Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-07-04
some United state. Senators.

A BIRDS yIEw Ky A GALLERY SPECTATOR.
MARY Cemmor in the independently
Ben Hill sits swinging his foot over his
desk, as if school were out and there was
nothing for him to do but to go home 10
Georgia. tall, clean, ministerial man in AS
pect, with close.cut, gray beard, resolute
mouth, and large, light blue eyes, full of
meditative, introvertod light. He has the
drawl and whine of Methodist eXhorter
(Which, l believe, he is), and even pummels
Blaine with something of the JUNCTION of
Thus saith the Lord"
Near him sits Lamar of Mississippi, consid-
erably dressed up this morning, with i'm
maculate linen, his long hair smoothly comb
ed, his care-worn face with more or less of
pain on it. For most of the past year Lamar
has sat down in the shadow of Gordon and
Hill, speaking far less than he used to in the
House. In cultivation he outstrips them
both as he does by far the average Southern
man. Nor should we ever forget that his en-
logy on Sumner was as just as it was eloquent.
Gordon sits near him, far taller and prouder
in bearing, full of vanity and Of sabre cuts
caught in Confederate battle One shows
plainly ON his face. His straight black hair
is brushed back, showing a high but narrow
brow. His nose is inclined to be snub. Al
together, he is fine without being an i'm
pressive looking man. Butler of South Car
olina is far handsomer, but of that drawing
room type of beauty which, through the fiat
terry of woman, is very apt to make out of
man, unless he forswears it, a parlor knight
"a man in the prime of life, who looks we'll
fed, as well as well-bred, with smooth, fine
features, a temperament more inclined to So
cial pleasures than to those of camp or field
His Hampden record, perhaps, put him on
his good behavior in the Senate. At any rate,
by his urbanity, mildness of mood, and APP
parent freedom from Southern race rancor,
he seems to have won higher personal place
in the regards of Republican Senators than
any other Southern man in the Senate, un-
less it be Wade Hampton, also from South
Carolina. Strange that ii should be the South
Carolina Senators who are the lambs of all
the southern senatorial flock. Wade Hamp-
ton sits on the outer edge Of the Democratic
side, very near Thurman, showing visibly the
effects of the great physical suffering through
which he has passed. He leans heavily on
two crutches-a large, heavy man, who has
suddenly collapsed into thinness, his long,
dark hair falling about face in which sud
den wrinkles have come out of fullness, in
whose expression there is singular min
Cling of craft and righteousness Among
the Republicans, life has laid its hand visibly
upon three men. Time touches us all. Gently
sometimes sometimes with visible ruth,
kissing out the tints and contours of youth.
Again it smites heavily, without mercy. Thus
in the stress and passion of living it has smit-
ten Conkling, Carpenter and Blaine.
No men in public life have changed 80 sud
denly and surely as they have. While men
| like Senators Hamlin and Morrill, do not look
day older than they did ten years ago, these
three men, who are more than twenty years
younger than they are, have grown swiftly
old by their side. Carpenter looks scarcely
the same man who left the Senate a few years
ago. Then portly man, who had scarcely
reached his prime, he is now not more than
half as large, with whitened hair and wasted
hands One potent characteristic remains I'M
changed-the fute-like quality of his voice.
Blaine has grown heavy with the unwieldi.
ness of age, though far from old He has
grown gray and somewhat bald, and his
handsome eyes have submitted to the first in