Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1869-02-18

The bay Afler..Butisr Hopping
About the House ns Live.
~ ard EayIy as
Possible.
Washington. res IL. oorre.pondence of,he N. Y.

Washington, FEB II. Correspondence ofthe ~ I.
Herald.
Shortly after the prayer, and while The
j reading Of tie journal was progressing, the
prominent members dropped In. Bauer,
with lis bright, shining face AID bald
heal. appeared on the door, hopping aeout
| as light and gayly as il he had done no h
ine particularly wicked the day before, ard
al IL he had not the rcmotest idea that
every eve was watching his eccentric move
ments. Wonderful man S that Batter. Cooi
And self.possessed, saucy, defiant, active.
vide awake never st loss for expedienis,
always ready to pound or DO pounded at,
full o. resources, artful, cunning, and yet
doing everything apparently in the most
natural and easy manner imaginable
There never was . man born like the But.
Ter before said . spectator today. "At
least never one after precisely the same
pattern You can't cut him down perma-
nently. lie will up again, no matter how
you trample on him. Any other man would
have been killed long ago, politically, but
Butler seems TO thrive on opposition. abuse
aud contumely, and TO raise n peg higher
after each successive tilt with his adverse
tiss.' II would seem so, truly. To-day,
when he got the floor, he Was surrounded
by crowd Of members who favored his &C
iion yesterday They all congratulate him
and even his opponents eJed him With
an expression in which admiration pfedom-
mated over hostility and stimulated dis
gust. Ben. sat in his scat listenu TO the
remarks OF those who addressed him, while
he bent over his desk scanning with his
eipgie eve letter after letter or newspapers
r. H.. IL
head up suddenly, like one OF those ar,ifi-
clal tgurss OH springs that start out oil
| boxes when the covers are removed, OF
jumping up altogether on his legs and
| rushing TO some other part OF the House,
| perhaps 10 stop half way and return again,
ms if some new idea had knocked its prede.
cessor into cooked hat before Il had time
| 10 carry itself into execution. Butler has .
curious. cool hgetincss about him. lie ID
never easy, physically, but collected n en-.
tally always. lie twirls aud turns in his
chair, ~ il pins and needles were In it,
seat. One second bis face is turned nquis
i,ively toward the ceiling, the nj 1t It !.
bent downward, his eye following his MIN
BILE fingers over sheet Of paper while h,
makes some note with his pen. Now be i.
trottiEg about like l.ttlc spirited pony
moment after he 10 standing in front Of III,
Speakers chair With his thumbs fasteneC
in the arm-holes of his vest, while he lis
tens for few moments to what some mem
Der my b saying. lie rarely seems I.
listen longer at . stretch, but, strangely
enough, no matter how busily he may b,
emplsysd,-whcther writing, reading, talk
ing or walkiog,-he never misses what j
gong on. When he seems most abstracte,
he 10 really most vide awake aud alert
These pecu'iarites Of Ben. Butler YER
prominently developed today during tn
Woodward. Eldridge, Bingham, Schsneh
Colfav and Garfield were speaking Butls
was to DO seen everywhere about the AooI
just at the moment ono Of the speaker
might BE- pitching into him in some Va,
Butler perhaps would DO flying thIoug
enc Of the aisles, aud would stop abrupt
to listen or TO throw in n word by way 0
interruption to confuse or worry tho mem,
Der having tho floor. Bingham, in his re
marks on Butler, was the severest Of AZ,
of the speakers; but the Essex membe
seemed to care very little whit the OhioaI
orator said, and ratified abou, quite uncon
cernedly, sometimes planting himself RICH
close to his assailant aud e y cling hun With
COO, defiance that induced Bingham to p0ln
his finger at him and shake It in high o.
citeu ent, and roll out with increased fur
and vigor words Of dcnunciation such {
! Bingham we'll knew how to hurl at his OF
; ponenis. Whilc Bingham was worked u
I 10 the highest pitch Of oratcrical ecstacy
must have put his amour proprs TO seveI
test to observe Butler standing about 70,
yards of, frigidly looking over . piece
! manuscript, AS # not caring . snap abo'
, Bingham and all 1.-THE gathered wisdom
= . Thousand years" that WAS summoned !
his demolition.