Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1867-12-20
Congressional Gossip.
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There il but little gossip atioat this
week but am able to say authorita
lively that Thad. Stevens expects to die
in harness; also that Judge Underwood
Is a radical Roscoe CDnliing is the
best dressed man in Congress. Revei
dy Johnson has more dignity in his
makeup than any other memher Of the
senate. Thad. stevens looks like Me
thodst preacher. lmpracher Ashley
has had Ills hyacirth locks conbed.
Judge Wilson, OF Iowa, has grown gray
in two years, and dresses more like IA
christian now, than n plow-boy, as he
used to. Billy Williams, or Indiana,
has got a new pair Of gold eye glasses,
which he hasn't { worn long enough To
become accustomed TO. and consequent.
ly looks through them very awkward y
although he wears them all the time.
Illinois Washburne lost much of his
obesity during during his recent Euro
pean trip; but, rs usual, swings his
hands and arms when he talks, very
much like the fans of a wind mill.
General Logan has had his hair cut,
and looks very muc,l Ike Zeb Vance,
la.e rebel governor of North Carolina.
SpeaKer CVltaX's tongue is set on piv-
ol in the middle OF his mouth, so that
he can talk faster than Barnnin's light.
ming calculator can cipher. Jack Rog.
ers Is next To speaker Coliax, the last
,.st talker in the world, and next TO Ci-
cero. whose mantle fell ON Ills shoulders
and slid OIL on the ground, (nObody has
picked IL up since) Is the longest sell
fenced man that ever lived. General
Grant got through public interviewing
at Appomattox Court House aud hasn t
ltlh al Ia
won't believe ine W Ell I-say that Ross
of Illinois, is a joker, but say he tries
TO he one. Eldridse, of Wisconsin,
never made a speech of more than ten
minutes duration in his life, and is one
of the ablest democrats i'm Congress.
Marshall, of Illinois, is impr0yiig in
health. - Hooper Of Mass, shows in his
face, as well az In the rotundity of his
lersuil that he Is tile hest liver I'm the
House, while McPhefson, clerk of the
house, looks like the ghost of starved
cOrkscrew. He IL so thin thnt he has
t0 stand up twice 10 make shadow,
aud vet he is first rate liver. General
Garfield has got the strongest voice of
any man in congress; General Logan
the loudest; Colfax the deepest; Thad.
Stevens the weakest, and Kelly, of Pa,
and General Banks will have to flip
pennies I'D Hnl WHicn has tic IuDrl sleD
torian. Kelly, however talks through
his nose too much. and initiates Forrest
IN his sty Ie 0t declamation. He would
make u first class Jack Gale. Leonard
Myers and Ciias. O'Neil. of Phiiadel-
phia, are as close III their intimacy with
each other AS the Sianpse twins. Gen.
s,clienck aud Gen. Butler talk by jerks
Ia phrase or sentence at each jerk
as If they really believed Villas they
said. aud expected every body to he con
vinced of the correctness of their views
the moment the words leave their
mouths. Butler wears wide brimmed
.slouch hat. tilted on one side of his
heal with u rakisli or brigandish air,
willie lis make up otherwise resembles
a we'll fed alderman. Philadelphia
Van Trump, Of Pennsylvania, acts and
talks like a stuffed turkey.