,
and when that party fell in the shade, having
fulfilled its mission, he became Republican,
and is now in full sympathy with the Union
party of the State, giving whole heart to his
country, and exerting an earnest spirit for the
upholding of its honor. l am told that he is
a very valuable member Of the Senate, and is
as much at home in detecting political mala-
dies and in prescribing for their removal, as
he is at the bedside of the sick in making the
diagnosis of disease and in dealing out pills
and powders.
Hon. JEREMIAH DINGLEY, Jr., Of Auburn,
is the Senator for Androscoggin. Mr.. ID. was
born in Danville, is Al years Of age, weighs 115
pounds, and is about five feet ten inches in
hight. He is merchant, and betrays very
familiar acquaintance with business, and de-
votes his time and his energies to the duties of
his office with fidelity and promptitude. Mr..
d. was formerly Wing, and has come to his
present position on the Union platform through
the Republican organization. He is a relative
of Mr. Speaker Dingley Of the House, but how
nearly related, am not informed. He has
had considerable legislative experience, having
been member of the House two years.
The Senator for Piscataquis is Hon. ELIAS
j. HALE of Foxcroft. He is fine looking
man, of very gentlemanly department, and for
personal appearance is one of the noticeable
men in the supper house." Mr.. Hale is man
ufacturer. He was born in Portland, is Al
years of age, weighs lS5 pounds, and in height
measures about five feet ten inches. He is q
man of great business activity, has quick
perception Of the merits Of question, and goes
TO work TO secure his object in a straightfor-
ward way, as he would TO accomplish any OBJ
ject Of private interest, by such means as good
common sense would suggest, and with very
little regard to the circuitous and often misty
methods which too frequently find favor in
legislative assemblies. Politically Mr.. Hale
has been of the Wing school, then an early
Republican, and now we find him on the Union
platform, knowing no political claims save
such as an imperilled country makes upon each
Of its patriotic sons.
Hon. ELIAS NILLIKEN of Durham, is one
of the Senators for Waldo. There are three
gentlemen in the Senate of this name, to wit:
ID. L. Milliken Of Kennebec, John Milliken of
Hancock. and the Senator from Waldo above
named. Mr. Milliken was born in Scarboro',
and from the fact that the same town was the
birthplace of the Kennebec Senator, and that
the latter spent portion of his life in Waldo,
before settling in Wateryile, we infer that they
are nearly related perhaps brothsrs-but
am not positive, and at the present writing il
is not convenient tor me to determine the fact.
Mr.. Milliken is 40 years Of age, of hardy frame,
stout and well-proportioned, is six feet in hight
and weighs 1875 pounds. His business is that
Of a lumberman. He is man OF good bust
ness habits, energetic, firm and reliable, always
has mind of his own, and is never afraid to
express it. Politically he is of Democratic an
tecedents, and stood by the cause in Bleeding
Waldo" as long as the Democratic party APP
rod ~, lo off aH
able grouad for hope that it would not sink all
who longer adhered to it to the fathomless
depths of disloyalty and treason. Mr.. NJ. fol-
lowed the fortunes of Mr.. Douglas, was
member Of the notorious Winthrop Hall con-
vention in Augusta that split on the question
Of sustaining the war, and turned his back upon
that reasonable concern when it voted down
war resolutions, and went into the Concert
Hall Convention, which nominated Gen. Jane
son, and he supported Jameson both of the
years he was before the people. From this
record it will be seen that he never acted with
the Republican organization, but when the
Bangor Convention met last summer on the
simple platform of unconditional loyalty to the
government, and unreserved support of all
measures necessary to put down rebellion and
to re-establish the government upon the prin-
ciples Of eternal liberty and Justice, Mr.. NJ.
found himself at home with that body, and he
now stands shoulder to shoulder with all other
loyal men Of the State, in the great Union
party. He was member of the House in
1856.
One Of the Penobscot Senators is Hon.
CHARLES BEAL of Hudson. Mr.. b. was born
in Augusta, is IS years of age, is tall and spare
in build, being six feet in hight and weighing
but $50 pounds. Mr.. Beal is merchant, and
from his general appearance, and the reputa-
lion he enjoys among his fellow-senators, | in
fer that he is q man who well understands his
business. The estimation In which he is held
by his fellow-citizens at home may be inferred
from the fact that he has twice represented his
town In the House-in 1910 and in 1SJ4-and
that he is now in the Senate for the second
term; having been member last winter Po-
litically he is of Wing antecedents, early Joined
in the Republican movement, and now gives
his fnll and unconditional support to the great
Union cause.
Hon. JOSEPH A. SAYBoRN of ReadAeld, is
a Senator for Kennebec. Mr.. S. was born in
the same town that he now halls from, is 40
years of age, weighs 100 pounds, and is FIVE
feet eleven inches in hight. In business he is
q manufacturer, and is one of the "solid men,
of his locality. He is man OF active temper
formed, has bright, piercing eye, a clear, Wig