Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-04-13

correspondence OF the London telegraph
Apr0pos Of our "park, read with respect
full establishment in the columns of the hybrid
CosmOpolitan-a paper published either here,
in London, or in New York, l forget which
that ''the Bots is crowded with C0itlreS.
Horseback riding is becoming as fashionable
there as in Rotten row. Horseback ridingI
Where would our friends wish us to sit?
Feminine reputation is verymuch in fashion,
actresses and ces petiteS DANES have taken
tarlously to that exercise. The performance
Of the natives is not frst-rate they are perched
upon rather than sitting in their saddles. carry
their whips $50 do the mem like divining rods,
and are too liberal with the curb, provoking
the caper which they seem to chide," and
sometimes nearly coming to grief in conse-
luence. They might well take example by
two English "AmaDons,n who ride here nearly
every day, and who witch the world with
noble horsemanship," but they are both bright,
particular stars, brighter in color, indeed,
than nature originally made them, and are
unequalled in Paris for their taste and their
turns-out The bonnets of one and the car
rlages Of both daily create heartburning ''all
round when they appear in the Bots, and
have caused several persons of both sexes to
throw stones at their grandfathers." Apr0-
pOSttO Of bOnnets, they are the last victims of
the vagares Of the Fashions for March. |
one. Take two inches square of mauve satin
satin, by-the-by, as | heard tonight on very
nigh authority, is fast gaining the supremacy
for bonnets and dresses-place the square
article on the crown Of your head and tie it
On with yard of wide, black satin ribbon,
add gold chains to taste-ChdineS O la BenOitOh
and you cannot have too many Of them, and
here you are coffee raeir-headdresse
enough to run away with. These chains are
very odd; they hang them in festOOns back
and front, and there was one lady last night
y the Italiens who had so many garlands of
Venetian glass beads hanging fore and aft,
Jlat she reminded me of Fauxhall Gardens in
the daytime when the 100000 additional
lamps, = which were literally given every night,
we're prepared for illumination.
OLD MARSHAL MUNNICH.-In Busching's
Magazine are some love letters from the old
Marshal Munich to Catharine, which are
psychologicaly curious. Love letters for they
partake Of that character; though the man is
g, and has had such breakages and vicissitudes
in this earth. Alive yet, it would seem; and
full of ambitions. Unspeakably beautiful is
Ibis young woman to him. radiant as ox-eyed
Juno, as Diana of the silver bow.-such q
power in her to crafty the avarices ambitions,
cupidities Of an Unsuitable old fellow: oh divine
young Empress, Aurora of bright summer
.pochs, rosy-fngered daughter of the Sum-
rant me the governing Of This, the administer
ng of That and see what thing | will make
If it Il, an inventive old gentlemen for your
Hajesty's honor and glory, and my own adj
.antage! Innumerable persons of less note
han Munich have their biographies, and are
,nown to the reading public and in all BARRIERS
hops, if that were an advantage to them.
cry considerable, this Munich, as a soldier,
AID -bol
.dventures; an original German character
,ithal about the stature of Belleisle, for
Example; and not quite unlike Belleise, in
ONE of his ways? Came originally from the
.yamps of Oldenburg, or Lower Weser County,
son of a Deichgrqfe (Ditch-Superintendent)
here. RequieseaHt in oblivious silence, Bel
elsie and he; it is better than being lied of,
nd maundered of, and blotched and Numbered
of.
Biographies were once rhythmic, earnest as
1eath or as life, earnest as transcendent human
Insight risen to the singing pitch; some Homer,
ny some Psalmist or Evangelist, spokesman
ID reverent populations was the bAgrapher.
2hythmic, Nth exactitude, investigation to
{. very marrow; this, or else oblivion, Biogra-
by should now, and at all times, be; but
notify any manner Of means With what
'.sult is visible enough, if you will look!
Haman stupor, fallen into the dishonest lazy,
ID mfogged condition, IS truly an awful
.ing.-CdTlyles Frederick the Great
ORIGIN OF THE JARDIN DEs PLANTEs.-When Car
IinaI RicbeIieu had reduced trimmings to very mar
,yr limits, the importance of the stufs composing
Tho dresses became evident good taste soon
,-rested the advantages of stufs of single color
nose in which all the hues of the rainbow were
,sembled. Dresses resembling curtains went out of
"a hion, and the Jardn des Plantes ceased to furnish
patterns for silks and satins But it is less fact
th this garden owed its origin to the eagerness Of
tern drawers to produce new design for stufs
yaS for the use of these artists that Jean Robin
ned garden, in which he cultivated quantity
H foreign flowers. Here the embroiderer Of Henry
came to design and color his modes, and from the
uggestlons of this parterre issued the magnlhcent
embroidered stufs of the early part OF the seven
.eenth century. When our readers go TO Parls, and
among other lovely spots visit the ardln DIES Plantes,
they will think of Jean Robin and the original OBJ
iect of his garden.
TIE PPosprcr AT WAsHINGToN.-The Washington
eorresnondent of the New York Commercial writes as
FSiiows: Meanwhile, there is decided improvement
IN fine aspect OF affairs here, and those who but a
week or two since were denouncing each other, now
now desire to conclliate. The President while at
ieutenant General Grants reception on Friday
ight was approached by Thad. Stevens who offered
is hand and courteously paid his respects and other
ideals also saluted the Chief Magistrate. At the
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