The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-01-26
social Life at the Capitol.

a correspondent OF tne n. /. Express
gives the following account of the social
doings of some of the Washington folks:
have never known Washington more
delightful, Notwithstanding the Siberian hos
pitality at the West End of the Avenue
Mr.. Corceran, who has done so much to
beautify this fair city, entertains with sump-
tuous aliberality. Mr.. Vice President Breck-
inridge, who is also in the shade of the Bu-
cbanan dynasty, lives costly with part of
his Kentucky delegation in Sixth street.
Mr.. Speaker Orr and his elegant and ex-'
citable friend, Col Keitt, receive their visi-
tors at their genial headquarters, corner of
Eighth and Z. Hon. Horace F. Clark, one
of the brave men who did right at the first
session, and came back to the second re-
elected and rejuvenated, fourishes on his
ample fortune at the beautiful residence of
the late Major Lindsay, meeting his guests
with open-handed cordiality. Broderick
has elegant rooms in the Avenue, which are
crowded nightly with his friends. Haskin
and Hickman are entirely too comfortable
for two such radical anti-Administration
men. Mr.. and Mrs. Senator Douglas were
never before so popular with the visiting
and fashionable world. The reception of
reigns there.
The Republicans have good time of
their own. They make amends for their
exclusion from the West End by paying at
tention to each other content with their
own circle, but by no means costive of their
fare when reciprocated.
The Americans were always gay omni
bus full. Headed by glorious Crittenden,
and inspired by jolly John Thompson (not
John R. with Humprey.. Marshall, Trippe,
Winter Davis, and Morrison Harris, and the
rest they make many round robin, and
cause many a round table to roar and groan
with wit and wine. Nor do all this Admi-
nistration dole out their good things. Mr..
and Mrs. Sickles are universal favorites-
nowhere is there a more refined and gener-
GUS welcome. Among the outsides-the
non-ofhcials-there is an over-abundance of
social feeling. Here you find the heart of
Washington society---a spontaneous sim
cerity, contempt for mere wealth, an ad-
miration of intellect you meet nowhere
else.
Ex-Marshal Hoover is host in more re-
spects than one, and his kind, gentle, and
true-hearted lady is never rhappierthan when
making others happy. Then we have Ma
guire, with his beautiful picture gallery, and
his splendid library, his agreeable reunions,
where you will often meet such celebrities
ds William G. Rives, of Virginia; Elliott
the artist; Gaylord Clark, of the Knicker-
booker Pike, of Arkansas; Prentice, of the
Louisville Journal; Peter Force, Gales, and
Seaton, and, when they are in town, Forest,
Brougham, Burton, sand the rest" Coyle
of the Intelligeneer Heiss, of the States J;
Rives, of the Globe; E. P. Blair, at Silver
Spring, outside of the town; Beal, the old
sergeapt-at-arms of the Senate, are among
the readiest to SEQ their friends, and even to
meet their opponents, at their own houses.
ou will see frUn this how powsrisss the
effort is to control the good feeling of our
people, and to make the relations of private
life and intercourse among human beings
dependant upon the whim of weak man,
who happens to be President for the time
being.
The new British Minister, Lyon, is an un-
married man, as hear. 1t is rare that one
of the sciens of the English nobility is caught
by an American woman, though Sir Gore
Ouseley WIS. Some high expectations are
entertained as to the new ambassador.