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. Id zg ;i FAlk 1a.ss
as The daughter sits in the psrlor, .s.
And lois in her easy chair;
Sizes clad in her 81 + S srd satirs,
'1ft18 And jewels are in her hair; L ID
d. She winks nj gigeles and sims ers,
And shippers and g'gs.es and winks;
: And though .he talks tut little,
lis vastly more than she thinks. 81;
Her fathe- goes clad in his ruSset, IL
And ragged and seedy at that;
His coats are all out at the elbow,
lie wears NEST shocking bad hat.
He's boarding and saving his shliliogs
socarefully day BY day, . '5'" 30
While she on her beaux and poodles,
is throwing thsm all away.
She lies abed in tie morning,
Till n arly the hour of noon;
Then come Gown snspl ing and snarling
fecsuse she was called SO soon.
Her hair is still in tie papers;
Her cheek sill dabbtd with paint,
Remains of her last lights bushes
Ecfore she intended 10 faint -
She dcats ur on men unsbaven,
And men with the flowing hair"
She's eloquent over moustaches,
They give such fore gn'ai.;;e -
She talks ofItalian music,
go " And falls in love with the mon;
,.- And though but mouse should meet he-,
She sinks away in swOor.
Her fc. are very little;
= Her hands are very white;
Her jewels so very he.vy, r ...-
Aud her head 50 very light:
Her color is made of cosmetics,
Though this she never vi own; sr
Her body's made mostly of cotton,
''''S Her hearts made wholly OF Stone.
She falls in love with fellow
Who sweils with foreign air;
II, marries her for her money,
'sFssf Sbe:marries him for his hair; = "a -
s,..,. One Of the very b. S: N itches, ts.s g.,
Both are well ma ed i'm life;
-. Shes G t fool for her husband, -
go LES got fool for his wife. .
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Thackeray VS.. MILLS.

[Atthe request Of large number of fellow citi
zens we reprint the following ariice in the STAR ths
previous numbers of our paper containing it having
been all exhausted We shall issue extra quantity
of le present Der, for the purpose Of supplying
the increased den,aud. .t-s #- a
We will take this occasion to add that the facts al
luded to in this article all susceptible # proof
Ed
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Thackeray, the English writer and lecturer
now in this country, has INDUCED himself
in some bitter and violent remarks on the
equestrian statue of Gen. Andrew Jackson,
one of the Presidents of the United States.
Mr.. Thackeray, we are informed, was in
vited to pass around the Lafay ette Square,
in Washington, where Mills's statue of Jack =,
son is erected. lie took coca sion, as we are
told, to express tie most decided disapt roJa-
tion of the statue, as work of art There
to be nothing. or scarcely anything
about it, that }leased him.. The horse was
out of proportion. The tail was toe heavy
The posture was not classical The Ameri-
can uniform Of Jackson (perhaps reminding
Mr.. Thackeray of, o. certain battle. fought
nearsa certain place called, We believe, New
Orieans,) vas very Objectionable very.
The noble head Of the old hero was too erect
His attitude was too defiant. The mouth
of the horse was too wide open. In short, 81
the entire work was not foreign, rot artistic,
not Ityian-and, therefore, in the opinion
Of MIR. Pendennis sTbackeray, Of the little
island of Britain, MILLS AMERICAN EoUES-
TRAN STATUE OF PRESIDENT JACKSON IsA-
FAILURE! s.s rs lsTa-s4a
s Well, perhaps it is.z 1t would seem that
Mr.. Thackeray,, who visits us on a book
making expedition ailashe way from the
smother country, "is of that opinion Pro-
badly certain Gen. Packsnhdms fof whom
Mr.. Tbackery mary possibly have heard
would agree with him precisely,,if he were
alive, antlin W ashinston to-day. But dead
mon tr,,lnotales >, TeTa1 81 gGomt}ssi =
b6j We. state the above facts with regard to
Mr.. Tbackeray from no personal dixie Of
the man, his writings, or his mission We
never read a Enet his works, nor heard one
aof his lectures although we have no fault
10 hrd with hi: rtaders aud listeners-be
they many Or few--be they patrcisnRr pie. I
biau. His tour throash eporuans ef aoar
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PORTSMOUTH. Na.,) Aug lS 1851.
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HARD TO DiGEsT.-l he Concord Dem o.
crat. under the very appropriate head of
..harl to digest, rctis story OF COW, who
accidentally swallowed very sharp. butcher
knife, nearly a foot long, aud witIi1a blade
of the width of an inch and aa4oarter.. In
a few days the p077iBir Of the knife was found
projecting from the back OF the animals
shoulders, and was drawn out through the
cows ribs uninjureI, the handle being
vomted up asy or two afterwards, 1t
would be hard ta.say which had The most
capscious swallow, the COW or theUm who
tells the stsSgz b.o SO s.b u sbsesoi aae
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DAILY EVENING STAR.
THE MODERN BELLE.

FROM MR. STARK POEM, READAr TIE MANCHESTER (s.
80. FAIR.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1853-03-03
For the Eastern Times.
Legislative Sessions.

Mr.. EDIToR:-Under the existing threadbare
and patched Constitution of the State, it is
quite hopeless to expect that the sessions of the
Legislature will ever be much shortened.
New members are elected every year, espe-
cially from the classed towns, not always for
their qualifications as legislators or men Of
business, but because it is their turn. 1t is to
these members, that zoe, the people, are mostly
indebted for the length of the. session. The
travel and pay to them as individuals, is of
more consequence than the public interest
which at the commencement of the session
they are quite ignorant of as ;he children
they leave at home. There are othcrs, intelli-
gent and experienced members, who would
be glad to shorten the sessions, by close at
tention to their duties, but from the dead
weight hanging at their backs, are unable to
do it.
1t is always easier to point out difficulties
than 10 overcome them by the application Of
the proper remedy. The more certain way
would be to have Convention, for thorough
revision of the Constitution, preliminary to
which, an amendment to the existing one
should be made to give the Legislature power
to call Convention, and 10 prescribe the mode
in which it shall be constituted.
The only objection that has been made
against the calling of Convention that have
heard, is the fear that the limitation Of the
credit of the State would be swept away by
the Railroad interests, for the purpose of sub
shutting the States credit for that of the vari-
Gus towns and cities that are now so involved.
Opposed as l am, to the principle, as we'll as
the expediency of involving the whole commu-
nifty in the schemes of Railroad spectators,
under the pretence of promoting the public
interest, which is always lost sight of the
moment they have the charter in hand, and as
little attention paid to it, as to the interest of
individuals, whose private property they ap-
propriale to their own use. Yet l think it
would be better for all parties that the credit
of the State should be used, rather than that of
cities or towns, which have always supposed
wereincorporated for the purpose of admins
tering their municipal affairs.
The right would be more safe in the hands
of the State than in that of Municipal Corpora
tons, and be likely to be exercised with a
sounder discretion. Therefore the objection
made to the calling Of Convention, should
have little weight. OBSERVER.
Augusta, Feb.2Sth, 1859.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1853-03-03
Railroad Charter Defunct.

From the mass of railroad "material" pos
sessed by certain editors in this State, as
evinced by the long essays in their columns,
an important point or two seems to stick out
The Atlantic and St. Lawrence or Portland in
fuence, which formerly controlled the State,
has, by some means or other, become arrayed
against its old auxiliaries. The chain Of rail-
road interest that extended from Portland to
Waterville, and thence to Bangor, has become
broken up. The charter of the Penobscot and
Kennebec railroad, the greatest monopoly char
ter ever granted by the Legislature, which was
obtained by the combined efforts of Portland,
Waterville and Bangor, is now eschewed by the
first named locality. Bangor sticks to the old
charter, while the Portland influence contends
that it is dead, and should be quietly buried,
and that the great European and North Amer.
lean railway should cover the ground from the
Penobscot to the Kennebec.
1t is evident that Portland is in the right this
time. The charter of the Penobscot and Ken
nebec railroad is monster monopoly, a speci-
men of New Jersey exclusiveness and dis
grace to the State. 1t forbids connection with
other roads except those coming from certain
direction, and forbids the Legislature imposing
duties, liabilities or obligations. Able legal
opinion goes to show that the charter is de-
funct. Bangor wants to galvanize it into life,
while on the other hand the friends Of liberal
railroad policy, want the charter of the Euro
pean and n. A. railway amended SO as to
extend to the Kennebec. IN the mean time,
here, we ought to steal our march on the whole
concern, and put our railroad through to Rock
land
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1853-03-03
From Washington.

President Fillmore has issued procama-
ton, calling for an extra session Of the Senate,
to meet at noon on the 4h of March.
The mail service on the New Orleans and
Vera Cruz line to California, will be put in op-
Grafton Immediately. This is the eighteen days
line.
Gen. Pierce attended the Presbyterian
Church on Ninth street. last Sunday.
Mrs. Pierce arrived in New York Saturday
last, accompanied by Charles g. Anterior,
Esq, en- route for Washington.
Attorney General Crittenden was married
Sunday evening to the widow of Gen. Ashley.
A bill is before the United States senate APP
propriatng $4O,957 60 to the state Of Maine,
and $39, 225 to Massachusetts, in full payment
for fifty three thousand four hundred and fifty
one acres Of land belonging to said States, and
conveyed by them without consideration to set
tiers who held under grants from the British
government, to enable the government of the
United States to fulfil the stipulations of the
fourth article of the treaty Of Washington.
Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1853-03-03

Major General Thomas Liltefeld has re-
signed his command of the 4th Division Of
Maine Militia. We also learn by an order
from Adj. General Tracy, that Maj. Gen.
VIM. Ney, late commander of the eighth
Division, at court martial held at Farming
ton, has been found gully of "un-officer-like
and ungentlemanly Conduct ADD some other
charges which were preferred against him,
and has therefore been removed from office,
aud declared 10 be disqualified FOR, and in
capable of holding any military office under
this state for the term Of six years from and
after The fourth Tuesday of January ut.'-
Le,uiston Journal.