The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-02-08
Rergeant-at-Arms.

There are at present two candidates for the
office OF Sergeant. at-arms, Colonel N. q. Ord
way, OF New Hampshire, the present incumbent,
and Hon. Henry d. Washburn, of Indiana, now
q member Of the House. How many more can
didates may turn up between this and the 4th
OF March, IL is impossible to predict. The office
is reported to be q lucrative Que, though have
not been curious enough to ascertain exactly
how much n man may make out of 1t legiti.
mately. OF course nobody would think ofmaking
anything illegitlmately.
Colonel N. g. OrtlwRy.
Colonel 0rdway was born in 1923, in Warmer
New Hampshire, place near the loot of Kear.
sarge mountain, from which the timber was
taken TO build the celebrated vessel OF that
name which sunk the Alabama. AS he has
charge of refractory and disorderlY members
and reCusant witnesses, like The famous gentle
man with conservative opinions aud Kentucky
habisr-C. w, Wooley Colonel Ordway seems
peculiarly fitted by nature for his office. He is
Mt least six feet tour inches high, and muscular
and strong in proportion. His very appear.
ance, minus posse conf dtUs, wolld
certainly be sufficient to strike terror into the
ranks of at least half dozen mutinOus Con-
gressmen, or twice as many recuSant witnesses.
Colon e Ordway has taken Il very prominent
part in the politics of his alive State, and was
largely instrumental in organizing the Republi-
can party there, which finally overthreW the
Democracy. During the latter part of the war,
he was the New Hampshire State agent here,
with the rank Of Colonel on Governor Smytbe's
s'atf giving his time and services gratuitously.
in the defeat of the schemes of Emerson
Etheudee ard Mr. Bull the then Sergeant-at
Arms, to procure the organization of the House
in the interests of the Democracy, Colonel
Ordway was elected Sergeant-at- Arms and has
twice since been re elected bv acclamatlon,
both in the caucus and in the House. His ad-
ministratlon of the office has given general
satisfaction, and he has reformed many abuses
which had grown up under the fostering care of
his Democratic predecessors.
Hon. Henry ID. Washburn.
Mr.. Washburn, who proposes to contest
Colonel Ordway's claims, was born in Vermont
in 1882. He is lawyer by recession and has
been engaged Tor some years in politics. He
was elected member of the Thirty ninth Con-
gress from the Seventh Indiana district, and
was subsequently reelected to the Fortieth
Congress, but failed of nomination to the
FOrty-hrst. His chief strength lies in the tact
that be served in the army during the Rebellion,
ard that he halls from the West. 1t is not
thought, however, that he has much strength
outside OF the Indiana delegation. He has not
been popular as a member of the House.
The DOOrkeeper.
The office OF Doorkeeper, like that of Clerk
has some patronage connected with 1t, but 1t is
not generally sought after by eX-members of
Congress. The present incumbent, Otis S. Bux-
ton, is a native of New York, and was born In
1918. He came here in 1861. and was made
Assistant Doorkeeper under Capt. Goodenongh.
At the beginning OF the present session, on the
resignation of General Lippincott, Mr.. Buxton
was elected Duorke eper without oDposit
There is no opposition, that i know OF, to his
reelection. He has given close attention to his
duties both Assistant Doorkeeper and as
Doorkeeper, and the members will generally
support him.
The Postmaster.
There has been very little said about this
office, and, as understand, the present incum-
bent, Mr.. King, OF Minnesota, is candidate
and will probably be elected.
This letter is already so long that must re-
serve for another occasion some observations
upon the manner in which the various candi-
dates conduct the canvass. JosEPHUs