Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-01-19
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

The Second Reception.-Never, within our
recollection, have the state apartments at the
Executive Mansion appeared to greater advan-
tage than they did last evening The simple
announcement that the President Of the United
States and his estimable cOnsort would receive
visitors between the hours of eight and ten,
attracted, as if by magnetic influence, every
respectable phase of metropolitan society,
whether transient or permanent. All who
went felt that, as sovereign citizens, they had
right to be there, yet it was equally evident
that all went expecting to receive a welcome
And they were thus greeted both by the Chief
Magistrate and his lady, who received their
salutatiOns with that frank cordiality which
charaeterizes the present occupants of the
White House.
The ceremony Of introduction we described
in narrating the first reception, and We
gazed again on the constant throng of visitors,
We could but compare it with similar scenes
in other lands. Every one who, lin the ridicu-
lOus attire Of past generation,) has gone
through the fOrmalities of presentation"
to England's dumpy Queen, at her palace Of
st. Jameson who has been jammed in the
crush Of crinoline at state ball at the Tuil-
leries-Or who has seen the cringing Moslem
dignitaries PROSTATE themselves before their
Sultan within the precints of the Sublime
Porte-any one, we say, who has witnessed the
fapdoodle etiquette which hedges other chief
magistrates, must feel degree of national
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people of these United States, by the ruler of
their choice.
The President appeared in excellent health
and spirits. If it be true that grave interna-
tional matters now occupy his thoughts, he
certainly has the happy faculty Of leaving
diplomatic difficulties in his council chamber,
and greeting his visitors with an unruffied
brow. Most Of his Cabinet were present
Guthrie, that infeXible son Of old Kentucky !;
Cushing, the Crichton of our times; Nc
Clellan, the acute and vigorous thinker and
Campbell, the able director Of our widely
ramifed postal system,-forming constella-
ton of political talent of which the nation
may we'll be proud.
Messrs. Crittenden, Fish, Jones, SIideIl, and
other Senators, grseed the scene, although we
looked in vain for the newly returned Senator
from Ohio, with his Incompatible lady-ia
Rstns DIES bellies. OF the House, we noticed
Messrs. Fuller Of Maine, Jones Of Pennsylya.
MIA, Clingman of North Carolina, and Eustis
OF Louisiana, with dozens of others, of all
recognised parties, and from all sections OF
our wide domain Assistant P. NJ Gen. King;
Professor Henry, Of the Smithsonian Institu-
ZION; Rev. DR.. Pine; c. b King, the veteran
artist; Colonel Albert, of the Tonooranh;cal
Corps; Capt. Van Welt, just from our gallant
army on the prairies; Mr.. Aspinwall, the
New York fnancier-were types of the yariou,
professions present. Then there was a goodly
array OF diplomats, including M. NJ. Escalante
Aarcoletta, Winspeare, Gerolt, and Bodisco
But we know our fair readers are getting i'm
patient, and we will not dwell longer on tn,
Lords of creation
The belle Of the evening, by acclamati
was Miss Mss K*s*st, of Philadelphia, who's
beauty was enhanced by her exquisite toilette
and her bewitching couture Equally attrac
tive was the simply attired Miss K*xp, a ma
tive of Maine, though now q resident of tbi
city
"No fantastic robe,
That e'er caprice invented, custom wore
OF folly smiled on, could eclipse her charm,
Mis- Css*n, from Jamaica Plains, was anothe
representative of New England beauty, an,