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PEN PICTURES or SENATOR'S.
Blaine and Gordon tho Magnetic Mon
or the Senate. How Patterson Looks
IAN Era Of Good Feeling.

Blaine and Gordon tho Magnetic Mon
or the Senate. How Patterson Looks
IAN Ere Of Good Feeling.
Colonel .NcClmen the Philadelphia Times.
The notable feature Of the Senate,
to ono who has been familiar with
the body ten years ago, is the many
new faces to the extreme right Of
tho chair. There are Gordon and
Ransom and Maxoy and Morgan and
,, Hill and Lamar and Butler and
Withers, all ex-Confederate chiefs,
now legislating for the government
they rebelled against, and they rival
their opponents on the opposite
side Of the chamber in conservative
national viows. Tho magnetic mon
of tho body evidently are Blaine on
the Republican side, and Gordon on
the Democratic side. Both are Of
the nervous temperament, genial in
intercourse, keen at repartee and
always ready for tho fray. blaine,
Gordon and Lamar are sitting in u
group, the great Republican leader
leaning over the desk of the
Georgian warrior on one side and
Lamar bending to both from the
the other side, chatting in manner
SO friendly and jovial that the de-
voice Of the bloody shirt would chill
in his hero. worship of Blaine, could
he see how fraternal the blue and
the gray can be in the amenities Of
the Senate. Conkling enters from
the rear of the chair and his finely
chiselcd features, graceful bearing
and unconcealcl sense of superiori-
ty could not fail to arrest the ntten-
ton of the visitor. His golden hair
has lost its lustre us the frosts have
been busy at their wo.k, anl ho
lacks the ruddy freshness he brought
INTO the Senate, but he is unim~
paired in vigor and impcrious us
only Coul1ling can be since the
days of Clay. He beckons tne
youthful looking Allison, Of Iowa,
to II private talk, and the two take It
good old-fashioned country lean
against the docr-jamb wnile Conkiing
tells his story AMI pares tho Ill, IF
his eXqulsitcly-modcied fingers.
Dick Oglesby, the rollicking cam
palgner Of Illinois and one Of the
bravcst of warriors from the prairie
land, sits quietly in his seat. His
head was whilcned like the I'm
summed snow, but his face is yet
fresh and unplowcd by age or care
Ferry steps in from the eastern
door like a dancing- master, strokes,
his long glossy beard as he STRUTS |
along the aisle, pauses to give ample
time for the play of the admiration
Of the galleries, and then takes his
chair with self~satisfuction written
all over his by no means strong f,cc.
Patterson comes in with hurrieI, I
defiant step, hi, head thrown back
over the perpendicular line, and
drops into his seat unnoticad. His
wealth Of golden hair is deeply
silvered now, and his features urc |
sharp and pale as if they knew little
Of health or content. Oif to his
right is the round, dusky face of
Bruce, of Mississippi, the youngest
Senator, L believe, and the only
representative Of the colored race in /
the body. He is light mulutto,
stout, self~posscs ed, intelligent
and graceful in all his movements.
Lamar, his colleague, looks slug
gish beside the restless Gordon. but
he is able to cope with any in del a12.
Dunsido came in without his ,klI
cap, displaying his shining bald
crown and snow-white Burnside
whiskers. He has grown nncom-
fortably stout, and wadllcs about
the Senate duck-fashion, although
his statcliness of form and faultless-
ness Of attire remain with him.
Cameron is absent-off to New Yolk
to prepare for bis coming marriage
with the beautiful and cultivated
Miss Sherman, of Ohio, but Walllce
is in his place and looks from tho
gallery like the youngest OF the
members. His quiet, dignified re-
serve we'll becomes the Senate, and
he is now one of the leading party
oracles in directing the Democratic
side in all emergencies. Thurman
is esteemed ADLER, but he is slug
gish and only once in while is
great He moves about lazlly and
swings his red silk handkerchief
awkwardly rs q well-to-do country
farmer. The Senate is quito thin,
most Of tho Republicans being
absent, and Sargent, Of California,
has the floor on some naval bill that
is undergoing amendment, and the