Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1874-07-09

their names are Ben. Butler and
| Aleck Stephens. Ben. is an entire
ly temperate man, drinks no intOx'
icating dranghts. He is seen passing
round frequently with his soft hal
rolled up and stuffed half way in his
back coat pocket, while he carries his
cigar half way in his mouth, which he
keeps walloping about for awhile, when
he throws it aside and takes another.
was told he never lights mis- cigar MOI
chews if, but gets his money back by
bobbing the thing around in his mouth
Just for fun. Or course anybody could
recognize Ben. at first glance that had
ever seen his picture. We confess to
being an admirer of Ben., and think he
possesses as much honesty as any OF
them, and much more brains. Alex.
Stephens sits directly in front of the
Speaker. He is the oldest specimen
of an animate mummy we ever saw.
OF medium height, very pale, ex-
tremely attenuated, features small and
skinny. There he sits, encased in a
faultless black suit, with a velvet tur-
ban on his head, which he wears con-
stantly on his head. His little
hands, resembling monkeys paws more
than human hands, are covered in neat
fitting kids. There he sits with his
cloak thrown carelessly over his shOul-
ders, his sunken eyes peering out from
their hiding places in their sunken
sockets. He is altogether an admira-
BILE representative of the ''lOst cause"
and looks, for all the world, like a sec.
end d-handed last years birds nest. He
was, during the earlier part of the ses-
sion, pretty regularly in his seat, to
and from which he wss regularly help
ed by some friend. He uses crutehes,
having but little use Of his lower
limbs. He has gone home, and it is
hoped to stay. Brownlow, like Ste
phens, is also a pensiOner constantly
on the kindness of somebody to help
him back and forth. The nation should
employ Winnie Ream to dig out, in her
best style, few Senators and Repre-
sentatives from sandstone, a nd set
them up about to take the place OF
all such old roosters, and thus save
their salaries to the country. Winnie
with her chisei,
We bid adieu to all the pleasant
scenes of our hurried visit about the
city-pass to the cars for home, ct 9 P.
NJ, and are promptly off. We watch
the beauteous dome of the Capitol,
brilliantly lighted with gas, and as we
speed awav into the darkness, every
thing of the magnificent city gradual
ly recedes from view, except the
twinkIing light of the dome. We look
after it, now hidden by intervening
objects, as we whirl along; now like
a beacon light it bursts again upon our
delighted view, and then again it dis
appears to enfold itself again and again,
and at last, like the fiickering light of
the crumbling and tumbling monarch
les of the old world, 1t is gone from my
view. But. unlike them, | knew it
still shone for me and all the land.
Washington City, we bid thee fare
well!-in which is embraced the wish
for thy prosperity and greatness. And
Hike the signal light upon thy magnifi-
cent Capitol, may the genius OF thy
and Slory--'land of the free.'
shine brighter and brighter, till the
nations shall acknowledge thee the
beacon light of the world, with not
star dimmed nor stripe defaced on
the escntcheon of thy glory!