The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-05-26
AN OLD rooy's
"Reminiscences of Franklin Pierce's Ad-
 ministratsec.

iwAshingsoa Corr. of the Courier Journal. ! Franklin Pierce was inxugusased presi- den, ef the United States. March !. iSss :. He was an accomplished orator. and hls address on the occasion was delivered in his happiest style.
 The new cabinet consisted of the fcllow- ing gentlemen: William l. Marcy. ot New York. secretary of state; James Guthrie. of Kentucky, secretary of the treasury; Jefferson Davis. of Mississippi, secretary of war James (. Dobbin. of North Carolina, secretary ot the navy :; Robert McClclland. of Michigan. sccre- ,ary of the interior James Campbell. of Pennsylvania. postmaster-general, and Caleb Cushing, of Massachusetts attorney general.
 The thirty. third congress met on the Sth of the following December. Linn Boyd was reelected speaker oi the house.
 The Kentucky senators w ere Archibald Dixon and john K Thompson. Repre- sen,a,ises Linn Boyd. John |. Meck,n- ridge. Francis NJ. Riistaw. James N. Ghnsman, Lcander N. Cox. iohn NJ. Elliott. Presley Ewing Ben Edwards Grey. Clement S. Hi.L William Preston and Richard stanton.
 Francis M. BGis;oW was d rcsidcn; of Elk;on. and d lawyer by profession. He represented Todd county in the state house of representatives from iSSi to iSss. and m the state senate from iS4S te iS49. In ISIp so he was a member of the convention that framed the present constitution of Kentucky. He was elected representative to congress as whlg to nil the vacancy caused by the death of Presley Ewing. and served from Decem- Der, iSSl, to March, iSSs. In iSSo he was again returned to congress. and served until the ith of March. iSei. He died at Elkton June IS. Is6+. in the six- tie,h year of his age.
 lames :. Chrisman resided al Monti- cello. and represented Wayne county Tn the state constitutional convention of IS49-'so. In iSS, he was elected rep resentaitvc 10 congress as democrat. and served one term In ISso he was again candidate for congress, and claimed to have been elected. but the house decided that he had only eceised 7..pi votes, and gave the seal to William (. Anderson. who had received : .so4 votes. He loined the south in iSoI. and was aherward member of the eonteder- ate congress He has since tha, time served two terms !n the legislature from the county of Wayne. beginning m so9 and ending m 1875
 Leander NJ. Cos was native of Nlr- ginia. He removed to Kentucky and settled at Flemngsbufs. He represented Fleming county m the legislature fiom iS4s to is4S. During the former year he vas grand master of the grand lodge of Kentucky. He vas presidential clcetor on the Scott and Graham ticket in iSS,. In 1853 he was elected a representative to congress as a whig. and was reelected m 1855. serving until tho lih of March, 1857.
 ohn Nj. Elliot, vas born m Virginia, May i6, iS,o, and commenced the prac- tioe of law al frestonburg, Ky, in iSl5 j. lie represented Floyd county in the leg lslature from iSa7 to 1899. In 1851 he ! was elected representative to congress as a democrat. and was continued in that body for siA consecutive years. From iSbl to iS6S he was a member of the confederate congress. In 1898 he was elected circuit judge of the mountain district, the term ending in 1874. Sub sequentiy he was elected a judge of the oour, of appeals. and while iilling ,his position was murdered by man who was aftefward pronounced, Judiciaily. 10 be, a lunatie.
 Clement C. Hill resided a, lebanon, and represented Marion county m the legislature from is59 to I54I. In iS5 ] he was elected a representative io con gross as whig, and served until the lth of march, 1855.
 The distinguishing feature of this con gfess. and, l may add. of Heroes admin- istration. was the Kansas \ ebfaska act, which repealed the Missouri eompromise of r87o and affirmed the principles of the compromise measures of isso. This legislation kindled to a red heat the slavery question in the north. Men, money and arms were sent to Kansas by the abolitionists, whose object vas not colonization % much as agitation. Civil strife soon ensued, and what was known as the :. Kansas war" followed. In this : the celebrated John Brown obtained his } first notoriety. The administration, how ever, succeeded in preserving the general peace by strict and faithful maintenance Of the laws.
 The thiry-fourih congress me, Decem- Der }, 1855. Jesse D. Bright, of Indiana, was chosen presiden, pro tenn. of the senate. Owing 10 the diseordant ele- menis of which the house was eomposed, no organization took place until the is; of February. 1856, when Nathaniel r.. Banks, Of Massachusetts. ~as declared speaker. under resolution similar ,o that adopted for the oFganixs,ion of he ,higy-Ess: congress h politics he was an anti-slayery American Of know-no,h- Ing, as the party vas commonly called. though he was not ,he regular nominee of the party. The Kansas difsculties were the chief subjects of discussion al this session.
 The Kentucky senators .ere John ]. Cnuenden and John E. Thompson rep resentssives-Heny Burnett, John r. Campbell, Leander NJ. Cox. John M. Elliott. Joshua H. Jeveft, Alexander K. Marshall, Humphrey Marshall. Samuel F. Swope. Aibert C. Talbot and Warner