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of old--fhirteen black Ofpheuses PeICu0u o's d
throne OF dining tables, and the oiaGA veins y"


their shining pies strained to the crack OF NOR
-. ,,.;,L ,he;r Jealous execution The walters
meantime. were Lighting Inc uh Dt'steus' 'tnaI


monster SO destructive to broadcloth,)
IA the side-sconces and s,and-amps, and pre-
ssnrly blaze OF light flooded the dusty evrrgrcens
of the facade, and nothing wanting but some
fashionable Curtus to plunge first into the void
some adventurous Benton, to set the 6G4t in
| motion.


Wrapped carefully from the night-air in his
| cloak and belcher, B sat, looking earnestly
! into the room, and 10 his excited senses, there
seemed, about all this supplemental the summers
gavsty, weird mysterious, an atmosphere of ma
gic, which was observable, he ,hought even in the
! burning of the candles And, as to Johnson, the
| sable leader of the band" God my life, as Bot
tom says, hew like tormented fend writhed the
cremona belwixt bis chin and white waistceat -
Such music, FROM Instruments SO vexed, had never
| spli; the of the Saratoga groundllngs, since
the ,ue OF Saint Domnick, (in whose hands even
wine sparkled to scng)--ne. MOI, since the golden
age the Springs, when THAI lord OF harmony and
the r,bobs OF lower Broadway made, OF Congress
| Hal paraGsse for the unmarried Was John
son ,ew,ched Was Congress Hall re- possessed
by tie spirits of thepast7 If ever B, sitting
| in otbel years on that rc5oundipg coionade, had
| t<lt the magnetic atmosphere of people he knew
| to be up stairs he felt il now, If ever he had
been contentcd, knowing that certain bright crca-
tures would presently glide into the visual radius
of black Johnson ne felt contcnted, lnexpilcaby,
from the same cause nOm-cXpectng, as II such
music could only be their herald, the entrance of
The same bright creatures, no older, and bright
after years of mairimony.- And now and then
B pressed his hand to his head--for he was
he ,t,, he 4,
ing in his mind


Blu, suddenly the band struck up march The
irst bar was PLAYED through, and 3 looked at
he door, sighing that this sweet hellucil ation-
this waking-dream Of other days-Was now 10 be
scattered by reality. He could have fllipid the.
| nercenarv Ethiopian on the nose for playing such
music to such falings-uff from the past as he now
eoked to see enter


adv crossed the threshold or gentemans
srn1.


"Ha. la - said B, trying with wild effort
% laugh and pinching his arm into blood blister,
cqme-this i. too good Helen K oh, no
Not quite crazy yet, hope-not SO far gone yet !
Yet ii is I.swear it is And not changed either
Beautiful as ever by all that s wonderful! Pshs
I'll not be mad Rice ARE you there Why,
who are these coming after her Julia L!
Anua K. and my friend Fanny! The D--s!
The Ms Nay, I'm dreaming, silly fool that
am I'll call for light! Waiter Where
he devils the bell ?"


And as poor B, insisting on finding himself
n bed reached out his hand to find the bell-pull,
me of the waters of Congress Hall came to his
luminous. The gentleman wanted nothing, and
he waiter thought he had cried out in his nap; and
ather embarrassed to explain his wants, bat still
,nconvinced Of his freedom from dream-land, b
lrew his hat over his eyes and his cloak around
,im, and screwed up his courage to look again IN
% the enchanted ballroom.


The quadrilles we're formed aud the lady at the
head of the first set was spreading her skirts tor
he auant-deur. She was tall woman superbly
handsome, and moved with the grace OF a trigate
1t sea with nine knot breeze. Eyes capable of
aking in dodgers, (hearts, that is to say, OF any
ind every calibre and quality, a bust for Corne-
ia shape all love and lghtness, and smile like
j, temptation of Eblis-there she was--and there
we're fifty like her-not like her, exactly, either.
ul of her constellation every one of them,
who will be remembered by old men, and used for
ihc disparagement of degenera,ed younslings-
splendid women of Mr.. BIS time and OF
the palrny time of Congress Hall


''The past-,he pnst-the past"


Out on Your staring and unsheltcred lantern of
,rck-your % United States HOTEL stiff, modern
and promiecuous Whoever passed comfortable
lour in its glaring cross-lights, or breathed gen
c sentiment in its uusubdued mir and town-sil
open to-dustiness What is it to the eaiy dim
aess, the cool shadows, the perpetual and pcnsive
iemi-j0uT--what to the ten thousand associations
of Congress Halt Who has rot lost Il heart (ol
rwo) on the boards of that primitive wilderness
Of a colonadc Whose first alterations, whose signs,
hopcs strategies and irtations not ground into
5hat warped and slipper-polished floor, like heart
,che and avaricc into the bricks OF Wali-strect =
Lord bless you, madam don't desert old Congress
| Hall We have done going 10 the Springs-(1ce)
md wouln go there again for any thing but good
price for a pang--(that is, cxcep, to see such a
| sight as we arc describing )-bat VIC cannot bear,
in our midsummer fit through the Aster, to see
! ;harning girls bound for Saratoga, and hear no
ak of Congress Hall What, no lounge on those
| oroposal.sofas-nc pluck at the bright green
leaves Of those luxuriant crcepers while list
| ening to g the voice of the charmer no dawds
in the steps to the Springs, (mamma gone on be
| $orel-no hunting forthot sow-wormin the shrub
berry by the musc-room-no swing--no billiards
no morning gossips with the few privileged beaux
admitted to The upstairs entry, ladies' wing


q I'd be set quick ,he earth,


And bowled TO death with turnips,


han assist or minglc in such upgrate(ul forgetful
aess of pcasure-land! But what do we witt, d
gression in glioststory


The ball went on. Champagne Of the "explo


led color, (pink) was freely circulated between
he dapces-(rosy Wine suited to the bright days
when all things were tinted se)-and wit eXplo
led, too, in thess leaden times. went round with
The wine; and glass of the bright vintage was
oaRded up to old Johnson, B stretched hi,
neck over the windcw-sill in agony of cxpecta-
tion coniden, that the black ghost. if ghost he
were, would fail to recognize the leaders of fashion
as hn was won, Of old. and To bow respsclfnll,