The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1866-09-15
the great galaxy of splendid people which Ohio

the great galaxy of splendid people which Ohio
has of late given to freedom and the country.
Howard, of Michigan, is man of flushed COM
plexion, porting through glasses, and Kirkwood,
OF Iowa. is the easy neglige member. slgthg
W thout neck tie, agricultural IN method and
quiet.
Guthrie. of Kentucky, well back on the Demo-
cratic right is an aged, staid peSson. one or the
most venerable among the Senators IN service and
feebleneSs. He votes with the unrevivlng and un~
reyvable school of Lewis Cass. fair for that day.
but since that day the volcano has had Its grand
eruption and another generation lives.
B. Gratz Brown, of Missouri, sits close up to
the Speaker small man of nervous tempera
ment, able in much, transcendental sometimes,
full of high thoughts on man and destiny, and,
with Mr.. Anthony of Rhode Island. the journalists
element of the Senate. The latter is pleasant
citizen, legislator very kindly and incorruptible.
The Jester of the Senate is Nye, of Nevada, who
sits next to Sumner, a sledge.hammer man when
he strikes in earnest, and probably the first stump
speaker in America its pioneersman was James
Fl Lane of Kansas, favoritely known to himself
as Jim Lane-a man of good use, once upon q
time to fight the beasts Of Ephesus, but not al
WAYS the best match for the man who fired the
Ephesian dome; Stewart OF Nevada, IS It's most
| anxious spirit, man Of auburn heard, ana ever
watchful while Wade of Ohio is its gladiator. lie
is man of infexible face, above common height
with sharp features and compressed mouth, sallow
| of complexion, his hair very pugnaciOus. He IS
a hard man to have on the side OF your enemy and
carries his head little down as If to say: Il am
horned and toss!" Educated in the spirit OF north.
! ern Ohio, he can bear no mention OF personal
freedom imperiled and defers little to conventional
things, so man, in Submarines, be INDICATED.
| CoWan, of Pennsylvania, the Presidents cham
pion, is tall, student>like man, of much culture
is calculated to work with majority dealing lit
tie with ideas but vigorous with illustrations. no
despicabe enemy in any issue, and by his present
unpopular course, rising naturally to prominence
| it not IN power.
! TrumbuI, of Illinois. is compact, small man,
square-headed, pointed in gesture, powerful and
exhaustive in argument. drawing from his gold
glasses some shadow of schOlasticism.
Morgan of New York has the fine commercial
face of our metropolitan merchants, frosted lit
tie with equally turning hairs, and Harris, his col
league, is more broad and parental, both Of them
attentive to the colossal interests of this sWarming
industrial empire.
Morgan is keen, active New England lawyer,
with no melo dramatic loves.
Pomeroy, of Kansas, is the fac simlle of the
sturdy country gentleman, above fretting or mel>
anehely.
CONFESS is one of the belligetent members, tenn
perate, selfmade, with the North-Irsh virtues and
indomitabiIity.
i Nesmith was once sutler on the plains, and
comes by hard rounds to good place on the lad
4 der; and Buckalew, who was rated in the Penn
sylvania Legislature as most fluent and sery &C.
able party man, has so far been failure That the
exacting and desperate Democracy, fall of thirst
and hunger, are loud in upbradng him.
), The noyiciate il Congress who concludes thai
he is to make his mark by oratory alone, will suf'
n fer assured discontinue. The men who advance
f most rapidly are those with special adaptations
or who have mastered some single department 0
political literature beyond the reach OF all Others
On the floor, the more sensibility to opinion thu
less progress is the rule 1t is singular that MANY
men of splendid attainments come to Congress t
lose their reputation. The case of Horace Binne,
of Philadelphia is in point-a lawyer with few
equals, he telt that here he had not confirmed III
renoWn, and declined denomination.