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Manual of Etiquctfe in washington.

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ABOUT 500 square feel, lees.
s donbie 70 BY IS f.,t story
basement cellar, with all the modern
and cold water bath warrciust stable
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d. lrernois Hotel, Pennsylrania arenue beeen 17h
lSth streets, Washington, D. c.
THE PRoPRIE OR begs inform his friends and the public
ai THIS restaurant recently eab he'd on the most modern
and Improved principles with dining for
nisbeh the latest le has and
essons French cook recently arrived from Paris. where he
gained extsB'ive reputation his
and as the opreior hmssf distinguished reputation both
In france and this of the be
~ he fatters himself that hs fail give satisfaction
those who mny iGvor W ~iih tllsir patronage.
Attached the we supplied with ihs choicest
OF wines qu and other delcaces OF the Bo
and cold lunch H. until 2 The proprietor
iua received cham
pgne clare with of the finest OF
hqnurs tfues &C. which he offer lower than
any other house IN the hox single bottle
dinner
soes notice In Of the city Ice jelly plumber
and al description of confectionery tusir css.
Jan 7-eod3m
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NEW SPRING GOODs-The ladies' Of inglon vi
~ cny respectful informed that his
great variety OF The OF French dress and other materials
anhpied 70 the hing which
novelties OF the New York importaons few OF which
VIZ enumerate,
Extra rich Bsyajere hrocade silks
Extra rich Bayadese c,sne silks
Extra rich Bayadere iounc "a roles
Extra rich Bayadere clene robrs
Twisted silk velvet founcpd
Bayadere founced chai robes
Do twised silk chenille founcod robes
Fiounced berege and Grenadine robes
Misses Bayadera chslii robes
French chinfz Y obs de
Rich fon' ced organdis robes
French Ogandie musns
Pink blue cherry maize and white French grapes and many
other dress materials.
ALSO
French embroderics, laces, handkerchiefs
Neils l1ce mantilas, shaws hosiery
Mite gloves ,Kaunteis, skirts, musiins
Canihrics, illusion capes, riband- &c.
Feb 2i-3taw4wift HOoE, BRO, g. co.
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United States Mail.
LOUISIANA.
Posr orycs DsrAhTMENr,
February II, 1857.
PROPOSALS for conveying
July, 1851 30h June, 1885, State OF LOUISIANA,
De received the Contract Office Of this
3st March decided by 18th April
he route and 10 the time hereinafter stated
No 1929 From Moreanve ty Msnsurd Maksve and
gree TO Alexandria,, o. 50 miles and back, three
a
Leave MoreanviIie Mo- Wednesday, and Friday 6
Arrive al Alexandria by M;
Leave Alexandra Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday 9
.
Arrive AZ Noreanylle ,ys by D m.
For forms
and be
the I'd fnant, pamphlet fom
the advertisement January 1854
ana, Sc. JAMES CAMPBELL,
Feb l9--laww
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RESTAURANT.

WAsHIsgTos, February %, 1857.
Feb as -3tawtMaip&d
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Raise the rich. dainty dress, and the fine
'broidered skirt
Pick your delicate way through dampness and
Crepe through the dark dens, climb the rickety
stair,
To the garnet, where wretches, the young and
the old,
Half-starved and half-naked, lie crouched from
the cold.
See those skeleton limbs. those frost bitten feet
All bleeding and bruised from the stones ofthe
street,
Hear the sharp cry of childhood, the deep
groans that swell
From the poor dying creature that writhes on
the floor,
Hear the curses that sound like the echoes of
AS you sicken, and shudder, and fly from the
door; ..... s,.-
Then home to your wardrobcs, and say if you
.ar dare,
Spoiled children of Fashion-you'vc nothing
to wear,
And oh. if perchancc there should be sphere.
Where all is made right that so puzzles us here,
Where the glare and the glitter, and tinsel of
Time,
Fade and die in the light of that region sublime
Where the soul, dsenchanted of flesh and of
sense,
Unscreened by its happings and shows and
pretense,
Must be clothed for the life and the service
above,
With purity, truth, faith, meekness and Lowell
Oh, daughters of Earth! foolish virgins. beware!
Lest in that upper realm, you have NorHING
TO WEAR f. 4 rtf--
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Missouri, Mississippi and ST. Lawrence,
and to the Texan coast, not a portion Of
whose whole sweep of surface is mora
than thousand miles from the bes. nayi-
CATION, must become the pastoral arden
of the world.
They are everywhere adapted to sus-
tain great pastoral populatian. Adobe
bricks for dwellings, nnpervious to heat
or coll, can be made anywhere; plaster,
lime, clay and sand, exist beneath nearly
every acre; bituminous coal is abundant,
buffalo dung is scattered everywhere, and
wood fuel is found plentifully by digging,
for the trees are stunned by the atrnos-
pherc, while the roots spread out in all
directions. ....=.. -t
Mr.. Galphin does not claim these
vast plains rs the basis of the future
empire of commerce and industry: but
maintains, from their ample dimensions
and positions, their climate, abundance Of
fuel, building material, and animal life,
that they are not only adapted to tho
home Of millions of happy freemen, but
that they sill be " the pasture field Of the
world"
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1 TT is better to be out at the elbows than
out of temper, for the man who has lost
his dollars is not so near bankruptcy as he
who has lost his sense.
f "BY and by" is the bridal bell Of all
the world. 1t is rung by the hands Of
Hope, and proclaims the wedding of the
heart of to-day with the bliss of to-mor-
row. se...-ssr sseox
When we were children, we fancied the
school-bcll rang out an articulate " come
or go-and-
play" go-and-play." More real and
audible beats the universal heart, "by-and
byn-" by-and-by." 1.as..D
Like the arrow that the fairy bore on,
when the force of the bow was spent; like
the cloud and the pillar that went before
tho host in tho desert, is "by-and-by;;'
there's q promised land, and thousand
summer isles beyond it. Whether it beats
beneath Ishmaeps dusky vcstment, or the
snowy billow of Circassian bosoms, it il
forever blest, and forever By AND BY.
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Philadelphia lawyer to reconcile this
sum to any rational beings notion of
economy. ... r.
"There's five dollars left" resumed
Mrs. Jones, (which is for the Valencien-
nes''- aI
''The WHAT" I exclaimed.
"The Valenciennes, with which the
cape and sleeves are trimmed"
"Oh! that common looking lace?'
sail L. zF
"Common lookingr' cried Mary Ann
her eyes sparkling. Then she laughed
comically. ''That shows what you men
know about laces. Why, Smithy, dear,
its real Valenciennes, and very cheap; and
and what's more, l can use it on some
thing else, after the dress is worn ont"
"But why put real Valenciennes, as
you call it, on 80 cheap dress" | ask
ed in tone of vexation.
ats that very Valenciennes that gives
the dress such stylish look" said my
wife. "Everybody knows it's cheap
material: and it's only the trimmings
that redeems it. All that require IS
Valenciennes collar to match it, and l
shall be complete"
| could not speak for amazcment. l
was dumb, not merely at this strange no
ton of an economical dress. but at the
utter unconciousncss my wife had that
there was anything extravaganza about 1t.
She awaited herself of my silence to expa-
tiate on the beauty of Valenciennes laces
in general, and on that which trimmed
her dress in particular; and warming with
her subject made it finally to appear that
we were under infinite Obligations to
Madame Flourish for the opportunity OF
paying this bill and buying collar to
match her Valenciennes. Mrs. Jones was
so earnest and sincere, that | thought it
would be pity to break her charming
delusion. l resolved, therefore, to smoke
sccond-rate cigars for the next six months,
and indulge the dear creature in her
wishes; and she looks SO lovely, and
seems so happy in her new dress, and
collar, that, to confess the truth, don't
regret what | have done.
Nevertheless, rs an abstract proposition
| still hold to the secret opinion, that pay
ing eight dollars for making and trim
ming dress that cost only nine dollars,
dosen't exactly show q knack for econo-
nv. SMITH JONES.
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THE GREAT FAR WEST.

We mentioned son4e time since the ar
rival of n steamer ut st. Louis, which had
come down the Missouri for $500 miles,
having started at point where there was
barely water enough to allow her to turn.
Col. Galphin, who came down in this
steamer, sent to the St. Louis Democrat, q
graphic account of the country trayersed
by the great river alpl its branches, from
which account, condensed, we take the
following: f-
Tho rlains occupy longitudinal par
allclogram of nearly q thousand miles in
width, and extending from the Texan to
the Arctic coast, present an area equal
to the twenty-four States east of the Miss
issippi. They have slis hit slope from
the west to the east, and abound in rivers
and streams, which serve, like the Nile,
to irrigate, rather than drain the neigh
boring surface, having few affiuents, and
running from west to east, in shallow,
broad beds, through hong, flat, narrow
basins. They arc destitute of timber,
even single trees being scarce, though
thickly clad with nutrcous grasses and
swarming with animal life. Their soil
is chiefly fine, calcareous mould admir-
bly, adapted for pasturage, md good
farming arabic land is found along the
banks Of the rivers.
Col. Galphin describes the climate to
be, in many respects like Egypt, rainiess,
favorable to longevity, intellectual and
physical Developments and stimulatiye of
a high social civilization, Storms are
rare, except during the melting of snow
upon the crest of the Rocky Mountains.
These plains, commonly regarded as de-
scrts, irreclamable, he declares, swarm
with animal life; and he estimates the
buffalo, which find their living upon
thom, at twenty millions, all OF which
subsist mainly upon the gramma, of buff
| falo grass, which the dry atmosphere
crisps into a highly nutritious hay
A million of Indians have, until lately.
subsisted altogether upon the game
which they furnished, and they are capa-
bic of sustaining a vast pastoral popula-
ton. Six tenths of the food Of the hui
man family, the Colonel thinks, is, or
ought to be, animal, the result Of pastoral
agriculture; and rs the north west is now
the granary of the world, so, he maintains,
/ will the Far West furnish its supplies Of
animal food, consisting Of meat, milk, but
ter, cheese, poultry, eggs, wool and hon.
| ey. a
/ These plains, without a single abrupt
mountain, timbered space, desert or lake
drumming smoothly out to the manageable
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A rare virtue and great as it is raro.
We remember when We thought the cour-
age of the field everything. The charge
the word of command-high sounding
and Gear amid the battles fury-the
clash of arms-the roar of artillery-tfsc
thrill of the buulc's notes with more than
magic sound; it bids the soldier dare all
for victory-the banner of your country
in front-planted there to stand amid
victory or defeat; oh how young henrts
beat to be actors in such scene; calling
it glorious, and holding it noble for brave
spirits to mingle in, and fighting nobly,
to lie down and die.
But what is the courage of the battle
field compared with the moral courage
of every day life. Stand alone-see
friends scowl-!oar distrust speak its foul
suspicion-watch enemies take advantage
of the occasion laboring to destroy-who
would not rather encounter the shock of
q hundred battle-fields, and lead a forlorn
hope in search, than bear and bravo
these things. Why tie one is as the sum
mer breeze on the ocean to Winters stor-
miest blast. The common spirit may
summon courage to play the soldier WE'LL
use quickly fits him for it. But it requires
man to speak out his thoughts as he
thinks them-to do-when like that stor-
my blast in winter on old ocean, honor
peace security and life arc Threatened to-
be swept away. Yet who looking back
on the page Of history, or forward to the
hope of the future, would hesitate which
of the two to choose? The. martyrs
what are they. Chronicled names in
all hearts. The patriots who died for lib
erty, ANONYMOUSLY and on the seaffold-
how fares it with thema Cherished rs
earth's honored sons. The good who
spoke the truth, and suffered for its sake
where are they? The best and brightest
first in our thought and love. Aud
yet, what did they Like men they spoke
the truth that was in them. This was
their courage. If thew had been silent,
if, trembling before tvrants ormobs, they
had feared to- tell what they knew, to speak
what they felt, they would have lived and
died like other men. But they had the
moral courage to do all this, and through
their suffering and truth lighted up the
world with q new glory.
Giveus moral courage before everything
else. 1t is the only bravery on which hui
mainly may count for any real blessing.
Give lis moral courage first and last
For while it nerves man for duty, it
roots out of his heart hatred, and revenge,
and all bad passion, making him wise
amid danger, calm amid excitement, just
amid Iawlessness, and pnre amid ,corrup-
ton. 1t is the browning beauty of man
hood.
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CHARLES SUMNER.

Bayard Taylor sends the Tribune,
very interesting letter from London, from
which We take the following paragraphs:
Mr.. Sumner is here, at Maurigy's Hotel
in Regent street have not yet seen him
but some friends tell me- he is looking
very well. No American has ever been
moro popular in England than Mr.. Sum
ncr, and he is at present floating on the
top wave of London society. I heard tho
other day good story of his arrival here.
He entered his name upon the book ~
simply 'sMr. Sumner, Boston,, and was
accordingly set down by the host and his
flunkeys as an ordinary traveller.
The next morning one Of the latter cana
to Mr.. Summer room in some excitement,
and said: Lord Brougham is down
stairs, Sir, asking for you" To tho Wal
ter's amazement, Mr.. S. quietly said,
without exhibiting the least surprise: -
every well, show him up" Not long al
terward the former came, still more excl
ted: "Sir, the Lord Chief Justice has
called, and he asks for your "Show him
up" was again the cool reply. After
his Lordship had departed, the waiter
came once moro, bewiElercd, and a little
aggravated: "Sir, the Lord Chancellor
of England has called to see you p
"Show him up" repeated Mr.. S. These
astonishing facts were no doubt at once
communicated to the landlord, for the
next days Morning Post announced the
arrival Of i" His Excelloncy the Honorable
Charles Sumner" at Maurigy's Hotel.
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POETRY.
NOTHING TO WEAR.
AN EPISODE OF CITY LIFE.

This poem is so universally popular-so pal
able hit, that We think our readers will be
LEASED to have it brought within their reach.
The AutLor-Mr. Butler, like Byron, woke
up one morning and found himself famous
But Rev Mr.. Peek, who resides in the into
riOr Of New York, kindly volunteers TO relieve
bin Of the authorship of the poem. and grave
asserts it was written by daughter of his.
hriISt By her while on visit to New York
Th Rev Gentleman finds but few believers in
lb story. An answer called Nothing to do, -"
has been KEittcn by "a Lady" but we do not
INK Il equals this i'll vigor or expression.
LED. JOrR.1
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{ WE shall never have a fresh literature
Lone that sparkles all over like June
morning, until we 60 ont OF doors to
write; till we quote books less and read
Nature more; till we give over the rem
dering of Homer, for the translation Of
the mystic characters of life; till we cease
raving about the swan of Avon, and re-
pair to the old wells whence he drew bis
sparkling wealth of Thoughts. ...s,
Book born Rhetoric and Poetry are to
their nature-cradlcd cousins, what a billet
of wood, rived for the hearthstone, is to
the living tree whence it WAS taken.
| WE all see farther in rainy day than
we do in one clear and bright; that is,
farther into the day before yesterday; just
as we see more of heaven in tho night
than we do in the daytime.
I LEISURE is not sleeping time nor dream
ing time, but time wherein to "knit up
cares travelled Sleeve" to do something,
that we cannot put down in the Day Book !;
something that will not put money in the
purse, but will tear down the stone-walls
the world keeps building around our
hearts, and let them beat fairly and freely
in tho open air.
But there can be no leisure without
labor, any more than there can be sun
light without shadows; for in thanking
God for the shadows, we are only being
grateful for the sunbeam.
THE queen Of Carthage was queer
creature, and according to Virgil, some
what indiscreet.
The story of Dido ct dur" is familiar
to all boys who ever set forth with "Arn1a
virrmque.'
But even to this day, wild girls who
have never read Virgil, are said to "cut a
Dido.7 ......-.. .....-..
SOME people have about as adequate
an idea of Heaven as the good woman
whom the neighbor was consoling for the
loss of her son.
"1f his grandmother is i'll heaven"
sobbed the poor woman, 81 know she
won't sec Billy a5used!"
D-cAp1rArE tho devil, and you have
his character-e,il.
Drop the ''e' and you have vile; strike
out the "v" and YOU make i'll; the "vi, ,"
and it leaves it 'el,' which Az Englishman
will roughcn into an uncomfortable local
ity-hel.
Of truth, the devil is in the word.
[ Law is great anchor-"a best bower
with huge chain cable coiled and
coiled again.
In a calm, it is burden to the good
ship that bears it, but when the storm
sweeps down, and the craft is driving upon
lee shore, and rocks are grimly waiting
for the wreck, then the ponderous weight
darts with its single thread of hope into
the deep, the vessel s.ings round and is
saved. /
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