Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1856-06-04

votes were not needed.
We have right, therefore, to assume that the
American party in Washington is as powerful now
as il was in the first year of its existence.
Hygeia Hotel.
Old Point Comfort, Virginia, has been for many
years one Of the most popular resorts for persons
Of leisure as well as for invalids whose health
quires pure salt air, that can be found within or
without the United States. For sea bathing and
refreshing sea breezes--for the luxuries of the
salt water,-for accessibility by steamboats,, for
intelligent society, and for fine accommodations
to yisiters, it has rival amongst the places of
summer resort in this country or in any other
This establishment, the Hygeia Hotel, has lately
passed into the handa of JOSEPH Segar, Esq, a
gentleman too well known for his excellent quail.
ties, to require any eulogium at our hands.
There is no Virginian who does not know 30.
Segar"-or if there be any such, he must have
lived in condition of unenviable retiracy for the
last twenty years, during which time the " Old
Dominion" has been steadily emerging from her
comparative inferiority in the great march Of in
ternal improvement, under the auspices Of some
Of her most gifted sons of whom this gentleman
is not the least Inferior 70 no man in all the quail
tiles which form the Legisatorand the Statesman,
we may assume that in exchanging the halls of
legislation for those halls, dedicated to leisure,
creation, --the recovery Of health, and the enjoy
ment of refined society, during the sultry season,
10. Seqar will be found admirably fitted for the
duties which he has taken upon himself to dis
charge.
If the visiters to Old Point Comfort do not find
the Hygeia Hotel place of comfort" then we
shall, upon information given to US thereof make
il a point" to inform our "oLd" friend Segar
that Old Point Comfort is not, under his charge,
the Mace where the "old" or tho young should
make It point" to seek " comfort" under his
administration of the good things Astounding in
that region. But We have no miagivings in this
matter. 10. Eegarn will be distinguished as a
host for be il /" host" in whatever he undertakes
to accomplish. Who Is there, then, that will not
visit "Old Point Comfort when the hot weather
makes every other place, for hundreds Of miles
around, altogether un-co,yort-able'
One word by way Of postcript, and as ladies al
ways put the most important portion Of their COM
munications under P. s., we may be permitted,
in this connexion to do the same, there being "a
lady in the case" Ladies' who may select .'Old
Point Comfort, as their place of sojourn, during
the summer months, will find in Mrs. Segsr, all
those qualities Of head and heart, which will CON-
mand alike their confidence and their esteem. To
whatever extent she may assume the responsibility
Of making the lady guests at the Hygeia Hotel at
home they will not be disappointed in their hostess.
The Poet-Artist, T. Buchanan Read.
The following just tribute to our gifted country.
man--one, too, who Is proud of the land of his
birth, although he has spent several years on for
sign soil, and who comes back to us the same
modest and unobtrusive though digni6ed gentle
man that he departed-is from the National In
telligencer, and we heartily endorse it. We learn
that the paintings referred to will be on exhibition
only during the present week. No lover of Art
should fail to see them. The Inteliigencer says:
"The citizens of Washington have now the OPP
portunity of examining two Of the finest and most
original paintings exhibited for their inspec-
ton. The poctartist, T. Buchanan Read, whose
elegant verses have long been the admiration of
all who read the English language and whose rep
utaton artist is scarcely less, has private
exhibition, at the room of the Senate Committee
on Indian Affairs, at the Capitol, two of his most
elaborate works. executed during his recent resi-
dence at Florence. One, the largest, is repre-
sentation Of Undine and the Knight, suggested by
the beautiful German fiction Of that name. The
other, and to which special attention is directed
represents the fall Of the lost Pleiad. The poetica
conception of this picture s only equallcd by it's
exquisitely artistical execution Language fails to
describe It's beauty for it Is of that spiritual class
for which mortal words are inadequate. Il has
already been the subject of the most fattering
criticisms in the AthenRum and other English pc
riodicals and Mr. Read now presents it to his own
countrymen ~ the effort of American genius. Mr..
Read will return in few weeks to Italy, where
the commissions he has already received will de-
tain him for several years"
Mr.. Thomas Green, in letter TO the New York
Herald, traces the false reports Of smallp and
other diseases at the Fsuquer Springs to the NAL
ice Of an individual who was expelled from the e.
adjustment, and his baggage retained for his un-
paid bill.
The South Side Democrst says that Dannavant,
the notorious thief lately arrested, takes every
thing with an indifference that indicates conf |
dence that something viii yet turn up to his ad- |
vantage. He is 20 lazy they have to turn him over,
and he will not speak, nor move unless carried
He looks a. IL he would court danger for the az
element Of getting out of It.
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An Address to the American People viii be pub |
lished In few days by committee Of the Amsri- |
can party in this city the subject of tho recent
election.