, 1870-06-07

Il motives HuIco 0s0e31J cefIA1u E1nA OF G0n-
pa NJ. PETERS. I an not IN the h1hit Of sbostng,'
| the House. only want minute OF minute aud
| hak. / wish to make IN appeal to this House
| not to adopt the amendment to give these draw
backs to vessels only Of one Thousand tons burden
and over. Since cur adiousnHsnt hare baea iook-
1 9rss M M 5eI' IT, .s een a. e. efsa@ at
aare On iaserrsi and optr icheA Ihar< eare. not
one Of which Is four hundred tons, aud not one OF
which was ever engaged In the Goa sting trade. II
! you adopt the amendment Of Two thousand
tons, tell the House that tnlneteen-tWcn1ctns OF
the amendment Of one Thousand tons, very large
majority Of the. foreign trade will fall under It
Why, stI, the trsde II which vessel X employed
Now. hcre is q msn from Maine, colleague
to Lynch Who wants TO stop legislation be-
cause be has got nine vessels. Il he had nlna
houses, he would stop the worlds revolution.
II he had nine ideas he would stop stopping
things. Peters il tie seven benign NAL
Altogether it was funny .eene. whsn they
deposited the Bill Lynch under the turf Con-
gtess had spent two Weeks IN not doing an
other thing, but then that was three weeko Less
time than It took them not to do the tariff We
have still month left not to do many things
in!
Hero are some Of tho Republican men who
voted fair and Square to admit purchased ready
made ships, wherever built, to the privileges
Of the American flag foE purposes OF ocean
CCmIOETCG: liQUtEt u. Et94t7tC&~ a44oQ11 ASRQ47
dustin, Blair, Burebard, Clarke, Cook, AID
Cul.om {of Illinois,, FfnkelnEurg, Garfield,
Fitch, Hay, InKe1sol1, Lawrence, Logan,
Loughridge, Orth, shanks, txoke,, Wtlti,s-
sou, and Winans: and amongst the Democrats,
Woodward, Randall. Stokes, Haldeman, and
seven men in this galaxy Of common sense
patriotism. On the other side voted HAM1ey,
Bingham, Roderick Butler, Fsrnsworth, Judd,
Paine. OF Wisconsin, etc, etc.
The sent the poor old, spawned bill to the
American tonnage, by vote of 73 to G9.
SENATOR DRAKE, OF MISSOURI.
Senator Drake, of Missouri, has been get
ting down into the lowest gulf OF despair ever
since tho election Of Carl Scturz, and now he
souri contemplate. On such gravo questions,
| such as concern the dignity and happiness Of
the Western people. Drake is silent o. spitsful,
while he has exeried all his sm1u and arrogant
energies to retard the Development and peace
| Of the South and. at this late day, when the
dulges the untimeIy hope that he may yet be
able to have hs namo confounded with Sum
ncr, Giddings, Tr.lmbull, md Hale, tho prom
! inept politicians Of emancipation. It is too
late for Ar. Drake to take plsce among these
| people, even it he had tho requisite amount OF
late for men to scrutinize his attitude upon
the subject of selling the free blacks Of Mis-
hh,5ed hs at that sss o hsa ,osa the tbs Apefs sss
peraecntor of the Christians. tut tho differ
enco between Paul aud Mr., Drake in point Of
consideration is apparent to everybody but the
latter gentleman. To havc conversion good
for something, it is necessary to know that
| the convert vas 4 Hlan: and Mr. Drakes pub
lie life has scarcely como up to the dignity OF
Western boyhood. He is an old maid in poll
| tics, and rather deranged old maid at that.
The State Ut Missouri can be but humiliated to
| compare him with Thomas Benton and Carl
schurz, or many Of tho strong mon who have
been prominent in the national councils from
Drake was midsliprnan in tue navy, from
| 1897 TO 1880. 1t is Ball he is a kindly and
| charitable man, whero he can have his own
| way; but the hitter stipulation is 30 onerous
| to anybody who knows Drake, that neither his
| kindness nor charity arc often in demand
| GENERAL. JAMES SHIELDS.
Your former Senator, General James Shields,
| who now lives in Missouri, farming and pr1c-
tiaing law, is expected here very soon, to pay
some visits to friends. Shields is now sixty
years OF age, and Las led a most adventurous
| life. His body is full OF shot. He has
can war bo was full Driyadier General; but
he is 4 B1oal1, aemi-rcmarEaule man in appear
ance, with undoubted genius, but with more
conspicuous courage, Of mercurial and
M1esian sort He owes much Of his public
promotion to his aggressive boldness, which
! would az lief fight as cat. Shields canno to
America from the County Tyrone, Ireland, At
| the age of 16, and pr1cttsed law at Kaakaskia
| as early as 1882. At 2G years Of age he was in
| the Illinois Legislature, and thence he passed
Supreme bench Of the State. and thence to the
United States Senate, where he represented
both Illinois and Minnesota during the term
Of eight years. While he WAS Commissioner Of
the Land Office in Washington City, he was
the encouragcr and patron Of the present
| Commissioner Wilson, and he could have been
Governor Of Oregon had he desired. Shields
belongs to the class Of William Walker, Gem
| eraf Harrison, Patrick Henry, David Rcoderick
and Andrew Jackson-men who arc alwats
bold and consistent, bnt past whom civiliza-
ton passes, and compcls them to go before it
for new adventure or to remain behind aud be
obscure. He is believed, however, as far a.
have been enabled to gauge his rank here, to
\ have been fair and honorable type OF politi-
clan and public man, whose biography is part
| OF the early history OF Illinois, and not the
| least remarkable OF the personal chapters in
her young career.
SENATOR zACHAR1AH CHANDLER
hns made 8 speech on American commercez-a
matter on which be is much better informed
| than tho mass Of his colleagues, in that he has
been to sea. When an American Senator goes
to sea, he is supposed to have seen everything
| in the way of nautical life, and to be capable
Of reTiFing tho marine OF his country beyond
the peradTenture Of q mistake Chandler on
Navigation ia good deal like Nye on the
Orient Nye was four days in Const sntinop!e,
"sich mau" on hiB feet, and arranging tho
East On the basis OF the Monroe doctrine.
Eye can talk for hours on Mahomet and Abdul
Mediid, and le has spoiled the circulation of
Mark 1Eain's t'Innoeents Abroad in this
city, by knowing 80 much more than Mark.
11e can account for those oysters climbing up
tho mountain back OF SMYRNA, in the four
days le was there. also. He examined the
Pyramids in those fouE DAYS. and went through
the eye Of Cleopatra's Needle, and saw genu-
servations in Constantinople, they bear no pro-
portion to The investigations OF Senator
Chandler upon tho high seas. Tho other
dag, when Chandler and Sye dis
Guessed our declining commerce, the Sem
ators were Winking at each other in an
Webster and Haynel" SWhe1o si arc you your Pitt
and Fox, now7" And when these two gigan-
tic intellects swung together. and made de-
monstraiions OF actually boarding each other,
Senator Anthony, in the chair, was suddenly
taken sick at the stomach, and asked the
Se1Eeant-at-Arms II tho Senate chamber did
not bear decided resemblance to The cockpit
of fngate
Mr. Chandler was in the act Of telling about
a great ship-builder at Wilmington, Delaware,
when Nyo bore up In one OF the Pacific mail
transports, and made tho signal Of s'Nevada
Chandler replied, with his red bandana pocket
handkerchief. p" a peerage or tomb in West
minister Abbeyn Then, after mutual lufiings,
quarte1ings, hoisting OF mainstays, and blow
ing of nautical noses, tue following colloquy
occurred:
CT, from Wilmington, said he vas willing to p1y
90 per cent more fuE American ships for national