I
beseech him, when he returns to his native land, to wear no
longer a ridiculous mask, but to appear in his own native
strength, dignity, and surpassing loveliness.

In the "Salem Observer," March 8, 1834, are to be found the following
references to well-known young ladies of the day. Miss Silsbee is
supposed to be the daughter of the Hon. Nathaniel Silsbee, of Salem,
Massachusetts senator in Congress. She afterwards married Jared Sparks,
the well-known historian, president of Harvard College, etc.

HIGH LIFE AT WASHINGTON. The Washington Correspondent of the
Boston Morning Post, in describing Gov. Cass's soiree, thus
notices some of the young ladies who were present:--

Miss Keyser of Baltimore, uniting youth and beauty,
possesses an eye as dark as the absence of all light,
beaming with a lustre that eclipses all. I never saw a
countenance betoken such perfect happiness; it was like a
star-lit lake, curling its lips into ripples in some dream
of delight, as the west wind salutes them with its balmy
breath and disturbs their placid slumber. I never before
realised Byron's idea of

"Music breathing o'er the face;"

till Miss Keyser's brought it home to the business and
bosom.

Miss Silsbee, of Salem, with a form of great symmetry,
possesses a countenance not only beautiful, but entirely
intellectual--the most so of any you have met with either
here or elsewhere; it is of the Italian model; and should
have basked beneath an Italian sky. She is very easy,
graceful and modest in her deportment, and dresses 'rich not
gaudy;' the cameo necklace that graced her person was only
the foil that set off the diamond.

Miss Harper of Baltimore, with a fine face and form, is
particularly unrivalled for a bust of unrivalled symmetry;
it would furnish a model for a Canova; and reminds me of
Greenough's Medora.

Miss M'Lane of this city, with many separate charms that
could not fail of attraction, unites with them the finest of
fine forms.

And last, not least, the younger Miss Cass possesses the
most perfect _Madonna_ countenance I have ever seen clothed
in living lustre. It was one of the first that attracted my
attention when I entered the saloon, and the last that
received my parting glance when I retired; it seemed to be--

"While in, above the world;"