CONTENTS.

BELLE BRITTAN ON A TOUR.

WASHINGTON.-The President-The White House-Miss
Lane-Office-Seekers-Indian Chiefs-Ball at the Post-
master-General's-New-York Ladies-Lady Napier-
Charles Mackay-Lady Napier's Ball-The Belles-New
Year's Day-The New Halls of Congress-Speaker Orr
-Manners-Fashions-Glover's Modeled Fruits-Mrs.

Douglass-Mrs. Slidell-Lady Gore Ouseley-Dinner to
Mackay-John and Jonathan-Gossip.

WHEELING. A Long Journey-Scenery-Harper's Ferry-
Cumberland-Tearful Women-The McClure House-
Nothing Hot-Cheap Coal, and Costly Fires.

CINCINNATI-Rich Country-Burnet House-The City-
Longworth's Wine Cellars-Hog Factories-" Bel Smith"
at Home-Christening Wine-Ham-Grape Culture-
Women-The Burns' Festival-Charles Gould's emenda-
tion of "John Anderson"-Lectures-Leaving.
LOUISVILLE.-Accidents on the Road-Explosion of the Fanny
Fern-Wanted a Cork-Screw-Jeffersonville-Whisky
and Women-The Galt House-Geo. D. Prentice-The
Press-Preston-Death of John Raine-Catawba, &c.

ST. LOUIS.-The Planters' Hotel-The Growing City-The
Iron Mountains-Public Buildings-Newspapers-Mer-
cantile Library-A Wedding-Pretty Ladies.

MISSISSIPPI RIVER.-The Steamboat Philadelphia-Life on
Board-A Maid from Alabama-Mackay's Rhyme of the
River-Counting the Sheep-Live Stock-Sugar Estates.
NEW-ORLEANS.-The St. Charles-The Opera-Concerts-
The Ladies-Charlotte Cushman-The Poet "Rosa"-
The Red Petticoat (in full)-Who is Belle Brittan ?-
Anonymous Correspondence-The Mistick Krewe of
Comus-Cock-Fighting—The "Spirit of "76."

MOBILE. A Cotton City-The Battle House-Madame Le
Vert-John Phoenix-A Saucy Postscript.

UP THE ALABAMA.-New-York Ladies-Montgomery-Pur-
suit of Supper under Difficulties-Southern Hotels,
SAVANNAH.-The Pulaski House-The City-Regular Bricks
-Buenaventura
Malignant Philanthropy Northern
Abolitionism, and Southern Intolerance.

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CHARLESTON.-Slow Steaming-Navigation through a Cane-
brake-Capt. Brittan-Grayson's Hireling and Slave-
The Bible-Profane Readings-Colored Sunday Schools
-The Religion of Cleanliness-Gen. Gadsden's Rice
Plantation, and his Swarm of Black Birds.

RICHMOND.-Sunrise-Fiendish Outrage-Holly-wood Ceme-
tery-Crawford's Washington-Houdon's-The Southern
Matron-Mrs. Cora Ritchie-Mr. Washington—James the
Novelist-Twin Roses-The Press-Dangerous Eyes.
WASHINGTON.-Another Dinner to Mackay-Brady's Gallery
-Belle Brittan "taken."

BELLE BRITTAN AT NEWPORT.

NEWPORT.-A Young Girl's Enthusiasm-An Awful Pun-
Spring Chickens-The Germanians-Belles Bathing—
The Circus-Big Trunks-Brooks and Burlingame-No
Beaux-Politics-Mr. Buchanan's Love Story-Warning

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to Women" One of the Girls"-History of the United
States on Horseback-A Swimming-Lady-Steam
Hurdy-Gurdy Duels-Concerts-La Grange-Brignoli
-Madame de Wilhorst-Miss Secor-Cottages-Code of
Honor for Women-Customs-Costumes-Fighting-
Flirting Fishing-The Belle of Newport-Abolitionism
Scandal Fast Horses - Fast Women
Hearne The Yachts-Matrimony-Gottschalk-Death of
Mr. Ring-Splendid Toilettes-Prince John Van Buren—
Charles Astor Bristed-Every inch a Man-In Love-
What the Papers say-Anecdote of Charles Lamb-A
Bug" in a Lady's Room-The Providence Journal—Dr.
Carnochan - Feminine Ornaments - Baby-Belle — Fare-
well Sighs-Varana Vane.

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BELLE BRITTAN HERE AND THERE.

The Boston Transcript-Life in New-York-The Financial
Panic-The Greek Slave-Ballet Dancers-The Credit
System-Wall Street-Japonicadom-The Jobbers-
Tom Rapid-Young America Train-The Woodman
Case-Bread or Blood-Randall's Jefferson-Litera-
ture-Art-A Richmond Belle-A Cowhiding by a Wo-
man- -Crawford; his Life, Death, and Works-The
Banks-A Collapsed President-Buchanan's Hamlet-
Bayard Taylor's Wedding-Potiphar Curtis-Paul Fane
Willis The Collins Steamers-Belmont-Herr Formes
-City Politics-Evacuation Day The Court of Napo-
leon-World-noted Women-Thanatopsis Bryant-Bon-
ner's Ledger-City Government-The New Post-Office
-Postmaster Fowler-Charles Mathews-Mark Smith-
Sunday Concerts The St. Nicholas Hotel-Madison
Square Hotel The French Gallery-Fifth Avenue Reli-
gion-The Panic-Congress-Mrs. Spencer's Paintings
-Mackay at the St. Andrew's Festival-Death of N. R.

Stimson-The Journal of Commerce's Call to Prayer-
Bryant's Poems-Zanfretta on the Tight Rope-The Poet
Mackay-The Opera-Beautiful Books-The Two Frank
Piece, at Wallack's—A Fashionable Party-Oratorios—
Belmont's and Aspinwall's Galleries-Mrs. John Wood-
Charity Balls-The Asylum for Women-The Yacht
Wanderer-Parton's Life of Burr-The Pilgrim Dinner
and Balls A Beecherism-Gen. Webb's Speech-
G. F. Train's Speech-Changes-Death-Revivals-
The Bal Masque-Fry's Leonora-Sugar-Curtis on
Woman and Slavery-The Leviathan-The Atlantic
Ferry-Chapin on Woman and her Work-Moving Times
-The Bankrupt Law-The Dramatic Fund-Dr. Ward's
Opera--Barnum's Opera Humbug-Cape May Bathing
with Beaux-Saratoga-Singing-Dancing-Belles-The
Tableaux at the "United States "-The Belles of the
Season-an Amateur Artiste-Meyerbeer's North Star-
Agnes Robertson-Bourcicault-Madame de Wilhorst-
Genius-The Language of Heaven-Cousin Lou-George
Sanders-Governor Floyd-Robert J. Walker—A Vision
of Beauty-Mrs. Fremont's Bouquet of Protestant Roses
-The Phantom at Wallack's-Wood's Minstrels-
Brougham in the Bowery-Burton-a Great Institution-
The Theatre the Gate of Hell-In for it-Polly Marshall

The Academy of Design-The Worship of the Beau-
tiful - Matrimony - Edwin Forrest Rockaway - The
Pavilion-The Sea.

BELLE BRITTAN ON A TOUR.

MY DEAR

LETTER I.

WILLARD'S HOTEL, WASHINGTON,
December 29, 1857.

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No matter why, or wherefore; but here I am in Washington, (a place not worthy of the name,) and have "had an interview," as the phrase goes, with the bachelor President of this great Republic-the wifeless father of a great and growing family of thirty millions of people! What an inspiration of dignity in the consciousness of being the Head of such a nation! A man of authority, of patronage, and of power-one of the chiefest Chiefs of the civi lized world.

Mr. Buchanan is an old man-too old to be President-too old to flutter the ribbons of your "fair correspondent," although it is said that many "caps are set for him" upon younger heads than mine.