The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-04-16

Rollins, Deputy Gon'r Ratlaod; and ID
Deputy Com'r Risley, 81 Deputy COm'r
Psrnell and Acting Chief Clerk johnson;
also Special Agent Richards. who spent
much tune in thecfice in quasi advisory and
administrative capscity. These three gen
tlemsn, it is reported, have just been POti6ed
that their resignstiOns will be accepted.
OFFICIAL PERSONALS.
A petition seven yards long, containing
thousands of signatures, has been sent TO the
Senate, praying for the retention of the
Orphans Court of this District, and of the
present Incumbent, Judge Purcell, along
with it; bill having been.introd6ced to in-
stitnte Probate Court instead.
Hon. @. @. Cox, Commissioner of Pensions,
appointed by President johnson. has tender
ed his resignation. to take effect on the lst Of
May. he will probably be succeeded by
Hon. Sidney Perhaw, ex-Representatiye
from Maine, who was for years Chairman Of
the House Committee on Pensions, and who
is an excellent moral character and of
straight forward business habits.
Postmaster General Oreswell has been
obliged to dismiss "a female and male
clerks, who had been employed by his pre-
decessOr in excess of the number provided
for by law; and others, tits understood, will
follow. In the same Department A. N.
Wilson, private soldier from Wis, was ap-
pointed vice Mr.. Lawrenson removed
Another soldier, R. P. Fink, who lost leg
in the war, has been appointed Route Agent
to accompany the mails between Yicksburg
and New Orleans.
ALL THAT'S LEFT OF PARsON BRowNLOw.
was in the Senate the other day when
the ayes and noes we've ordered. The As
sistant Sergean- has seat in
lower part Of the lower Vice Presidents
dais at the left of his chair-stept down TO
the desk forming the left foot of the first
crescent which sweeps around the chamber
and rests on the side aisles at either end, and
stopped his ear to the occupant of chair
having a reclining, high, upholstered back;
and Immediately returned and spoke to the
President of the Senate single word. The
Senator was "Parson" Brownlow; and this
was his mode of voting. Although given
one Of the very nearest seats to the President
and the roll-clerk, be canuOt make himself
heard that short distance. Ashe reclined in
his high-baeked cbaiI, gazed at him with
more than ordinary interest. There was the
man who had so lately made rebel hosts
tremble at his retibutive wrath, and whose
intense action had made the nation vibrate,
lying now so pOwerlessl fE
Senator Brownlow is in his Gath year; an
age at which most men scarcely feel con-
sclous that they have passed their greatest
efficiency; yet he is unable to walk unaided
to his seat, and unable to call any one to his
assistance. Even when helped to his seat
the poor boon is denied him OF reclining at
rest His palsied hands and feet shake,
shake, shake, incessantly. He is a tall spare
figure, about six feet in height, and did in
his prime, am told, weigh 16O pounds; but
now probably falls Is or 90 pounds short of
that weight. His complexion isVery brown,
and appears darker than it actually is from
the light fresh brown color Of his hair. His
face is smooth shaved, and bears no marks
of extreme age, or of the strong powers which
have characterized the man in his full Vigor;
or of his present prOstratioH. 1t is unTuffled
and unwriDkled, and calm and even gentle
and amiable in express JR. And in this
connection may say, my information about
this remarkable man is, that in private in
tercOurse he is siBgularly free from any bit
ter or ceusorious reflections upon his op-
ponents whom in public be lashes aud de-
nouuces so fearfully. On the cOntary, he
will try to bring out what good qualities or
redeeming traits they may possess, or to give
favorable Interpretation to their conduct
The face as a whole is rather long and uar-
row, and slightly retreating above and below
the nose. 1t is somewhat high and broad at
the cheek bones, and gradually diminishes
inwidth down to long, plain chin. The
nose is of good size and shape. The forehead
is perpendicular, Of moderate width; and
well carried up at the top of the sides; is
very smooth, free from-a single noticeable de-
preston or projection The top line has a
very gradual rise from front to back, and
does not present such extraordinary height
at the crown as a phrenOlogist would be
likely to look for in man of the Parsons
wonderfully answering persistent career.
His head generally is of the high and mar
row type. Altogether, the head and face
are not those of fighting man who fights
con anore.
The tremendous qualities he has shown
must be looked for somewhere else, or be ex-
planned in some other manner. Ny solution
Of the problem is that he has great single
ness and intensity Of conviction and purpose,
great hopesty, great hopefulness, great re-
ligious faith, and moderate cautiousness or
circumspectiOn; and that circumstances have
character, took position, it became all the
world to him.. His honesty would not allow
him TO belle it or shirk it; his isincautiousness
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diminished the danger; his hOpefulness saw
successful termination of the struggle; his
faith supported him with tbs thought that
ali was in other hands at any rate; and his
intensity of purpose impelled him on. 1t SO
happened that be lived in semi-bar6arous
community where his convictions and pur.
poses were not accorded with by the msjority
and dominant portion of the people; where
they had not then learned that freedom of
speech, of the press, and of action, meant
any thing ellse than f.ee1cm 1;!3m 10 speak, and
publish, and do, exactly what they approved
Of; and where reYolYers and bowie knives
stood guard against all else. If he would
talk, then, he must fight. His souls re-
pugnance to bondage, and its good faith with
truth and duty, were stronger than its re-
pugnance to do battle; and so he become a
fighter, as the whole country known him.
In proof that this life Of conflict grew out Of
aggression upon his moral nature, and was
iuharmonious with his general character.
cite his present premature prostrstion.
Much of his nature he has been obliged to
drag, against its peaceful instincts, into the
contest, and it is this double duty which has