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We can recommend our readers in this city
to pay visit to Plumbe's National Daguerre.
otype Gallery, now open for the reception Of
visitors, graruitously at Concert Hall, Penn.
avenue, near Browns Hotel. Not only faith
ful llkenesses of members Of Congress, Presi-
dents and Ex-Presidents, with their ladies and
other members Of their families, and other dis
tinguished individuals adorn the walls, bat "a
miIiar residents and daily street recognitons
strike the.eye. Whole families are pour,rayed
with the exactness Of mirror, except some of
the 'liule ones,' who never can sit still when they
are told, especially when most necessary. To
be told 10 sit still even for the half minute re-
quired, operates more mercurially on child,
than even positive command would do to be
restless and uneasy Any movement or agi-
tation of the object causes proportionaie
blurr on the picture.


The great charm Of Daguereotye likeness,
whether Of an individual with whom we are
unaequainsed by sight, or Of one with whose
countenance we are familiar, consists in the
certainty that there can be no hattery IN the
one, and absence Of disappointment by the
non-recognition Of the other. Young Narcis-
sus, who fell in love with his own face and
form reflected from fountain, was not more
sure of the resemblance than we mus, be with
this mode of depiciure either Of ourselves or
our friends. Narcissus found Truth in Well,
where the ancients placed her. We'll aday but
now we can see her stamped on metal
with the elemental endurance of Nature her
sell, as well as in the columns Of the Colum
bian Fountain, from which truth streams as
brightly and purely as from the cold water
spring Of Narcssus Our reporter has had his
phiz taken, and he says it is as correct as his
reports usually are, and much more satisfac'o-
ry to, all concerned; for from some peculiar
rarefaction or condensation OF the circulating