Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-01-06
THE WHITE HOUSE.
First ReceptIOn-The President and
His Daughters' PersOnneI-FOreign
Ministers I'm Court COstumc-1 he
PreVaiIiug STYLES,

Fist RecePtIOn-The President and
His Daughters' PersOnneI-FOreign
Ministers in Court COstumc-1h he
Prevailing styles.
The initial reception of President john
son was the occasion of great festivity in
the Capital, and, as matter of interest, we
note the personnel of some OF the notables
present:
The President was dressed in fnll suit
of black, and wore pair of light colored
Lisle thread gloves. Mrs. Patterson wore
black silk velvet dress, with high neck
d long sleeves, trimmed with real black
lace and bugles, jet and pearl ornaments
and point lace collar and white kid gloves.
She carried a white fan and handsome
bouquet of camilias. She wore profuslon Of
curls, and her hair was decorated by a sim
gle white japonica. Mrs. Slower wore a
plain black mourning dress. Her hair
was also curled and dressed with ca
melia.
In pleasing and striking contrast to the
| somber-hued dresses of the ladies of the
] Presidential household-who are now in
| deep mourning for near relatives-were
two young ladies, Misses Creighmiles and
Baxter from n Nlshvile-still in their teens
who appeared in white cashmere dresses,
trimmed with heavy. white cord, fitting
close to the neck, and with long sleeves
Their hair was dressed with parti-colOred
cameias. The one carried blue and the
other pink fan, trimmed with ermine and
decorated with silver spanges. Judge Pat
terson, Senator elect from Tennessee, and
son-in-law of the President was also in at
tendance. Col. Moore and Major Long were
dressed in full military uniform and white
kid gloves.
The foreign ministers appeared in their
court costumes, heavily trimmed and en-
broidered with gold lace, and their ladies
presented the same diStingue and recherche
appearance. At II O'clock the Marine
Band performed in their well-known and
excellent style, "Hail to the Chief" and the
ceremony commenced. In pairs and in a
continuous line the distinguished guests
were received by the President in his atfa-
BILE, genial aud pleasant style, and in turn
introduced to the ladies, who preside with
so much dignity and grace in their new po-
sition. Members of the Cabinet and their
wives and daughters, Senators and men,
bers of Congress, Judges of the Supreme
and other courts, all assembled in the Blue
Room, lettering for few minutes, paying
the compliments of the season, and then
passing into the East Room and departing
| for their homes to hold their own rectp p
tions.
There was a considerable display of dress,
although not so great as we have witnessed
on similar occasions. The inclemency of
the weather was unfavorable to rich cos
tunes. Ladies generally wore dress bon
nets-the Normandy, the Josephine, and
the Empire styles, and here and there a
! Marie Stuart-although many appeared
without bonnets, with hair arranged in all
the different styles for which the present
season is so famous.
Violet, silver gray, queens gray, and
lavander colored plain silks and satins.
trimmed in some cases with heavy folds OF
black velvet, predominated, although we
noticed two of the striped silks which have
been so long ignored, and which are again
rapidly coming into vogue-the one ca
nary y-colored chene silk with pink or rose
colored narrow stripes, and the other mag
nificent shade of sky-blue with broad black
stripes, on which was stamped golden cord
and tassels. In head dresses the bandeau
was most affected; nets and waterfalls have
almost entirely disappeared, although some
of their votares persist in using them, and
their places have been supplied by the
twist or tortuous and graceful COIL some-
times-yery inelegantly, but nevertheless
appropriately-vulgarly called snake.