The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-06-25
- WHEELING WEST VA MONDAY MORNING. JUNE 25. 1866

Cnanlc ~ years dSO. Inc ISlAOSAo oSJ
elected him to the bench of the Com
mon Pleas, and he acted diligently with
the party till the repeal of the Missouri
| Compromise in 1854. He was one OF
the first to declare for the destruction
of Slavery, but until 1857 held out for
| Free Trade, until convinced by the logic
of that years panic that protection was
essential. He suffered much aninad-
| version, but steadily gained credit and
popularity, till, in the extra session of
| 1861, he took his seat in the House, and
almost Immediately met Vallandigham
| in argument. His effort referred to the
| Trent imbrogliO, and he proved so
stern and collected that he was thence
4 forward listened to with attention.
| Prior to this time, he had taken an ad-
vanced position upon the question of
negro suffrage, and for the last five
| years he has made this the main cause
| of his career. His diction Is always
| correct, while his successive speeches
upon the Emancipation Proclamation,
the Recognition OF Hayti and Liberia,
and the Extension OF Suffrage IN the
District of Columbia, are marvels of
patient collaboration. OF the last
measure, he is the author. In six ses-
sions of Congress, he has been absent
only one business day, a record of
| faithfuInesS matched, probably, by no
other Congressman. To the better make
himself uSHlul III puulIC
Judge Kelley has abandoned entirely
the large and lucrative practice he en-
loved, and may now be said to subsist
entirely upon his pay rs a Congress-
man. No circuit riding preacher works
more diligently, his private quarters
being an arsenal whence are forwarded
! tons of speeches and public documents
| to every nook of the South. he has
classified the addresses of all leading
people of the disaffected section, and is
forever getting them within the range
of debate, so that with him, indeed, the
frankiug privilege is an evanselizer:
Kelley is bordering upon 80 years OF
age; he has the reputation of incorrup-
| tibility, and while his discussions of
great questions often lack scope and
| Imagination, they are always exhaus-
tive in detail and thoroughly practical.
He has no wit, but is an orator of grave
and resonant address, and on the occa-
sion of Voorhees,, of Indiana, interpola-
ting one of his (Kelley's) speeches, the
Radicals denounced him with an invec-
tive which made both friends and enc
mics shiver.
AN EN-SPEAKER.
Close by the chair to which he was once
elected, after ballot, which, by its
closeness and pertinacity, became his
toric, sits the short, compact martial
figure of Gen. Banks, who rose from a
bObbin-bOy'S place to control Con-
gress. and to lead an army. He has an
excellent head, handsomely shaven,
lacking not the thick mustache to give
it character, so penetrating are the
ewes. In physiognomy he is model
of the New England face, square, pug
nacious, close in the jaws, and as an
orator ranks among the best. He IS
essentially II public man, little atten-
tive to the thrift and method which
give private riches, but of elastic tenn
permanent, trustful of the day and the
reward thereof, and only showing the
marks of service in the occasional
shadows of gray which play upon his
plentiful hairs. He is of polished par
tiamentary address, and has something
of the actor in his more earnest essays.
Having taken a leading place in the
early debates when the Republican
cause had only begun to develop, he
has labored for mere conVentlnl anu
subordinate issues during the present
Congress, his Craftsmanship of Foreign
Affairs emitting him to speak fully
upon such special issues as the Great
Exhibition of Paris.
ADoNAIs.
There is another man of note in the
center OF the House whose appearance
is forceful and commanding, Roscoe
Conkling, whose hight is that of Mars,
crowned with the forehead and locks
of Hyperian. His eyes are black and
large; he is brimful of blood and ac-
tion, and his auburn curls and beard
and beaked nose are set above shoul-
ders that become great Captain. His
feet and hands are very small.
THE sCHooLMAsTER AWAY FROM HOME
Scarcely less portly, though with a
more citizen carriage. is Gen. Garfield,
of Ohio, whom the war brought forward
| in bold relief, now at the head of n de-
voted constituency, embracing the Ash
tabula district, and the unearther OF
mileage abuses. He was Campbell
ite preacher for while, and school
teacher very long; when he took the
field for the Union he led all his scho-
lars into battle. and his military record
| is straightforward and manly. He, II
was, who discovered in the ranks the
! favorite Western artist and journalist,
Frank Mason of Cleveland, and gave
him u captaincy that he might emDeI-
| lish the campaign in the pages OF me
| Atlantic Monthly and elsewhere. Gen.
Garfield is most diligent student, and
his store of reading and thought laid
away in the past are now making illus
tration for the passing crisis. lie IS still
Young; his light hair and open counte-
nance making his appearance pleas
ant; aud no considerable question 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-FIVE representatives who
have been schoolmasters.
A GROUP OF LEGIsLAToRs.
The small, reticent, gray-haired gem
tIeman close to the Speakers left hand
is Col. Cobb, ofthe 5th Wisconsin Regi-
ment n hero of Williamsonsburg and
man of growing power in the North
West, close to whom is Halbert
Paine, one of the strongest minds OF
| the session. Sitting in the midst of the
Democratic members, though himself
sturdy Republican, is Ignatius DON
nelly, of Minnesota, a Philadelphia boy
| in origin, and, by his early traditions,
party Democrat. Transplanted to the
better West, he embraced with gener-
Gus devotion the tenets of the youth
full Republican party, and has filled
with great honor the Office of Lieuten-
ant Governor. He is smooth-faced,
auDurn-hnired young mantle young
est member of the House, and his
speech for the Educational Bureau bill
was an ardent and intelligent argu-
ment conceived in gratitude and con-
firmed by conviction. He belongs to a
singularly gifted family
a CHARACTER MAN.
| Caricature must find its readiest,
| though not its most dangerous subject
on the floor in "Long John" Wentworth
of Chicago, a monstrous hight of man,
reaching full seven feet, huge in bulk
and quite bald, save where rim of soft
| infants hair adheres to the back OF his
neck. His ears are hollyhocks. He
has a smooth, dimpled face, broad and
rubicund, and, when he declaims the
most remarkable contortions come over
| it, His career has been sntirely West
ern. He is the author OF the Rinder-
pest resolutions, whereof much good
came to domestic droYers and much