A Charcoal Sketch

We estracS tho foUowing pithy paragraph from tbe speech of Mr. FahnsWORTB, of 111., Radical, io the House on Moüday last on tlie Virginia bilí. The portrni t couldu't have been done better in oil by a fiïet-class artist; Mr. Famsworth Fiiid he understood very wéll the aliusions mnde by Mr. Butler to the ncting chairman of the ReconttrnctioQ Cotnmittee, íind he had a word to say on that subject, lle would uot allow himself to be instructcd in Republïoanitnn by thegentknian from Massachusetts. Uu had been a Republican fur twentj-Gve yearf, when the gentleman froin Massachnsctts was chasing fugitiva slavt's all over the States. Laughter and olapping of hnrds op the Democratie sido.] líe hiid been doing all he could at the Chicgo ConventioD for the nomination of a Republican Preeideni when the gentleman from Mas■achusetts was at the Charleston (Jonvention voting for JefF. Davis [Laughter.] He had voted for the Republican p:irty in 1860 when the gentleman from MeaaaoboBetta was voting for Breckenridge, of Kentucky. He kucw that the gentleman, with hia faoility for getting on the other eüle when bis uilies doserted liiin, went over, and he knew that liis oonviotiou and conversión was so budden that it hanaed tbnt of 8t, Paul. - [Laughter.] The lighlning that blazed arouod him, that focal b'.aze that illuminated !iis uuderstandiug, shanied iuto daikness tho üghfc (bat .-lnno arouud St. Paul, but he knew that tho gentleman was somewhat üfce l'eter when he deserted bis mnster. llia deeertkiD was so recent that ho was obligad to curse and swear to make pcopio beliere his desertion was genuine. íáo t!ie gentleman from Mi'.Bsaehueetts was obllged to bc exceedingiy radical in order to make peoplo believo that his couversiou was genuine. [Laughter.] Ifo understood that the genlleman'a attaek was on tho gentlenaaa ftom Ohio, (Mr. Bingham), Uut hu would probabl}' bivfl oamed him too, only he knew that he (Farnsworth) had a chancedlo reply. W. II. lüdwell, editor of the .Eclectic Jfagaüne, is to establish a large plate glass manufactory in St. Louis, ' aviug org;iriizcd a oompanj ín Jugland, aaJ eogaged skillcd workmen there. r A littlo Boston pirl thought tho mint ster wanted:6ome ottiee, beeause in prnys ing ho kejit bajiug " Grant, we boeeeuh 3 thee." . Sumo San Francisco newsboys sell '■ otber artiolei than ncwtpnpers, astonish 3 Eastern visitors by orying : " Ilere'syor Tnlune Lvening and cough candy ; eure3 ,- ooughs, cold.s nnd sore throatlutest 'eoont of the earthquake - ouly tive csuts a eopy, or ix stick for a quarter." A TELEanAM froni Washington, uoder dato of the 24th, saya : " Tho Committee e '■' on Wavs and Means to-daj ried t lio " duty oii inauufactured steel threeaud - " one-íourtl) per cent. Tbere is a disposi" tion toniake a general mercase of the du " ty on manufactured stoel aid ron." ïliat'3 it, ncreaso the duty, " putmoney n the purse " of tho tnanufaturers. they are a proverty-ridden set, - and inust be ' quartered on the producing classes. , Tho farmers are ricb, vvhcat brings a ' high price ; they are " loil " and dearly love to be taxed, not-only to support the government bnt to keep J. B. Waru : and other iron-makers out of the poorhouse ; and will stand all inflictious Cir.tgress can put upon tbem without a gruut. Railroads can be built cheapcr v,rit!i un aerease of the tax on iron, and ics of all chisaes will hold high jubilee if thuir tnols and iuiplemeuts aro increased t in price for the laudable purpose of cu ' richiug the mili owuersof Po&D8jlraoia. " Let er rip !" - Can't tho Ways and Mcaus ( mittee be induced to levy a duty on all newspapers brougbt iuto Washtcuavv Couuty, for the benefit of the Augus ? ' The Constitution may, perhaps, prohibit ' a duty on inter State traffic; but they can foree au amendment of that, or go it t blind. I Senator Wii.son closes liis fulsome i eulogy of tbo late Secretary Stahton - ( OT as the Kadical journals perríist in ' writing it, the "late lameuted Stahton" - wilh tiie füllowing wonderfully candid , tbougb startling admission : "But large as is my ts imate of Mr. Stanton, and high as s the valué I place upon his i urpasseá pubJ labors, I donot believe 1 iat he was abaolutely essential to the ' ilvution of tho nation. The government that survived tho death of Lintoi.n and the life of Joiixson uid not, uring the liebellion, depend for existica upon any one man, or aay score of i f men." Theu, Gen. Butlkr, Gen. ohknok, Gen. Pope, Gen. Schorz, witb Gen. Zack Ciiandleb, and Gen. Ben. Wade, of Buil Hun fame, aud all tho paper (eneráis in tho fluid and in Congres.-', üud n snug rrovo6t marshal's offices u tkousand luilcs fiom dangtr, can rcjoice that Gen. WlLSON bas not Btripped all their blows of laurels to weave a wreath for iho dead Stanïon. And tbií, too, iti the face of those scènes a Bdchanak'l Cabioet. llemarkublcconecstion. n iifc i ii - Rbpresxntativb BiMiiiAM, of Okio, haviug gotton bimself uto bad odor witb souiH of his Ivadical U63ociates, by propoíing to lower the bars which l;eop Virginia, "mother of States and Presidente," Khivermg "out iü the cold," Eet himself right oo the 20th, by introducing a bilí, "tnaking it ao offence putiishable with fiae and imprisonmeut for any person to propose to repeal the action of a State Legislatura in ratifyiDg any proposed amendment of the Coustitution of the United States." That beats the famous "alien and sedition 1:it,!' proves BixaiiAM a believer ia the ' infallibility of Congress," and that he wns non compo8 when ho propoaed to admit Virginia unconditionally and without restiietion. He can now cxclaim, "Bi.vguam is himself, again ! " When the Board of Supervisors stalt nest bo in seefion, and tlio question of aiding tli9 Agricultural Society ehall be up, and the exceedingly moral mcmaers fhall object t giring aid, bceaase there has been horse-racing at the Fair, we shall iuduce one of tho aid-favoring membcrs to read the fullowing from "Life in the Brick Moon," in the Fob ruary Atlantic - as a part of Lis speech of coutïo : "There was a large Kechanics' Fair in Tamworth at t&e tiae.and au Agricultoral Convention. Thor-e was no tartte race at tlie Convcbtion, but ttwre wen: tivo competltive exuminatioiis in vihich ruonlug homes competed wlth each otlier, and (rotting horees competed wlth eacli other, and il vu tbousand dollars was glven to the best runner and the best u-otter." Isu't thut & precedent for competitivo trots at our fairs, efpecially where the speed attained can't apprcaeh a race? There was considerable heavy skirmishmg ïo both the öeuate and IIouso over the Virginia bilí. Hut at tho lust - as always - the liberáis yielded to tho Radicáis, and at the crack of the SumNBE-BoTLEB lash all voted to put on tho Bhaeklei, - evon to Bi.ngiiaji anc FANSwoRTUr- sire and sponsor of the House bill. Tho Senate eubstitute will ba found in another column. - The President, who rocommendcd uncouditional admission in Lis message, truo to bis inaugural pledge to have no opinions of his own, promtply sigoed tho bill. - The great jubilee reported at llichmoud over the admissiou to the Union oí a State tliat has ntver.lem out, was goteen up on the principio of " neck or noth ing," or " small favors thankfully re ceived." At the late sessian of the Board o Supervisoi'3 of Van Buren County, - a Radical body, - a ret-olution iras adop ted declaring Tnos O. Waii "a liar : that is, it deolared that there was no ground for his charges against Congress man Stougiiton, and not a word of (rutl n them. Ward will have to load his pop gun again, and ehoot atgauie nearci homo. - When the late CbnstKutlonal Conven tion in this State was in ses.sion soine of tlit uiembers- Radical ones oí coarse - wcre credlted wlth sarlng that " it was undoubt edly the ablest body of men ever convenei In tho State." And now the Constitutioi tinkors in session at Springfleld, III., l.i.v the same llattcrlug uuction to thcir Boulfl Well, self-flattery is sweet, and perhapd neeessary in the absence of illsintemstod prale