New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-03
~ ENGL ISHMiN At WASHINGTON

HErlslnf
Uncle sam Managing Affairs" 1t is sprghtIy'
and. We Judge very correct account, OF what the
writer SAW at Washington in residence there
during the early part of the last session OF Congress
and the struggle for the election of Speaker
After noticing the pictures in the Rotunda, which
attracted his attention on his way TO the House oil
Representatives, Ne makes the following criticism
on .Photograved painting, the size OF life, OF
"Seuator Cass," "on temporary exhibition BY the
ARTIST"
"your rhvsiospomca obsery stions must have been
s;ncular / am sure il Won met with more Iugu-
brious expression of counteDancc. The Generai hh
might belong to the transmigrated soul OF a disap'
pointed bulldog.
Such are the effects Of Senator Cass's constant
reflections on tie dangers of the Union. AT the
next session of Congress, should he allow himself
TO be photographed, We fear bis picture would take
on still new shade of sullenness.
A description of the interior appearance OF the
hall of the House of Representatives,, and of the
course of proceedings during the long struggle for
the choice of Speaker, concludes With the follow
ing congratulations, which, though applied by the
writer 70 the particular time of his visit, all who
have had the honor of being present IN the House
must acknowledge the telike correctness Of 8; al
most any tine:
$40 the visitor, at the time of which speak, the
House OF representatives, will appear very disoTderiy
ard umuu0us for legislative assembly. II debate
springs up, il seems TO be game OF cross questions
aud crooked answers. member Is making speech,
" hen a question is put to him. His answer suggests
other qu6 s,ions and while commenting on the replies,
the question:. in turn is questioned 10y some one else,
aud so on. When a member appears to be tutoring
the last sentence of his speech halt dozen or more
m, lnbers on their legs calling out, MIR. clerk
MI Clerk amid shouts from all parts OF the
hall. Call the roll call the roll! You will often
have no small difficulty to hear what is said, or
understand what is going on from the ncessant
noise and hustle. There is constant sharp striking
of letters and papers On the desk-a MODE .h anc
members have of summoning the pages TO take thoir
documents the postbox. You are amazed too al the
pictui. sOue attitudes of some OF tie members. lou
are quite right in rlDarking that this Is democratic
assembly Is not that elegant posture no" OF the
honorable gentleman in the outer range OF seats
He has flung l,g the desk i'll 'front.' the heel OF
bis boot dipping in the ink bottle and while ms char
is tilted back and his other leg flung over one arm OF
it, he chows h:s qud, picks his seth and squlrs hls
tobacco Juice al his neighbours spittoon, which he
| misses This is tho Yankee way of taking 1t
| easy' The Americas to have an uncon-
| queiable propensity to kick up their heels
not behind, but before. l have gone into the
| Reading Room of the Young Mems Christian Ascot
alton the Avenue, aud found, OF tour men read
ing, three with their feet ON the table, and the fourth
ore OCCASION while sitting in the galleries at Congress-
! have received poke at the back OF my head, and
turning round have discovered in close proximity, not
al, body's elbow or hat but pair of boots with feet
| in them resting on the back OF my seat on an eeva-
ton with the chair of the owner. Blu. amore disagree
ale thing than that is the chewing and splitting In
Congress the carpets the galleries are saturated and
the staircase walls hlthy dssDloed with tobacco juice
In the streets, when the snow was on the ground 1t
looked if people had been walking all over the city
| with loaky cans OF moiassts.
1t is a curious instance Of the effect Of moral
qualities to produce a physical illusion, that the
writer peaks Of Mr. Banks as tall man:
"Mr. Banks is tall, fne.looking man, now in his
| foItiCh year. lie has deoPtonod and orotund
voice ami aueney impressive delivery, aud happi'
in the choice OF language, that secure Instant a.
tn,on when he rises to address the House. The pres
ent Speaker is undoubtedly able rising man, and if
| may venture On prophecy, nominate him tor the
Presidency lor the election next but one
his is a free cOuntry-at least the sixteen
Northern States-and however it may be in the
fifteen Others in those sixteen any man, even o
transent English visitor, is at full liberty to nOm-
nate candidates for the Presidency, or any other
licc and TO say what he pleaSes in their favor;
but, without intending in the least to damage Mr..
Bsnks's Presidential prospect, we shall only
remark that 80 shrcwd an observer ought to have
discovered, among other things, that in this country,
and especially in such revolutionary times as these,
making Presidential nominations four years ahead
is rather an uncertain business.
Our Enslish visitor thus refers 10 some Of the
outrsges by which Washington and Congress, not
TO soy the country, were disgraced during the last
session:
"Afew days before left the city, in the last week
of the tho SDeakerAliD Horace (,rcflay
the notable proprietor and editor of THR N I.
TRIBUNE, grossly assaulted III front Of the Capitol
by Mr.. Rust, Member OF Congress from Arkansas.
Mr. Greeley being an cxM. C is entitled to seat the
floor Of the louse, and be Lad been iii the city since
tie assembling OF Congress, corresponding for this
paper. paragraph Of comment in TIE TRIBC NJ, on
a speech OF Mr.. Eust-, was the only provo
cation this enlightened Representative OF the
people of Arkansas had, TO knock dr. Greeley down
with loaded cane repeating HE blows, and indictng
seli6 Injuries the unfortunate and almost unresist-
ing editor. Horace Greeley mild, Misunderstanding
old Qy anOtLer optical Illusion gentleman, and
merely from his appearance you nigh guess he was OF
the peace sentiments Of the Quakers. lie declined to
prosecute his brutal assasnt, though some weeks
amer, al Tie instance OF gentleman Of New.Iork,
who came forward OF his accord Rust was arrest.
ed and held 10 bail to for the assault at the
Grimm al court. When heard of the assault thought
that Rust Bust be block baed everywhere and that
If he yentured INTO the House nexi day the affair
would at least become the topic of indignant COM
HeB'. No, indeed sad friend; his party will
think III fine fellow for il; there will be plenty of
uon giving Greeleya cowiding now they soe he i 20
tame And truly, mistaken. Nothing dis
sinicd INT 20 much with political cant about liberty
Ola tie American side OF the Atlantic this occurrence
ard the maerof-course sort Of way III which it was
locked uptn. not by al but at the least by political
party which in England would have hastened TO purge
ltsei OF the disgrace II connection with such rfian-
Ism. John Bull before jonathan STILL for fair play and
ne,dom Of opinion"
10 this passage the following note is subjoined
Since the above war written, the murder Of tho
L. u .a.A L..