The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1865-01-07

| heads Of the troubadours and provencais. %
Brittany andaGascony. Not BIZ OF "
TIE chick lips and crisp hal: OF the Du-
mas bear testimony to his unmlstahdU,c
! origin. The noble blood OF the MARQUIS &c
/ Ia Pa.lie,ie-re, his grandfather, ana tne
heroic crimson o. Genera -Alexanese Aa.y
/ nn,uas Is mingled, thick and tGln, WIFI
! .ha. O. negresses as hack and shiny as ever
/ danced the fetish on the island q San DO
rninpo. or ioineI in q hoe-Cown II the
cotton fields OF South Carolina. Nor VIII
the miraculous Dumas seek. by any li4u-
| sion OF cosmetic or art of hair dresser, -
conceal the facts patent IN his eeheaiosy :.
/ C.berwise. he viii make osten.atlon o.
] ,hese t,;sagreeable personalities; for he IS
] nrol,d CT his descent, and Of the rich bar
/ barrie blood, that gives such .roT4c glow
an6 yolaptaoasness 70 has compositions.
We sinai, see many curious things come
4 10 pass when tbs eminent co.orea person
reaches our shores Il the COMM month al
! January. We imagine that the Reverend
yNabemfah Aaamses. the aeyout Bishop
Iopkirses, the angular and exclusive
Cushincs, ana Whipples, and IieI,non.s,
ana EroorSses, and the whole bateh 81 pro-
slavery politicians, states men, frdses ana
generals. will not be fogGd above dining
Win me librarian o; the Due q Orleans and
the Eis.uriographer Of the Due lie Mont
pensier. or turn The cold shoulder % this
y
and living illustration OF the abhorred
doctrine Of miscegenation. The New
Workers are specially fond OF good living
ina city famous for It's Oe.nonicos and It's
alderman;c dinners, and those who will nc:
pay the tribute Of admiration 70 Dumas
intellectual achievements. viii doubtless
fail down and worship che vino outrlyals
Soyer IN his most famous cuisine. Nobody
n all Paris can make salad or COCK
bird com parable with Dumas; and he has
a fashion, il is said, where rightly enter
tanned, OF taking of his coat, descending
to the kitchen of his IOs!, ana emerging
from j; with dishes that would temp. al
anchori.e and exalt an epicurean 10 q con-
dition of ecstasy.
How this extraordinary colored person
will tie received will no: only be one OF the
notable events If the coming year, but j.
will form the piquantinc!den:s OF the work
which he is to write, during his Journey
through the States; the advance sheets Of
which Will make the most memorable feU-
iileton ever Published in the Opsaione No
tfon0ie He announces his intention to
visit every one Of the Northern States, and
extend his journey from the seaboard 70
the Rocky Mountains. Willthe black laws
of Illinois and Indiana be pat IL force, and
this colored person subjected TO fine and
Imprisonment for yenturing 20 take tenn
pora-y residence in those States. Shall We
not me ratner see Inc r6SlQ 6icn2rdson
the nsoUthing Merrick, and the voluble
Voorhees,, and the less noted bat equally
intense pro-slavery politicians OF those
States sending their whites. cards TO the
distinguished colored individual, and hob
nobbing over their social glass with an
African who, had Providence located him
in the Southern paradise, they would have
hunted with hound and horn rather than
have failed in their obedience 20 the iGgi-
tive slave law and he fourth article Of the
Constitution?
IN all respects the ADVENT Of Alexandra
Dumas in this country Will be a curious
event, socially and politically. There will
ba brave getting over of old preiudices
about the negro, his social States and the
relation he bears 10 the res; OF mankind, II
Dumas should be received with that gener-
o,.s hospitality so characteristic Of the
Amer cans, and 10 which his position in
France and his claims as man OF letters
entitle him. There Will be some secret
squirning and bs tx door wry faces among
those whose desire 20 entertain 50 dis.in-
glisned man will eouu.eract their preia-
Gices against one more :nan tainted with
the blood Of servile race. l. is not diff
cult 10 foresee. however. what the result Of
the conflict Will be, or at al hazardous TO
predict that the inevitable negro Will be
honored in the person Of the grea. French
rOygaucer