Litchfield enquirer., 1867-02-14
AtisfelIanp.
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.

We clip the following from an account of reception of Speaker Colfax in the correspondence of the N F. Independent:
 CHIEF JUSTICE CHASE.
 In the door of the back parlor, surround ed by 8 brilliant group, stands the Chief Justice of the United States, Salmon P. Chase. A colossal man, with an ambitious head, set upon g formidable neck; wide, dominant jaw; well-cut mouth. which can be both stern and kind; double nose, too small for the face; deep, penetrant eyes, in which glows still the lingering poetry and passion of youth; a grand, aggressive brow; 8 conflicting face, at once cold and warm a face to be loved and trusted with reserva- tion where any of it's far-reaching personal plans of life arc involved; yet face capa- ble of philanthropy and disinterested de- votion-the face of double-natured, great, dissatisfied man.
 .u HORACE GREELY.
 There are several New Workers here this evening, and the most noticeable of all is Horace Greeley, beaming through his spec tacles and smiling upon every one who greets him. We look in vain for the my tho1ogical "white coat" or any undue un- couthness of costume. Loosely fitting it is, and that neck-tie might be little more deftly adjusted; still Horoce Greeley is dressed in conventional black, and looks the careless gentleman. He has the child look lowering about his face, which even in old age is often peculiar to genius. De- spite his thin fringe of beard, his fine, flax en hair, and his perfectly smooth, unwrin- kled face,- tbe haif-Laconscious look in his 1,;, demented. One of the very foremost men ual, Nature created special mould for him, and he suggests no other. He is as odd as he is gifted, and has the strangest fashion of seeming to hear nothing in particular, and of appearing to see nothing in partic- ular, yet of seeing and of hearing every thing. remember once thought him sound asleep through the whole of one of Dr. Chapins sermons. He certainly nod ded, dropped his head, and made all the fearful 1unges of man in profound nap. But the moment 1t was ended, he arose, shook himself, and in the aisle said "A capital sermon! capital sermon!' And as he went on to talk, sure enough, he did know all about 1t. Thus he will look as If he did not recognize you, and act as if he had nothing whatever to say. And when you have concluded that he regards you as an entire stranger, he will astonish you by suddenly making an announcement, or re- ferring to something back in the past, which makes it perfectly palpable that he knows all about you. If you look long enough, you will see most sagacious twin kle break through those unconscious eyes, which convinces you that, beside being a sleeper and a dreamer, he Is very shrewd, practical man. To be sure, in his time, he has advocated about as many impractical ble theories as any one man we'll could; but then, too, he has been the lifelong advo- cate of freedom and justice, and his per sonal purity and integrity of purpose is above dispute. Look at him! One of the most remarkable men of our day-such as America only can produce from poverty and obscurity, and nurture to greatness. A man who has made an era in American journalism, and an individual impress on the national mind, which will cause him to live, not in name only, but in influence, in the far coming days, when the places which now know his unique personality will have forgotten it forever.