The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-07
ETCHINGS IN THE UNITED STATES
SENATE.
Washington Cor. New York World.

| washington COr. New YORK WOrlu.
Speaking of Johnson recalls Brownlow, VIII
Is to the Senate what Stephens is to the House
Attendants carry him twice day to and fror
his chair at the extreme left of the President
desk, close to the door. There be sits, pale
attenuated, ghostly, never speaking, neve
smiling, voting by signs and apparently life
less, save for the perpetual culver and twitcl
OF terrible palsy. Such is "Parson Brown
low, Of Tennessee.
In fact there are SO many disabled Senator
that the Government has had to put an eleva
tor in their wing to carry them up and dowr
stairs. Morton is parti lily paralyzed; Wright
Of Iowa, is lame; Clayton, handsome young
man, has lost an arm, and Ferry of Conuecti
cut, is a victim to some spinal difficulty.
He has Summers seat, which being on the
outer row, is very easy of access. Ferry, Of
Michigan, has Summers desk. Sumner was
Il very unpopular man among the employees OF
the Senate-the doorkeepers and pages aver
that he never vouchsafed thema "good morn
ing. Even his dear Africans he loved better
10 the spirit than in the flesh, and they knew
it. Personally he was self-satisfied and pomp-
Gus; association with him was difficult, unless
every superiority was conceded to be his
Julia Ward Howe went to him once for some
charitable subscription. MADAM" said the
great Charles, "do you think have time for
individual charities? My purpose is to reform
the world. 'Forgive me, Mr. Sumner she
replied, for asking you; but perhaps you
forget the Savior OF the world found time to
bless little children"
Upton, Schurz and Fenton you can dis
tinguish directly from Nasts caricatures
Upton, is funny little fellow, Schurz an ad-
mirable speaker, but Fenton has the most
courtly manners in the Senate. Hamlin, of
Maine, always wears dress-coat, never an
overcoat. His colleague, Mr.. Morrill,, is the
signer OF the Maine Liquor Law. He and
Mr. Lane, of Indiana met on their way to
the Chicago Convention in 1860 II am very
much interested in the agriculture Of your
country, said Senator Morrill,; .swhat do you
do with all this corn ?" "WeIl, sir" replied
Lane whose constituents had probably never
heard OF prohibition law, "we spoil q little
OF it for bread and put the rest Of it into
Flanagan, of Flanagans Mills,
Texas, is jolly old fellow, who says "whar
and THAR, and rouses the echoes generally
when he speaks. Robertson wears jewelry Of
fabulous value emerald sleve-buttons worth |
q fortune, and diamond studs that would |
make the idols Of India jealous.
1t must not be inferred from Hamlin and !
Robertson that full dress and bJeuterie are |
common 10 the Senate. Far from it. One
gentleman sticks to old clothes
rom policy. He owes an election to them,
le says. One Of his friends stumped district
or him in which he waa unpopular because
hey said he was an aristocrat. "Aristocrat,
indeed, said the speaker with great enthus-
ISM, "you ought to see him. Why every rag
# clothes he has in the world isn't worth So"
iordon, the Confederate General, is a fine
ooking, soldierly fellow. There are flags cap
ured from his men in the Ordnance Museum
lere. Bayard, of Delaware. is the third gen.
ration of Senators in his family Freiing-
luysen is something of swell. Edmunds,
lis neighbor, is the most quarrelsome Of Sena-
ors Thurman looks and moves like Beecher.
dorsey is only thirty-seven years old, the
baby of the Senate. Cameron is the old
st Senator. Dorsey, Allison, and Og!esby
ave young and pretty wives. Mrs Senator
prague was famous beauty, and is now,
lough her loneliness shines not on u.s.
prague came to the Senate with great pres
ge, but never lived up to his reputation.
owever much he may have disappointed
me expectations, he has won universal re-
'ect by the promptness with which be faced
s financial ruin. His luxurious home here
dlsmantled, all appurtenances in the way !
servants and carriages dismissed, and an :
cellent example set to one or two gentlemen
this city. who would be materially improved
: following it.
Stewart and Jones are two poor, impecu- S
Gus miners, with only few millions apiece /.
Jones especially, whose income per month
$3.50, COO Stewart has built famous house
re. epitomizing all the orders and disorders
own in architecture, and crowned with the
nnderbolt of immortal love for lightning u