'All--O.K. till December.
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Up and Down.
The almost universal cry, "Down with the taxes!" is inconsistent in one
sense, because if taxes were Down, they would certainly be extremely
light.
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Running and Reid-in.
And now MAYNE REID is announced as having a lecture on BYRON. At this
rate we shall soon have BYRON'S memory embalmed in Stowe-Reid greatness.
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Good Roaming Catholics.
The Sisters of Charity.
A VISIT TO "SHERIDAN'S RIDE."
PHILADELPHIA, March 26, 1870.
DEAR PUNCHINELLO:
Taking my way along Chestnut Street a few days since, I found my
progress arrested at Tenth Street by a great current of humanity, that
swept with resistless force into the entrance to the Academy of Fine
Arts.
I, too, entered, and, passing around the familiar group of the "Centaurs
and Lapithae," which stands beneath the dome, was hurried breathlessly
onward by the throng, until I found myself face to face with that
_chef-d'oeuvre_ of modern art, T. BUCHANAN READ'S painting of
"SHERIDAN'S Ride.
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