Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-03-16
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
Old Mr.. SmalIweed tn the White
HOuse-HOw People Look and Gen.
e duet Themselves I'm Washington.

| House sat IN an armchair near the ire, and
threw cushions at the head of old Mrs.
Smallweed. in the opposite corner, wheuev-
| er she opened her mouth, about money,
and after this exertion he got so far down
in his clothes that he had to be shaken up.
Well, the old Mr.. Smallweed at the White
House sits on blue and gold sofa, on the
right side of the blue room, to see the
crowd. He has cushion on the other
end-he sticks out his poor old legs as far
as they'll go and holds a cane between
them. Now, when somebody is pushing
| you in the back, and in the sides and on
the head, in order to shake hands with
"Mr. President" you get pushed against
the aforesaid legs and the aforesaid cane,
and you get decidedT rep on your feet and
ankles. You look down, you look around
and at last you behold this old BIZ. Small
weed, seated on that blue and gold sofa,
smothered among women, as if that blue
and gold sofa was his private property
when it belongs as much to every dear old
| gentleman in Tennessee, over hundred,
as it does TO him. You know then at once
where that rap comes from-you know it
comes from the parent of all the DIS.
There he sits, every Saturday, every Sat
urday, on that identical sofa, with that
| identical cane, and your correspondent has
| felt that identical rap several times, for not,
sitting down and paying court to the pa
rent of all the DIS, as everybody else does.
The old gentleman has gotten spoiled by
too much attention.
HOW GOV. wARMOTH LOOKS AND ACTS.
We met Gov. Warmoth few evenings
since at ''card reception" That is, that
unless we had piece of "paste-board" sent
to US, we were not expected; but we had,
we went, and going, we met very dis
tinguished crowd-but as we had just said
we met Gov. Warmoth, and we had qnite
chat with him. He is a remarkably hand
some man-somewh&t like Gen. Breckin-
ridge pbysically-but Warmoth has nothing
striking, great, or intellectual in his face,
bearing or manner. You would, if your
glance accidentally fell upon him, think him
physically magnificent looking man. There
is no magnetism about him, nor does he
impress you as being extraordinary in any
way. When speaking to you, especially if
you belong to what the French politely
term the beau SeIe, he gets up very charm
ing smile, and afectedly leans very low to-
ward you. He would, if he were not politi- 1
clan, make a good cGUdLier-SerUGnte. We ask
ed him If he were a native of Louisiana. He
ehoWOAON1 Il oI1 BlO0A W o1J = Gil AOb q
Creole" Which answer showed some
ignorance on the part OF the good Cover
nor, as Creole of Louisiana, as you know,
my dear friends, means one who is born in
that State, of French or Spanish extraction.
We told the illustrious Governor that zoe
were a native of the Crescent City-and
that we were proud of it, ETC., etc.
GRANT AT A PARTY.
a mot tho Grant and bia daunhtor also
at an evening reception of one of his Cab
met officers, and the Grant did not speak
one dozen words the entire evening. He
paid good deal of attention, however, to
the punch, but he left his judy that night at
home with the young Grants, Miss Grant
dances well, and LOOKS well simply dressed,
which she was, il light dancing costume of
tulle or muslin or tarletan or something,
The President honored us with looking at
us so much that we shook hands with him
when we left as a return of honor, and We
thought "HoW about louisiana" but we
did not say so.
END OF THE SEASON.
The season is over. The grand ball was
the ultima thule-and the grand ball was a
blending of black and white, so that after
while, the black was taken for the white
and the white for black-you could not
tell, TO use vulgarism, which was which.
The tickets were $40. We had one pre-
scented to us, but did not go. We were
afraid we might have had to refuse Pinch
back waltz.
We sat in the parqustte the other night
at the Opera House, in the midst of several
''colored ladies and gentlemen" Without
eXsgeration, almost every second women
you meet on the Avenue since the 4th of
March, is ebony, or molasses- candy colored.
After awhile white women will dye their
skins to be a Ia negresse.
HOW GEN. SHERMAN LOOKS.
Gen. Sherman was introduced to us not |
long since. We are inclined to think that |
on "Sherman's March to the Sea" he got |
q little bow-legged or knock-kneed, we
don't remember which, only we do remem- |
Der be looked little thin about the lower |
limbs; because in dancing opposite to us,
every time the old gentleman stopped we |
took a good look at him, and we noticed |
that bis march had rather used up his legs. |
He has very hard face, keen mall eyes, a |
long nose, and has much more intelligence |
in his face than Gen. Grant. We think the |
old gentleman felt we did not belong to the |
list of his admirers.
TWO NOTED WOMEN.
Miss Grant has a very matured look ''for |
her age" She has what the children would |
call ''funny, face, all up in knot" You |
can't tell for the life of you how her fea-
lures run into one another so, and she looks |
like ''such a good Radical" We've seen
people who look Catholic, or Methodist, or
Presbyterian, and we have now learn |
ed to distinguish a PERSONS politics by |
their appearance, but for all this, we think |
Miss Grant very pretty and nice-looking.
Did you ever see Mrs. Mary Walker? |
Well, we had just remarked the other day |
that we had never met her, when we step |
ped into a library, and seeing a crowd of |
women, SOrOStS, we addressed one of them, |
who turned out to be this very |
peculiar of all the "Marys." She |
had q shabby straw hat on, long, |
black, curly hair hanging down her |
back, light suriout on black psntaloons,
and very nice boots. She is very sallow, |
has large broad forehead, small features, |
and is altogethar a very manly looking |
woman. Old "Bloody Mary" and Marie
de Medicis, and every other "Mary" re-
moved for mis-deeds, could never have
excited so much dstaste or contempt in
US as this Mrs DR.. Mary Walker.
ABOUT THE JAPANESE.
The Japanese form quite part of So
ciety here. You meet them everywhere,
and they are very ugly-looking. A few of
them were at the theater, few evenings
ago, and seemed to enjoy Jos. Jefferson in
Rip VanWinkle exceedingly. Many of
them are princes in their own country, and
we have no doubt feel quite princely, but as
Frederick the Great, when he went about
in disguise as an humble musician, was not
taken for king, so these japanese princes
dressed like plain American citizens, look
like very ugly mulattos-only the nulstto
would not feel aattered in the matter of
the eyes. They seem to understand
English perfectly.
ABOUT FASHIONS AND FLOWERS.
A little gossip about dress, about which
all women feel an interest Velvets or
satirs are very little seen in this town,
1--WE wonder how Mrs. Grant would look
in a royal purple velvet p and to get as
high-saouldered IS possible is quite the
rage and to hold the elbows as tight to
the sides as if they were pinned there; and
to hold the hands glued together in front:
and to look as slim as if you were about to
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