The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-01-04
WASHINGTON IErrEn,
our roripaieIic President HAptiEed
win zee cream His Jealousy OF
Speaker ninine-The Phil. M
adeIphiR banquet.
From our regulnr Corrospondontj

Time has returned, Tor the holidays, IL
tue bosom OF his constituency, MI
Capitol aud the Hobbies VI the hOtelI
are ~ stu asin summer, but Tie Nv,
enua II radiant With the concentrated
life, galety, brass aud beauty Of al III,
fashionable summer resorts, We have
here Rhode lslaUd. Avenue, q Mich
igan avenue--avenne named after
many Of the States, aud we will some.
time have nm Alaska avenue, But Mt
avenue. h Pennsylvania avenue The
American citizen, II he has been 80
fortunate Us 20 strike oil, secure II GOV.
eminent contract, get into the golden
circle the whisky ringl or be elected
President, has the choice OF Long
Branch, Des Moinos, George Washing
ton Childs, and the American pleasure
yacht navy IN the sum ner; hIt Wash
ington Is tile only resort, and the av-
enue the only promenade, Your cor
respondent has not much leisure, tine
IL his only money, but he sometimes
INDUCES IN the extrayaganceofa walk
on the avenue, for the sake OF
u sensuous phllosophic look NJ
the graceful and wicked city.
Here, of n fine afternoon, you Will
see the largest number of distinguished
personages that can be seen on this
continent: Justices OF the Supreme
Court, with the proverblal "falr round
belly" Generals, Admiras Foreign
Ministers and attaches OF legation ;
Senators aud Members OF the Lower
House, bellies, beauXs, and the deml-
monde. General Grant takes his daily
constitutional here, usually by himself,
walking gloomily. and Of medium
speed. Promenaders pass him In the
throng, AZ first unnoticed, but the face
aud mein lrevlves recolleetl0ns OF va
rious pictures and caricatures, II dawns
upon them that they have just passed
alive president, aud they turn and
gaze til he is out Of sight. II is the
same with General Butler'-anyb body
in the least familiar with the pic
torlals will recognize him rs soon
AS he Is seen. A young officer OF
the army, who had never seen the Es-
sex statesman before, met him BY
chance and without Introduction.
During the conversation, In which
General Butler asked many questions
about his regiment, etc, the young
officer said: " ! suppose you are Gen
eral Butler~ ~.
Yes, " said Is. f., everybody
knows me-"
General Grant has much changed IN
the last ten years. He would hardly
be recognized from the photographs
taken during the war. In these his
face had a hard, pincheed expression,
full of sad lines, AS of man with
whom the battle for existence had
been hard and doubtful, and the ques-
ton as to whether he was nj TO sur
vive, at least equivocni, NOW ms lace
is full OF color, too much color II Is n
gross, nnintellectuai, but NOT II vicious
face. His figure Is growing stout, al
most aldermanic IN its proportions.
Twas thinking OF these changes MS |
sat in full view Of him at the banquet
in Philadelphia last week. There was
al occasion, however, when l thought
his features reassumed the hard eX-
preston of the days before he discov-
cred Aladdin's lamp. 1t was when
the mention OF the name OF Mr..
Blaine's name occasioned such tumnl-
tuous applause.
1t was easy to see that Mr.. Blaine
was the favorite there, and his speech
was, with the exception OF General
Hawley's, the happiest OF them all.
1t is doubtful II there is another man
in the country who has so many per-
sonal friendsamongall political shades
as the ex speaker. His honorable ca'
reer as presiding officer of the House,
crowned with his fairness, which tri-
umphed on the memorable occasion OF
the debate on the force bill, over Ivlo-
lent partizan pressure, compelled the
esteem even of those who We're OPP
posed to him.
But to return to General Grant. Az
the banquet he sat at a table on a uais
with Justices of the Supreme Court,
Senator Morton, eX Speaker sBiaine,
the Historian Bancroft, and other dis-
tinguished personages, on eacliside OF
him. j observed In front of him a
VI ltC thNuhi wv ~ NN,'sS
himself, i think. Towards the close of
the feast it began to assume an inclina-
ton like the leaning tower of
Pisa. | watched it impatient for
the catastrophe, 1t came, the lower
tower fell and the President was spat-
tered with the sweet debris. .,,.,,s
This excursion of the four branches
of the Government, the legislative, jul
dicial. executive and journalistic %
To philadelphia, is expected to cost the
nation only 81, 500, 900, which sum II is
now expected Congress will cheerfully
the Executive honestly
disburse, and the press rhetorically
anprove. Have we not all been there
eating terapin, drinking champagne,
smoking Havanas-all at the expense
of these Quaker Yankees, every one OF
- =, In dad nc of Rpniamin Frank