The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-11-27
From Forney's "Press"
LETTER FROW WASHINGTON.
The Conversational session.
WAsHINGToN. Nov. 19. ]


WASHINGTON, Nov. 19, 1862.
Everything about the capital betokens
the near approach Of the Congressional
session. II rumor is TO be trusted, il will
be one fraught with intense excitement.
Absorbing political questions will be
discussed. The recent action Of the
Administration the change in its policy
and the commanders of its armies, the
removal of Mcclellan and Buell. the re-
suit of the elections, and the vast expen-
diture of the public money consequent
upon state of war, will all raise in both
houses the most earnest debates. Ardent
friends and reckless foes will keenly
battle over the momentOus events of the
present wonderful month. Fessenden
will bring his ability, and Wade his ex-
perience TO bear against the attacks of
Bayard and Salisbury, and Garrett Davis
Thaddeus Stevens and Owen Loyejoy
will mass sarcasm and inspiration against
Pendleton's sophistry and Vallandig-
hams fOolishness. Senate and House
will both witness many intellectual COM
bats, and the anniversary Of Lincoln's $
Inauguration, though it will bring the
dissolution of Congress, will not by any
means see the end of the terrible quarrels
this war has produced among ourselves.
The Capitol resounds with the hum of
preparation. Painters inside and masons
without, decorate the building. The
carpets are down in the Senate chamber
and representatives. hall, and in the form
er the little desks and massive arm chairs
are all in place. Members are beginning
to flock around, and the corridors even
now foreshadow the session by the pres
ence in them of a few of the great men Of
the land.
The famed suite of rooms in the Senate
extension, devoted TO the comfort Of the
members, are almost ready for those who
frequent them. The Presidents room,
occupied about four hours in the year,
and as expensively decorated perhaps,
as any other of its size in Ohristendom,
is prepared for the session. From its
walls Washington and his first Cabinet
look down upon the visitors. The beau
tiful mosaic floor is covered with carpet,
and the plain though rich furniture is
uncovered and stands out amid the mir
tiOn. Thousands of dollars have been
spent adorning this chamber, that the
President when, at the end of the session.
he comes to the Capitol TO approve the
bills passed in its last moments, may have
a fit place in which to exercise his magis-
terial functions.
The Senate retiring and reception
rooms vie with the other in splendor
| Their colOnnades of native marble
their mantels and uncovered floors are al
as perfect as art can make them. They
too, are prepared, and the chairs anC
centre tables are as plain and rich a
their aristOcratic brethren CT the Presi-
dents room, This suite is one of the Gu
riosities of Washington.
In the city the preparation is as grea
as in the Capitol. New vigor has seizet
the hotel-keepers, and their domestic
are scrubbing and securing with praise
worthy zeal The proprietor of the Ma
tional has had coat of whitewash pu
upon his out buildings. The Metropoli
tan is redolent with cheap white pain
and lazy negroes are renovating Willard
with water and soap. All the town
agog for the session. JIG.