Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-07-12

Chandler Of Michiqsu is tall, sharp
featured, frowsy barred gentleman, Of milk
expression, and Northwestern in his ardo
for square. fair era.
In John Sherman we have the neares
approach in the Senate to Mr.. Gladstone
an indefatigable business man, extravaganza,
tall, stopping, thin, whose small head i
covered with black hair, and whose small
black eyes are lightning calculators. He i
one OF the youngest. most studious
most prudent men in the country, anc
adds power to the great galaxy ofspleD
did peaple which Ohio has Of late given L
freedom and the country.
Howard of Michigan is a man Of flushed
complexion, poring through glasses, anc
Kirkwood of Iowa is the easy, negiig,
member, sitting without neck-tie, agricul
tural in method and quietness.
Guthrie Of Kentucky, we'll back on the
Democratic right, is an aged, staid person
one of the most venerable among the Sena
tors in services and feebleness. He vote,
with the unreviving and unrevivable school
Of Lewis Cass, fair for their 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
temperament, able in much. transcendeptal
sometimes, full of high thoughts on man and
destiny, and. with Mr.. Anthony of Rhode
Island, the journalist element of the Senate.
The latter is pleasant citizen legislator,
very kindly and incorruptible.
The jester Of the Senate is Nye, Of Ne
vada, who sits next to Sumner, a sedge-
hammer man when he trifes in earnest aud,
probably the first "stump" speaker in
America its pioneersman is James Lane,
Of Kansas, favorably known to himself as
Jim" Lane--a man Of good nsc, once
upon time, to fight the beasts Of Epbesus,
but not always the hest match for the man
who fired the Epbesian DOME Stewart, Of
auburn beard, and ever watchful; while
Wade, of Ohio, is its Gladiator. He is a
man of infexible face, above the common
hight, with sharp features and compressed
mouth, sallow Of complexion, his very hair
pugnacious. He is hard man to have on
the side of your enemy he carries his head
little down, as if to say, VI am horned
and toss y Educated in the spirit of
Northern Ohio, he can bear no mention of
personal freedom imperilled, and defers little
to conventional things so man, in his stall
wartness, be vindicated.
Cowan, of Pennsylvania, the Presidents
champion, is tall, student-ike man, of
much culture. i'll calculated to work with a
majority. dealing little with ideas but Wig
orous with illustrations. no despicabe enemy
in any issue, and, by his present unpopular
course, rising naturally to prominence if not
to power.
Trumbul of Illinois is compact, small
man, square headed, pointed in gesture,
powerful and exhaustive in argument. draw.
ing from his gold glasses some shadow Of
scholasticism; Morgan of New York has
the fine, commercial face of our metropo-
Titan merchants, frosted little with equally
turning hairs and Harris, his colleague, is
more broad and parental, both of them at
tentive to the colossal interests Of this
swarming industrial empire. Morrill, is a
keen, active New England lawyer, with no
nrclo-dramatic loves. Pomeroy of Kansas
is the fac similie of the sturdy country
gentleman, above fretting or melancholy
Conness is one of the belligereHt members,
temperate, selfmade. with the North-1rish
virtues and indomitability. Nesmith was
once sutler on the plains, aud comes by
hard rounds to good place on the ladder;
and Buckalew who was rated in the Penpsyl-
vania Legislature as most fluent and ser.
yiceabie party-man, has SO far been a failure
mere that the exactlng ana desperate Dem0-
cracy, full of thirst and hunger, are loud in
upbraiding him.
The novitiate in Congress who concludes
that he is to make his mark by oratory alone
will suffer assured discontinue. The men
who advance most rapidly are those with
special adaptations, or who have mastered
some single department of political litera.
ture beyond the reach of all others. On
L a.. L. s1.k, 10 n,
less progress is the rule 1t is singular that
many men of splendid attainnents come to
Congress to lose their reputation. The case
of Herace Binney of Philadelphia is in
point-a lawyer with few equals. He felt
that here he had not confirmed his rsnown,
and declined denomination. 1t was by over
weening loquacity that Henry 8. Foote des-
troyed his influence in the Senate, having
passed glib opinions upon all sorts of things
till he became too trite to be noticeable.