The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-06-22

place in the early debates when the Republican ,
cause had only begun to develop he has labored
for mere conventional and subordinate issues
during the present Congress, his Charmanship
of Foreign Affairs emitting him to speak fully
upon such special issues as the great Exhibition
OF Paris.
ApoNAIs.
There is another man of note in the centre of
of the House whose appearance is forceful and
commanding, Roscoe Conkling, whose height is
that of Mars, crowned with the forehead and
locks of Hyperion. His eyes are black and large;
he is brimlul OF blood and action, and his auburn
curls and beard and beaked nose are set above
shoulders that become great captain. His feet
and hands are very small.
THE sCHooLMAsTER AWAY FROM HOME.
Scarcely less portl, though with more
citizen carriage, is General Garfield, OF Ono,
whom the war brought forward in bold relief
now at the head of q devoted constituency, em-
bracing the Ashtabula District, and the un.
earther of mileage abuses. He was a Camp
bellite preacher for while, and school
teacher very long; when he took the field for
| the Union he led all his scholars into battle,
| and his military record is straightforward and
manly. He 1t was who discovered in the ranks
the favorite Western artist and Journalist
| Frank Mason, of Cleveland, and gave him
| captaincy that he might embellish the cam
| paign in the pages of the Atlantic Monthly and
! elsewhere. General Garfield is most dilgent
| student, and his store OF reading and thought
! laid away In the past are now making illus6ra-
| tion for the passing crisis. He is still young;
| MS light hair and open countenance making his
| appearance pleasant; and no considerable ques-
tion arises that he does not interest himself In,
| as of many he is the suggestor. In the present
| Congress there are five senators and twenty
! eight representatives who have been school
| masters.
| RICH CONGRESSMAN.
| The man of the infe exibe, searching face, who
| sits well apart to the left, is Henry L. Dawes,
of Massachusetts,, trained in the school OF pro-
scouting lawyer, and here in Congress as terrible
| in rebuke as he used to be to offenders at the
| bar. As Chairman of the Committee on Elec-
| tions, he administered to Mr. Brooks on re.
| firing O most caustlc reproach. Mr.. Dodge
| himself ranks in the House as an excellent pub
lie servant, attentive to the interests of the great
municipality he represents, and like the mass
of New York congressman, has shrewd busi-
| ness face, ranking with Bidwell, OF California,
Grinnell, of Iowa. Morehead, of Pennsyl-
vania, Ames, of Massachusetts, and Latin, of
| New York among the 'sold men" OF Congress,
OF these capitalists, Ames is the great manu-
facturer OF shoves, and his handicraft has
opened the innumerable placers of California
and Colorado. General Bidwell is the greatest
landholder in the world, possessing 10000
acres on the Pacific coast. He is a large black
| haired, faTmerlike man, ,iwho raised brigade of
soldiers among his tenants and laborers.
Grinnell, the thorn in the size of General Rous-
seau, is a small, faxen-haired gentleman, the
possessor of 5000 head of sheep. Mr.. Latin is a
paper manufacturer, and the foe to reckless
Government printing, against which he daily
inveghs. Mr. Morehead makes a million of
iron year. He is the brother-inla law of Jay
Cooke, the banker, and one of the great Penn
sylvania capitalists. Among the founders of
benevolent reforms IL legislation there is John
A. Kasson, of Iowa, the advocate of the system
OF metrical weights and measures an act of
itself showing how progressive and enlightened
are the objects of an antiSlavery Congress
GROUP OF LEGISLATORS.
The small reticent grey-haired gentleman
close to the Speakers lett hand is Colonel Cobb,
of the 5th Wisconsin Regiment, hero of Will
liamsburg, and a man Of growing power in the
Northwest, close to whom is Halbert Paine, one
Of the strongest minds Of the session Sitting
himself sturdy Republican, is Ignatius Don.
nelly, of Minnesota, Philadelphia boy in
origin, and, by his early traditions, party
Democrat. Transplanted to the better West, he
embraced with generous devotion the tenets OF
the youthful Republican party, and has filed
with great honor the Office OF Lieutenant
| Governor. He is q smooth faced, auburn-haired
young man-the youngest member of the House,
and his speech for the Educational Bureau bill
was an ardent and intelligent argument, con
ceived in gratitude and confirmed by convic
ton. He belongs to singulaIly gifted family,
CHARACTER MAN.
Caricature must find its readest, though moi
its most dangerous subject on the floor in "Lone
John" Wentworth, of Chicago, a monstrous
height of man, reaching full seven feet, huge
in bulk, and quite bald, save where rim o
soft infants HAIR adheTes to the back of his neck
His ears are honyhocks. He has smooth
dmpled lace, broad and rubicund, and when he
OeCldllnS the most renlarkaDle COnIOrJlOES come
over il. His career has been entirely Western
He is the author of the Rnderpest resolutions
whereof much good came to domestic drovers
and much grumbling to consumers of beef
Wentworth is shrewd and successful, and rather
fond of the individual presence given him by
nature.
The large, handsome, distiague man resem
bling Charles Sumner somewhat, who sits tal
back by Thaddeus Stevens, is Justin Morrill,, o
Vermont, who would probably be the Chairman
OF The Committee on Appropriations in the
event of Mr.. Stevens retiring, and therefore tht
virtual "leaderr OF the House. His knowledge
OF financial craftsmanship is accurate and pro
found, and he is therefore one of the most usefu
| servants OF the country.
ATHLETES
General Rousseau, OF Kentucky is a power
fully built man. of sensitiYeness oisproportionet
to his bulk, who has attended, while in Congress
not so much TO the general good of his con
stituency and the republic, as to what has beel
said OF HIM by Mr.. Gtlnnell, the sheepgrower HI
was elected Unionist but the majority of Con
gressme1 think that he hardly sustains the rOl
he was elected to take.
In another part of the House stands 1.-the
small person hardly beyond boyhood, with eye
| and hair of midnight black, yet looking AM
moving like a tiger. This is John r. Kelso, o
extreme Southern Missouri, who is said TO hav
killed more than sixty Rebels with his owl
| hand. He is SCARED and shot from sole Il
crown, and in the border episodes OF the wa
| holds STRANGE wild prominence, where IN tn
bitterness of The fight he retoTted upon ind
: vldual Rebels the violence they inaugurated AN,
hunted them, alone and persistently, like one il
| a Uendettd. Here he is quiet, amiable grave
but this studded roof, and its soft emblemat
2 | medallions are in odd con sonance with thu
r | dark and bloody vstas he has haunted.
t THE POTENT STATES.
! The red face, set with bluishly-grey Jacksonal
hair OF James f. Wilson, of Iowa, Chairman otth
| Committee the Judiciary adiOns thar n Gene