The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1866-05-25


OF the free and the home of the oppressed
OF every race and cline. Applause in tho
galleries
Ohio Congressman Skstched.
A lady who is writing letters from WASH
ington, to the New York Independent,
speaks of members Of tho Ohio delegation
as follows:
okSERAL scuENCK
II is doubtful if there he nuothor delega4
ton in the House as distinCtively marked
as that from OHIO. And one of the most
prominent aud positive men in this very
able representation IA General Schenck. He
looks kc Geritian just from Faderland,"
an unmtigut'd Teutou--short, heavily-set,
squars.shouldered and square featured. He
has clUsey-clit sandy hair, aud n stubbled
moustachc of the same hue, perceptve
forehead, small, penetrating eyes, broad
jaw, mouth which can set itself savagely,
and which at all times indicates great force
of will and of temper. With all these
briStlng points of person, his dress aud
bearing mark him unmistakably gentle.
man.
He is emphatically q talking member, and
one OF tho few constantly speaking men
too earnest, and too combative to keep
quiet besides, as Chairman of the impOr.
tant Military Committee, aud the father of
the Army Bill, he has had very important
matters to talk about which is more thar
all loquacious members can say His won
derfully emphatic and incisive manner his
clear, rapid utterance his short, sharp
sentences his trsnchaut, telling thoughts,
make him one Of the most effective speak
ers in the House. When angered no looks
like u puguecious mastif. He seizes his
foo with a merciless grip, and, like other
mastiifa, his bark is not half as bad as his
bite. So many man founder about in ali
ocean OF words, struggling after an idea.
They never feach it every wave of sound
which they mount only washes them farther
away. But every word of General Schenck
clnches meaning. Aud he has a forward
motion of his head, and a beating motion
with his forehngcr as ii he not only clenched
his idea, but was hammerng it into the
very marrow of his hearers combative
man, alert for dispute, eager aud determined
to conquer, he would be very disagreeabe
and very dangerous If he were not SO pa
triotic and true, so devoted to the right,
and, withal, in feeling and sensbilty, Il
gentleman. Sill, his natural qualities
make him very good Mogul, and as mill.
tary commander of Baltimore he won his
chief military fame, though a SCARED hand
bears eloquent witness to his personal
bravery.
His general manner is curt and sharp,
with touch of the ferocOus. But it is won
derful how he can unbend and brighten az
most stroug men can when they condescend
to talk with u woman. Then a smile comes
out on his face, quite winsome, and his man.
ners grow suavo aud delightful. 1t is quite
astonishing to perceive what q very differ
ent mortal man is, conversing with
woman, from what he is when holding forth
TO his brother man.
BINGHAN.
| Judge Bingham sitting few desks for
ward, is the opposite of General Schencki
lie is weird looking man, thin and angu-
lar, with long hair, long nose, sunken, yet
brilliant eyes. 1t is very plain to see that
his nervous lorce is more powerful than his
vital that his brain prcys upon his body |;
that the intense action of tho intellectual
POW er wears upon the physical, 10 its hurt.
A nervous, sensitive. sell-cenered man /,
when roused powerful in argument aud
masterful in speech. lie is not constantly
seizing subject al every available point.
aud jumping up and talking about it. No s
he gathers it into himself, it pervades him,
it absorbs him, till at last ho is possessed
| by it. II feeds, perhaps testers, in his
brain, till he can endure il no longer. Then
girding himself like giant, what commando
ing argumentj what keen inyectiye, what
cutting sarcasm, what earnestness aud what
!ervOr is poured out, as he masters tho
theme al once and then, sitting down,
gathers hlnself once more into silence, till
possessed and ovorpowered by another.
! AsHLEY
| A few seats remote sits (when lie happens
to be therc) James NJ. Ashley, the iolliest
man in Congress. and the king OF managers
Every man las Ills pet ambition. Mr.. ASH
ley's is to compass ends aud to manage men;
and he succeeds in both, to his own satisfac.
ton at least. Men in whom the vital tenn
perament abounds seem often equally en-
dowed with the iacrlty of control. Mr..
Ashley has a powerful physiqne, an exu.
berant vitality, baudoome face, aud splen4
did crown OF hair, as men of his mold are
surS to have. lie is usually lav0rite with
women, fact which affords him no small
degree of satisfaction. He is one of the
omnipresent men. If you go into the
Senate, You are sure to SEQ Ashley. IL YOU
look down from the gallery of tile Ilonse,
you sec Ashley. II you turn in your seat
q
lecture, to a reception, anywhere, there is
Ashley, great and radiant, and never alone.
You see him. not only because he is there.
but because lie is one of those pervasive
men that you cant help seeing. Besides,
ho is so very kindly and jolly, it does you
good; and you like to see him. You may
think him a little loud sometimes, and rather
roughi but, amid a race of intense, eyed,
neryed-won dyspeptics, one can afford, not
onll to forgive, but to rejoice occasionally
in tho ont5nrst of q redundant and over
lowing life seil.tnais man, foremost
radical, consecrated to all progression, may
tho days be many before we shall say, We
no longer sec Ashley.
GARFIELD.
General Garfield, elected by his consitn.
euts while absent in Tho foid, is rising
man in Congress. A brave soldier, hs
fought in tho battles of SlIiah, Corinth and
Chicanauga and was Chief OF sialf To Cen
eral Eosecrans. General Garfield is another
comfortable looking man. Tho weag aud