Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1867-02-16

connection with the Grants she forgot O
number of facts. The house they inhabit
its very furniture, is the gift of the people
| With unstinted hands Others pour out for
them the wealth and luxury of life. They
have the good sense and the kind hearts to
remember this. IF they receive largely, they
share as well, and make many people happy.
Ii they intrenched themselves in exclusive
state to receive the elect and elegant few,
no doubt their carpets would last longer,
but not their many friends nor their grow
ing prospect of still greater honors.
The second of their three evening recep-
tions to be given this season occurred We'd
nesday evening, and was even more crowded
than the first. mass of splendor, it was too
! vast to be individualized. The Corps Diplo-
mdtiqe in glittering court costume, officers
OF army and navy in full uniform, women
Respondent with jewels music and dancing,
warmth and cheer, crash and suffocation,
fading flowers, robes despoiled, the old
story, you know it all if ever there once; if
not, can't tell you.
Speaker Colfax's weekly receptions hold
their wonted sway. Like the Presidential
levees of palmy days they include everybody,
from the Chief Justice and Cabinet Ministers
to the poorest clerk who rooms in an attic.
No stranger visiting the capital is content to
leave it without attending one of these
popular receptions Mr.. Colfax is emphati-
cally man of the people. Struggling up
from fartherless boyhood to his present
eminence, through all the way he has kept
with the people. He has not grown away
from them, nor striven to rise above them.
He is with them in sympathy, in aspiration,
In principle. The people know it, and re-
gard it accordingly. The Presidents recep-
friv ba LII
out an array Of Southerners, such as the
White House has rot seen since the DAYS of
the old regime. This fact was cheering to
the heart of the "hum5le indlvidual," who
observed that lie was "very glad to see so
many of his friends, as just at this time he
felt the need of sympathy" Nobody doubts
hut, Andrew
Besides the public receptions, elegant par
ties have been already given by Gov Nor
gan, Admiral Dahlgren, Chief Justice Chase
and Secretary Stanton. The latter issued
300 invitations limiting the hours of festi-
witty from p In. to / o'clock q. m. Moth
ing could have been more recherche than
this entertainment. The costumes were su.
perb, and there was space in which the reg
nant trains could move, and in which we
could behold them. The Secretary, terrible
to favor-seekers and to offenders in his office,
is the most genial and cordial of men at
home
The house of Gov. Morgan, one of the
most spacious and elegant in Washington,
has been made more delightful by the addi-
tion of splendid library, built during the
past year, lined with books, and furnished
with crimson leather and black. walnut. A
very select party was given at this mansion
not long since. 1t was odd to see, even
here, how religion and frivoity meet if they
do not minsle. pray for me !" said lady
OF high ton "a Catholic) to -, a young
and handsome attachee of Foreign Embas
sy. Il WILL" was the reply; ~ see your lit
tie light burning every morning in the
church." These pious devotees of fashion
and religion, after dancing all night, go to
mass at in the morning, and as the priest
will not allow them gas at that hour, each
kneeing holds a candle over their book,
that they may see to say their prayers. Hav-
ing said them, they are once more ready for
all the flirtations ard frivolities of the even
ing.
There is at least one exception to the mere
ly conventional, fashionable party, which
has so long reigned supreme in Washington.
This is found in the conversazione of Mrs.
Charles j. Eames, a lady of talent, of posi-
tive intellectual tastes. and of elegant cul-
ture. Mrs. Eames is the daughter of Judge
James Campbell, once Surrogate of the City
of New-York. Her soirees revive in this
utiitarian capital something of the former
bureaug d. esprit of France, where women
kindled revolution and inspired men to he
roism, and where men buried old theories
and PHILOSOPHERS and built up new. These
Evenings" of Mrs. E. are given to free
thought and discussion, and call together
the most gifted and cultured men and wo-
men of the country who may chance to meet
at the National Capital