...s graphic, and sometimes illumined with touches of humor that convulses his audience. More of him anon, for he is the bright particular star of our "Confederacy." Looking straight before me, I see Congressman Ely bending over his "mess" table, seemingly buried in the mass of documents around him. --Every day, for hours, he is occupied with his pen, assisted by young Hale, of the Navy (a nephew of Gideon Welle...