The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1866-08-08
congress-The Closing Scenes.

The National Intelligencer, of Monday,
: gives the following graphic sketch Of the
elasing scenes in Congress:
$ After midnight in the all night session
of Friday and Saturday, wild scene was
presented. in, the House. During the
earlier hours of Friday night, the GUS
tomary feasts had been prepared by va
rious subordinate officers. In the rooms
of the postmaster and door-keeper, ex-
tensive hospitalities had been displayed-
lavish lunches, with every desirable po-
table with which to wash down the
charming 7iands. Such good cheer had
evidently put the House in good hu-
NOR, and for several hours perpetrating
practical jokes, Introducing ridiculous
resolutions, making funny motions, pelt-
ing one another with paper balls. tick
ling the nostrils of unconscious sleeperS,
and playing all sorts of pIanks peculiar
te school boys on the eve. Of a holiday,
were the order of the night. Even voting
by telfer8 was turned into u joke, the
members passing in squads so as to DEFY
a count, some Of them passing SIX or sew
en- times upon the same motion, and Vo-
ting indifferently on both sides as often
as possible. T.. I ..s:.s
ss At one time the hall had the appear
ance of a vast restaurant and lodging
house. A distinguished member from
Ohio, and another from New York, were
complacently devouring an early break
fast spread in grand array upon their re-
spective desks. A military member from
New Hampshire had dropped his head
upon his knees and made the hallresound
with stentorian sounds. Others were
reclining in their chairs in the embrace
5of Morpheus. The sofas were occupied.
Radicals and copperheads for the time
forgot all differences, and were curlously
intermingled, some laid out like bodies at
the Morgue, some gracefully disposed in
easily attitudes, and others doubled up
like victims of q severe cramp-coIic.
The scene was truly ludicrous, but good
humor prevailed, and ali business was
persistently voted down, except the re-
ports of the conference committees, the
representation of which was the signal
for arousing the slumbering heroes ostbe
House long enough tosvote. ..
The Intelligencer gives the rump Con-
gress the following parting, but we'll
merited, kick to its members:
The rump Congress has adjourned.
It's session of eight narrowing months,
boding i'll like an impending pestilence,
has at last gone past, and is of the dis
NAL thingsthatBere. ConVo(7ing clouds
have darkened our sky; the lightnings
Of fell revolutionary purpose have
flashed across the gloom, but the bolt
was not descended, and the wild sweep
of the storm Of civil war is, thanks to
God, for time arrested. ..". rrs
~ This Congress will ever be most con-
spicuously Infamous in the category Of
the worst organizations having govern.
mental functions that have dishonored
ana sbamed enlightened society in all the
worlds history. Its dispersion from the
Capitol to widely separated and remote
localities is welcome relief to apprehen-
sions arising from the bodily presence Of
concentrated mischief, such as in the ma.
terial world takes. to itself the form Of
the 'splague that stalketh atnoonday. y ~
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