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How sweet to the taste is the Irish potato!
As memory awakens a thought to the
plant,
Its dark verdant vine-top and beautiful
blossom,
In pleasant transition my memory
haunt.
Aye! thought of the root in profusion
once growing,
On the brood sunny hill-slope adjoining
the mill,
At the homestead, how many we raised
there's no knowing,
For some were but small ones, and few in
a hill!
The mealy potato, the Irish potato,
The thin-skinned potato that grew on
the hill.
That delectable plant I would praise
while I'm able,
For often at noon when returned from
th• field,
I found it superior to all on the table—
The best flavored edible that nature
could yield.
With what an eager appetite, sharpened
by labor,
I plied my knife and fork with a hearty
good will;
Alas! there are none of the old-fashioned
flavor,
None like the "real Simone" that grew
on the hill.
J. J. HUFFMAN
How prime from the full-heapeo dish to
As, poised on my fork, it ascends to my
mouth ! •
No appeal to the palate could tempt me to
Though affected by "rot," or a long
summer's drouth,
And now far removed from that situation,
Where I used to partake of the root to
my fill,
•Fancy fain would revert to my father's
plantation,
And sigh for the "kidneys" that grew on
the bill.
A TERRIBLE PENALTY OF TREA
SON,
The New Albany Lodger says .
Many of our citizens wilt remember
Professor Nutting. a musician of su
perior accomplishments, a ge!itleman
of fine social qualities, and formerly
leader and tutor of the far-famed
"New Albany Silver Band." Un
for',unately, Professor Nutting who
left New Albany for a residence in
the South prior to the breaking out
of the rebellion, became poisoned by
that fatal error, Secession, and en
listed as a musician in the rebel
army, leaving his wife and several
beautiful and interesting little chil
dren to the care of Southern patri
ots, who promised him they should
not want for anything. The band
to which Professor Nutting was at
tached was soon dispensed with, and
the members reduced to the ranks.
Then these promises, like all others
made by the rich and leading trait
ors, were soon broken, and not long
since two of Professor Nutting's chil•
dren died )f actual starvation at
Jackson, Miss., and his heart bro
ken wife, after suffering from illness
and hunger, was finally sent through
our lines, and by means of funds sup
plied by the charitable and sympa
thetic, forwarded to the home of her
parents in Michigan. We have this
repor - , well authent;cated by a let
ter received in this city by a well
known and responsible citizen. and
from an equally reliable source at
Louisville.
THE LEVEE BY THE PRUNE OF
On the 25th of February, was, as
regards attendance, the moat numer
ous and most remarkable of the
century. It was attended by 8,000
of the nobility and gentry, including
—apart from the official and diplo
matic personages-8 dukes, 10 mar
quises, 25 earls, 28 viscounts, 4 bish
ops, 65 lords, n right honorables,
72 honorables, the Master of Lovat,
68 baronets, 37 airs, 10 deans, 33
Queen's counsel, 8 archdeacons, 12
reverend doctors,2 reverend pro
fessors, 36 revereds, 33 doctors, 438
messieurs, 34 admirals, 42 captains
R. N., 14 commanders. 9 lieutenants,
R N., 88 generals, 204 colonels, 63
majors, 155 captains,.. 53
lieutenants, 3 cornets, 5 ensigns, Le.
The pressure is described as terrific,
and in the rash orders and orna
ments were remorselessly torn off.—
One gentleman, it was rumored, had
his ribs fractured; and an eye wit
ness states that the courtly crowd
"fougl*-1* i • , PessoOssc.ii" and places
just as fiercely add rudely as theie
41504" a" ' , pothers and sisters M the
of the theatres." The 'limes
roma" strtie% on tide **tees,
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Oidilaritilit in -no other ossutry
imialill each a same be permitted.
select tatttg.
THE IRISH POTATO.
The mealy potato, the Irish Potato,
The thin-skinned potato that grew on
the hill.
receive it,
leave it,
The mealy potato, the Irish potato,
The thin skinned potato that grew on
the hill.
WALES
WAYNESBURG., GREENE COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1863.
DA iottilaurfatis,
" NO BORROW LIKE MINE."
Many cherish, if they do not ex
press in words, this bitter and mur
muring feeling. We ask such to
read the following story
"it seems so bard—so cruel !" said
the young mother, and here a sob
broke into her voice. She clasped
her hands over her eyes, and the
tears broke through her fingers—
such salt, bitter tears as could only
break up frQm IP mother's heart—a
mother robbed of her first• born !
Two weeks ago that very day he
had been with her in the chamber
where the young mother now sat in
darkness and desolation, the little
joyous head fluttering about the
room, the little restless feet patter :
ing along the floor, and the little
glad voice breaking up in quick
shouts of lvghter, or lisping out
those pretty broken words and en
treaties which are such sweet music
to a mother's heart; and now—?
There stood in the corner the lit
tle crib, with its pretty lace c'ir
taius, and over it hung the snowy
apron and embroidered merino dress
he bad last worn, and at the foot
lay the little morocco slippers that
the mother couldn't have removed
from her sight, though the feet that
had worn them now lay folded close
together, and down so deep under
the grass that no warmth of the sun
shine could ever reach them.
"Don't, Mary, don't ! It might
have been worse Remember there
are sorrows greater than yours,"
said the soft, pi tying voice of Mrs.
Howard, the lady's most intimate
friend, who was passing the morning
with her.
The stricken woman looked up in
incredulous astonishment, that chec
ed for a moment the flow •of her
tears. "How can you tell me this,
Helen ?'" she exclaimed in a voice
broken with grief and wounded feel
ing; "hp was my only boy, my little
Harry, with but' two years and five
months over his golden head; and I
loved him so; an then I don't be
lieve there ever was another quite
so pretty and bright a child. You
know, too, how my very heart was
bound up in him ' • how if I ever ran
out for an hour,l was never easy
till I got back to him again; and
how 1 used to stand and watch him
after he had got to sleep in the crib
there, with one little chubby hand
wrapped up like a Hily under his
cheek, and the smiles crimping up
his red lip; and then just to think
of his pretty, frolicsome, teasing
way, that made me stop every other
minute and hug him up to my heart,
and cover his face with kisses. Oh,
Harry, my baby, my precious baby !
shall I never see nu again ? Sure
ly, Helen, there never was sorrow
like unto my sorrow," and the sobs
broke out again.
"Yes, Mary, there was," and Mrs.
Howard's solemn tones checked the
tears 3f her friend. "I know of a
sorrow with whose bitterness yours
bears no comparison, and it has
come into our family, unto my own
and only sister, for her pride, her
idol, her Herbert is in prison!"
"Oh. Helen t" cried Mrs. Sprague,
springing up from her chair with a
shudder, while she looked at the pale,
working features of her friend.
"I cannot talk of it, Mary, or it
will drive me, as it has his mother,
frantic. You saw . him in his child
hood, and can remember what a
beautiful promising boy he was;
but he was impetuous, and fond of
society and all sorts of fun, and his
mother was doting And indulgent;
and 60 he grew up to his seventeenth
birthday, reckless and self-willed,
though he was too kind-hearted to be
over malicious,
"I must make the story short : he
fell into bad company and bad hab
its, and one night when quite in
toxicated, be was persuaded to join
some incendiaries. The ringleaders
were detected, and the boy was gen_
tenced to a year in the peniten
tiary, which might have been ten,
only his youth pleaded hard with
the kind-hearted judge; and now
he lies down at night in a felon's cell,
while his poor broken-hearted moth
er paces her room with the tears
streaming down her wasted cheeks
as she moans over and over these
words : "lf he had but died when he
was but a baby !—if he had but died
then !"
And Mrs. Sprague listened to this
story with mingled horror and sym
pathy, which made her forget her
own own grief, and at its close she
said solemnly : " Yes, Helen her
I
sorrow is greater than mina, had
ten thousand times rather Harry had
died than lived for this."
And tbr you,, oh, stricken moth
ers, who have laid down, with such
heartaches: ail God beat knoweth, the
child of your love do 1 write this
story.
mirOne half of the unhappiness
we hove is this life exists because
of too math sensitiveness,. /sod $
morbid disposition which allows
trifles to weigh heavily ow oer aged&
A trilling loss or ineotivesienoe often
ammo' more anacrirasopthao ft much
fano* •
POLAND.
The latest news from Europe gives
some reason to hope that the revolu
tion in Poland will result in a great
improvement in the condition of that
unhappy country; that the blood
thot has been shed so devotedly in
ddense of her outraged rights will
not have been shed in vain. France
and England seemed to have fully
resolved upon united action to com
pel the Emperor of Russia to fulfill
the treaty of Vienna by granting
the Poles a constitutional Govern
.ll ent. Unhappily, they are .not yet
prepared to demand of Russia, Aus
tria, and Prussia the restoration of
the old kingdom of Poland. The
time for thin, in the opinion of the in
tervening powers, has not yet ar
rived. That it will surely come
mast be the trust of all who believe
in the coming of the day when might
and right and truth shall be united,
never to part again.
It does honor to the people of Eng
land and France that all parties in
both countries agree in denouncing
the conduct of Russia toward the
Poles. This is less remarkable in
England than in France, where it is,
indeed, extraordinary that there is
such entire unanimity on this sub
ject among clericals and anti-cleri
cals, Bonapsrtists, Orleanists, Legit
imists, and Republicans of every
grade. It will be impossible for Rus
sia to resist such a demonstration.
It is hard for Americans to realize
the miseries to which these poor, op
pressed people of Poland have been
subjected. It is wonderful that it
can enter into the hearts even of the
worst of men to inflict such cause
less sorrows on their fellow-men.—
For many years, ever since the treaty
of Vienna in 1815, it has been the
cherished object of the Poles to ob
tain from their hard masters the con
stitutional Government promised
them, to have a Polish administra
tion, and to encourage the study or
their native language, which has
been studiously discouraged by Rus
sia, Austria, and Prussia for purposes
of oppression. It is said by some
that the present Emperor of Russia
has favored these objets. Any oth
er policy, indeed, would be so for
eign to that which he has pursued
with his own people of Russia, that
this statement might well be credit
ed but for the oppressive acts which
he has permitted, and which he has
sustained by armed force. Notwith
standing all the efforts made by all
classes in Poland to obtain by peace
ful representations the constitutional
Government to which they know
themselves to be entitled by common
right and by solemn treaty, they ut
terly failed in securing from Russia
any concessions whatever. Driven
to despair, they formed secret socie
ties. These might have been law
fully suppressed by the Russian Gov
ernment, which, however, chose the
course of violence and illegal oppres
ion. It ordered that persons named
on certain lists furnished by the po
lice, persons known or suspected to
belong to these societies, should be
teroibly taken in the night from
their families, and consigned for life.
simply on account of their political
opinions and supposed revolutionary
intentions, to.service in the Russian
army.
This conscription, conducted with
no reference to this fitness of the
corocripts fqr the service, and with
no regard to the usual rules of con
scription, was certainly a measure
of tie harshest severity. The mem
bers of the secret societies, who per.
haps meditated some future revolt,
though they might never, but for
this act of tyrranny, have carried
their design into execution, were
driven to despair, and considered
that, if they were to be compelled to
serve as soldiers, they ought to give
the last drop of their blood for the
liberties of their country. And thus
naturally began the revolution.
It in sadly true that, single-banded
the Poles would be unable long to
cope with their formidable adversa
ries, whose overwhelming numbers
could not fail finally to crush them.
True, the Russian soldiers have thus
far been gallantly met and often re
pulsed. But this resistance could
not continue long without foreign
intervention. That intervention
seems about not to be niade by
armed force, but by strong protes
tations, which Russia knows well
must be yielded to, unless she is
ready and wilting to provoke the
use of armed force,
The result of the whole matter is
therefore evident. France and Eng
land will protest, Russia will respect
their protest, and wilt make valua
ble concessions to her Polish sub
jects. And there the subject will
rest, till new oppressions by the ru
ler and new aspirations for freedom
by the oppressed shall arouse anoth
er flame, which shalt either be ex
tinguished in blood and tears, or
shall consume forever every vestige
of tyranny.
tor Virtue consists in doing our
duty, in the seven! relations ;limit
instain, Pinto* to Oflllol,_
to OW AUMIIMOrnii and is thod, si
known hoist sosiwin, conseienno fund
revelation.
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would SAW
The Polish Revolution.—How
the Poles Flght.--Atroeities of
the Russians.
We glean from the foreign files by
the city of Baltimore, the following
incidents of the outbreak in Poland,
showing the determined spirit which
animates the insurgents, and the
atrocities committed by the Russian
troops:
A LETTER FROM THE POLISH POET
MICKIEWICZ
The Opinion Nationale publishes a
letter from the Polish poet Mickie
wicz, whose patriotic national songs
are now sung by the insurgents.—
It is dated Warsaw, February 16th,
and contains these ringing passages:
Many Russians and foreign officers
do not understand by what an
amount of living despair we are an
mated they .become indignant and
disgusted at seeing children hardly
eight years old discharge revolvers
at Russian soldiers, and they never
think of the towns and villages
which our tyrant* have reduced to
cinders. All here, whether rich or
poor, before they know how to speak
or think, have in them the germ of
an inextinguishable hatred of foreign
domination. Our fathers and our
grandfathers suffered all that we suf
fer, although we were born in the
midst of hanging and transporta
tions to Siberia, and have all our
lives been persecuted and hunted
down by the most infamous men
that could be found in Russia.
* * * The insurgents are for their
country, disarmed, preferring death
to the lives they lead, and resolved
in any case not to fall in the bands
of the Russians. The rumor circu
lates that Langiewicz, having made
the mistake. of giving battle to the
enemy at Swito Kisy, has been de
stroyed. However, it is but a ru
mor. The wounds of the Russians
are mortal when the terrible scythes
of the peasants reach them; the
hospitals are full, the soldiers exas
perated, and the Cossacks avenge
themselves by killing all they coins
across.
A Jew of Lida has just returned
here. lie says that everywhere
along his route the landholders and
peasants thought of nothing but
rising. The insurgents have also
taken his son and whatever provis
ions be carried with him, but he
makes no complaint about either.—
The Russians set fire to all the coun
try, and put all whom they met to
the sword. Up to the present we
have been absurdly generous, for our
people released both officers and sol
diers who fell into their hands.
RUSSIAN ATROCITIES
A Berlin correspondent of the
London Daily News, writing under
date of February 19th, say,s :
In Warsaw the terror of the gov
ernment is very great, as any one in
whose house arms or insurgents may
be found will be tried by a drum
head court martial and executed at
once, and the house is to bo destroy
ed by cannon. Heart-rending as
were a few details respecting the
massacres by the Russians at Tainas
co on thNth instant, I cannot help
recording some fresh ones, furnished
from a credible source.
The brother of Col. Dombros!ci
was barbarously murdered a lad,
15 years old, having run out of. the
house at the roar of the cannon, ex
claimed that it was the intervention
of Providence that kept the Russian
bullets from the Poles. An infuriated
Cossack, hearing this, seized the boy,
and saying, "Let Providence now
keep the bullets from you," killed
him on the spot. One of the mur
dered Poles had a spoon in his pock
et, with which the Russians took
some blood out of the Pole's wounds,
and, placing it to the lips of the
corpse, shouted out, "Drink some of
this punch."
Nothing can describe the degree
of atrocity which marks this Russian
campaign. The whole of the offices
of the immense property of Count
Zamoyski, at Swierryniec, contain
ing papers, deeds, accounts. &c., have
been destroyed, and the beautiful
country palace Klemersov, and an
other estate, Badaezov, have been
made a heap of ruins.
The town of Krzeszov was on the
14th of Februrry occupied by the
Russians and. leveled to the ground,
the greater part of the inhabitants
imprisoned, among thein the curate
Lukas wicz; who, moreover, was
beaten with sticks unmercifully. The
insura ° ents, having been met near
that town, offered a gallant resist
ance, and had several wounded,
among whom was a priest. They
then retreated into the forests of
Ksiezopol. •
How long this sanguinary war
will last, and whore it will end, is
known to Heaven alone. The Poles,
on hearing that the Prussian troops
will cane to the assistance of the
Russian* are more determined to
shed the last drop of theta blood, and
already sign* Of the peasents, being
favorable to the movements are nu
merous. They do. lot oitly as in
Lltbashrtia. join she ranks °Abe la
sargents, but everywhere give thou
bell', shelter end infornastaos about
the movements of ,the away. The
nobles, likewise, Ilea, and spare no
mows to onpport the insurgents.
A TESTIMONY.
At about forty-three years of age,
I suffered an almost entire prostra
tion of health, in consequences of ex
cessive labors and affliction, from the
sicknes and death of my children.--
During several years in which I was
sinking, I tried in vain, under medi
cal direction, the most approved
forms of stimulus, joined with the
most nutritious and varied diet.—
When at length my powers were al
most Woken down, I was persuaded
by a friend, to abandon the use of
wine and every other alcoholic
stimulus, and to depend on a small
quaatity of bread, crackers, rice, and
a little animal muscle, or other sim
ple kinds of food, with water, milk,
or other mild dilutent drinks, omit
ting everything that contains alco
hol. Within a few weeks my health
began to mend, and at the end of
one year, I was able to return to ard
uous duties, demanding constant ex
ertion of both body and mind. My
frame naturally vigorous and elastic,
gradually recovered its tone, and now,
thirteen years after the period of my
greatest depression, I am able, upon
simple but common diet, consisting
of the most usual articles of food, ta
ken without any use of alcoholic
stimulus, to perform constant labor
in my profession, with much public
speaking, and I sustain no inconven
ience, except the fatigue which sleep
removes, as in the case of other
healthy persons. I was from child
hood, constitutionally prone to bleed
ing at the nose, and sometimes to au
alarming degree. After the recovery
of my health, I allowed myself to
use with moderation, the best bot
tled cider at dinner only. After ab
staining from it a few weeks, on a
long journey (because cider of a good
quality could not be obtained at the
tavern), my nose-bleeding ceased,
and with it the vertigoes, and con
fused and uncomfortable feelings of
the head and nerves, by which I fre
quently had been troubled. Think
ing that cider might have been con
cerned in causing these effects, I
have never returned to its use, and
for nearly three years since I omit
ted cider, I have had no serious re
currence of these affections —From
Benjamin Silliman, D., LL. D.
IF YOU MEAN NO, SAY NO!
When a man has made up his mind
to do or not do a thing, he should
have the pluck to say so, plainly and
decisively. It is a mistaken kindness
—if meant kindness—to meet a re
quest which you have determined not
to grant, see about it," or "I'll
think the matter over," or, "I canna
give you a positive answer now; call
in a few days and I'll let you know."
it may be said, perhaps, that the ob
ject of these ambiguous expressions is
to "let the applicant down easy;"
but their tendency is to give him use
less trouble acd anxiety, and possibly
to prevent his seeking what he re
quires in a more propitious quarter
until after the golden opportunity
has passed. Moreover it is question
able whether the motives for such
equivocation are as philanthropic as
some people suppose. Generally
speaking, the individual who thus
avoids a direct refusal, does so to
save himself pain. Mon without de
cision of character have an inde
scribable 'aversion to say " No. "
They can think "No "---sometimes
when it would be more creditable to
their courtesy and benevolence to
say "Yes"—but they dislike to utter
the bold word that represents their
thoug'its. They prefer to mislead
and deceive. It is true that these
bland and considerate people are oft
en spoken of as "very gentlemanly."
But is it gentlemanly to keep a - man
in suspense for days, and perhaps
weeks, merely because you do not
choose to put him out of it by a
straightforword declaration Y He
only is a gentleman who treats his
fellow-men in a manly, straightfor
ward way. Never seem by ambigu
ous words to sanction hopes you do
not intend to gratify. If you mean
"No," out with it !
DEMBINSKI IN THE FIELD,
Paris, Friday Evening.—Gen.
Dombinski's numerous acquaint
ances here learn from Le Siecle the
truth of his departure and sadden ap
pearance at the head of the revolt
in 1k and, thus adding a truly form
idable feature to the movetnent,—
The veteran is now seventy-four, and
it is more than halt a eontury, since
he helped to rout the Russians at
Srnolenski, (1812,) under Bonaparte;
in his march on Moscow. He fought
under Poniatowski at Leipsic, and
fi l tared in the front of the rising in
1830. The vigor be displayed in
Hungary is of too recent memory
to require indication. the whole can
duct of the struggle cannot fail to
devolve thenceforward on his su
preme guidance. We gather from
the Wanderer that instances are by
no means pubes:rent of - genie* offi
eeixzusferring t4pir services to the
the insurgents, and afeeting
"a similar transfer of stores and war
sappties, a *malt whist Alexander
Remo. in hit l- 444.4 hod long pm
Lam' as for, and to witlah MBA R/ it.
stirring appeal, !MAT Ealkiniy contrib.at.
NEW SERJES.--VOL. 4, NO. 43.
THE BATTLE-FIELD OF STONE
RIVER,
Parson Brownlow writes from
Nashville :—t have just returned
from Murfreesboro, where I spent
two days in riding through the vast
encampments of our troops, and over
the late battle ground. I traversed
about five miles in extent of the bat
tle-ground, first in the fields, and
then In the woods among the cedars
and timbers where much hard fight
ing was done. No man at a dis
tance, only receiving the newspaper
accounts, can form any idea of the
number of dead horses and mules
upon the ground. Their names are
legion. They are often piled up, one
upon another —some shot through
the body, some through the neck,
others with beads and logs shot off.
but all are in wonderful state of
preservation, though lying on the
field more than two months.
The trees are peppered with bul
lets for miles, the twigs are cut off,
and many trees are cat off at points
ranging from five to thirty feet
from the ground. Large trees of
size sufficient to make saw-logs,
where the cannon ball struck them
fairly, they passed clear through,
and daylight can be seen through as
one rides along. Cannon balls are
to be seen all along the line, and
shells that failed to explode. In oth
er instances pieces of shell are upon
the ground, and among the cedars
I handled them.
The graves of the dead aro to be
seen everywhere, in untold numbers.
The headboards of single graves in
dicate who many of them are, giving
names, regiments, and residences.—
Among the rebel graves I found the
name of a relative of my wife,
a cap
tain of Artillery, from Alabama,
killed in the fight on the 30th of De
cember. In many instances ditches
were dug, and from seventy-five to
one hundred men packed into it,
ditch. The dirt upon many of these
is only a few inches deep, and in
some instances hands and feet are
sticking out. The greatest sight to
be seen is that in front of where Gen.
Rosecrans massed his artillery, say
one hundred and twenty guns.
Dead horses and mules, and an innu
merable quantity of graves, tell the .
effect of those guns. .
FRINGE OF WALES' GIFTS TO HIS
lo magnificent bridal presents of
the Prince of Wales to the Princess
ALEXANDRIA are thus described by
the London Times:—"For the last
day or two the establishment of
Messrs. GARRARD, the Crown jeliyel
ler, has been eagerly sought by fash
ionable visitors anxious to see the
costly presents manufactured for the
Prince of Wales as gifts to his bride.
Some of them aro already exhibited.;
others will be shown,in the course of
the present week. Conspicuous
canonic the beautiful objects now on
view is a completeparureof diamonds
and pearls, comprising a necklace,
a broach and ear-rings. The neck
lace is composed of eight clusters,
with large pendants, the centre clus
ter consisting of three fine pear
shaped pearl drops. and the whole
being connected with festoons of
splendid pearls, surrounded by dia
monds, with other pearls as drops.—
These jewels are all of the first quail : .
ty, and were manufactured after the
design and under the superintend
ence of the Prince.
"Glittering on each side of the
parure are two broaches, entirely of
diamonds, formed so as to represent
the Prince of Wales' feathers. These
are of different sizes, but both very
large. The wedding' ring, which,
of course, is of plainagold, is remark
ably massive, and its accompanying
keeper is set with six precious
stones, selected and arranged so that
the initial letters of their names
shall form the word 'Bettie,' an af
fectionate variation of 'AmoraT.'—
The stones of which this happy com
bination is effected are a beryl, an
emerald, a ruby, a turquois, a ja
cynth, *and another emerald. A plain
gold ring has likewise been made to
ho worn by the Prince himself. As
presents for the bridesmaids, eight
lockets have been made. These are
of coral and diainotd, to signify the
red and white which are the colors
of Denmark. In the centre of each
is a cypher in crystal, forming the
letters A. E A., after a drawing by
the Princess Arden.
•The eight bridemaids themselves
present to her royal highness a splen
did diamond and enamel bracelet.—
This is made in eight compartments,
in each of which is the miniature
portrait of one of the young ladies,
with her initials beneath in diamonds.
Messra. GARRARD are also lashing
two other presents for the soya
bride—one from her Majesty, con
sisting of a most costly suit or opal.
and diamonds, as Valuable and as
rare as those which the Prince of
Wales presented to the Princess
flays', and similar in form to the
e.
suit designed for the Primo.
by the Prince Consort. The
is anoti)er present from, the
of Wales, and consists of a brilliiett
tiara, but this will not be eeeeplated
before the end of next week.'
BRIDE.