Mr. KELLOGG was a man of great native sagcity, thorou hly honest impulses, and fear ess in the vindication of his convictions. His judgment was formed more by intuition than through the ordina process of reasoning and reflection. Discaring the doubts and subtleties that would embarrass most men, he marched directly to his conclusions. Once there, he sel dom had occasion to chan c, for truth and honesty were the lights which guided him. He was a man of strong common sense. As we have just heard, Mr. Speaker, he was, in the fullest meaning of the term, a selfmade man. Commencin life without any of the advantages with which uncestrv or wealth line the pathway of a young man, he felt that his future was to depend upon himself; that from his own unaided efforts be was to win success, and mnnfully did he strike the hard blows that were necessary to forge and shape his destiny. He was one of those instances, Mr. Speaker, so common under the favoring influence s of the institutions and laws of this country, which illus trate that the avenues to the most honorable position and the highest success are here alike o on to all, and within the reach of every man who will apply his Godgiven faculties with fidelity and earnestness of purpose. His early life, as we have just learned, was incumbered with more than the mere neces sities of caring for himself. The wants of l widowed mother and her destitute children were dependent on him for supply, and the hard earned wages of a mechanic had to suffice for them as well as for his own support. We have just been told how faithfully be discharged these duties; how, with the earnings of his own strong arm, want was kept from a household, and education and comfort and hap iness secured to its inmates. This illustrates toreal character of the man, and speaks for him more eloquently than any words of eulo I can command. As a la or, my knowledge of Mr. Kmmooo was more from his general reputation than any other source. It is sufficient howaver as evidence of his profamionalab, flmf through out the northern part of our State no one was more largely song t as a legal adviser and defender. Of his private life I can only speak as I did of his professional reputation from the measurement of public esteem. Nowhere was he so beloved and believed in as among his immediate neighbors and in the domestic circle. This. Mr. Speaker, is the best vindication of a mans private worth and virtue. Mr. Katmai was not what is usually designated a showy man. Modest and unobtrusive, he was not, perhaps as generall known by his associates in the 38 Congress as many others; but, Mr. Speaker, there were few men in that body, or in this, on whose judgment and patriotism safer reliance cauld be placed. Strong in his own convictions, and earnest in maintaining them, he was nevertheless one who respected the faith and opinion ofothers. Culling the right from the wrong, he was always prompt to award credit or acknowledge error. Eminently practical, he could be car ried away by no theoretical abstractions, but deemed it wiser and more statesmanlike to secure the most that could be obtained, rather than to risk all in battling for what he might desire. He was the character of a man so essential in the councils of the nation at this time when we are called upon to complete the difficult and transcendently important work left by our militar heroes and rave soldiers on whom is still the dust of battle. It is perhaps fortunate Mr. Speaker, that we are not too constantly in uenced)b our knowledge of the uncertainty of life. placed here for earnest, active duties to labor for the benefit and advancement of the living world, it is wisely provided that our energies should not be paralyzed by the ceaseless apprehension of death. But, sir, while this may be true, we must not shut our eyes to the importance of hceding those constant admenitions of our mortality. It is well that the voice of mourning is sometimes sounded so near that we cannot but listen; and when in our own ranks, and standing side by side, our comrades are stricken down, surely each one of us should be admenished to be prepared for the summons that must come to all as it came to our lamented friend.