Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-02-23
The Fortieth CONGRESS-.

The Fortieth Congress.
Heretofore the law has required the
assembling of the new Congress at the
beginning of December following the ex-
piration of the term Of service of the old
one. Some weeks ago this law was
changed, and the new Congress directed
to meet on the fourth, the day succeed
ing the outgoing of the old body. By
this arrangement Congress becomes per
petual, having the power to remain in
session constantly, or to adjourn from
time to time, as its convenience may sug-
gest or the exigencies of the public ser
vice demand. ..,..,.s
Uuder this new law the Fortieth Con-
gress will assemble on the first of next
month. How long it will remain in ses-
sion cannot be easily foreseen. A ma
iority of the members of the existing
body are also members of the new one.
The accesions are likely to reinforce the
radical element rather than diminish it,
and there viii be some gain ofability as
well as of clearly pronounced and ad-
yanced views. r
1t is probable that few, ifany changes
will be made in the officers of the two
Houses. Indeed the Senate has always
resisted changes, never changing its Sec
retary or other servants except by reason
of death, or infrmity of age, or other
real incapacity.
If the present Congress shall dispatch
the work properly devolving on it, the
new Congress need not remain in ses-
sion long. But the look now is that
quite number Of important bills will
not be reached, or if reached, will fail of
passing. This may protract the labors
of the new Congress for some time.
DANIEL WEBSTER died October oath
1852. One week thereafter, Sunday,
October Slst, while the funeral flags
were still floating in the streets of Boston,
THEODORE PARKER, standing at his desk
in the Melodeon, preached a sermon on
the death Of the gres Statesman. 1t
was rather review of hisiife, an annaly-
sis OF his powers, and a criticism upon
his influence, past, present and fatupG
1t was a wondeful production, with a
tenderness approaching a woman's for
the man, and the highest admiration for
his marvellous gifts, and yet with passa-
ges of sharp and incisiye criticism. which
revealed a moral antony most repelling.
A few days after this sermon was
preached it was publised in the New
York Tribune, and rumor currently af-
frmed that the publishing oft lost that
journal ten thousand subscribers.
Mr. PARTON recently published in the
AtzuatSc Monthly, Boston magazine, a
treatise on Mr. WEBSTER conveying the
same general estimate of Mr. WEBSTER,
his natural endowments, his acquire
/ menus, HIS lHoIlfes, dliilS -siuu i@pOi ., 40
that given by Mr. PARKER fourteen years
before. Only now could such paper
have found place In a Massachusetts,
monthly circulating in the better classes
ofits society. Does its. apparence at
this time foreshadow the judgment OF
posterity Ifso it will be difficult to
. estimate too highly that amazing self
poise, not to be disturbed or detected
by popular current running all the
other way, which enabled Mr. PARKER
to detect all the halucinations of his
times, and paint the picture of the great
and debased man as it shall hang through
the generations in the galleries of fame.
CHIEF JUSTICE DAY.-Upon the 9th
inst, Hon. LUTHER DAY, took his seat
as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of
Ohio, succeeding Judge ScoTT, whose
term of Office then expired. This gives
Judge DAY the position of Chief Justice
for the remainder of his term, three
years. 1t is position which he will adorn