The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-12-22
SKETCHES OF THE MEMBERS OF
CONGRESS.

pockets.
ii S. S., or "Sunset" Cox, another New Yorl
er, and the wit of the House, has prominer
front seat Like all wits, he prefers bein
the marksman rather than the target. He
a sensitive gentleman, and easily vanquishe
with his own weapons, which few can WELD
} however. Two seats beyond is Governo
Swan, of Maryland, one Of the F. F. Ms
The old gentleman won't have his age in tn,
Congressional Directory, and sits buttoned ~
as prim and stiff as an image. Croker, o
Massachusetts,, the Oldest man in the House
has front seat, and SO, too, has Alexande
H. Stephens, though he seldom occupies it
"Who Is that man }" asked stranger of .
hack driver, before the National Hotel, wher
Stephens came down the steps.
"That ERE man, said the driver with IN
disguised rancor, is fraud. We've counted
on job at his funeral for six years, and he
keeps alvin on and alvin on, and dunno but
wot he's agoin' to live forever" That was be-
fore the war, and the hackmen are still wait.
ing. Marvellous little body it is! How car
SO frail frame hold SO vigorous mind? He
wears black skull cap, gloves that hang in
bags on his shrunken fingers. When he tries
to speak books are piled up around him to
prevent him from falling down. His voice is
feeble and thin. There is no lite in any mem
Der but his eyes.
Fernando Wood, suave, courtly ef manner,
and unimpeachable in dress, is Just the same
age as Mr.. Stephens, and is the only member
of the House who antedates him in that body,
Wood having been elected in 1843 and Ste
phens in As or '46. Nothing ever ruffles the
New Workers. possession; no storm of
debate dismays him, no excitement betrays
him; he rarely speaks. he never quarreis.
The first day Of the last session, when they
were voting for Speaker, it was interesting to
watch the two candidates. Blaine moved
from desk to desk, sat in uncomfortable atti-
tudes, glanced around, talked to his friends
good deal, and finally absented himself Not
so Mr.. Wood. He kept his seat from the be-
ginning to the end, md there was no face in
the hundreds present that gave less indica-
ton of concern in the proceedings.
Crutchfeld, of Tennessee, is one of the
curiosties of the House. Imagine shock
haired, unshorn, corduroy-clad fellow, with
his trousers tucked into cowhide boots, and
his hat on the back of his head, and you have
Crutchfeld as he presented himself at the
House door the first day of the last session.
The doorkeeper refused him admittance until
q colleague vouched for his rights He wears
ordinary clothes now, and combs his hair, and
has his boots BACKED, and, instead Of gaping
around the room as he used to, sits at his desk
and scribbles like an awkward schoolboy learn
ing how to write He can't be coaxed into
joining the Congressional Temperance Society,"
His friends say he is a diamond in the rough
one part of which description is possible, the
other evident He is successor to Mullins,
who was like him-only more SO. Mullins
was not satisfied with listening, he wanted to
talk, and no one who heard his speech on
Mosby's pardon will ever forget it. ''You may
forgive him." said Mullins, brandishing his
1ovnrv k1,,,k 1n,k ~
not till the everlastin' day when the angel
Gabriel blows his old trumpet." Davy Crock
EFT was from the same district.
The two Hales, of New York and Maine, sit
together. Hale, of Maine, handsome young
man, married one Of the richest young heir
ssses in the United States, daughter of Chand-
Ter, of Michigan and very charming woman
'he is. Then comes Garfield, a gentle-voiced,
man, and great contrast to Dawes,
With whom he is usually associated. Dawes
mas an anxious expression and a nervous
he is stopped and care-worn. Gar
ield looks as jolly as old King Cole Mitchell,
If Wisconsin, is the richest member, being
worth ever SO many millions and Brown, of
kentucky, was elected before he was of age
o take his seat in the House. p. N. B. |
Young, an ex-Confederate, is the only West |
Point graduate. Lynch, of Missippi, was
,orn slave. Hooper, of Massachusetts,, a
amOus gourmand, is brother-in-law of Sum-
lers widow.
Cannon, the Mormon, is short, red-faced,
looking man-English by birth.
of Pennsylvania, is Chairman of
he Revolution ms-irreverently called
Leather Medal Committee. Beck, of
roars like lion, and Frye, of
Iaine spreads the eagle. as far as his wings
I'LL reach. Kelley, Of Pennsylvania, "Pig-
ron" or Peacock" Kelley, is the most bonn
astic; no melancholy Jacques ever rolled his
rs J" or his eyes to such an extent Kelley
efers to his own voice as the melliduous or
an with which Providence has endowed
i'm. Rice, of Illinois, who was an actor, is
,e best speaker by far. Though he occupies
back seat, every syllable echoes so distinctly
trough that vast chamber that we wish there
ere more of his profession there.
1t is almost pity Aver was not elected
Cherry Pectoral Aver" He would have
ectrifed- the House, beyond doubt A
ian who used to write his advertisements for
inn got up puff about one Of his medicines
which" SO ran the poster, 'was the most
,markable discovery made since Harvey dis
,vered the circulation Of the blood" Char
ey, Harvey" said Aver, when he read it over,
who's Harvey?" He was very cele-
rated Englishman who"-but freebooter in
fTupteO MN. - fSnAW NOBODY ever ne0fQ
Harvey! Just say that since the discovery
the circulation Of the blood by DR.. James
. Ayer-no such discovery as this has been
ade." Wouldn't he be rich on the appro-
ration bill? He never allows his family to
Ike any of his medicines.
A TASTE OF Mr. BEEcHER's SERMoN.-The ,
ew York SMn, in reporting one of Mr..
eecher's late sermons, uses the following :
nguage:
Then, in his own familiar way Of word
Uniting, he told the story Of the mother of
,hn and James, who asked that her sons :,
light sit, the one on the right and the other
! the left hand of Jesus when he came into /.
is kingdom. 1T was natural" he said, :
that the mother should desire that John
lould be Secretary Of State and James Sec y
tary of the Treasury, for it would be great !
Vantage to the whole family for her sons to :
i've such influential positions" The audi :
Ice, had it not been q church congregation, /.
ould have applauded, as Mr.. Beecher twisted : :
r Inns and chOOE hic hooI uh;1o ,%<or;,r |