Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-04-03

once In the OuIted States Senate, there
was stentOrian voice, which, from time
to time, sounded a Tar-note from the
South; end about the.same period, auoth-
er in the House of Re presedtAtives; equally
aroused the sleepy members OF the National
Legislature, if it did not even terrify them
and the Northern "mudsills" whom they
comf6Ftably-t {. without any special ex-
ertion to themselVes-Were supposed to
represent
But Toombs and Wise have long since
been wasting their sweetness on the battle.
fields Of the "oonfederaey," and We have
no particular '.eufsnt terrible y now in
either wing of the Capitol,
"To fright the seals OF fearful o4veroariss
France, grave, sedate, Imperial France
is better OF. She possesses the indomita-
BILE Marquis de Boissy, with whose recent
oratorical outburst in the Freoch Senate
on the 9th inst, during the debate on the
Address, all the European journals are
teeming. An acute critic, couutryman
of his own, thus gives us Hogarthian
sketch of the formidable Marquis. Ii il
really and very strikiugly illustrative of
French Legislative life and status at this
time.
The Marquis de Boissy is q political
figure of very marked outline. He posses
ses great deal of mental snap, and he is
profuse in its display; he is noted for q
frsukuess of idea and expression which he
does not seek to disguise; he invests his
language with form and 'tinRe of humor
| that abounds in spicy sallies; and yet, be-
yond and above all that, he never ceases TO
be natural amid his eccentricities Oa the
rostrum he talks as he would in BALI
roon-a little of everything, without rule,
without sequence, paying no attention to
the manual or to the regularity Of what be
| utteTs, provided he can only manage, from
time TO time, TO get Of good hit; inter.
| rupting himself. and submitting to inter-
| rupuons from others only to reply thereto
| with Sehemence; taking no heed of the
protests he provokes; looking the throrg
| squarely in the eyes always wearing out
! the patience Of every presiding cfhcer in the
Chamber of Peers and the Senate alike by
his obstiuacy and rude rePartees, and never
seeming better satisfied with himself than
when he has succeeded in calling down on
his owu hesd q genuine thorough going
tempest.
He is, in the highest degree, the tsaqcsu
VtrlIHI efrwhom HoFs ca -epeeks; interroga-
| tory, csils TO order, nothing stops him.
You think he is beaten? Not by sny
| means; be bears up again, and fings into
the body of the debate, some heavy truth
| hard to gAinsay and vigorous in utterance
which resnimstes discussion and enables
| him TO remain on the rostrum and there
| comuerce &c again his keen, ,6enpnciationa oi
everybody and everything, And he sea.
sons his attacks with SO much Gallo salt
| and sstirical wit, that he forces even those
TO listen who least favor what be says.
They murmur against him, but he utters
what he Pleasss; they protest, but they
! hesrksn to him. T- E.-,,-.t q
They cali him the MsEplot who knows
not how to keep silent, and who, with the
| utmost coolness, puts his foot into the
i most delicate questions, but they let hin
talk on, if It were only fer the sake Of
catching him in the very act ofecceutricTty
Upon such terms as these, II. de BoissJ
has DO party and belongs to none. HI
stands alone in the Senate, as he does IL
tSe Chamber of Peers; but he hasa ven
marked eharaSseristic individuality, and i
\ Is something, at least, to make oneself sin
gular, and not to resemble everybody else
Such is the portrait in pen aud ink of
man who has Just set raA Eqrope on tn,
qui rtVe by his eccentric and uuneasure,
+ attack upon England as the asylum of DO,
litical refugees, and his opposition to lib
4 eralism in general.