The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-01-27

She has halls and she has vassas and the resonant
steam eagles
FOll.w fast on the directing Of her floating dove
like hand.
With thunderous vapor trailing underneath the
SO to mark upon tho blasted Heavens the measure
OF her lands Mrs. browning.
The summer sun has Just sunk below the
horizon, leaving all the heavens suffused with
pale golden and rosea,e light that falls soft
| ly on the semi-transparent waters of the Pearl.
flowing serenely on between its banks Of undu-
lating hills and dales, and green and purple
lights and glooms. No Earring sight or sound
breaks the voluptuous stiffness of the scene and
hour. The golden light has faded from the
windows and balconies Of the villa, and sunk
with the sunken sun. An evening breeze is
rising from the distant pine woods, that will
soon tempt the inmates forth to enjoy its exhil-
arating and salubrious freshness and fragrance.
But as yet all is quiet about the mansion
In the innermost sanctuary Of that house re-
poses Miss Sutherland II is the most elegant
of a sumptuous suit of apartments upon which
Mr.. Sutherland had spared no amount of care
or expense-haying summoned from New Or
leans French artistic Of distinguished genius
in his profession, to superintend their interior
architecture, furnishing. and adornment The
suit consists Of . boudoir, two drawing rooms,
a hall or picture gallery, music room, a
double parlor, a library, and dining and break
fast rooms; and by the machinery of grooved
doors, all these splendid apartments may be
thrown into one magnificent saloon. But the
most finished and perfect Of the suit il the
luxurious bOudoir Of India. Ii is very bower
Of beauty and love, chef Gcurre of artistic
genius, a casket worthy 10 enshrine the Pearl
Of Pearl river. There she repOses in the recess
Of the bay window, "siIk curtained from the
SUM- This bay window is the only one in the
apartment; it is both deep and lofty, and Is a
small room in itself; it Is curtained off from
| the main apartment By drapcry If parple dam
ask satin, lined with gold-c0lOred silk, and fee
TONED By gold cords and tassels The interior
Of the recess is drsped with thin goid-coI0rei
silk alone; and the evening light glowing
through il, throws warm, rich, lustruus az
mosphere around the form Of ORIENTAL beauty
reposing on the silken couch in the recess e
is rare type Of beauty, not cay to realize by
your imagination, blending tie highest charms
Of the spiritual, the intellectual aad the .sa-
sual, in seeming perfect hsrm0Gy; 4 ~ a efstiY
type Of beauty, possessed often oaIy ss sesrrfIl
discount Of happiness it IL dangerous cr,Eaa-
ization full of fatality to IT, pusressor and al
connected with her for that Icveiy aa.i vulav-
tuous repose resembles the urc.,srsrhe-s ser.li-
| ty of the young lecpardssz, or ths vsrdaas aad
doxery sarfaee Of the sleeping veIcans. 70 -
a richly and highly gifted nature hue QUE silas
more than al Others. requires IN early yousE toe
firm and steady guidance # the wise aa,t god
and that in after life needs the constant eon-
trolling influence OF Christian priuciple India
Szxhesl.ad had never knox1 another guide
than her own good pleasure "unceu DER her
self she was moi, indeed unhappily; but queer
instead over father and lover, friends relatives
and servants In truth hers was gentle and
graceful reign. 1t could not have been otherwise
over subjects so devoted as hers. All of them,
from Mr.. Sutherland her father down to Oriole
] her bower maid deemed it their best happiness
to watch, anticipate, and prevent her wants
And she was pleased TO repay such devotion
with lovely smiles and loving words She was
indeed the tamcst as well as the most beautiful
young leopardess that ever sheathed claws and
teeth in the softest down. She was no hypo-
critic; she was perfectly sincere, but her deep
est nature was unawakened, undeveloped, She
knew no more, no, nor as much as you now do
Of the latent strength, fire, and cruelty Of those
passions which opposition might provoke.
There she lay, as unconscious Of the seeds of
selGshness and tyranny as Nero was when, at
seventeen years of age, he burst into tears at
signing the first death-warrant Awful spirits
sleep in the vastly depths of our souls--awful
in goodness or in evi-and vicissitudes are the
Glendowers that can call them forth There
she lay, all unconscious Of the coming struggle,
81 perfect form in perfect rest" A rich dress
Of light material, yet dark and brilliant colors
flows gracefully around her beautiful figure
She rcclines upon a crimson silken couch, her
face slightly turned downwards, her head sup
ported BY her hand and her eyes fixed upon q
book that lies open upon the downy pillow;
profusion Of smooth, shining, amber-hued ring
lets droop around her graceful Grecian head
her eyebrows are much darker, and are deli
cately pencilled; her eyeiashes are also dark
and long, and shade large eyes of the deepest
blue; her complexion is very rich, of clear
warm brown, deepening into crimson flush
upon cheeks and lips, the brighter and warmer
now that the book beneath her eyes absorbs
her quite. The light through the goldeD-bued
drapery OF the window pours warm, subdued
efulgence over the whole picture. On q cushion
below her couch sits little quadroon girl OF
perfect beauty, tanning her mistress with fan
of ostrich plumes; and while she sways the
graceful feathers to and fro, her dark eyes full
Of affection and innocent admiration, are fixed
upon the beautiful epicurienne. When the
rising Of the evening breeze began to swell the |
gold-hued curtains, Oriole dropped her fan, but
continued to sit and watch lovingly the fea-
lures Of her lady When the purple shades Of
evening began to fall around Orole arose soft
", and drew back the curtains on their golden |
wires, TO let in mere l.ght.and air, revealing
the terrace of roses, the lawn aud its groves
and reservoirs and the lovely rose and amber
clouded Pearl, rolling on between its banks Of
undulating light and shade; and giving to
view, besides, the figure Of a lady standing
upon the terrace Of roses and who immediate
~ advanced smiling; and threw in shower Of
rose leaves over the recombent reader, exclaim-
ing ~ m
In il you are idling overt The breeze ~ up, |
and playing prelude through the pine tops
end cane-brakes, and the birds are about to
break forth in their evening song Will you
come outiv
The speaker was lady Of about twenty-five
years Of age, Of petite form, delicate features
dark and brilliant complexion, and sprightly |
countenance, which owed its fascination to
dazzling little teeth, and ripe lips bowed with
srchness, great sparkling black eyes full Of
mischief and Jctty ringlets in whose very in
tricacies seemed TO Turk thousand innocent |
conspirscies She was dressed in mourning, il |
that dress could be called mourning which con- |
sisted u . 6ne light black tissue over black |
silk, and number Of jet bracelets set in gold, |
that adorned the whitest prettiest arms IN the
world, and jet necklace that set of the white
pess Of the piettiest throat and bosom. She 10
Mrs Vivian, OF New Orlesns-Annetts Valeria
yiyisn-spirituelle vslerie--piqusnt Man.
the widow Of wealthy merchant, sdistsnt rela- |
tive Of Mira Sutherland by her mothers side,
and 10 nov with her step daughter On yisit Of
some weeks here at "Csshmerev
"Cisl! then do you hear met What vol |
ume Of birds or flowers do you prefer TO the
real living birds and flowers out herei What
book lpard.su9 Of poetry do you like bes.er !