The New York Herald Newspaper, July 15, 1866, Page 2

2 i er a FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. Sarvepay, July 14—6 P. M. ‘Wo observe that Mr. Morrill is endeavoring to distin- Quish himself as a resurrectionist, and that he yesterday roported from the Ways and Means Commuttee in the House a new tariff bill, embodying most of the pro- tectionist features of the first one, which recently enjoyed the honor of being killed in the Senate, We consider it needless to discuas this posthu- mous measure; and as ghosts have no logal exist- ence we advise both houses of Congress to adjourn tts consideration sine die, Should the representatives of the people, however, be sufficiently corrupt, ill-ad- vised or prejud‘ced to pass it, wecall upon the Presi- dont to veto it without hesitation, and prevent the country being saddled with an incubus pregnant with evil to the best interests of the country. We are glad to see that Mr. Guthrie, in the Senate, is Agitating the question of the indebtedness of the gene- ral government to the States for money expended in raising, subsisting and transporting troops during the rebellion. These claims ought to be at once investigated and acknowledged, and if not set- ied immediately interest should be paid regularly on the principal. One consequence of the government not paying the States their claims is that citizens have to bear a heavier share of local taxation than if the same was discharged. Congress should appoint a apecial com- mittee of inquiry to report upon this important subject without further delay, ‘Tho Stock Exchange continues buoyant, and the specu- lative balloon is soaring higher. The rag-tag and bob- tail of the street are in ecstasies, and the few remaining ‘bears’? are being rapidly transformed into * bulls.’’ At the ten o'clock session of the open board Erie sold at 7439 (b. 3), Northwestern 3455 a 7%, Cleveland and Pittsburg 843g a 3/, Northwestern preferred 635% a X, Fort Wayne (s. 3) 981f, Western Union Telegraph 3i¢. At the first regular board the merket was trong and active. Erie closed 3¢ higher than at the = haii-past = two board yesterday, New York Central %%, Reading 114, Michigan Southern M4, Cleveland and Pittsburg *{, Rock Island 14, North- woatern 34, Western Union Telegraph Government securities were rather dull. Coupon five-twenties of the old issue were steady. Coupon sixes of 1881 declined ‘4. ten-forties 3%. Coupon five-twenties of 1865 ad- cod by At the one o'clock open board the market showed in- creased activity and buoyancy. New York Central sold at 907%, Erie 7455, Roading 1104/2 1108; (b. 3), Catawissa 795s, Michigan Southern 8% a +{, Cleveland and Pitts- burg 8476 a 854%, Wlivois Central 14, Cleveland and Toledo 110%, Northwestern 3554 a preferred 64 a v \i, Rock Isinnd 96%, Fort Wayne 98%; a °{, Quicksilver 613; a 34, Western Union Telograph 5° Afterwards the speculative teeling was in the ascend- ant, and prices experienced « further advance, The re- port tat the directors of the Erie Railway Company had renewed their contract with the Vennsylyania Coal Company, which was suspended a few weeks since, stimulated an advance in the stock to 754s, and at a quarter past five it was quoted at 7, The general inarket closed at the same timo steady atthe following quotations:—New York Central 99% a 100, Reading 110 a 4, Michigan Southern 82% a 83, Illi- nots Contral 1223, a 4%, Cleveland and Pittsburg 85 a 34, Cleveland and Toledo 1101; a 4%, Rock Island 963; a %, Northwestorn 355 a \—preferred 63% « 64, Fort Wayne 98% a \4, Olio and Mississippi certificates 2734 a 28, Canton 52a %{, Camberlaud 462{ a 34, and Quicksilver 502¢ a 5. The supply of moncy is abundant on the Stock Ex- change at five per cent, with a few unimportant excep- tions at six. The disbursements of the Treasury in re- daemption of the one year certificates upon which inter- est ceases on the 16th instant, and in payment of the July coupons of the third series of thefseven-thirty notes, sanuot but result in increased monetary ease at this contre, and this wil! stimulate speculation both im govern- mont securities and railway shares. ‘The former, althount now selling at prices above the average ot laté, are below Uhat of those current in the early part of last year, which were as under:— Jan, 21, Feb. 4. Feb, 25, £881 coupon. 1003, 109%, it 5-20 coupon, 100", mM 10-40 coupon .. cd 1025 nS, Aprit ta. Aprit 29, 1961 coupon........110% 108 3g 108% ne 6-20 coupon, 1862. .111 105"; = 106100 10 # coupon....... 97% er 92, id ‘The range of goid during these months was thua:— Lnwat, 198 us . 160 ia ‘The gold market has been steady, and loans have been made without interest, acd at 2a5 per vent. for carry- ing. Tho opening price was 162, followed by a gradual advance (o 152%, and an equally gradual recession to 162%, Lhe closing quotation. The export of gold by this day's stea:ners aggregated $1,447,030, of which tho City of London took $448,000, the Saxonia $94,000, the Bre men $275,000, the Napoleon III. $475,030, and the Bcot- Jand $155,000, making a total for the week of $2,239,270. The specie and bullion exports during the iast cleren weeks have been as under (the whole aggreguling 947,121,630) :-— Week ending. $1,247,240 1,064,496 8,768,205 11,364,840 6.873, 278 5,825,000 The foreign exchange market was steady in tone, and in the abseneo of transactions the quotations were nomi- aaily ax subjoined :—Rankers’ bills on England at sixty days, 109 a %; short sight, 110% %%; commercial, 107 a 1084. Private advices from both Great Britain and the Continent indir the preva. lence of a feeling of distrust there which alts for cash remittances from this eide, and hence ight bilix and five-twenty bonds are likely to be sent forward for some little time to come, to the almost entire seclu- sion of bills at sixty days. Our commercial indebted nase to Rurope is still large and rapitly increasing, a may be eon by a reference to the export and import re turns. The valueof the imports for the past week at this port aggregated the enormous sum of $6,500,356 in specie, exclusive of freight and charges, while the ex Ports amounted to less than half that eum There is nothing of \uterest to record in relation to the market for petroleum and mining stocks, which con- tinues fet, At the frat board Bennehof Run oil clored Isc. highor than at the same time yesterday, selling at $4 30; New York Gold I5c., selling at $1 40; Quartz Hill 10c., selling at $4 10; Pithole Creek was 10c at $2 46 wer, setling United States 10c., selling at $8 25; Bennehot 5, selling at $7 40. Oil Creek sold at Bbc, 80, Holman Gold 36¢,, Keystone silver ise Nautlaod Marblo $14. A Wostern exchange informe > that the forectosure of the Mississxppi and Misouri Railroad morignges, as de. cromt by the United States Supreme Court, was com- pleted under the superintontence of Thos. F. Witherow, taster im Chancery. The was sold in divisions, roa ‘Ths flest divison, consisting of the road between Daven- port and Towa City, and Wilton Junction ead Muscatine, together with all the rolling stock, shops, &e., started the salo, The first bid wae $800,000, by Mr. I. Cook, who reprosonted the Chicago aud Mock Island and Pacific Railroad Company. Mr. John Elliot, of New York, bid $900,000. Mr. Cook then bid $1,000,000 at whieh figure it was strock of The Oskaloosa Division, from Muscatine West, was next offered, for which Mr. Cook bid $300,000, and got it. The next offered was the lands granted to the M, and M. Railroad by the United States, estimated at about 475,000 acres, was knocked Of to Mr. Cook for $200,000. The last offered was the Wostern division of the rond, from Town City west, This sold for $600,000, Mr. Cook's bid. Making the whole Purchase money $2,100,000, The only competition be side that noticed for tho First division, wae upon one quarter section of the land, which was started at one dollar per acre by a gentleman from Potk county, and it was run ap to three dollars per acre and struck off to Mr, Cook The earnings of the undermentioned railways in June were as follows 1966, 1666 Chicago and Alton $5 $964,275 Tne $19,009 Chic, and Great Eastern 118,960 Ine, 26,07 Northwestern 22,802 Inc Rock Ieland,. $11,180 290,642 Tne and Snclon 1. 116.186 106,815 Ine. Michigan Central... 86,688, Dee. Piidustee and St, Paul, 237,662 ne ‘ow York Central +1,133,000 1,175,000 Tne Pitta Ft. Wayne & Chic, C4,906 644.575 Ire Wostera Union. 68.780 102,686 Ine Tho business transacted at the Sab-Trawury io this efly to-day was as follows — forte coe 98,048,588 monte ove 1,945,493 ‘ 04 948 108 The Coucord and Claremont (N. H.) Ratirond, twonty- For customs Gold noter. six miles of which is open, was sold at auction on Mone day last for $100,000, subject to mortgage. The earnings of the Erie Railway and Butfalo Division for the month of June, 1866, were. $1,248,142 June, 1865, 1,252,369 ‘The earnings of the Belvidere (Delaware) Railroad for the year 1865, were $595,458; cost of the road, $3,425,677; net earnings forthe year 1865, $141,458; funded debt, $2,193,000, ‘The road is sixty-eight miles long, and is upon the east bank of the Delaware river the whole dis- 100 200 260 70 300 do. .24 call 7444 60 N YANHaven BR 112 100 Mil 2000 Reading 400 do. 600 2000 +. 7935 2000 Mo6’s,P RRivs 791; 2000 California 7’ 100 Fourth Net Bank. 104 10 Central Nat Bank 108 29 Bank of N York. 114 10 Corn Exeh Bank 120 100 Cumberland Cl pr 4834 300 Canton Gompany 200 Cant mpany 100 Central Coal Co, 250 Western Un Tel. 96: 100 Del, Lack& W RR 150 40 do. . 11 M&PDuC2d pref 85 200 do. 34 200 Pitts, FW & CRR 981 60 Ashburton ‘0. 100 tee 983, 100 Atlantic M S83 Co, 113 100 AL & T Haute RR Ot DLO 114 Religious Intelligence. SERVICES TO-DAY. Rey. FE. 0. Flagg will preach at the Chureh of the Resurrection, in Thirty-fifth street, noar Sixth avenue this morning at half-past ten o'clock. Somebody who advertises himself as “The Prophet’ will preach in the University, Washington square, at three o'clock this afternoon. Subject—‘* Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharain,”” AtSt, Ann’s Free church, in Eighteenth street, near Fifth avenue, Rey. Eastburn Benjamin will preach at half-past seven and half-past ten A, M., and balf-past three P. M., the afternoon service being for deaf mutes; and Rey, Foater Ely will preach in the evening. Rev. Wilham P. Corbit, pastor of the Seventeenth street Methodist Episcopal church, between First and Second avenues, will preach to-day, morning and even- ing. Services will be held morning and evening to-day in the Memorial church, corner of Hammond street and Waverley place, Rev. R. J. Quenneil, the rector, officiat- ing. Rev. James B. Dunn, pastor of the Central Prosbyto. rian church, will preach at Palace Hail, Sixth avenue, between Forty-first and Forty-second sireets, at four o’clock P. M., and in the church on Broome street near Broadway, at half past ten A. M. and half past seven PM. Mrs. Ballon will discourse before Spiritualists at Dod - worth Hall, No. 806 Broadway, morning and evening, with a conference in the afternoon at three o'clock, * Miss Ella Vanwie will be in her cabinet at No. 814 Broadway this evening, to prove immortality by spirit power. At the Pilgrim Baptist church there will be preaching this morning and evening, by Rev. George C. Lorimer, of Louisville, Kentucky. MISCRLLANEOUS, A subscription in Montreal in aid of the Sisters of the Congregation of Portiand, to enable them to rebuild the schools destroyed by the creat fire has been opened, and lists placed at the Bishop's patage, the Seminary of =t. Sulpice, the Congregation nut , Ste Patrick's church and in the bands of several leading citizens. Ali moneys ure to be handed to H. Cotte, cashier of the Jacques Cartier Bank, who has consented to act as treasurer. Bishop Wilmer, who refused to pray for the President and was suepeaded by Geueral Thomar, accepts the bishopric of mann Ro will be consecrated by Bishop Hopkins, author of Bible argument in defence of slavery. A Roman Catholic cathedral is about to be erectod in |. It will ocoupy the square bounded by Wash- inatoa and Union Park streets, Harrison avenue and Maiden street, and will not be finished for at least five years. Rev. Miles P. ir, D. D.. Professor of Intellectual ‘and Moral Phi y in Beliot College, died at Geneva, N. Y., on the 22d ult, Although performing his duties in Scania a part of the hey he resided chielly at Geneva, has boon identied with the retigious in- torests of Weatorn New York for more than half a cen- to that.piace when it was a little village, in 1816, as a licentiate, in the service of the Young People’s Missionary Society of Western Now York, and was ordained and tostalied pastor in Mar, 1816, in which relation he continued about eight years. He was the principal founder of the Professorship which ho filled at Beloit College, having contributed $10,000 towards it. He has boen well known from li« abundant meas i iu the cause of Clirist and for his published writings. Tho Rev. Dr. Schramm, minister of St. George's Ger- man chapel, has been engaged by ‘trinity cuurch to hold German etervices on Sunday evenings, in St. John's chapel, in behalf of his countrymen. Rev, Wm. ©. Armitage, reetor of Christ church, De trom, bas been unanimously elected Assistant Bishop of Wisconsin. The German Baptists held their annual meeting re- | cently near the Antistam battle field. Fifteen thousa persons Were in attendance. A great tent was erected which the muititade were fed, one thousand at a time. Not the least remarkabie thing about (his gathering was the tact that Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvanian, attended the services and opened the Voor Sunday with prayer. This body report the past to be one of great spiritual success, Mes. James B. Colgate, of New York, daughter of ex- Governor Colby, of New London, has just made the libe- rat offer ot $25,000 to the Literary institution im that place, on condition that $75,000 be raed from other sources. Rey. W. Hy Fatoa has been appointed financial agent of the institution to raise the stm necefary to make the endowment $100,000. The Christian Register ways thw Unitarian eburches have adopted « service in place of the regular alter chang, ing the hour, in some #, (0 five or six o'clock, ana im others to the evenin; be change bas, i all eases, 40 far as we know, beon approved and + out larger cong regatio feliow's Vesper Book iv aved in several paristies, Rev, Dr. Wadsworth, late of San Fran ceived acall from the Third church im succeed the late Dr, Cleveland, Mra. Aun Hertzog, who founded (he Theologies! Semi. nary of the Reformed Protestant Dutch church in New Brunzwick, N.d.,recently deceased inthis city. In her will she made the following bequests :—$10,000 to the Peter Herizog Theological Hall, $5,000 to the Poilaceiphia Bible Society, §3,000 to the Philadelphia Tract ". $1,500 to the Third Reformed futch church, $5,000 the Third Reformed Dateh ehurch “ Benevolent F Third Reformed Dutch church, “ Puel for ‘hird Reformed Dutch eburch, ¢ Peunevivenia Seamen's 1,000 t0 the Mer hante of the ey 000 to the Phiiadelph'n Associatic sabled Firemen, 000 to the North ern Home for Priendiesa Children, $9,000 to the soot and Children’® Home of Phils lolphia, $3,000 to a greet many of the eo Form of a vesper the Northern Dispensary, $3,000 to the Northern Soup 000 to the American Sundey Sehool Union, se Union Benevolent A ation, $2,000 to the Phi aployment # Jelpiie Association 2. Tostreetion of the Poo Foster Home, £2,000 to the Philadelpt: jon, $2,000 to the Penney’ #1,000 to the emale Domes ry Society, $2. Peon Indigent Widows and » Pennsylvania lnstitntion $5,600 to the Penneyl- to the | Single Women, $3, for the Instruction of the Blin! vania Institution for Deaf toes are to receive the w Without any dimmution thereof on account of th oF government tax. Mrs. Hertzog did not reser liberality until ber decese#, but through life was con etoutly making large gilts of # cbaritable and beneyolent nature. Rev. Almond Barreile, for the past three yoors @ mis. siouary to Conteal City, Colorado, where, under adverse umestances, he established a promising church, was wortnly weloomed to the pastoral charge the Second churoh, Brookiyn, &. D., om Friday evening. A Spanish servies bas been inaugurated ip cor jon | With Dr. Hawks’ congregation, now worshipping in Uni- | versity place At thie wervice the Book of Common Prayor is used. The cormon is also in Spanish, and the preacher is the Mev. Angel A. De Mora, There is one orvire every Sundsy @ the morning, which is quite a success, Marders tm Cim Ma l—The Aeademy of Fire. Crsemnatt, July 14, 1866. Two de'iherate murders were committed im this city Jeet night. Edwin Harpenz, frem Gordon, Ohio, was murdered for money; and a laborer, named Kelly, by a neighbor, for revenge. The low by the burning of the Academy of Music was greater then was at first seppoeed. Welner & Gerara, pieno dewlers; Mra Staring, iwilliner, and others, lore $40,000, making « (ota! of $65,000. Insurance, $33, Jadge Allison decided this mor | P. Weaver, democrat, was legally elected City Commie. ] woper over Jobo Given, republican. « the election Inat Or , bY seventy ty. NEW YORK HFRALD, SUNDAY, JULY 15 1866, THE UNPTED STATES SENATE. SA naaAnnnanemnmnanat Sketches of the Men Who Control the Affairs of the Country. WHO AND WHAT THEY ARE. SUMNER, THE APOSTLE OF ONE IDEA. Fessenden, ' the Aspirant for Leadership. How Thad Stevens Upset Him in Bis Own Body. TRUMBULL, THE RADICAL LAWYER. CHANDLER, THE BLOOD-LETTING SENATOR. Morgan, Who Gave Life to the Civil Rights Bill. THE IRREPRESSIBLE SENATOR. BEN WADE, Nye. the Politieal Mountebank and Double Summersault Senator. Reverdy Johnson, the Constitu- tional Copperhead. Jake Howard---Legal Opinions Fur- nished to Order, Heury Colbath, Alias Wilson, The Gypsy Shoemaker, Turned Senator, The Omnium Gatherum of Big and Little Fishes. THE DEMOCRATIC SIDE. Guthrie, the Old Fogy; Saulsbury, the Dela- ware Vailandigham, and Garrett Davis, the Old Seold of Kentucky. McDougall, or Tloquence Run Mad----Rewars of the Dog. &e. &e. &e. Our Washington Corrpsponden Oe Waamscrox, Juty 12, 1866. The present timo seems to afvrd @ fitting occa- sion for a review of the men of tu-day who succeed those eminent siatcsmen and lofty patriots of the past, in whose praiscs posiertty will never cease to join with annually increasing fervor. And it will not be necessary, in order to heighten the contrast between the men of to- day and those of minety years ago, 10 apend one word in favor of the dead heroes. We are now im the era of small men, and the littloness of the promi- neat actorson the stage of public iife now will furnish its own contrast with the historic record of the greatness of the early fathers. Then statesmen contruiied the legislation of the country, and directed public affairs ; ‘now, alas! smal! potato politicians are in the ascendency, and our legislation is mainly compesed of the political trickery and scheming of despicable factions secking the retention of place and power. JOHN W. FORNEY, Such a general observation will need no farther ergu- ment in its support than the simple reference to the fact that sudgh a demagogue and time-serving politician as J. W. Forney is permitted to exercise influence and power in the Congress of the United States, aad is put forward by the majority faction as one of their leaders and most prominent men. A man who, within twelve short years, has notoriously advocated and oppo ed alt 'y distinctive political insue (hat tins been raised, and with like consistency to inconsistency, las supported and deserted every public iman that has been called to power, whether as President, Cabinet minister or Congressional teader, sii stands upon the record to-day, over his own signature, a# ready to harier away his professions of principle and his allegiance to party for any politcal preterment that may be tendered him, An offence in (he nostrilyof the nation, despised because of bis evident lack of public virtue and morality, how eprops appears the tite conferred upon him hy the §Pre-ident—* Dend dv {Pangerons only in the exhalations of his defunct system! And such ts the who rallies (o bis support the leaders of the Thirty. ninth Congress of the Calted States, and is kept in place and power by their partiality, Can any more vivid com. mentary on the composition of that Congress be written THe “MTSTORIE CONGRESS,’ Who are the men that make up this great America) Senate of today—this “historic body, whove great. Ress, diffuved so generally, forbidy the uprising of lead- ing minds, since all are leaders, in contrast with whom the Clays and Websters and Cay and Bentons and Randolphs and Jeffersons and Jacksons and other great men of former days sink into iusigniticance? Who are | theese wonderful men, and on what hangs their great- ness * HON, CHARLES SUMNER, OF MASSACHUEEDTS, Charles Sumner, the apostle of an idea, the man whose consistent creed fs freedom to the black man—he whom the cudgel of a Southern bully made a martyr; & poetical, visionary, ambitious, aristocratic philan. thropist--Charles Sumner answers first to (he call for the great men on Majority side of the Fenate to-day, because Charles Sumner fs the only man of them all who has had the political honesty to advocate an idea from its inception to ite triumph, and inthe days of his success remains un- flinchingly faithful to that single idea which has ander- Jain ail bis public arta, His persistent advocacy of abo- litioniain secured for him his first sent in the Senate, the first occupation of which would in all probability have been hie last but for his unsparing vindication of the tdea of his life, which, exciting the hostility of those opposed to him, brought upon him the well-remembered and brutal assault of “Bully” Brooks, at once transform. ing the impracticable aud harmless dreamer of Masge- ehusetts into a martyr to principle; securing bim fame and influence, and giving to the cause he advocated ab impetus that could nover again be resisted. From the moment that blow fell upon Sumner's head he became & marked man inevery respect; and #0 long as the prin- ciple the advocacy of which drew «pon him this das. ren outrage—so long as that principle Charles Sumner must five, ite and , With abolitioniam he must live or die. With it he lived and faithfully batted for it, and to- he en, ite triumph; and ip this triumph be stands the jean nation the = of th Bi. gam aresen nacompromising, persey successful e distinct idea or Pibeiple tnd therefore the greatest lesman of them ali among those who control the Congress, But when we have written reatest in the Senate to-day, vy man my Sumner. Aside from his one idea Somner is a nonenity. Not a single other practical idea possesses his brain, and he seems to know it. His action on every question that arises is determined by its wearinas upon his controiliag ides of the freedom of (he EE ¢ 3 Asan orator he Malai Yat and, unprotable Bu i ane 5 histor/sup vainly, and poetry thorough: he ris to address ‘the Senate—or rathel for benlways speaks for the edification is perfictly any to settle the pon of hi: to spxify the length of tim Honey Beuate, whiea he will arise 1a the College of dinals, when the doors of the British Parliament will be forcedopen, aud what particular authors will be recited in the journeys from one to the other of these eminent logisitive hails. On all great questions of statecraft he fa rably ignorant, aud in the passage of measures affect finance, commerce, internal improvement, agrtci}ture, and so forth, his assistance 18 avoided as dagaging than sought as influential, Such is the only man at has made a genuine mark in the Senate of to- Diack always altog on track, his are Ho hue ied i PITT PRRBENDEN, OF has pme pointe in his composition that entitle him to tion, but, unlike Cuarles: Sumner, bets not faithful lished convictions. Moreoy ver, he is as- uestions that arise in order eaved abe ia succesful, and deft as succe: an pet ees Kpieaprif prestige that is requisite for con- Fossenden’s Cad ts begga is Lyre ‘which his Senatorial career has been ely de- ol and his familiarity with which, as Chairman of the genate Finance Committee, won him the succession to Mr. Chasd ag Secretary of the Treasury, But his rest- fvensss would not be eatistiod with the control of one subject, and he hastened out of the Cabinet to get back {nto the Seaate, where moro room could be given him to satisfy his nsatiable yearnings for leadership. To this ambition li subordinates everything else, and thus writes himself down a dishonest politician who barters his con- victions fer personal influeace—a line of conduct that invariably loses in the long ran. Probably Mr. Fessen- den ia the: and soundest thinker in the Seuate chamber, and with honosty of purpose for his anchor would make an enviable reputation, Hard, earnest practicality is written in all the lines of his countenance, whilo in peoch he attracts universal attention asa scund reasoner, 4 more than ordinarily good logician, forcible in argument, careful and correct, though often severe in {nvective, ‘And thus his oratory cannot fail of being powertal and offective. And yet by repeatedly commit: ting the grand mistake of seeking to control all legisia- tion he frtters away his strength where no strenyth could be sffective, and by subjecting himself to frequent defeats loses the coniidence of thore who otherwise would fohow him, This is his great weakness, Another point har been already hinted at—bis infidelity to princi- ple, closly aliied to which is bis obstinate adherence to Dreconerived prejudice. As Chairman of the Recon- Strnetion Committee this was illustrated most forcibly. ‘Tho cbsign of tho investigations of that committes was avowedy to upset the President's policy, and substitute someth.ng for whch Congress should have the credit. Tho objet failod, the evidonce adduced not justitytr such a line of conduct, bul rather establishing the cor. rectness of the poiicy that had been inaugurated by the administration. Thaddeus Stevens, the leader of the Rouse wing of the committee, was disposed to surren- dor, Fessenden said no, And here a bitter quarrel was waged, that at one time threatened to terminate in the diasoltion of the cominittee without a report, But at just Fessenden triumphed, and a report was agreed to—a report not sanctioned by the testimony adduced, and in which partisan geal was alone conspicuous. Tt was the roguit of Fessenden’s determined prejudice against the policy of the administration, which, tf bis mind, must bo combat d at all hazards, | The result is most interest- ing Stevens, by the power he had more shrewdly ob- ned over the House, against bis own convictions, forced aenres proposed through bis branch of Congress, den, tho ving spirit of the measures, received from the lower House, and went to work with in the senate, where he met with a most tw hij once , and, dabbling in all aro a leadership in the them them humiliating defeat, and was compelied to send thom back {v the Hous» 80 amended as very nearly to assimi- late to the administration scheme, It is darkly linted that this was Stevens’ work out of revenge on Fessen- ; that he manipulated the wires in the Senate so ae ure tho discomfiture of Fessend But the in- stance, nevertheless, shows Fesseuden’s disposition to advocate any measnte, richt or wrong, that may promise to gratify his personal prejudice, There is no honeat patriotism in his Composition. No measure that be ad Vooates or opposes i3 so advocated or opposed from pnroly loyat motives, Self underlies it all. Ambition predominates, and «nbition for more party leadership— Tho most tgnoble of al! motives. Aad thus he stands be- fore the American people to-duy amano! great power and intellect, buts demoralized in mind by greed of power as to suffer himseif to go upon the pages of his- tory as a mere political chariacan. HON. LYMAN TRUMBULL, OF ILLCYOI8, is in many respecis a strong man, His position as Chair. man of the Judiciary Committes was most properiy given him, as doubtiess be is the ablest lawyer on the republican side of the Senate. In legal argument he is Powerlul, ready, and sound. His mind, too, is #0 con- stituted that he cannot violate Lis | gai convictions, In the iamous contest on the Stockton case, while, as a mere partisan, ax earn. tly desiring Stockton’s expuision as any of the radiculs, le Pa as Chairman of the Judi- ciary Committee, been cal! upon to hear and deter- mine the legal questions iavolyed in the case, ant be- ing convinced of Mr. Stockton’s lega! rights to the seat he held, he became the earnest defender on the Senate floor, of thoze rights, and throwsuout the pro. contest novor Niashod or wavered in his position. his wae purely a legal question, or rather a ques. tion in which —_= interests wero to legal rights, and he had een called to dotermins those rights, But the politivan wax displayed whon he voted with his party in justiveadon of Sen- atog Morrill's disregard of his pair with the other N Jersoy enator, who was absent, sick, and Btockton’a vote, by which act voiee'in the matter, the jitions! voto and Mr. Stockton Was ousted. Thuson a mere party tseue, where ingal questions do not arise or can be aye ir. Trumbull ara as pliaut as ee ht them, aud as ready to stoop to the dirty purposne of faction. His honesty he carnod on the judicial bouch, and it iv commendable; bis dis- honcaty of Congressional action was acquired in the polistoal cauens and ts despicable = Mr, frombali aeually contines himseif to lega! debates, and seldom troubies himself about Te oa general sopies ochet than to give his vote with his party, The Freedmon's Bureau itl, for which he pad the credit, was not his, It was ree by intorested partios ontiede and merely given to him for introduotion as chairman of the #ud cial Lom- mitt'@, to Whom it woakt naturally bs referred. This gave him a sort of nominal peternity ever the menguro and secured his zealons cflorts to ire its passage. ihe Crrit Rights bul for Which be was credited, Was a measure of revonge against the Prositiont, and was the production ot canons conferences, in which most anybody zoaiously inclined toward the intornsta of the radical faction waa permitted to participas, Trombull’s willing pater- nity of it, with full knowledge of its purpose and character, illustrates his readiness to iower the ata tion of intriguing — poll- tiewan, popular mind throughout the country, cause of the prominence his connection with these sures gave bir, Las aksizhed him a leading ant intl tial position In the Senate, but 1 i known here no member of the Senate on the renublican ride ts jess influentia! than he. Even bes mosi powerful and un- answerable icgal argumenis ¢ them nu con. vietion, and white this fact s utter lack of in- Hleence of the Senator la question, tt also demousirates the wantof principle that prevails among the majority of the branch of Congress of which he is a member. ZACARTAD CHONDTEE, OF UT TGAR, ing the position of chairman of the Committee on » would naturally claim the pext position, on political greainess, and alt fist Hoos claims to statesmansttp, adler furnishes the moe; remarkable example, all his bastory, as well as in ine compositton, there does not appear # single trait that should entitle him to prominence, Areas aod im ee backed by @ profuse expenditure of money, hes brought him imto the seat once honored by a, nicliect of the late lamented Lowis Cam. hamdicr's career has been @ s'ngviar one. He commenced = iife a six, bestowed upon him by old Frankun With thix fortune he sought the West, and, settling ia Detroit, by the exercise of those traits of self will and jersevorance which bave marked his public career, he yaght his way into a hie aud proitabie busi- of the considerable merean- nest, In 1850, as the tle house of 2. Chandler & Co., at Detralt, Michigan, he was looked "pon aa a prosperous successful mer. chant, Woes Close application to business, pteady habite and good moral character had met with their appropri- ate reward. So closely had he, % to that time, confined himself to business, that he knew political affairs of the count of all literary or i his ambition took atarm, A desire for mysteriously seized possession of his min ing his business to the care of janior partners, he ‘al career that had as its ultimate desire the nor of his State, Inorderto secure promi- is coveted position, he put himself forward as the Whig candidate for Mayor of Detroit, a city that Was unquestionably democratic by a large and \Sadbang, able majority. By the free use of money he succeeded in making the contest so exciting as to render his name fatuiliag throughout ibe State, but, as he expected was defeated by a large it A year aftgrwarda, a to dollars in the campeiga, nate him for Governor, o tA ‘ommere Bot of ui! burlesque the = could not be worked’ upom by bis money, anda little worked upom ht was mae in the 4 it substan- committee in time became ii courtesy was Appointed tts ‘The carcer of Chandler in the Senate has been a sin gular one. A bitter partisan, he with Ben Wade on the famous “Smelling Commit. tee,” or Select Commitee om the Conduct of ihe War, in which position be ence outside of Congress, to Wont Point necause of the accident that. the pre ‘ated and made prominent use of the yrad: t institution while we did not, will reinem- dered 6 two ciroumsiances arg all That exist in the Tecords of Congress to make his bawe orominent A effective once; but as be | Mingle copurromse dslegetions, whe het ‘ongress were in danger of bell Mh rar the ng Sonaiet in their schemes, the dilemma, and delegations out of delegation in Con; State in the Peace Congress without instru would have been equivalent to po omy hyped ita sn opinion, without a little blood-letting this more siability of cl ity of deportment has crept into his composition, and ae tebe have undergone some of intlugnce other than as he can purchase or force it. Ho 1s still an aspiring man, next republican nomination for the Vice Presid: ai as little apparent chance of success as he has of i Tonge may not quarrel with the man. should be mentioned Senate, call of the roll, Morgan’s political career has been exteu- sive, with social attainments to back his public preten- san se fully justify him in seeking prominence. He a pract apt to have great ee Springing from the tile community of the comme metropolis nation, he was thrust into politics, not so much by his own ambition as through the partiality of his business contemporaries, resis should be Any reference to Governer Morvan’s political carecr in connection. exercises influence and outside has added to his notoriety. eo See 0 jn and all his @ influence to prevent Fepresented im that body. At Persusasions of the New Engl: gone into the and Michi, suggestin, Proposing, in pyory fay here their trouble, that the Michigan be authorized to represent that ding them there t revent any compromise with the South by which the pending war Tuehiiees ried. eg b0 thls letter Chandler frionds think @ war would be anfulb ge son wi nok inion wi Within the last year or two a little change forthe better. Still he is devoid too, and lays claims to the 7 Dut the next Emperor of France. His colleagues at his protensions, and humor them only that they GOVERNOR MORGAN con mw Hes) se among the prom! ones in th hia voice is seldom hoard, except on the wot man, @ doep and careful thinker, a tical reasoner, and one whose advice, when given, 1s of the e who wero anxious that their great inte- intelligently and influentially represented. the State of New York would he unnecessary in this In tho Senate of the United States he prominence because of his acknowledged intelligence, ample acquaintance with 1 affairs, his habits of sound reasoning and usual \onesty of purpose. The latter trait has been questioned because of the vote he oust tor the ce of the famous Civil Rights bill over the President's veto, The story goes that he had applied for the appointment of Chaun- cey M. Depew as Collector of the Port of New York, and because he was not appointed in accordance with a promise alleged to have been made to that effect, he turned about and voted with the enemies of the Prosi- dent. ‘Thiy story is contradicted on good authority, and ig at bost but apochryphal, His yote on the final passage of the Civil Rights bill was looked for with intense anxi- as on it depended the disposition of the measure, The fact of his voting to override the veto after hay frequently professed his friendship for the President, and mauifested his sympathy with the genoral policy of the administration, undondtodty gave rise to the siory of his personal motives in casting the all-important vote, But it now appears that previous to voting he had ealiod upon the President aud notified him that he felt compelled to abide by the instructions that had been sont him by his State Legislature, and vote for the passage of the bill, With this explanation his vote was cast, costing him no personal disagreement with the utive whatever, Governor Morgan is one of the hard working, unobtru- sive, quict membery of the Semate who exercise great influence in the body, bat wia iitile credit or renown outside. WEN WADE, OF OMNO, ‘The reverse of Goyernor Morgan iu many reapects is the irrepressible Ben Wade, of Ouio, whose notoriety is cooxtensive with the country. Wade isa short, thick set, restiers, nervous man, with a plump round face ing an unchangeuble expression balf way between a simile and ® scowi, botrayed into either aliost uncon- sciously us bie mind is allected at the moment, When roused his manner is exccodingly violent, and his len- uae in keeping with his manner, When speaking apon any topic in which be is dec terested he is cOn- stantly in motion, wal back and forth generally past at least three feats, and frequently further, gesticittating in a hard, angry, though monotonous manner with bottr arms, and emphasizing his expressions by determined nods and jerks of his head; lis voice is mean- time clevated to the highest pitch consistent with the uasa: twang for which it is noted, and held at the same tone throughout his discourse, Such was this illu: arios pattosn of heroic greatness on the memorable occa. sion of the conteat on the New Jorsey Senatorship, when he took occaston to thank his God for the afflictions under which certain Senators were laboring, causing their tem- porary absence from the chamber, which had been urged in eupport of a proposition to slostpone the consideration of the subject. As chairman of the famous Committee on the Conduct of the War, Wade was in his element. He could find nothing go.ng on to suit him and sobudy to lease him. Hetces he could constantly keep himself iu stility to every and everythmg, and found, as he did, plenty of opportunity to let off the sarplus bile with which he seems to be chronically affected. There is scarcely a subject arises in the Senate that docs uot draw out ‘afew remarks” from the Senator from Ohio, What his aspirations are it is dillicult to conceive, and it 8 mot likely he has already reached the acmo of his fame, The qualitios that go to make the statesman are quite as much wanted in bim as tu Chaudior of Hichigan. JOKN SHERMAN, OF OHIO. The colleague of Mr. Wade, Hon. John Shormsn, is his antipodes In many respects. 6B pet. he is wholly different. Sherman isof the average height and rather siimly formed. He has a bright, pleasine Sogniedeneh, with Jasisatinns, an of intellectual pemgn ly apparent. 18 manner cool aud Tn tho roe jects of interest to kymself or cients he 18 always ready to participate, though neror seeking to force himself into foe steed of notoriety. His manner ia uniformly cour- : en nae pea pin gon ene he x nover nto ox aoldom permits himmvolt to be fed. away from honest convictions of dat He excels in no partica ar trait w werins to have oo specialty, doubtleas, to bis relationship, out of coi A is alwaye iy beard in the consideration of bills affecting the military. As Chairman of the Committee on Agricaltural Affairs hoe wields'mach i inanch matters. An im} al observer would not fail towrte Mr. Sherman down a good ordinary practical public man, though not desigaed to at(am much prominence. JAMES W. SYR, OF NEVAMS, Ons of the purest types of the mere that of no exalted order, iz tie Senator of v . of that not inconsiderable claas of men who imagine that polities owe them a liviny, andthey aro bound to get it, commenced life as @ country lewyer in tho mterior of Ni York, tn which capacit; ho would doubti-ss have remained until the end of h days but for the gift of eh optaking whieb Lad been wysterlously bestowed upon tim. Asa yoang lawyer, Nye, without much practice, could always attract a crowd on the street corners of a country village to listen Jo his bolaterous,rude ad often borderiag om the indecent, harungues on political anbjects. Becanse of his acquire ments om this respect he svon attracted the attention of aspiring politicians, being tawned upun and flattered by whol @ Was led to abandon his profession and make polities @ imatior of business, Up to the memorable spittin the democratic party in New in 1546, Nye bed been a through bu democrat, At this time be sucecede: in erent tag ® Commotion, 19 company with Lovi S. Chatfeld. by coming out in advocacy of the brrnburnor, Yau Buren ticket, breaking up the party in the ceniral counties where the effort wus made, end lex ing it ina hopeless minor ty from which it has never yetrecovered. The odium attaching to both Nyo and Chatield for this picce of party treachery soon drove them (rom the country apd caused them to seek reiuge m New York city. But the ivopard can ws rowlily chauge his spots as sich men can change their habits. Neither of them could leave poltiies, and both were persisteat and successful im securing a livine by partisan service. The creation of the republican party openvd a fleld for them inve wich they both giadly entered, Nyo, for hia services, was Towarded with one and another ofice in and shout New York, and was kept in service a9 a party campalgoer or Lack as long as it would pay; but when his stories, sale oe y noisy deciamations became played out be was tbe new territories in the West then attracted bis at- tention as a iand of promise, and se uring some Federal commission as @ reward for party migrated to Nevada, Here he found no difficnity im gaining a peliti- cal ascendancy over the indusirious aud hardworki Reople of the territory, and when it was admitted ag a of the Union, James W. Nye became one of ite | ov pera ae, because of the absence of any- ly cise to wei to sati his clamorvus and insatable yin xyes s grows, muscular man, with a massive head, the mind supposed to be contaired in which has been verted dis. by eariy and later continual indoience and Inc pline. His untidy, shiftiess, bail carcless, half would- be-eccentric style of dress, his swaggerii manuer, his occasional profanity of laneuage’ al beti bis breeding, and mark the want of those intellectual at- tainments and moral and social refinements are maaey pooatee aoa che pe is =, an over-grown itician, t con how know bi will very probably soon know him po more. : " ERDY JOMNSON, OF 3 solid worth ity, honest political convictions, fed imemt and vary cour. for himself « place at a those so) much his jing, woll trained habits of imate Knowledge of public affairs, “the soundest and lawyer in the United States.” A man of such attainments on cortaints nok avoid prominence, and were he now in aympathy with the majority ia the senate Chamber bis and iv. whig, om the til forced democratic schoo! of politicians, tho until gent day, steadily protesting guna bes democrat He rather avoided proiminenc: im opposition to the Jacobinical designs and te the majority rallied about Lim and placed themselves under hae leadership, And there be stands to-day, hearest approwh to the grauive statesman now & grees, his great powers atteruments negativ Padical mmayority int him, himself merely the or Of @ boneless minority, But still he is moy without greet :| | influonce, Too well accustomed to legislation to waste his 0B petty mat: he seldom attempts the mere party tactles of the ian and never enters a contest where there are no of success, And so when he does show it on a measure the im- that it is either a clues character of close and untiring attention. Cool and deliberate in utterat ‘calm and perfectly collected in addressing himself directly to the en for or seem! of commands a more peta profound impression any other body. The well remembered Maryland bank riots of 1833 brought Mr. Johnson’s name into national famillarity, he being one of the directors of the bank, and suffer at the of the rioters the total destruction of elegant residence in Baltimore, Previous to that time be hed lakee cu enue pert ia tie ee ce bis owa | State, but because of the odium attaching to all com- nected with the old bank he was now forced into retire ment, remaining in the quiet practice of his profession for ten ora dozen years before again venturing inte politica, He was then again sent to his State Logi ture, and in 1846 was chosen to reprosent land Senate of the United States. Here he remained but twe years, and thon resi General in the Cubinet of Mr, Taylor. President Taylor Mr. Johnson again retired to private life wale the Lape out oe oes rt co he was constrains accept a in the upper body of the Maryland as a National Union man. 5 From that position he was selected to. t his State in the United States Senate, and took the seat he now fills, Although over seventy years of , Mr. Johnsom appears the youngest man on the floor of the Senate, exe copting, perhaps. ir. Sprague, of Rhode Island Hie step is elastic and quick, his form erect and robust, bis voice clear and firm, and one would naturally take bion to be but in the prime of life. His defence of the astas- sinatiou conspirators, and bis previous opinion adverse to the constitutionalily of the amendment to the Mary- land constitution, by which so many of the citizens of thas. State. were disfranctised, bave associated his name with the disloyal men of the seat bat his uniform rte in behalf of the perpetuity of the Union belie this fication and entitis him to the position he holds as the great conservative leader. HON, SACOM M, HOWARD, OF MICHIGAN, “Honcat Old Jake,” a9 the junior Senator from Micht- gan ts familiarly terined at homo, is making some litte mark by his attempts to out-Herod Herod—that is te ing ner and it ia probable that one or the be forced to give way at the o from Detroit, lly creates some feclhy in th parts of the ‘Sta other of then w their prevent term to satisfy the interest and c the wostern half of the State, Howard is by the abier man of the two, He ts a well read lawyer, @ good scholar, familiar with both ancient und modern history and languag’ somewhat of am ant and abundantly qualified for the position he occupice; but for the preponderance in his In polities he i composition of the mere politician gnomeN applied to tricky and unreliable. Hence the hin ironically, ‘Honest Old Jak ‘As Aitorney Goo- eral of Micligin; in (859 and 1560, his “‘honesty waa couspicuousty brought out He was frequently calied upon by tho State admin stration aad the Legislature tor opinions on the constitutionality of this or Liat proposed: moasnre, which opinions were always forthcoming with reraurkable readiness. At one time the constitutional right of the Legislature to create @ certain loan wam questioned, and the attorney Geuern! was applied to ior an opinion. On the following morning the opinion wes duly lud upon the tables of members im printed frm, ‘Yhe document lay unread during the greater part of the morning seasiou, when one of the majority mem- ders chanced to glance it over and discovered that it de- ctded the question the wrong way. Hurrying out of the chamber, he sougut the law vificer in great indignation, And opetied the matter abruptly: | ‘Howard, you have decided that loan business the w “Why, no, bave 1?’ repiied the Attorney Gea , “the joan unconstitutional, clear evough."” “Well, what the — do we care about ine co jon? We must bave the loun; can’t vet aloug without it.” “Oh, weil,” saye Honest Old Jake, ‘just go back and have the opinion withdrawn; (li fix it.” Sothe pages were quietly set at werk stealing back the lege! opinion, and on the fol. fowing morning » pew one equally clear, decided and argimentative was subatitited, setuimg beyond a ques- tion the right of the State to issue the proposed bonds or any others they might desire to issue. The only fear ia his Senatorial career is, that his judgment will be equally pliaus om matters that require his vote, and that tho énierests of party wii override ull considerations of the weifare of the country. WRNRY WILSON, OF MABELCHUSELTS, The colleague of Mr, Sumner, of Massachusetts, Hom, Henry Wilson, comes inte as the originator of the present radicai party. Mr. Wilson is a man of much popularity oulside of Congress, acquired by bia well known habit of always assonting to every requess made of him. He ix one oi that type of clever, good hearted, genial! men who con uever say no. He pro- mises cverythiug to everybody whether he means te perform or not, and thea does Nast as he with, no regard whaiever to his promise, Becauses of this conspicuous trait in lis character he has come to be looked upon as the most insincere and least reliable man in the Sennte. And yet be retains bis by mingling freeiy with ¢ plaining away mie tosincerity, or laughing it - gocd natured.” elegant joke, He u ‘Congreaa” cam Jature of his State as his first essay at office seek he was defeated by Kaow Nothing and tmme- d ateiy elected by the seine Legislature ib he had ply as one of the great lichts of abolitionism, ambition for the treedom ofan enslaved race is pot ratiefied when that {recdom i¢ accomplished, but having imbibed animosities against those who with equally com- soeDUoNs principle of the mouvement, seeks now to ponigh (hem lor-ueie opposition. lence the radical party, of which Mr. Wilson is the life and soul, believing shat no moral honesty can exist ainong 4 people that oy the emancipation of aa onslaved race, seek te follow that people with all man- ner of malevolence, and withheld trom them ail politi. cai reghts enti ibey #haid by ther acts acknowledge that (heir former couvienons of right were wrong. Witvon is. not a speechinaker, but a hard worker, and exeris @ powerful mituence over bis as-ccinioe, HON. J. R DOOLTLR, OF WISCONEIX. The prominence evoked by senator Doolittle, of Wis. consin, during the present se-ion of Congres, is one of the ilinstrations of that siwcular featare in our lege live nystem by which @ man of merely ordinery auaine Meats is guccascivusly and uoinientiowall, thrust inte a leading postion. Mr. Doolittle posseat-s me: ordinary attainments a8 4 legislator, i appa There are in his composition no conspicnons evi+ dences of great inteiieciua! shililvs, no power to control, no desire for nowriety, ve parteular ambition for leader Indeed, the mn of the latter qualiiy doubtiess have led him to the edoption of another line of policy than that which bar controlled hie obstinate aduerence to convictions of right aud duty. Rising originally from the democratic sei of clang, and embracing republicamem merely in support the party upon whom the responsibility of com ducting the war was piacod, on ite ciose of the wag, when other questions than the salvation of the country arose, and those questions Which related to the tranqu il- lity, perpetuity and prosperiiy of the nation be ame ,are- Mmoont (0 ihe exclusion and obliteration of mere military nocersiiies, the old convictions of political economy national polity again gained the ascendancy, drivi bim, as on hopest thinker and reasoner, ime communion and feilowstip with he tive people, as to the radical that so largely prevailed, Hix adunirabie defeuve of the sdministracion’s policy of reconetrncuen early in the Present session at once gave tim among the little handful ot the Senate chamber, which piae he has well main- tamed to the present time. His deportment ws tha: of the quiet, wnostentatious citizen legwiator, perfectly satisfied with the justice of his own convictions aed seeking only to defoud himeelf rather than inflacuee Ai jh recognized as the official mouthpiece in the Senate of the President of the Uvied States be carefally and wisely refrainy from makiue ndwly conspi nous the antagoniem between the Hxerulive and the majority: ta Congrese by too frequent attempte defence of the former. On the pasenge of the Civil Rights bill over the President's veto, in which case he wae instructed by hie State Legislature to vote for the bill, ve con$ned himself to a few remarks expianatory of the conviderstions that impelled him to diseb -y thos® inatrueiions. appealing frown the state Logisiature which had been elected with no re- ference such amissue, to the people of the Stave whe | Were alone empowered weeny or condema his cour, t He believed his course to it, and that it Was rege lioned by the great mare he people of the entire country, as well as of his own State, and he showid, therefore, vote against the pakage of the oll, regardicas of the instrietions whieh had been sent him A® chair man of the Committee on In-lan Affairs he has hed am usual amount of Doyo work throst opow bie the winter \@ reviewing, reviging and pervect. re wetter atts nearly ail the tribes of the West, ja the perfeetion of which labor be has evinced great good Judgment and sound sense, a@ weil considering the in. lerents of the poor ludian a# there of the government and people of the United States. Mr. Pool safoly be clagsed among the wafest and best men present Seuate. HON, J. W. GRIMER, OF ¥ The likeners existing between Sens mes, of Tow and Bon Wade, of Ohio, ts #0 © the sketch will apply with almost equal he grea: diterenes--petiar (he iy that, twee onder #iniler impulees and convi tions, Grimes isn juia leas boisterous and much more tame any reserved in hig manner. Yet when heated in debate ie can break out ia quite aa violent harangue ey the Senator from Oo, ough with more royen in le laneume (am 7