Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-04-03

on the camera. But behold the Con-
gresham whose counterfeit presentments
are never bought. They sailed up these
stairs in all their gliding movement, with
their toys aroundthem, their hair dressed
like Brutus, looking speech of Cicero
In every glance. Glancing at the earliest
negative, their souls exclaimed at is
thus I shall. appear to posterity !" Oh
poor soul, skewered with vanity, Posteri-
ty will have its own heroes. and fools
like you and all the fools will be plenti-
fully photographed |!
WIN. M. EvARTs.
A living skeleton, a miniature man, a
symmetrical dwarf, Is Mr.. Evarts; now
head and front of Johnson's defence. He
has high, fine head set on his should
ers spine and spindles like a bulb on
saracen tower. When he leans forward
you can see the frailness of back, hol-
low and lean-ribbed hislegs are so slight
that his trowsers hang like Mexican's ;;
delicate as consumptive's is his frame,
and his eye is of that brilliant beauty
which consumptives have. But when he
rises to plead, out of his girls body comes
a voice clear, musical and strong, say
ing sentences that seem almost carved of
marble. He appeals to the grade of
high principles, all his argument SEEM
ingly addressed to the mind of Justice
itself. His fine brow and smooth, inter-
esting face stand out very white and no.
BILE. 1t is like dying mans plea, so
spent seems nature, so concentrated the
mind. Before his appeal mean motives
and the perjured wish feel themselves in
all their baseness. Mr.. Evarts is little
like Alexander II. Stephens in his in
valid appearance. Socially he is de-
lightful person. In this trial he seems
to have taken the chief place as pleader.
In politics he is a Republican.
CURTIS, GRoEsBECK AND NELSON.
Curtis was an old Whig. How these
men get themselves friends and enemies
indiferently! Now he is defending an
Andrew jackson Democrat! Charles
Sumner told that when Boutwell, and
himself (Sumner) were nominated by
coalition in Massachusetts, Curtis in the
Legislature pronounced it an indictable
offense. Curtis sits in his chair during
trial like the foreman of jury in a
murder case. He has a Websterian
look in the back of his head and neck,
part of Webster's head which, Judging
by his pleasures, he would have been
better without. The finest tempered
man here is Stanberry, quick to rage
and all the more sensitive and elastic
therefore, steel foil he looks like, or a
gentleman's rapier.
Groesbeck is the social hero of the
Presidents counsel, the Turveydrop of
them all, swinging his noble department
in stately half turns as he walks to and
fro, happy in the survey of his feet only,
and there is respectable sheen from his
crown to his boot sole that no man who
ever packed hams could possibly attain.
He was born in New York and removed
to Cincinnati. He has loyal record,
and General Joe Hooker is his brother
in-law. I observed when 1 was in Gin
cinnati last year that the Groesbecks
were always mentioned in low tone of
voice, as if their extreme responsibility
would be shocked by any mere conver-
fsational tone. As Mr.. Groesbeck has
saia>aothing yet, 1 can give you no es-
innate ofhim. He is certainly gen.
tleman of credre~and renown.
As to Nelson, the sweet and buzzing
reminisescence of my old cfexical school.
master, does he not sit last of hfs> semi
| circle, taking note or two, propoundfng
his next speech to himself2 I am told
that this good old gentleman is a famous
pleader and as persuasive as a widows
wooing. I hope he will distinguish
himself for the sake of my "reminiscences.
I hear the bees in the window, / see the
sun shining down the bad boys back
and melting his starched collar. I see
a fly on the bald chorister's nose as he
mods asleep, and many other things of
note for summer Sunday. every time 1
watch old Nelson basking on his beat.