, 1874-01-02
UNITED STATES SENATE.
Curiositics of tho Nc.T Congressional
Directory.

Directory.
Washington correaponenct Ct the yt,o Turk Graz:.lc
Maj. Ben Perley Poore has issued proof co',:es
OF the valuable Congressional Directory he c sta-
piles as 'tC1crk Of the Printing Recors!.s."
Taking the Senate for illustration, ono finds
that there is one Senator. Simon Cameron. over
q years OF age; aud ono, Dorsey, OF Arian:4:,
just turned II. The next youngest is Couo ;o,
Of Florida both carpet-baggers preceeit!
runs IN the new South. Spence Of Alabama.
not give bis age, but looks about s.. There ara
besides those named, two Senators whose ago.
are S3 two Of 10 years; two OF u; three Of Is;
four Of A.; one OF ID; Elk OF 4G years; ona .;
II; three Of 49 years; three Of 50; Two Of 81;
the same Of 53; one Of 81; four Of IS; tho
Of GO; one OF C1: each 62. GO, G4, Gs, aid g.
years OF age. The latter is the venerable and
urbane Gov. Buckingham, OF Connecticut 1hcro
a1a .wo elderly Senators vito gcem ansious e.,
conceal their ages. One il Gen. Logan. from
whom Poorc has never been able to wa1 TINT
secret. Logan must be over so, but ho SEEMS
to have found the secret fountain of Poa,o 10
Leon, and never appears to grow day oIle1.
The other elderly gentleman who doesn't Lite 10
consult the register Of his birth il G15ert, Of
Florida. Tie united ago Of the se9enty-two Sell
atora now in the Chamber is over 5000 yta.a-
being, without counting Gilbert, Logan. anil
Patterson, whose ages a1o not gwen, 2,YI0 y2a,s
in the aggregate. Adding $50 for the three gen
tIemen named, the total viii be $780, OF IN aso:-
age OF 3years and months for each. - w.L
be seen, {? far the largest number ero J., ~it:e
very prime Of ife-ifty-two Of the whoi6 III
ler being letween 40 and 60 years OF ase
Ihe natIrltles OF Senators are tfllB indicated:
Pennsylvania claims eight Senators, inc udi,,,
those .who, represent tho State; Ney Ioi;
has si1 Senators, including Messrs. Cou4-
in the Senate, including her own Senatots;
NeT Hampshire, Rhode Island, ye-alons.
Maine, and Connecticut arc represented b.
natlvo-born Senators, while Vermont aud
Maino give two to otaer States; Ohio Lss four
Of hor sons in the Chamber, including john
Sherman, and Virginia has i've, including tLo
two senators Of tile State; New Jersey las tvt,
nntive-born Senator's and one Other c!ain.5 ,tl.
State rs his birthplace; Maryland claima tlree
Senators, her owu and one other; Delaware,
Georgia. aud North Carolina claim the:r own
Senators as nirives; Illinois and Indiana giro
homes to two Senators from each, Cor. Morton
aud Gen. Log,n both being born in the State
they represent; Loulsla1a claims her Senator as
native; Alabtma is the birthplace OF one Of
the Texas Senator's; South Carolina his one
native born Senator; Michigan the same; while
Germany and Wales ate claimed for Scauiz and
Jones. 1went1-two States hold tho birri,places
Of seventy Senator's. the remaining 5olns borr
abroad.
Sixteen OF the present Senators hare beer
Governors OF their respective States, several ot
Senators haVo served in the House Of Re,,reaen-
tatives one twelve and two others ten yea7G
each threo hara served eight years each, ITc
ak years, and two others four years each. -Four
have been elected Presidential Electors several
Others ran for tie samo honor. Three haE
been LicutenantI3overnors,o one Vice-Presidcnt.
two in the Cabllnt. Three have been foreign
Ministers, one commissioner OF Internal Rev.
euue, and ano:he: Of Indian Affair.". One has
been Surveyor General, four havo been Chief
Justices in thcil respective States, an1 nine
have held Judicial positions. Five havo been
Attorney-GeneEal or In their States aa
District Attorueyt There arc thirty nine who
are designated as kwye1s and three Others who
have studied law but do onot practice. Twenty -four
Senators claim collegiate education !: nineteen
what they term q &ademic j two wont to Wess
Point, and sixteen lpeakof going to the common
OF public schools ri taeir educational rrapu-
alton. OF occupatnas and professions bcsides
the Law, there arc Elk who write themselves a.
painters, one as dvl engineer, two as RAILROAD
presidents. one Us agniner, another as E coal
miner and banker three claim to havo been
printers and editors, ,one is put down as editor,
two as mauufacturcn, two as physicians, tive as
merchants, one as hmber-merchant; two speak
of themselves as haVng learned tie carpenters
to their names, though neither are very re'ereud
in character q refer 20 B1own1ow and Tpton);
ono other has been :2acher, college professor,
lawyer, Majo jor-Geuera, Washington corre pond.
ent, Minister residet. editor, and Dow United
States Senator q rofe. to Carl ScAurz). As to
military sorTice, it aplears that there are i've
Major-Geuefala who 4erved in the Union Army,
and two who served iushat OF the Ccpfede1acy-