The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1847-12-04
Correspondence Of The Nsv orlenn, National.

Correspondence Of The Wew Orleans National.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10, i847.
After a spell of cold and wintry weather, we
now have have the beautiful Indian Summer,
with its bright sunshine and balmy breezes;
most refreshing to your invalid correspondent,
whose teeth have been chattering with an ague
fit that has almost shaken the flesh from his
bones, but who now sits at an open window,
breathing the pure breath Of the hower-scent-
ed air, and inditing you this ePistIe.
For some time past, all hands have been
making preparations at the Capitol, for the re-.
ception Of the "Conscript Fathers' Of the Re-
public. Carpets have been taken up, patched
and relaid, desks and chairs have been repair
ed and varnlshei, and the old furniture gene
ners aud chandeliers have been fixed all over
the building, and | notice that a very superb
one decorates the Senate chamber, and is or
namented with beautiful cut glass drops in the
shape of Stars. TINS chamber has been styled,
not appropriately, the "Star chamber" and
that it may be furnished in keeping with its
cognomen, almost its only ornaments are stars.
The arch over the reporters galIery-the ornu-
ments over the Vice Presidents chair-tLe
stucco work in the ceiling, and even the figures
in the carpet are stars-and stars, a brilliant
galaxy, clusterin and around the chamber and
light up the political horizon of the Nation;
some are fixed, brilliant aud steady, and others
are the passing meteors Of the moment.
l propose to give your readers a series of
Cabinet pictures, drawn by a self-raught artist,
and if not as accurate as dcguerreutl pes, sill
as generally correct as they can be made by
an untutored Inner, with a steel pen, dipped
in Congress ink. The Hon. Robert J. Walker,
Secretary Of the Treasury, is a gentleman
about FIVE feet FIVE inches in height, rather
slightly i~nclining to fulness Of habit; he looks
about fifty years Of age, is bald on the top oil
his head and wears his thin grey mixed locks
Ifissed out over his ears in a not inelegant style
He has an ample forehead with here and there
a thought line family traced, which deepent
considerably, when, as is often the case, he
seems troubled or perplexed, His eyes are
blue, restless and twinkling; his nose lquiline
with n%ostrils tolerably wide; his lips thick and
full, his chin fairly prominent, and his smile al
times bland and affable, but always with q
certain something in its expression which leads
one to doubt whether he smiles 10 him or al
him; his voice is as shrill and squeaking as an
octagenarian Xantippe's. He dresses always
in black, has rather a stoop in the shoulders
and as the advertisements say, "a down look
when spoken tor his gait is rather shutting
and ungainly. Perhaps the most remarkable
feature about the whole man is his hand, which
is soft, fair, small and delicate as a girls
Mr.. Walker sometimes, but not very often, es
says to be facetiously sarcastic, and then ont
cannot but think Of a hamozet, and lool
f around for the Snowman and his hand organ
AS a government officer he is said to be very
industrious, and they cite as an evidence some
thirty volumes Of his reports, &c, but Mr.
Walker has the faculty and tact of appropriate
inc to himself the credit for labor performed
by other men. l happen to know that the Ia
riff, Warehouse bill, and some Of his reports
we're made up chiefly BY clerks from the New
| York custom house, sent for here by him ex
t pressly for the purpose m 3l AZ
! No man in the government is 50 iaacce's'bl
as the Secretary Of the Treasury, He sufiere'
a gentleman (whO brought 10 him and left 70
his p%erusal, the strongest political and persona
: recommendations TO call more than five AM
D twenty times before he would give him an in
! terview. HIS immediate predecessor in office
! a gentleman Of distinction, respected by d
parties for his high talents and private worth
h called more than fifteen times before he coul