Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-04-14
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| called IN Parson Bsowniow, OF tue
| United States Senate, last Sunday. He
has the most marked case Of ancient
| scriptural palsy that | over Jaw. He
boards at the celebrated boarding house
| of Mrs. Carter on Capitol Hill, and
when | waited on him, found him
lying on his back upon q lounge, his
hands moving in the slowly ~listless way
| of one who fingers the coveriets and
| babbles of the green fields Helpless
ness of hands ; pitiful reaching out for
perch, for rest, for support ; this was
the mans movement but in his fixed,
concentrated face, without a witch or
a tremori in il, there lay the steady pur-
pose of u will that never wavered. The
face was all rock, the hands were all
crab. White they were and thin, and
between his forehead and his knee they
huttered like q pair Of weary gulls be-
tween coast and coast. But out Of his
pale face, not noble in its proportions,
nor high, o intellectual, nor
large in its benignities-his two calm
eyes looked like a search vibrant, and
his smile was as easy as a kings. A
pinched face it was short, bony, with
Indian cheeks, aud the hairs were
young and smooth. His mouth was
| shut so close that the cheeks pnckered
| where you aud | show side dimples.
Beside him were his son and son-in-
law, dutiful and respectful, the former,
iuheritor Of his newspaper chair, and
| like the old man in many things.
| Brownlow walks to the Senate every
| day and takes his place with powerful
pride. Vanity is his immortal mo-
tive. His ability is like that of
William the Norman-terrible, long,
%aurelenting. His Government in Ten
nessce has been oriental in its alb
solutism, yet in its results %extraordi-
nary. The State is calm, the flag IS
| upheld, there are no weaknesses in the
law for superficial subseryients to slip
| through. The old man decreed his
Constitution, formed it after the fashion
Of a blacksmith's vice, and had it
enacted by n compulsory quorum.
Those vote whom lie declares citizens
no more. The South has it revealed to
them that not out Of the North came
the tramplers Of their broken spirit,
but out of their own civilization. An
ancient STAKEHOLDER and n defender oil
the Divine right Of masters is he who
gives them to make bricks without
straw and the bulrushes for the chill
dren's cradles.
10 many things Brownlow is n gen.
erons enemy and friend. No conven.
tional estimate can measure him. The
being Of n crime aud n time, he APP
proaches the ideal Indian of Cooper and
Parkmsn, and retorts upon his enemies
the consequences they apprehcnded for
their treason He is poor, having given
away whatever his friends needed or
would ask for. am told that one half
Che profits OF his magnificent triumphal
trip of 1861, between East Tennessee
aud New England, were demanded by
General Samuel +. Gary, Of Cincinnati,
in modest appreciation OF his W
(Cary's) services, in tying himself like
a bob TO Brownlow's Kite aud making
speeches through the Northern States.
II this thing happened asst was related
to me by one of the .Brownlow family,
it was n miraculously mean occurrence
The disappointment Of Longslreet, which
p~leases the rest of mankind, is not sat-
isfac,ory to the Tennessee Unionists.
Mullins is reported to have said Of il
"This comes Of your ready sense IRE
~ticenee), want TO see the boss
next tine before | vote for him.
Correspondence Of the Chicago Tribune.