, 1868-04-10
FEssESDEx's OPINION OF sunSER.

Olneinnau Commercial, radical, 10 speaking Of
the private feelings one Senator has for another,
says;
FHssESDEN's OPINION OF SUMNER.
Fessenden thinks Sumner is an idiot, and
Sumner is fully convinced that Fessenden is a
monster of some kind or other. The feeling be-
tween the two was so bitter about year ago
that Sumner asked Fessenden, as special favor,
never to speak to him, except in public debate,
aud believe the polite request has been rigidly
granted. Fassenden looks upon Summers word.
fAneying with utter contempt and adherence,
aud frequently vents his feelings in a private
way. During the discussion on the Reconstruc-
tion measures in the last Congress, Mr.. Fessen-
den made speech in which he assailed one of
| Summers efforts with q rhetorical solution of
nitric acid-an article always at bis command.
Next day Sumner came to the Senate with q
bulging portfolio under his arm, evidently pre>
pared to reply to "the Honorable Senator from
| Maine" as parliamentary courtesy, much
against his own belief, required him to say
Fessenden was sitting in the Chamber when Sum-
ner entered, and pointing toward the door, said
to friend, with a most unehristian sneer, "Look
at that id fool coming here to debate, with his
writing desk" Sumner used all his exertious a
couple of years ago to defeat Fessenden for the
Senate, in the Maine Legislature, but was not
successful and now that Summers term is about
to expire, Fessenden is busy in a return of the
compliment.
TIE TIFF BETWEEN SHERMAN OF OHIO, AND FEs-
sEEDEE.
FessendeD is not a popular man among the
Senators. He is peevish, grabbed, and cross.
and although his special aversion is poor Sum-
ner, be has many dislikes in a mider form,
among them our distinguished Ohio Senator, Mr..
Sherman. The dislike is negative, rather than
positive, but it is mutual and reciprocal, never,
theless. II arose some years ago, while both
we're on the Finance Committee, aud its real
cause have no doubt, was something very like
jealousy in the matter of reputation as the finance
leader IN the Senate. Sherman was furnishing
most of the brains, and doing nearly all the work
in the Committee while Fessenden, as Chairman,
was getting most of the credit. Hence a slight
row, which eliminated in the withdrawal of
Fessenden from the Finance Committee. Sumner
is not especially admired by any of the Senators,
though there is no rank poison as between him
and anybody else, except Fessenden. Most of
the others regard him as an impracticable sort of
person, with harmless egotism and an obstruc-
tive pedantry, which revels in the easy and eles
CANT imbeeility of classical education-a sort
of walking encyclopedia of useless aud unenter>
tanning knowledge. They listen to his speeches,
and occasionally steel few flowers from his
rhetorical hot. house.
SHERMAN AND BEN. WADE.
Sherman and Wade don't like each other a
L
er, but neither would exert himself very much to
help the other in a matter of reelection The
feeling existing between them is perhaps only
the result of difference in temperament The
one is by nature cold, reserved, and distant in
his manner by habit student, aud by educa>
ton gentleman and scholar-uDquestionab
one of the safest and best of the statesmen of to-
day and the other is precisely the reverse in
ali particulars-wlth big, warm heart, and an
uncultivated mead, guided solely by impulse, and
never by reason indebted to observation for all
he knows and likely TO be ruined by nothing so
much as an unguarded ascent into the demeanor
of what the world calls a gentleman. They do
not always act harmouiously as Senators from
the same State. They have their little "private
opinion" of each other, and of each others mos
tives which are not always complimentary.
Let me assure the reader that do not think there
is ANYTHING extraordinary in this fact. The
nouncement is only worthy of being made at all,
to help in correcting the popular error that our
high Official diguitares, like the gods of Homer,
never descend from their high estate to indulge
zht grievance in private quarrel, but leave
that to inferior beings.
THE MORTAL ENMITY OF COLE AND coNNEss.
Couness and Cole, the California Senators,
come as near being mortal enemies as men con-
venenty can, without resorting to the duelling
code, Two meu who were not Senators, and
hated each other so badly would be apt to shave
it out" in a stand.up 6ght. Yet they agree in
politics, as the saying is-that is, they both res
pond to the party buge-call, and are both mems
bers of the radical party, 10 high standing. 1t
is only when you ask Cole what he thinks of
Conuess, or inquire of Conness what is his pri.
vate opinion of Cole, that the facts leak out of
two brethren from the same State, representing
the same constituency, and protesting the same
views, vet both thinking that the other belongs
more properly in the penitentiary than in the
Senate.
NO LOVE LOST ALL ROUND.
Grimes and Harlan, Of Iowa, are scarcely on
speakiug terms. As in other cases have mens
toned, am unable to tell the cause, and must
content myself with simply stating the fact.
They refer to each other courteously enough in
debate, but cherish lively animosity against
each other 10 their private hearts. Yates and
Trumbull, of Illinois, labor together in the po>
litical vineyard under the same disadvantage of
mutual disrespect. Wilson, of Massachusetts,
is generally popular, and is one of the very few
exceptions to the general rule of being consider
ed id fool by one or more of his Senatorial
associates.
MArRIMoxY.-Tne venerable DR.. Humphrey
once remarked in q lecture "In selecting your
partners for life, first choose persons of naturally
good neutrality-suspicious. that are naturally
cheerful ard gentle. You will, peahsps, be sur
prised, =" he added, ITO hear a minister of the
Gospel put cheerfulness and gentleness before
piety but am of the opinion of Baxter, who
said that the grace of God could live with per-
sons that be could not" Henry Ward Beecher,
in speaking of the same subject says: "a man
that marries good wife has very little more to
ask Of the Lord until he dies because, when the
Lord makes up his mind to give man good
wife, he makes up his mind to do everything else
that be wants. A good wife is blessing of the
Lord, and there are few blessings that be gives,
now or hereafter, that are comparable with il"
NATIONAL CEMETERIEs.-General Grant tells us
in his report that there 30S cemeteries in the
United States, in which are inferred the bodies
of United States soldiers. Eighty-one of these
are known as Irrational cemeteries" The total
number of United States soldiers inferred in
cemeteries is ISL 1927, of which 23S,666 are in
TERED in the national cemeteries. Seventy-six
thousand two hundred and sixty three bodies are
yet to be inferred in these cemeteries, which,
when completed, will make the total number
32s ,090. Twenty thousand eight hundred and
\ hal of~ hav int