The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-02-23

the substance of the information con-
tanned in the letter Of Governor P. to
one of the editors, adding few OBJ
servations and comments of our own.
We know our readers will be gratifed
at the opportunity of hearing from
the seat of power in this country,
through source so intelligent and
every way reliable. ...t'
The avvhfte House, and the ..Black
House,
We find, in the Washington cor
respondence of the New York Express,
the following reference to the two
powers in the national capital:
The White House. andth ''Black
House" are here the two names of
the two ends Of this capital Andrew
Johnson is the President of the first,
and Thad. Stevens of the last. What
is done in the Black House you read
daily in newspapers. White Con-
gressmen as yet figure below stairs,
but black embryo Congressmen are
studying in large masses in the
galleries. Sambo, Scipio, Cato and
Cicero, Dinah and Diana, Calypso,
Georgiana, Hannah. &C., in wool and
ivory, reign as the oligarchy of the
skin in these galleries. The Demo
Gratis having been thinking of propos-
ing-but not yet daring to propose
that corner gallery be set apart for
white women-and the Republican
wives and daughters are very anxious
that they should propose-but no
Democrat as yet has been bold enough
to make that little proposition. Li6erte,
Eyalite, Frate1nite, is now the Ameri-
can law, as well as the Danton-R Robes
pierre law. The men submit to it;
only the women rebel. The men are
cowed; but the women will not hold
their tongues. Woman is by nature,
without regard to politics, an aristo-
crat-and she is not ready for the
Egalite and Frate7nite as yet. But
she has come to in other countries
In all the mixed and motley Spanish
American States, for example-and
she must make up her mind in this,
to marry Sambo, by-and-by.
The ''White House" however, con-
tinues to be ''white" up to this hour.
Strange to say, Andrew johnson, the
tailor, thinks, and acts, as if this were
now las well as had been) white
mans country! Washington, report
says, and Tom Jefferson, he deems
quite as we'll stored with wisdom as
Thad. Stevens g. Co. Nevertheless,
there is keen and sharp contest
going on between the two houses,
white and black, and the two Presi-
dents therein. King Thad. Stevens
is sure the Black House will be the
Government--but it must be con-
fessed, the tailor is cool, and calm,
and is looking on-as if he were sure
that the Government he had received
from, and through the hands of
Washington, Adams, Madison, Mon
roe and Jackson, will continue to be
the Government yet. And then, he
mas one advantage over King Thad.
All the Generals who are good for
anything agree with him. In revo-
luton, you know, the Generals are of
a great deal more importance than
the politicians. Words are nothing
in comparison with guns, and-upon
the whole-if there is to be a fight
between the two houses, and the two
Governments therein, better side
with 'the heavy artillery" in the
fight.
Meanwhile-as the embryo revolu-
tion is brewing in the two Houses,
white and black, Washington here
never was gayer, or happier, than
now. "On Danse-a" from morn till
dewey eve, from dewey eve till morn,
or in palmer prose, they end about
5 or 6 a. M, and begin again about
8 or p. m., in the so-called matinees.
The number are SO great, that Gen.
Grants new house was run down and
captured, one night last week-while
at the "Secretaries'' more Grin oline
was crushed than Connecticut hoop
manufacturers can provide for in a
week. The legal, lateral space of a
lady nowadays, is said to be seven
feet-but they were put into two feet
at least, the last week, by the higher
if not the lower law. The wrecks
that escape from these crushes are
only mutiled monuments of humani-
ty, such as were probably seen on
great field days of the civil war.
FLORIDA. correspondent of the
New York Times, writing from jack
sonville, Fla, gives a grand view Of
that State-its topography, meteoro-
logy and salubrity, and concludes his