The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-03-09
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ments.
in the distribution of Senate Com
mittees we notice that Mr.. Wiley is
Chairman of the Committee on Patents
and is also member of the Committee
on District of columbia, Committee Oh
Claims, and On Naval Affairs.
Senator Van Wrinkle is Chairman
of Committee on Pensions, and Is q
mem her of Committee on Finance,
Post offices, Mines and Mining.
-Congress will probably adjourn on
Monday until the sth OF May in order
to allow six States tinrs to elect their
Representatives.
Mr.. Hubbard is the only Member
of Congress, so lar, that has refused the
extra mileage and retufnedi it to the gov
eminent. so -'-|.'i... Ia.
Mr.. Winfield, GDem.) of New York,
paid Speaker CoIfax high tribute for
his ability and impartiality as a presi-
ding officer. There was no dissenting
voice to the motion of thanks. a
Our neighbor, Mr.. Bingham OF
Ohio, is curiously sketched by a corress-
pondent of the New York Tribune, as
ga hawk on column" Figure
$ traight, graceless, solid. and immova-
BILE as rock, Head large in front, SUI
perb brow, aquiline nose, unyielding
chin Yes, he is hawk, or an adze.
Positive, aggressive, chating at inter-
ruptiOn, impatient of contradiction or
dissent, sweeping rather than powerful;
declamatory rather than convincing, he
is yet, when in the mood, one Of the
most impressive speakers in the House.
He puts down no brakes. IF he hits
another car on his track, let that car
look out for itself. And he sometimes
moves with such velocity upon oppos-
ing entities not in the least disturbed
thereby, that he reyives the old prob.
lem in philosophy: IF an irresistible
force encounter an immovable body,
what will be the resu1I?" If one could
fancy anangry opheles-which
one cannot. for evil is too strong to be
impatient-a defiant and fierce Mephis-
uOpheles. Judge Bingham might well
sthnd for the portrnit in any of his wild
moods"
Mr., Blaine, member of Congress
from Maine, who was born and raised
in Washington county, Pa, and is well
known in our vicinity, is thus sketched;
MIR. Blaine is metallic; you cannot con-
ceive how IL shot should pierce him, for
there seems no joints to his. harness
He is man who knows what the
weather was yesterday morning in Da.
cotah; what the Emperor's policy will
be touching Mexicn; on what day of the
week the 10th of December proximC
will fall; who is the Chairman of the
school Committee in kennebunk; what
is the best way of managing the public
debt, together with all the other inter
ests of today, which anybody else
would stagger under. How he does 1t,
nobody knows. He is always in his
seat. He must absorb details by assinI.
. ilatiou mt his finger ends. AS L said
he is clear metal. His features are
made in nould-his attitudes are
those of bronze fgure-his voice
. clinks, and as you know, he has ideas
fixed as brass -'''-'t
Gen. Banks is pronounced the mos
agreeable speaker on the floor of the
4 House. E'l i .9ot stsa eia
I Mr.. shellabarger, of Ohio, is charac
teEized as the ablest.-
Garfield, of Ohio, comes, says the
! correspondent, from that good free
hold of ideas, which Giddings taught
and learned for twenty years. He Is
described as ga fair-faced, nervous,
large-browed man, full of strange
whims, and bearded like the pard, he
talks with muscles, sinews and veins,
as well as with voice, and is quite too
lavish of all. gallant, dashing SOL
der, one faneies tfiat he brings hia, fac-
ties into the hall. he sweeps mn 10 his,
object with .'blRre of bugle, clan1or OF
I men, roll of canuoh, and clash of arms, y
Aeizes it If possible, II not, retifes in
| good order, nothing discomforted, and
makes another foray ut the first oppor-
| tunity. It Is quite easy to believe the
report that he is one of the best stump
speakers in the country. All the ner.
| vous eagernesS of his temperament,
the quaintness of his mind, the dra-
matte instinct so strong in him, the
readiness of illustration, the personal
! force would muguetiZe such audiences
us gather in election times.'
| Raymond, the editor of the New
York Tunes and late member from the
The Sixth New York District, is spoken
of as ''small, dexterous and able" as
one who flights with small sworls,''
but whose early play was SO indis-
Greet that he is compelled TO be ever on
the defensive, which Injuries his prac-
tice. He Is the man foreordained from
the beginning of time to talk whenever
AN opportunity offered, and he fulfills
his destiny. 1t seems sometimes as if
he would speak less often II he were
not impelled by Flibbertigibbet, the
foul fiend, and one has IA Vngue pity.
for him. The product of so shining
talents and so vast opportunities makes
a unit so small that 1t is tragic. The
pity OF it, Iago, the pity of itp' f.v. ~
-Thad Stevens, "the leader OF the
House, is described as "a guant,
wierd, tall old man. whose rare fail
ure 1t is to be voted down on half the
ques tons of the day, to be admired
and listened to with strained attention,
and then resisted in argument, and
yet for all be called the leader of the
House. deep eyes, hidden under a
cliff of brow, the strong nose of a
pioneer of thought, shut, thin lips, a
face pale with the frost of the grave,
long, bony emphatic linn bs-these cover
the uneasy ghost which men call Thad-
deus Stevens. The great days of his
power are past. Perseus has slain his
Dragon and now he would uuchain the
hair Andromeda for whom he fought.
binding her brows with the stars. The
new version is sadder than the old, for
he Will not live to see the glory for
which he has wrought. Yet, to drop
metaphors, which are dangerous Will
ot-the-wisPs, he is wonderful even in
his decline. Day after day
he comes, compelling his poor
body, by the might of the
strong sOul that is in him, to serve him
yet longer. he looks so weary OF this
confustou which we call life, and vet
Alarlc tue Scourge, whose mission is
70 shasten this terrible, turbulent South
til she shall yield. If the means pro-
posed are odiouS to her thew are none