Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1873-12-12

| Picture of n scene in the ksoI>e.
The Washington. correspondent Oh
1.-THE Brooklyn Argus writes:
Chief of them was Alexander IL.
| Stevens. General ?. VI j. Ioilng
and Colpnel Waddell, of North Caro-
! lima, supported the brilliant, illtuaso,
mangificent tactician of ctler day. 10
his feet. He took their arms and dis
pensed with the signiti can't aeriltches
| that had been stacked III trout Of his
desk. He stood right ct the begin
/: ming OF the middle aisle o. the house.
BY. felicito9sly Gramatc accident o.
! happy design, all TIC rest % the many
ex-COnfederatcs ranged IL q sc.11l circle
on either side Of their former vice
President. Thel t!.c modified oath
was taken by them with~upliftei h"i;ds'
and asseuted TO with an unanimous
tand 11ietly-elegant bow. There we're
many magnificent looking men III tue
COMPANY; T donbt that any one OBJ
served thern; the pale, suffering, dis
tingttished little man in the nj Idle
was the cynosure of all eyes. lie was
dressed in exquisite black, as il III
mourning for his county Iusitting,
he had y ,rn his hat to protect Linn
from the draucht. Outstanding. he
dispensed with it, aud disclosed an ab
normally large head, pierced with in
tcnsely black aud deep eyes and cover
, ed with a short, disordered grogth- Of
iron-crav hair When he responded
to his namefhe strong soul IN him was
manifest, for his cI6ar, sharp, penetra-
ting voice. the echo of taat soul was
heard distinctly aH over the Louise.
The ethereal part Of the man is as
strong as ever. The physical is q
wracS.It was a historical scene.
He >who for fife IN years be-
/ fore the war had been the
Header par excellence Of the House,
returned to subscribe to the oath ad-
| ministered by Speaker who was
never heard of when Stephens left
/ Congress, or three years thereafter.
In all the House were but two men
| who had been his congressional acon<
temDoraries-'SU"S "a q
Ohio, and John b.. Clarke, then and
now of Missouri, who had three
months of notoriety fifteen years age
| by finging John Sherman's endorse
me 1t of Hinton Rowan Helpers I'm
! pending Crisis at John Sherman
! head, and thereby defeating him for
Speaker, though Henry Winter Davis
single vote elected William r. Pen
! nington. a Jersey Republican, to that
j Office. Well could Stephens say he
stood dying the solitary survivor OF
! MANY great dead. Gone was rThad.
] tevens, tile imarnation of hate; gone
was J. II. Giddings, the Abolition
| list, whom Stephens himself loved
gone was the courtly Ex-Governor
I Briggs. of New York, and the uncontL
Mike Walsh gone was the fiery Keith,
land gone the fearful and wonderful
John Coyode-:- gone 1.-The eloquent
Ioveioy and the mellow Mallory
! gone Hersch-I V. Johnson gun. IS
cock, ard Ynlee, and Edmondston, and
/ Clingnan, and the impetuous Brooks
and Potter and Rector, and Phelps
and Rollins, ana Winter Davis, and ;
thousand, once statesmen Of elthel
parry. ard there was the man on whom
} twenty years ago death had apparent,
set his seal, sarviyor Of them all, enf
Representatives. the greatest dlstric
of tie Empire State Of the Sonth.-
Background this contrast with the
fearful four years OF intersections
throat-cutting, and the dramatic fact
of. the occasion stand out grim witt
graves and lighted by intens . cerebra
| fire. - - -s
The Hartford Post is very naught.