The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-02-20
LOCAL MATTERS

BEAuTrUL PAIHrIsos.-T Tho specimens Of wild
emery and desperate enterprise, as portrayed by
Staniy, in pictures Of the flight OF trapper and
is staying uu Indian pursuer, as exhibited in the
windows of the bookstore of Taylor and Maury
yesterday, attracted the attention of every passer
by. They but in keeping with the paintings
recently placed in the Smithsonian Institute by
the same artist, and reflect great credit upon the
artist for fathlulness of character and skill in
painting.
H.ALY's GaEAT PAlNTlsG.-Tbe large paint
ing by Healy, representing the celebrated con-
test Of mind and oratory between Messrs. Web
ster and Hayne, In the United States Senate. in
1880, will be on exhibition, in the chamber of the
Common Council, at the City Hall, to- morrow.
There other faces and incidents connected with
this painting which will doubtless create gene
raj anxiety the part of citizens and strangers to
visit and examine it.
ANOTHER CoNCERT.-It will be seen, by reference
to advertisement in this paper, that Mr.. Dempster,
the we'll known ballad singer, gives another and
lust concert this (Friday) evening at Carusi's Sa
loon. He sings some old favorite pieces, we'll as
several new aud much admired gems song.
The M,RRoR exhibiting at Odd Fellows Hall af-
fords high qualification to all who it, The
beautiful scenery on the St Lawrence and Niagara
rivers, and the awful grandeur Of the cataracts fill
the mind with delight and establishment. route
Of two thousand mies, varied, beautiful, and mag
niicent, is represented, and cannot fail to please,
as well as instruct, the beholder.
FlNiNa HACKMnN.-A number Of hackmen have
recently been compelled TO pay fines for driving
hacks without being numbered, as required by law,
and they should look to the matter, as the police
are on the alert for offenders.
NORTHERN LIGHTS brilliantly illuminated the
skies last night. They early appeared, and were
continued to a late hour.
DREss.--The relation OF dress to manners and
morals is too obvious to be insisted on An ILL
dressed man must be i'll at His manners
must be forced and ungraceful. He never can
SHOW that delightful suavty, that fascinating union
OF spirit and sweetness, that enchanting harmony
Of expression and movement, which distinguish the
we'll educated and finished gentleman, unless he
feels perfectly at home in his clothes unless they
have been fitted to his person, his character. and
his physiognomy, with that exquisite artistic skill
which ia essential 10 the stye of manners finely
described by the great British commoner, Mr.
Burke, as the "unbought grace OF life" Our dis
tnguished statesman, Daniel Webster, is no lees
distinguished tor the periectness Of his dress than
for the profoundness OF his abilities. In Washing
toms coiors Of blue and buff, no man appears to
more transcendant advantage in n Legislative hall
fashionable drawing room than the expounder
of the Constitution; while more solemn coca
sions these are DOTTED to give place to the sombre
black, mingled with white. To enlarge this
taste among the present fashionable denzens
of the metropolis, now the centre of the bril-
liant and gay of the whole Union. GEoRoE
p. Fox, of 1913 Broadway, New York, is on
visit TO the capital, and, while in way
anxious curta the busness Of his fellow trades
in this par his sole desire s establish
a republican style of fashion commemorate with
he mi Orta nc nd Of he fsny
Orders received for the standard fashions oi
dress TO suit the different tastes, and patterns OF
English, French, and American goods exhibited
of his extensive variety, by Mr.. Fox, at Viii
lard's Hotel, where he may be found for shor
period. vide Geo. p Fox's book entitled +" Phi.
iosophy of Dress and Modern Fashion"