Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-01

/ Ofthe $50 thus retiring there are anum-
/ Der who are worthy Of more han passing
notice. Take Senator Cameron, OF Wis
/ consin< for instance. who refused a re-
election. His departure is greatly re-
/ GREETED by great many men here who
/ know him best. He IS one OF the hardest
workers, best patured men, aud most
I popular members of the Senate. His as
! sociates Of the Committee on Claims, of
/ which he is Chairman, are especially at
/ tached to him and eyinCe1 their appreci-
/ alton of MIN but few evenings since by
rendering him dinner at one Of the most
! fashionable establishments of the city.
/ Mr.. Cameron is an extremely agreeable
I gentleman personally, capable of telling
/ a good story, and telling it well,
/ but not often indulging in that sort
| of thing, hard and conscientious work
! er. His sturdy Scotch determination and
/ win power carries MIN through many diff
I iiculties which many other men would
I think could not be overcome. Recently
/ he met with the misfortune Of losing the
use of his writing fingers, probably from
/ long and constant rise of the pen. And
/ what did be do! SIT idly down and call
| his well-paid committee clerk to do his
4 writing for him, as nine out of ten men
/ would have done? Nothing Of the sort /;
( he simply seized the pen as one would the
/ handle OF a dagger or a walking-stick,
/ the point of the pen projecting past the
! lower portion or "balf' OF the hand, and
/ in a few days had learned to write with
/ the pen in this position. Almost any day
I il you are in the gallery YOU may see this
/ White-baired and white-beaTded man writ
| ing in this odd way. rather than be de-
/ pendent upon his committee clerk or a
/ private secretary. He retiIes TO resume
| the practice of law, his firm having con-
! tinued the business during the ten years
! he has been here.
How ode it VIII seem TO William Pitt
/ Kellogg, OF Louisiana, to be out Of office.
/ lie has not drawn the breath of a free
/ American citizen for - years. Appointed
/ Chief Justice OF Nebraska in 1861, his
I career has been that of q public servant
/ ever since. lie held that Office until he
cot d better one, the COlOnelcy of the
/ Seventh Illinois Regiment, and in his war
/ experiences found the climate of Louisi-
! ana and the opportunities for Office both
I agreeable to him. SO be settled there at
/ q good, fat salary as Collector Of the Port
/ of New Orleans, which place he resigned,
having been elected United States Senator
| in 1865. He held his Senatorial position
/ until 1872, when he resigned to become
4 Governor of Louisiana, and after serving
I his term was elected to the Senate again,
/ whence he, two years age, drifted to the
House. Unselfish fellow, he has always
been ready to resign an Office when an
other and better one was fairly within
his grasp. OfficehOlding is supposed to
be unremunerative, but Mr.. Kellogg
seems to have been able to scrape to-
S0ther a pretty snug fortune in the %
Vea1s he has been in the business. He
lives at Wizards Hotel when here, rides
in his carriage, and is usually accom-
panied when walking or riding by the
prettic4t little spaniel in Washington, one
pronounced by dog fdnciors to be the
finest ia the United States, having cost
$500 in L0hdOn, where 1t was purchased
two years ago by Packard and sent to
Kellogg.