New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-11-21
Picture Of AEorrLssex.

Mack the correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial, sketches John Morrissey thus:
! had The great pleasure Of seeing one of New
forks distinguished TepresentatiYes-Joh ohm Nor
lissey the other day, in one of the reading
of the Astor House. ] had seen him some years
ago, when he was travelling on his muscle-when
le wore short, eroppy hair, and had two fists like
TWO battering-rams. 1n the Democratic congress-
man of to-day tried to recognize the puqilst of
Ten years since, but couldn't; nor could detect
even the poker player OF yesterday. John looks
quite respectable for New York politician. AS
between him and Fernando Wood, ii I had to
walk arm min.afIn withhnth aud rely solely upoa
my knowledge Of physiognomy as an index to
character, | should uGhesitatingiY carry my
pocket-book in the Morrissey side Of my panta-
Icons.
OF ecnrse John doesn't look like a gentleman.
except upon the modern theory that every male
person Of ti7enty-pne years and upward who
doesn't perform some oatragequaly indecent ACT,
Is a gentleman or upon the principle adopted by
hotelelerka in the disposition of rooms that who
soeger wears good broadeloth is 5pso faeto an
ennently respectable individual and entitled to
the first floor: front. His features are anything
but utcassical, and you can tell at glance that he
HASN'T hnrt fhe sight of those large dnll-lookinE
but withal kindly aud sympathetic eyes OF his
tthey were ''peepersA few years ago in study
ing Homer by lampIight. But there isnathng
positively bad or brutal about him. and his man.
5ners and department are far from what must be
efuost persons ideal Of the ways and means of a
shilompugilist He a little above the medium
height, rather stoutly built, always neatly, but
never gaU9ily dressed and willreadily pass in a
crowd for decent sort 9f person, especially if il
be known that he came from New York TheFe
are two features about him by which he can be
recognized BY those who have heard of him but
have never before seen him. One is artificial,
and the other natural.
He isnever known to be without an immense
diamond pin, said to he worth $4,000, id his
shirt and wears about the longest and straiQhest
nj IN or1TT1 may ba
pin shines out from bis bosom in the dark alleys
pf the @hloody sixth, L like calcium light, ana Is
Ereally about the only light ever seen by many OF
his constituents. And, by the way, it wouldaitbe
safe for anybody hut John Morfissey to wear ID
valuable an ornament after night-fall among his
constituents.
john long black hair and heavy black Whis.
kefs and moustache, the former covering the back
Of rather bullish neck and the latter conceang
mouth quite ungenteel in It's proportions, serve
the double purpose Of hiding defects and present
ing positive attractions; forthey make him whai
the ladies would Gala good-ooking man. He is
o handsomer man than the President, andit would
not surprise me ait nil to learn within a year that
/ he has supplanted the humble individual in the
Iesteemof Mrs. Cobb. Let Andrew be warned il
time, and geta 100000 pin and bottle Of hail
Edye.
have said that MoFrissey could be recognized BIZ
+ his hair and his diamond should have added I
nasal pecufiafily the knowledge DC which woalt
aid materially in eelecting him from crowd
And perhaps, 10 would ellHotG one to PICK hin
cut, even from u crowd of hlackshaifed and dia
mond pinned men tits the qqeerest nose I havt
seen ia long time, perhaps the queerest haYt
egor seen. It's notRoman. not Gre ian, not pug
not aqailines but appears TO me rather Ike sub
1iugated pug reconstructed on the Gteeian prinei
/ pile, 1t il the smallest of all noses, and almos
ljpstsfea the belief Oh tho paft OF those who know
I JahA's history, hat having been deprived Of il
Town apfoaaseis = in prize fight, he did hls hes
toward mAking mp his loss by Waylaying som,
1 young lady, ana possessing himself OF her oliae
fqrg organ. Even il he did this however, hl
lan1lsd the article IN mating the transfer ant
/ hence The notable rose he wears to-day. Morris
ssy has Of late days, foraworn gambling and be
taken himself to Ylrtuous lite in palatial reai
dence ln LeAiagtan avenue, with fortune esti
mated at two millions.
He recently gaya $1,000 as q douation to the
ehugp6 of Saint Somebody OK other in this city
being moved ID the generous decd. believe, by
8the announcement Hat Senator Wilson had eei
religion. Desirous ct golag TO heaven, he seerned
/ Wilson'S Yankee free grace road and, with tic
Iiberaittg of prince lie cafas forward and paid his
5Tay 10 The golden gates af Paradise. People may
talk as ahay sl of 4he moral aspects of This thing
9f san1ing pFlzefghtsF tQ Congress-. a73
much worse ia MolEissey seher thaA