Year: 1860

u p y
pink and white 1oesoms--cAcrry and peach
land JUS, the beginning Of apple.blossoms,
the promise Of hlacs and May-roses-wLich
always come in June with fresh green
meadows spangled over with dandeions
The cold spring rains are over and we can
now apo-troplisc the Glow south wind with
that poet who says


"Blow from trumpet Of balm in thy mouth,


Blow us more sunshine thln shadows,
Blow butterflies out Of the south,


Blow bOb.oluks into the meadows
/ Blow of the rain


From faces becioudtd with pain


After all, that last Is the greatest beauty of
spring No one can resist its morally re
iuyeuatiug influence From the nursery
child, restless with delight at the carth's
changed aspect, and dancing 10 see the wind
elbow the bee out Of his golden comb into
the warm surshint-to the decrcpid man


who win never see "many returns Of the


season. and is creeping out TO breathe yet


little while longer the sweetness of life upon


this onc-mooued sphere, all share in the uni-


yersal gladness


The world of New York moves on as usual.


OF late, the surplus enthusiasm OF its people


has been divided between the Charleston


Conyeutiou's doing and the great prize fight
in England-the latter having rather the
greatest number of sympathizors Are We
going to have the Amphithcater restored
Perhaps so. At all events, the International
contest has given a grand impulse to the ad-
heretofore been regarded. For fear Of being
out Of the fashion, | shall refrain from eX-
pressing the disgust with which few
minds-our own included-shrinl from the
Imagination of such scenes.


or the Convention, of course there is a
great deal of talk. The secession of the
Southern States makes it at present very
difficult to make guess at the nomination,
though the friends Of Douglas are confident


0 shade of John Brown, do you behold
The stupenduous result Of your QuiXotic
raid From corruption and decay spring
life and beauty. So let us hope from discord
and unbelief may come at last better ur-
derstauding and iirmer bond of nnion.


The theaters the art galleries, &c, are in
statu qao Nothing of peculiar interest ap-
peaes at either, unless ii is the great crowd Of
strangers. 1t is a notable fact that the good |
looking men one meets in New York are al
most universally from the West Living
amongst brick and mortar, walking on un-
yielding stone pavements finding it necessary .
to be somewhat rascally in order to get a liy-
ing c rtainly does not tend toward beautfiug
the human frame or physioguomy. We were
promenading Broadway, yesterday, in com.
pany with gentleman Of the Navy, who
has seen many people as well as countries,
and he pronouuces the American ladies the .
most beautiful in the world, having the most
delicacy, grace and elegance. Their deliea- /
cy, unfortunately, causes the early decay Of
the other two qualifications, and they are
subject to premature old age Could the
Fountain Of Youth he discovered by each
fair one at her prime, we should not fear to
put our women in the list against all tie
world and if the promise Of the rising gene
ration means anything we have yet more
'beautifri race rfsfug arouua us--tirc product
Of physical beauty and intellectual yiyacitv


In your sunset State you cherish, Of course. 1
an affection for the celebrities and eeniuses
of The Atlantic States. was yesterday on
a yisitto Alice Carey, our poet par erccHsnce.
among women in America. and was sorry to
find her in very wrctched health. Phebc,
however, still looks blooming and is as brin.
ming over full Of wit as ever; sparkling like
champagne, or her own black eyes, IN humor.
The pretty Mrs Swift, their sister, is rapidly .
fading in consumption love to 90 to Miss I
Carey's: itisone Of the places where you
never meet aacctation nor ostentoton, but
where good taste and good feeling are always
evident. Bayord Taylor has apparently SET
tied down into easy Benedict life, and is
growing fat and rotund The new star on
our literary horizon seems to be Miss Prescott
whose stories meet with applause from high
places. They are indeed exuberant with
life, action, and colorng, and for so young
writer She holds a magic pen. The Atlantic
and Harper publish them, as they do every
thing else, incog The prestige Of her name
is a good dcal-for despite shakesperes
query, whats in a name" weall know there
is solid capital in it very often.


The Times this morning has an article on
Mysterious Disappearance" which l pre-
sumo you will notice in your file 1t is in
deed truly wonderful that so many people
are drawn into the vortex of the unknown as
itappcars from the revelations brought out
in the late case in Jersey City, there are
When the body found at the dock was being
identified, over thirty persons came to dis
cover whether or not it was the friend whom
they had lost by recent disappearance
What a suggestion! Only yesterday, in
crossing Jersey ferry, just as we came into
the Slip at New York, the head Of woman
uoated past us in the water-body and face
concealed. In the case Of the supposed Mrs |
Richardson, the mystery decpens; as it is
now stated that the real Mrs. Richardson is
alive in New Orleans Who was she. or
what her history. who was sunk with bar
rel Of pitch in the dock at Jersey City-"how
hyed' how loved, how died she"-has again
fallen into darkness Atall events it behooyes
womanhood to look to its personal safety in
our great city


A mysterious disappearance" is a terrible
thing to the friends Of the lost, as was proven
by the spirIting AWAY Of Mrs. Brennnn from