ttending their masters and mistresses. I have often been amused, not
only here, but during my residence in Kentucky, at the high-sounding
Christian names which have been given to them. "Byron, tell Ada to come
here directly." "Now, _Telemachus_, if you don't leave _Calypso_ alone,
you'll get a taste of the _cow-hide_."

Among others, attracted to the springs professionally, was a very clever
German painter, who, like all Germans, had a very correct ear for music.
He had painted a kitchen-dance in Old Virginia, and in the picture he
had introduced all the well-known coloured people in the place; among
the rest were the band of musicians, but I observed that one man was
missing. "Why did you not put him in?" inquired I. "Why, Sir, I could
not put him in; it was impossible; he never _plays in tune_. Why, if I
put him in, Sir, he would spoil the _harmony_ of my whole picture!"

I asked this artist how he got on in America. He replied, "But so-so:
the Americans in general do not estimate genius. They come to me and
ask what I want for my pictures, and I tell them. Then they say, `How
long did it take you to paint it?' I answer, `So many days.' Well,
then they calculate and say, `If it took you only so many days, you ask
so many dollars a day for your work; you ask a great deal too much; you
ought to be content with so much per day, and I will give you that.' So
that, thought I, invention and years of study go for nothing with these
people. There is only one way to dispose of a picture in America, and
that is, to raffle it; the Americans will then run the chance of getting
it. If you do not like to part with your pictures in that way, you must
paint portraits; people will purchase their own faces all over the
world: the worst of it is, that in this country, they will purchase
nothing else."

During my stay here, I was told of one of the most remarkable instances
that perhaps ever occurred, of the discovery of a fact by the party from
whom it was of the utmost importance to conceal it--a very pretty
interesting young widow. She had married a promising young man, to whom
she was tenderly attached, and who, a few months after the marriage,
unfortunately fell in a duel. Aware that the knowledge of the cause of
her husband's death would render the blow still more severe to her, (the
ball having passed through the eye into his brain, and there being no
evident gun-shot wound,) her relations informed her that he had