The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-12-07
[From the New York Tribune.I
The New Congress.

A CONGRESS OF YOUNG MEN AND LAWYERS =
I COLLEGES REPRESENTED - THE SOUTHERN
=, MEMBERS" aus a.sI7& &"5 -i"@ t>'"
The Forty.fourth Congress consists of 292
representatives and "a senator's making 8
total of 1865 members. To this number must
be added 9sterritorial delegates. In the
Senate there are 40 :Repub licans, % Demo
Gratis, Q Independents, and one vacancy.
The Republican majority Is how'll. In the
,Forty-third Congress it was: 81. In the
House there are 101 Republicans, lit Demo-
Gratis, s Liberal Republicans, 4 Independent
Republicans,I4 Independent Reformers, and
one vacancy, the Democratic majority being
SO. The Republican majority Ia the Forty
third Congress was 100. y coli al
t. OF the 1865 members 40 have served in
previous Congresses, while the remainder,
l7e, are with few exceptions strangers in
Washington ,.lnu2 o1a :r;-,np NJ
Its Congress of young rather than old
heads A very large proportion of the new ~
members are in! the early stage aef middle
life, one of them being only 20,gand only
one being, overj70. ALI bat 2 of the new
members are natives Of the United States.
Twenty-one were born in n eW England, 81
in New Y ork, 81 in Pennsy lVania and New
Jersey, % In the West, and 54 In the South.
Three members were born in Ireland In
Canada,1 is an EIglishmaD, and 1ta3Ger-
man.. %di - [i@&f 5aEEs@ -.i!l .@2"ftgia
Sixty.nine of the 176 members received q
college education. There are 6 graduates OF
Yale College,2 of Washington and Jefferson,
8 of the college of New Jersey, 2 Of the Uni
| verstyl of Alabama, 3 of the University Of
| Virginia, Q of the University Of Georgia, 8
of Union College, 2 of Hamltop,2 Of Beth.
any College, and I representative from each
ofthe following institutions: Harvard, Madi-
son, William and Mary, University of Yer.
mont, University of Louisiana, Washington
and Lee, Amherst; Bethel, Williams, Illinois,
Wesleyan, University Of Indiana, George.
town, Genesee, University OF Wisconsin,
University of South Carolina, st. Mary's,
McKendree, Franklin and Marshall, Kenyon,
University of Iowa, Rutgers, University of
Maryland, WaterPille, Columbia, Duqnesue,
Asbury, and few other colleges. There is
one graduate of; the University Of Giessen,
Germany, and one member B. b. Douaass)
studied medicine in the University Of Edin.
| burgh. IA very large proportion of those
who did not go to college received fair ed.
ucaHonin common school or seminary. Two
or three OF, the c0lored members from the
South could not read until after the out.
lIbreakaof the war. There are two graduates
! from West Point. - ~ III III a51lli9 -
-Twenty.eight Of the new members were
lssscessionisfs, and twenty-six ct these served
in the Confederate army. Mr. Throckmor.
ton, of Texas Mr. Hill, 81. Georgia, and
others were members of the Confederate
Senate, and several southern members took
high, rank In, the southern army. Twenty
six members were In, the Union army, and
Lone was in the navy. Robert Smalls, . col
ored member; from South Carolina, had a
varied experience. serving in both arms of
| the service and on beth sides. BY trade a
| rigger and sailor, he was pilot on a south.
,ern steamboat, and succeeded In seizings the
vessel and joining the United States fleet off
| Charleston. He was put on the navy list o!
| the United States, and was subsequently ap:
pointed second lieutenant In d regiment of
coiored troops. q ~ e tats.s: .'sss
II The bar will have an overwhelming repre-
sentation in the new Congress-. OF the 176.
new members 122' are lawyers, sS1t are en-
tgaged ia mercantile pursuits, 4 are phys.
| clans, are bankers, 2 ara editors. g are
farmers, ard 3 are college professors.
ALI but8cof the THEW senators are law.
iyess, Senator'S hristiancyt OF Michigan ana
Me MILAN of Minnesota kaaing had perhaps
| the most, extended xperieeee at theJbar;;and
on! the bench. Il There iRre four exs9oGes-
nors-Mr. Booth of alifornsa, GeneFal Bnrn.s
lside Off Rhode Island, sAif.. Englishsof Co.'s
lHecticut, and Mr. Randolph of New Jersey.
| Only tWoof the new senator's have served