The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-08-02


congress-The Closing Scenes.
Fhe National Bsseutgencer, Of Mon
day, gives the following graphic
sketch Of the closing scenes in Con.
gress: -
After midnight, in the all niobt
session OF Friday and Saturday. a
Muo scene was presented in tho
Honse. During the earlier hours ~
Friday night, the customary fea,ts
had been prepared by various subor.,
d1nate officers. In the rooms of the
postmaster and ddoor-keeper, extensive
hospitalities had been displayed-
lavish lunches, with every desirable
potable with which to wash down.tho
charming viands. Such good cheer
had evidently put the House in q
good humor, and for several hours
Perpetrating practical Jokes, intro
duclng ridiculous resolutions, making
funny motions, pelting one another
with paper balls, tickling the nostrils
of unconscious sleepers, and PLAYING
all sorts of pranks peculiar to school
boys on the eve of holiday, were
the order of the night. Even voting
by teliers was turned into joke, the
members passing in squads SO as to
defy count, some of them passing
SIX or seven times upon the same
motion, and voting indifferently on
both sides as cften as possible.
At one tiuc, the hall had the ap-
pearance ct vast restaurant and
clearinghouse. A distinguished mem
Der from Ohio, and another from
New York, were complacently de-
vouring an early breakfast spread in
grand array upon their respective
desks. A military member from New
Hampshire had dropped his head
upon his knees and made the hall
resound with stentorian sounds.
Others were reclining in their chairs
or spread over their desks fast locked
IN the embrace of Morpheus. The
sofas were NIL occupied. Radicals
and copperheatls for the time forgot
all differences, and were curiously
intermingled, some laid out like
bodies at the Morgue, SONG graceful
~ disposed in easy attitudes, and
others doubled up like victims of
severe cramp-colic. The scene was
truly ludicrous, but good humor pre-
vailed, and all business was persist
emily voted down, except the reports
of the conference committees, the
presentation Of which was the signal
for arousing the slumbcring heroes of
the House long enough to vote.
The Mteuigemce,' gives the rump
Congress the following parting, but
well-merited. kick to its members:
The rump Congress has adjourned
Its session of eight narrowing months,
boding Ill like an impending pesti-
lence, has at last gone past, and is of
the dismal things that were Con
volving clouds have darkcned onr
sky; the lightnings of fell revolu-
tionary purpose have flashed across
the gloom. but the bolt has not de
scended, and the wild sweep of til.
storm of civil war is thanks to God,
for time arrested
This Congress will ever be most
conspicuously infamous in the cate.
CORY Of the worst organizations hay
, ing governmental functions that have
dlshonored and shamed enlightened
society in all the worlds history. Its
dispersion from the Capitol to widely
separated and remote localities is /:
welcome relief to apprehensions aris
ing from the bodily presence Of con
centrated mlScnlcf, euoh ns i'm III,
material world takes to itself the form
of the ''plagne that stalkcth ut noon
day"
The Baltimore S'tn has Il letter from
Greensboro, y. c., which says: