Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-02-04

There is nothing serious about heyes,
the Senator elect from Mississippi. Inc /
foct Is old Aminidab Sleek would scarcely |
find any thing conforming thereto. he was
horn early in life, and, If his hair curled |
at the time, it was only one OF the many |
indices of the forthcoming outcropping. |
Soon after his birth, unmistakable marks |
of his end was discovered on three |
cornered piece of cloth with which the
soothsayers are perfectly familiar The
biographers say that he was born like
Pyrrhus with teeth, and it is said by other
Wrists that he gUmmed 1t without teeth at
all. Be this as it may, by remarkaple
freak of nature seen after he saw daynSnt
his hair began to curl by some sort OF nat
ural process. Really it was klnky. DE
was in days aforetime given to little
squalling, which is singular In babies after
thew are born. Another remarkable fact
about Revels is, that as he passed into
youthhood he had a precocious appetite.
He ate well, ate early, ate late,
and ate the dishes. Millions might have
but then he did not die because there was
no more to eat II is ascertained, indeed,
that, like Uncle Toby in Tristan Shandy,
Revels shall not die. He Is in the United
States Senate from Mississippi. He has
taken his seat behind Sumner; and has
thusly done to the disgust of the aforesaid,
because there is not enough negro IN him.
This brings us to the question as to who Is
Revels?
We'll, here goes. There isvery ittlenegro
| in him. Persons who pass up and down
Cedar street to and from the Capitol, see
on the north side of the street Drugstore,
| with the sign of 'Revels and AIRY" The
store is No. 90, and the senior partner of
| the establishment is Willis Il. Revels, a
| brother of the veritable Mississippi
Senator. who has taken his seat at the
| back of Charles Sumner His residence is
No. 70 Cumberland Alley. We know
something of Senator Revels.
SETTLER.
Hiram Rhodes Revels was born in
Chatham county, North Carolina, and will
be fifty years of age on the 18th Of June
next. His paternal ancestry was Indian Of
the Choctaw tribe. His father was Rev.
Elijah Revels, who was a mixture of Indian
and African, the former preponder
ating. His father was reported a
ssbig iniun" in times of "auld lanl
svne' from the MiEsissippi's reserva
ton. and his grandfather, it is claimed
fought with the patriots at Stoney Point
with Mad Anthony Wayne. So much TO
| the ancestry.
Hiram Rhodes grew up as boys general,
do. Nothing remarkable about that. BE
ing very Young at the }ime of his birth, b.
was. in early youth, started to school, an'
graduated at Galesburg College, Illinois, a
the precocious age of sc, when and wher
at which time, he was regarded as pecu
liarly sprightly boy.
SINCE THEN.
Between the ages of SO and 10 he dix
that extraordinary feat of what we old 10
eies call sowing wild oats. But there wa
a change Hiram Chat as a great name
went to Baltimore, where he remained fo
a while in the Monumental City. From
there he went to Louisville, KY, and VI
doubt not bat the everlasting span Of thu
big bridge which is to be ''swung to-mOr
row" owes its completion somewhat to hi:
soiourn there. From Louisville he went L
st. Louis, and from statistics it is inferred
that the larger population claimed by thu
latter city over Cincinnati is because Ill
ram Rhodes didn't stop in Porkopolis
Thenceward Hiram went to Nicksburg
arriving in the Bluff City in 1860. From
, there his peregrinations led him to Leaven
worth, Kansas, and from that freedom.
shrieking region back to Louisville. Fl
nally, he glided noiselessly and imPercepti
bly on his way to Natchez under tn,
, hill. In that city, in 1869, he wa
elected member of the Cit.
, | Council of which he remained till with Al
corn he was sent to the United State
Senate from Mississippi. He vegetables il
Washington, with, as we understand, re
} spectacle colored family, and his chief re
gret with his Nashville brother is tina
Sumner sits in front of him in the Senat
Chamber, which is attributable probably t
the fact that Hiram Rhodes is not ful
''nigger.
Reyels nor his brother we're never slave
or ia bondage. If they had been Mis-
Pharoh would never have picked him from
the bull rushes.
So much for ReVels.