Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1867-02-23
WHOLE NUMBER 895,

affected womanly way.
Everybody feels kindly towards the.
Grants. An anwonted state of mind for
everybody. to be in toward family
raised from poverty and obscurity to
affiuence and power. Yet this is true,
the spacious house, the costly library, the
snowy coach and horses, gifts as they ara
seem to stir neither envy nor malice in
anybody's heart. The secret of this good
viii does not he. wholly IN the fact of
Gen. Grants military renown. thnf. II
be were selfish and exclusive and aset
up" would not make him socially popu.
lar. But the Grants have pleasant way
ofsharing their good gifts with others
IF you see the carriage ON the avenue Il
is hlled as full as it can hold, and Is evi-
IDENTIFY rolliug about not for state but
for good time. You can 90 to the
house; that too is full to overfowino.
and whoever chooses to come, is certair,
not Of an ostentatious, bat o sincere wei
come. A lady said the other day: 81
don't see how Mrs, Grant can open her
house to everybody. and receive people
promiscuously. .saeiz 8 Ia
The lady's feelings were natural, bus
In connection with the Grants she forgot
number of facts. The house which
they inhabit and the very furniture, is the
gift of the people. With sustained
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 peo.
pie happy. If they intrench thems
selves In exclusive state to receive the
elect and elegant few, no doubt their car
pets would last longer, but not their
many friends nor their growing prospects
of still greater honors.
The second of their three evening re-
eeptions to be given this season occurred
Wednesday evening, and was even more
crowded thanthe first. A mass of splen.
dor it was too vast to be individualized.
The Corps .Dsptonaatig,se in glitterine
court costume, officers of army and navy
IN full uniform, woman resplendent 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
l can't tell you.
Speaker Colfax's weekly receptions
hold their wonted sway. Like the Pres.
idential levees of palmy days, they include
everybody, from the ChiefJustic and
Cabinet Mipisters 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 emphatieally
man of the people. Struggling up from
fatherless boy-heod to his present emf
nence, through all the way he has kept
with the people. He has not grown
away from them, nor striyen to rise
above them. The people know it, and
regard it accordingly. The Presidents
reception was given the same evening.
and called out an array of Southerners,
such as the White House has not seen
since the days. of the old regime, This
fact was cheering to the heart Of the
humble individual" who observed that
he was @very glad to see so many of his
friends, as just at this time he felt the
need of sympathy" Nobody doubts
that Andrew.
Besides the public receptions elegant
parties have been already given by Gen.
Morgan, Admiral Dahlgren, Chief Justice.
Chase and Secretary Stanton,
The latter issued 800 invitations, limit
ing the hours of festivity from P. N. to
o'clock A. NJ. Nothing could have
been more recheree than this entetain.
ment. 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 Gev. Morgan, one of the
most spacious and elegant in Washing
ton, has been made more delightful by
the addition of a splendid library, built
during the past year, lined with
books, and furnished with Grim
son 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 friyol-
ity meet, if they do not mingle. "Pray for
mel" said a lady of high ton "a catholic)
to--- young and handsome at
4 tache of a Foreign Embassy. 81 vii" !"
was the reply ;'I see your little light
burning every morning in the church" /"
These pious devotees of fashion and re-
ligion, after dancing all night go to mass
at 5 in the morning, and as the priest
will not allow them gas at that holF
each kneeling holds candle over their
book, that they may see to say their
prayers. Having said them, they are once
more ready for all the firtations and
frivolities of the evening,
There is at least one exception to the
merely conventional fashionable party,
which has so long reigned supreme In
Washington. This is found in the con-
yersazione of Mrs. Charles J. Eames, .
lady of talent, of positive intellectual
tastes, and of elegant culture, Mrs,
Eames is the dsughter of Judge James
| Campbell, once Surrogate Of the City of
/ New York Her soirees revive In this
utilitarian capital something of the for
mer 6,weaeer ID esprit of France, where
women kindled revolution and inspired
men to heroism, and where men buried
old theories and PHILOSOPHERS and built
up new. These ''eveningsp of Mrs. e.
are given to free thought and discussion,
and call together the most gifted and
cultured men and women of the country
who may chance to meet at the National
/ Capital. ei - .ssisf 81 -ss's
A CALIFORNIA miner in luck, and hun
CRY for spree, but wishing to have com,
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