Nebraska advertiser., 1869-11-25
. VOL. IA. NO. 6.
washington Preparing for
Winter.

VFnsnEmgtOn Preparing for
Winter.
washington Correspondence Cincinnati CONNER
cial, NOv.6
Members of Congress are thick here,
setting their houses in order for the
session. Whether il is so or not, ev-
erybody believes we are to have fes-
tive winter. The belief comes in part
from the fact that the session is to be
one Of that longer order not limited
by the fatal ideas of March. Every
day we are hearing either of some new
notable who will entertain, or of some
paryenu who will become notable
through entertainment. Fish, and
his assistant secretary, Fernando
Wood and q score or more are among
the number.
Then, COreyran's new hotel, the
Arlington, Is to become q grand center
Of attraction. The entire town is
cantering around that. All about
there, for a square or two, under the
shadow OF its lofty caves, will make
such q court circle as Washington has
not known formerly. For q beggarly
Italian to get his peanut stand in the
edge Of it VIII be to bein good society ;
here, where society regulates itself by
very strange eaprices. / have spoken
with half a dozen -gentlemanly ele-
plants already, who, by the right Of
long purses, propose to take winter
quarters at the Arlington. Great
business shrewdness was evinced in
the choice of this euphOniOus name.
1t rolls under the tongue like an aris-
tOeratic mOrsel, and 20 Mrs. Pastedia-
monds will be irresistible. Inside of
this huge show temple there will be
gathered, from January to April, more
members of the Veneering family
than ever knotted together in one
Washington hotel before. {" YiUe Ies
6dgdteLLeS, vanity and velvet trains!i
will be the motto of that house.
Meantime, at the other end of the
capital is heard, these two weeks, the
unceasing sound of hammer and
trOwel. The last repairs are being put
upon the Capitol, and the carpets are
being laid in the legislative chamber
This laying of carpets is the last touch
to the Capitol before the coming of 9
| Congress. A Brussels carpet lasts the
House of Representatives lust three
years the Senate, four or five years
| In proportion to size, the two Cham
bers have about an equal pOpulOus'
ness of members. But your Congress
man in the Lower House is always
walking the fiOOr, ,shuf1ing his feet, ,ex
pectOrating on the carpet, and uneasy
generally until he gets into the Sen,
ate, where they have better poised
manners, if not morals. This accounts
for the difference of time in wear of car
pets. They are putting down master
! piece of New English Brussels in tht
Representative Hall, a massive greer
threaded with gold. This carpet i,
expected TO last a year longer thar
usual, as WashbuFn, who was alwayl
snorting and paving there, is happily
shifted to Versailles. Let 2 ElH1DeTeE
! look out for the tdpet. On the whole
/ the Capitol will never have been plas
tered and polished so elabOrately q
i for the coming session. It has beer
repaired inside and outside during tn
summer, with a cost without stint
Taking everythingintO consideration
1t is now the completest palace in tn
; world. All mans bodily and men
Il tai needs can be furnished inside of il
Sleeping on the luxurious sofas of hi
committee room, by the light ant
warmth of hickory wood fires, draw
ing for his intellectual wants on tn
great library, and for those of tn,
stomach on the splendid saloons be
i low, q bachelor Congressman, will
| quiet tastes, would not have to 90 on
of the building from December unit
May. It might be well if the constit
.uents of some of them would swea
them before coming here to keeI
within such prudent limits.
The old Hall of Representatives il
now fully perfected for a gallery of art
Visitors halt in it longer than in any
part of the Capitol, to see the famed
brOnzed doors, the chariot clock
winged history, above them the fres
coed superb vault, and last of all tn
most magnificent piece of statuary il
the building, the marble figure of Al
exander Hamilton. AS the history O
art lengthens in the nation, this beau
tiful hall will be filed with the work.
of native artists. Hereafter it may
well be an American artists ambition
to see his production there. Wewan
no more such statuary as we havu
been accustomed to see there, model
of Crawford and others of which
Powers said truly that they were ere
cUted.
Closing for the present this sketch
of Washington winter preparation
the prospective now indicates tha
Arlington House and the Capito
building will be the two model point
of our sOciety--the former for displa,
of the vanity Of women, the latter TO
the vanity of men.