The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-04-08
WHO WOULD BE A QUEEN.

Empress, and it strikes us not altogether a
pleasant one. There is an amount OF pub
licity attached to certain little domestic af-
fairs from which lady of delicate feelings
must be supposed to shrink, but which
those placed on thrones cannot well avoid.
The bulletins about the Empress Eugene
have, for months past, been as regularly
published as those pertaining to the siege
of Sebastopol-when it is to come off, and
what the sex is to be, has been canvassed
as coolly as any other state question. In
Paris nearly everything is spectacle, and
the most recent and attractive spectacle
has consisted of the Imperial baby clothes,
to sight of which the public are admitted
by presenting tickets, which are freely
given to every respectable person.. Such
is the crowd that line has to be formed,
and kept moving, under the management of
the ubiquitous police. In order to be fully
prepared, there are two complete sets OF
baby clothes, masculine and feminine; for
absolute as Louis Napoleon is in France,
he has nothing to say in determining wheth-
er it shall be a prince or princess.
The Paris correspondent Of the New
York Daily News writes that the magnif-
cent juvenile Wardrobe is under the pro-
lection of Madamoiselle Felicie. There are
napkins, caps, frocks, jackets, wrappers,
hats, bonnets, shoes, drawers, cloaks, man
ties, mantelets, capes, talmas, muffs, col
! lars, socks, stockings fannels, rattles, pill
| lows, and hoasts of nameleSS articles per-
| tanning to a nursery, enough to set up a
| foundling hospital. But when the costly
material and delicate workmanship of eve
ry one of these articles is considered, the
mind, perplexed to think what they can all
be wanted for, might fancy that some poll
teal convulsion had driven all the sove-
reigns of the world to one place of refuge,
and that this was the common and ample
wardrobe ofall the royal babies in existence.
The colors of all the habiliments are white
and sky-blue. There is very pretty era
die (not the one given by the city of Paris,
which is not yet quite finished with white
lace and blue hangings. The imperial
crown is embroidered upon every article
The ladies examine every thing most minute
ly, and the constant ories Of Ii1 guards on
duty, that touching is not allowed" are
all impotent to prevent the curious fair
from taking up the fine fabrics in their
hands to look at them Closer. Some of
Mile. Felicie's assistant artistes walk a.
bout the salons and answer all questions in
very graceful manner.
Although everybody will have it that the
child is to be a prince: and although the
statistical doctrine that the chances are
fully equal, that it viii be a princess is
scoffed at. l suspect (says the correspon-
dent of the "News,") that Md'lle Felicie
would not be greatly disappointed ifit were,
after all, to be a girl. She seems to have more
especially lavished the cunning of her art
| upon certain darling little blue bonnets,
which, it were pity to think, would never
be wanted. should state that the toilette,
whether for a boy or a girl, is complete
with everything that can possibly be re-
| quired up to the age of two years. The
entire cost of this toilette, is unprecedent-
ed.
[After the above had been put into type, an ar
rival from Europe brought intelligence of son.
Mademoiselle Felicie will probably fall heir to
| the female wardrobe---out of which she will no
doubt be able to realise by sale many thousands
| of dollars
| The reading of the above has reminded
the Editor of the Wilmington Journal" of
n 10 do Nv l. e
fee, tout West.' The office seeking man
rode up. towards the evening, to a small
log house, where lived one of the sovereigns
whose vote he was anxious to secure. On
entering the house, he found no one in but
lady, exceedingly ill-so ill as to be con-
| fined to bed, who told him that her husband
had gone to the next village for Doctor,
and that she feared she would die before
his return. Anxious to comfort her, he as
sured her that there was no danger; but
she refused to be comforted. By way of a
final effort at consolation, the unsuspecting
| politician told her that he had been in the
same a0ay himself several times and got
over it. As he did so, the husband and the
doctor, accompanied by an elderly female,
entered the house, in time to hear the last
remark. The doctor, the husband, and
the elderly female laughed, and even the
sick woman laughed some, if she scere dy-
ing-the electioneering gentleman mizzled.
That evening the county had an inhabitant
the more, but next day candidate the
less, for the joke got out and the poor man
was laughed off the track. He could not
bear to be asked about how he felt, etc.,
and finally Put off to California, where,
somehow, the thing followed him. At the
last accounts he was on the Fejee Islands.
MILITIA OF THE UNITED STATEs.-We
learn from document from the War De-
partment, which was laid before the House
of Representatives Thursday, that the