"Di tempo in tempo mi 81 fa mon dura
L'Angelica hgura, Ell dolce riss;"
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The company was not numerous, probably two
hundred strong; many, as we learned, who had
subscribed to the benefit, being absent but in its
composition it was eminently respectable and po-
lite, being of the same personages, ladies and gen.
tlemen, in the main, who were wont to kick out
the threadbare carpeting of the East Room in the
happy reunions at the White House, under the old
Vlrginlan dispensation OF honest John Tyler. Ali
those happy, happy evenings, with that happy COM
pany IN the East Room-these delicious drawing
rooms of Mrs. Tyers, as John Jones styled the
charming gatherings semI-monthly at the Execu-
tive Mansion! All! my dear, sir, they were good,
hospltable and amlabe family, were these TyIer's.
after all-that they were. Alas alas we are
afraid that Mrs Polk is too true Presbyterian to
keep up this sort OF recreation, indeed, we arey
and therefore, those cotillon parties of the people
in the house OF their favorite servant will remain
but In recollection, as Oss,an mournfully sings


Like the memory Of days that are gone,


Pleasant and mournui to the SOUL"


The dancing was commenced in very delibe-
rate, premedltated, and buslne ss-ke manner. The
music was, as the Brieadier General Of song wri-
ters would say, recherche; was the company; 20
was the prevailing spirit, in TACT
+ Two hundred hearts beat happily, and when


Music arose with its volurtuous swell,


Soft eyes looked love 70 eySs, which spoke again,


And all went merrv as q marriage bell


But, hush -"


For there comes Capt Rynde-s, the inconuptiblo
politician, and the gallant gay Lotharo of the Sub
tenane neans--the modern Leander, who would swim
the Potomac for a kiss-the American Don Juan,