Glasgow Courier. — 1846-04-18 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

SCENE IN CONGRESS.  ..... _ The private correspondent of the Morning Herald writes by the 1 recent arrival from the United States as follows : Another rich scene has occurred in Congress. A Mr. Sawyer, a blacksmith, and who has the honour of representing the state of Ohio, has been very indignant because one of the New-York papers has remarked on the fact of his making a practice of eating his dinner in the House of Representatives. It seems that every day about two o'clock this said Mr. Sawyer enters on his duty of feeding. About that hour he is seen leaving his seat and taking a position in the window, back of the Speakers chair to the left, lie unfolds a greasy paper in which is contained a chunk of bread and sausage, or some unctuous substance. This he disposes of quite rapidly, wipes his hands with the greasy paper for a napkin, and then throws it out of the window. What little grease is left on his hands he wines on his almost bald head, which saves an outlay for poinatum. Ills mouth sometimes serves as a finger-glass, his coat sleeves and pantaloons being called into requisition as a napkin. Ile uses a jack-knife fora tooth-pick, and then he goes on the floor again, and abuses the Whigs as the British party, and claims the-whole of the Oregon as necessary for the spread of civilisation, and of course opposes all the seductive arts of education. Such is Mr. Sawyer's mode of dining. The New- Yorh Tribune spoke of his indelicate feats, and for having so done, the reporters of that journal have been excluded the house. Mr. Sawyer, on bringing this matter to the notice of the house, distinctly admitted that it was virtually true, but as distinctly advertised the author of the offensive notice, that if it was repeated he would seek of him personal satisfaction; in other words, intimating that he would flog him. The American press is very Indignant at the expulsion of the reporters for thus speaking the truth. The New- Yorh Express goes on to regard further elegaucies of American legislatots as  " Members of Congress appear in their seats in a state of drunkenness, and when in that state they indulge in the use of language too indecent or too profane to meet even the vulgar gaze, they are tolerated in an exhibition no less disgraceful to the nation at large than to the representatives of the people. We have seen men make merry when they should have rather wept at scenes which have been acted upon the floor of the house; scenes where the words, liar, scoundrel, and even worse words, have been used, and when all this has been demind no cause for expulsion, censure, or reproof of any kind. If it were possible—and we are heartily glad, for the respect we have for Congress, that it is not —to report all tha proceedings of Congress, just as they occur, many of the members, and those the most deserving of censure, and yet most sensitive when they receive it, would find Congress presenting a much worse appearance before the public than it has ever received at the hands of the most skilful reporter. The pencil of the artist, with llogarth to guide it, could not more than delineate all the confusion, dissipation, egotism, and folly almost daily displayed upon the floor of the house. Suppose that a Daguerreotype impression should be made of the proceedings of the house for one week, how many men are there of the responsible majority who would like to see it? If in this age of invention there should be a discovery like that the Arabian tales tell us of, where men are checked in the twinkling of an eye as they are acting out some folly of their own, awl there, in all their grotesqueness of attitudes, put to sleep for all the world to gaze upon them —or if, going beyond all this, all the bombast of language and ranting of manner, awl murder of the King's English, could be put into print, wh kt a figure would some men that we know of cut, In Congress, before the world."