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IV: :-. VIIJI iw;T 4~V .' law. ~i: ;.; ~ ~ ~ F ~ f4 ~ k t I 4 I ~ qA N , _17M 4,~ p jp )~ i~i *~i 'I ~')~ ~Y' IIIx J ..-,.~ 16 The Sumte Banner r WI '47Flb'A ,N 018. N161.R KR Two Dollars in advance, Two Pollare and Fifty-centspt the expiratien of six months,,or Three DPllai-gthgeid ol.the year. No gaP0,liCQfotiunped until.all arrearages are pawd, ' he'option of the Proprietor OTAd ip inserted at 75 ete. per (qu 1 e, for the first and h2 ta1fah 0bscupuent insertion. .zTh nua ro ine rtions to-be iarked1 on a wiey wll be'publisli ed 'lu e .e' discontiied' and EOne_ oil rpqur' for a inglri in. aron~uT r ua'idMoi'tiily 'Adye-tis& iints will - the sa as a sitiegl nsertiong and *ebi-monthl ithei sahe as new. ones. Ali Obituary'Notiees 4xceeding six lines, and Uommunicationa; recommendi ng Cand dates fdripublic offices -or. trust-or puffing Exb ioin, will be charged. as Advertise. 7 leer by mail mnust be paid to in sure punctual'attndance. T HE'MODEL- MILLINER. Likei iifiat,4ble physician, she livds ipothiecn'ess of jhe fair sex-only what physan has so many complaints to attend Aor. Stich delicate wounds to cure as those of female vanity? Besides; is there a. physician, however pure, who would dress the wounds of his patients in the same handsome manner she dresses her's?_ Sh' has' a pharmacopma of re medids't her fingers' ends. She can tellht a .;y morely by looking at her. If jorihave no color, she knows the preeiaeq,-arm tint that will bright en up yO r eQlplexion; or, if you have too moch, she can tell to a shade what will make you look as pale as a widow at hervthir. wedding. She can pad down-h'ircular back, lower a high pair 6f shoiildors witli one touch of the scis nss, tA6 the fine edge off a hatchet face bjisa ir of rosy "whiskers;" she willfiatteA yQur cheeks with a flowery borderi, andiiby the, talisman of her won derful iiedle, i almost change a figure like asabkinto the fashionable tornure of thohotir-lass; in fact, will decorate away any deformity or cut out any ugly impossibilitygyon, chose to order. More thanthis, !hde plicks from the head of old age sf'orallo g years, and many a lady, who has crossed her threshold "on the wrong side of forty," (if such a num her ver entersathe head of a lady,) has leI with the happy conviction; that she wa a blushing debutante, conside ra er twenty.' Her shop is the celeAted fairy nill, in which by some charm at present only posessed by lookinJg.glasses, -the old are ground young agaib. Yo ican almost tell the Model Milli ner by her appearance. She isa chean lay-fiiure 6f the Modes de Paris. Sh'e is smart, neat, fashionable and elegant., yt inftliing' but obtrusive in dress. She courts .the shade with dark colors. as if S6 kept herself as a standing back groundto throw out the bright hues of her,ustomen. Her own stock of hon nets is innumeciable. She never wears .the paine twice. Like a French sur georgefuit, tries experiments upon her owriperson before she practises on herpatients. However, it is most inean to insinante-that .she sells her bonnets afterWai'ds-es newv, when. refreshed by new ribbons. "She 'is always smiling, alwaysoliliging, nCrer contradicting. The duly instrum'dnt she uses is flattery. WiLWthis sii removes, as with a plane, the koughest difficulties. "You really look so charming in that bonnet-it is so 4ertv distingue, so aristocratic; it is .Just yotir style-16t would quite dirtress her to see it worn by ainybody else, and ts0 sogedp she nmakes no thing by it, the m1tergals are so expensaive, the price so yery low, and you look so handsome ~in-in,ete.,'etc., and ethus .:she gets a dong-purse by constantly eo-so-ing. The honesty of the Model Milliner is ~bovo all: suspicion. To believe .her, 'poor thing, she loses, by every ai ticle "she makes. 'With~aquicksilvery rapid. ity of the tongne, which makes it very difficult for any one to itake her up," she runs cver the separato articles that cops the mrial turban you are ad miring, gives you the pice to a feather of every little iterni about it, and leaves yousi. a etate of wondorment how she can live aid pay for the handsome look. ing-glasseg about .the rooms when she does business at such a ruinous rate. .With her the. word "perquisitest) is like the word "impo'ssible" with Napoleon it has emigrated long ago from the dic tionary. She always finds a "a ladyv's own'mateiials"'inite suffieisnt.Naul~ils above sending home one fiounee-,less the number, ordeied;and woula eloton any inducement-not evero ve the royal arms over her door-appropriate satin enough for an apron:or keep back an -inch of yoUr charming Brusl's point. Her power of physiogliomay is quite Lavateresque; - She has always something made expressly for- each eus tomerf something composed. espeoially for the style of -every one. ' Her paw tience,'too$ surpasses a Sisteoof-Ohari ty. Yo may:try on :all her fragile stock-, drape all her -mantillks, scarfs and! visites,: in all'possible fancies over your shoulders; pull and toss. about all her rainbow assortment of-cobweb caps and bird-cage bonnets, and this she wil allow you to do for hours, never mur muring, but smiling as gratefully as be fore. She answers more absurd ques tions in a day than a Prime Minister in a week, and is as indulgent to the con. ceited beauty of sixteen as to the. yai coquette of sixty. She -is naturally mild and coaxing, but allows no AQri, daughter of Eve, tempted, beyond- the strength of her sex, by a too-seduetive bonnet, to run up a bill; nor induces a a young lady to anticipate her. next year's allowance by the persuasion of a long credit; nor, allures a simple- Miss, just fresh school, to buy things she does not want, by the dangerous promise that "she will never trouble her for the amount." She never speculates, and has never been known to supply goods upon the chance of "a certain event coming off;" or to postpone the payment of an account till "certain expectations are realized;" or to urge, with''legal firmness. that Mr. M-- cannot possi bly refuse to pay for such absolute "ne cessities;" or to equip young daughters previous to their marriages, upon the base understanding that she is to be paid afterwards. She pays no more deference to the Duchess than to tho plain Mrs.; all women are the same in her eyes, all candidates for finery. Her foreign orders are never executed with her old stock of rejected goods. She would blush, also, if she caught imposing on country cousins last year's fashions for the newest inventions. She em ploys a long-bearded courier, who," like an English manager, is coistantly run ning backward and forward from Lon don to Paris, in search of the latest-nov. cities. She keeps two distinct sets of apprentices and girls-the one intense ly Frenchified. for foreign patronnesses -the other ERnglish, for patriotic cus tomers. In similar complaisance to little prejudices, her goods change from Spitafields to Lyons' manufactories ac cording to the purchaser's nationality. There is a profeund mystery around the domestic ties of the Model Milliner. Her children are never mentiond her husband is never seen or heard. Occasionally a rakish gentleman,,. in moustaches, glides into the show-room, but lie is sternly frowned down, and, after a sharp whisper, goes out as mys teriously as he came in. Can that be her husband? Scarcely-there is so little affection apparent between the two; the man obeys'more like a servant than a human lord anid master, to whom all the caps and crinolines in the estab lishment belong! But no matter-the avocations of the Model Milliner allow her no time to be troubled with such small considerations, though she de lights, as becomes a woman and a mil liner, in ever turn of the exciting game of Matrimony, and lays awake at night twisting over in bed her numerous wed ding orders. The Model Milliner is most correct. 3 young men are allowed to lounge about in her show-room-none but mar ried gentlemen have the entree of her work-room. She, is never seen at places of public amusement by hierself; nor was she ever accuised by the most suspicious mother of allowing her house to screen senti-niental assignations, orof making it a young ladies' post-office for letters with love-sick seals. She is never seen at public balls-on the con trary, she is always *et home, promoting the comforts of the young ladies "whio aire improving themselves under her tui tion." To these the Model Milliner devotes her most affectionate thoughts. They are really her children, and she acts to them like a mothcr. She will not al low them to work more than ten hours a day. She. spares their health, looks after their morals as rigidly as their tasks, does not stint their meals, gives them wvhat little amusement slhe can' "af. ter hours," and will not allow any work ing all'night, not oven to finish $he ball drcss of the handsomest beauty that ev ei ndpuardsgo madat 4liga, I tt giVio pr Apye p re ;o e tti th.Iodotfillialsi onddby he yodugppile'alliatent'upon the ar cliitetifie of soin'"love of a bonnet," thatis to cap -4lotherbonnetsand to be receivediby.the head "of fashion: a the prisebopnet of the season. t ~tIe ~d;l .illiner rises, in the world aconfuson of tongues, li fe Toweof Babel ateiids' hei,' owing enm~ieo Herikiowledge qEngliish - be6dnei iibi renh every dky, u1ntil at laiit her ditlecti like the British Chan- i nel,. belongs to neither England nor France,.but.is continually'running be- a tweenjthp two.. She talks like Madame r Celeste.which makes it very difcult to. understand her, 'unlesyou Iave had a < course of .six private 'boxes at the Adel phi. 'A Aishilir"7 taiorphorsis takes Place in'b tnamo axid doorplate. Mrs. .l'odd is ehanged 'to Madame 'Toddee, and her shop is called a "Magazin. de, Nuveaute,' or,.-at least, a "Depot,'' I and cirqulars inform. the curious. that < Madame Toddee is de. Pari (of i course), and was th .premiere eleve i of Madame Victori'e, ' and carried 'off I the' gold medal kat tie last .Ea'Xposition I d'Industrie' for heivry superior 'ju polns AVIggieniques." As her fame in- i creases,, so' does her invisibility. Her "3fagazin" is vacated for a handsome t mansion in some 'cidevant aristocratic i square, where liveried footmen usher I you up velvet-carpeted stairs into sa loons and boudoirs, with. gold-legged chairs and the rosiest ottomans. She only receives the elite. "She "gives consultations"-is very difficult, how ever, to' consult; and when visited in her incognitio, sends down word 'that "Madame cannot be disturbed-ehe is composing." She styles herself an "artiste," has her. carriage and opera box, is more invisible every day, until. she ascends so high at last, that a like a balloon, she cannot be seen at all. The truth is,'she builds a handsome for tune out of bonnets, retires 'to Italy, buys a villa on the borders of some lake, marries a good looking primo-tezore from one of the, Operas, purchases a ti tle, and is often 'astonished when she looks back, and recollects when she was plain Miss Todd, who began life in the classii-egions of Cranbourne Alley, rose to Regent-street, ascended into Hanover -Square, soared above Al macks, as Madam Toddee, and now is the Contessa di" oddalini-all from having been a MODEL MILLINER. Puneh. COLLECTING A BILL. BY THE OLD 'UN. When, latterly, the inimitable and humorous Dan Marble arrived in this city, we promised ourselves much pleas ure and amusement from his advent, i not only 'from his genial and truthful impersonations on the stage, but from his society, as the immortal Dan shines 1 as prilliantly in private life as he does I upon the stage, This gentleman is 'just nat'rally bound,' on every visit to our time-honored metropolis, to furnish us < with the material for a sketch that has never been in print or made use of on the stage; and to do Dan justice, he niever, since the conclusion of the corn pact, failed to redeem his pledge. We are indebted to him for the 'Arkansas man who never saw a piano,' and some other things which have had their suc-i cess. The following veracious narra tive was communicated by him on his 1 last visit: In a well known and flourishihg city of the West, one of those young giants which have sprung up to maturity in the course of~ a dozen years, there lives, I an indlividual connected with the press, known familiarly adlong his friends by the soubrignet of the 'long-faced man,' and almost equtally well known by tho nickname of Colonel Walton. The first< he obtained from the length of his phiys-1 ignomy; the second from we know not< what military achievement. Among the acquaintances of the Co lonel was numbered a certain noted andi popular member of a theatrical firm, whom wve shall designate as Mr. Long. ley. The Colonel and Mr. Manager Long ley, a few years ago, were taking a morning wvalk in the vicinity of St. Lou is. Hunger had sharpened their appe tites, and when they entered a little way-side tavern, they were reduced to that pitch of famine that they could eat a horse behind the saddle, as the saying goes. Now the Colonel. had no money, while the managei wa litei'ally 'out -of own with a ocket fell of rocks.' eTk Noiel- made sone fpassing -omingAl oiaching the' sharpess of the oiri r,'. the state of his abyetite dandthl ifospect of a good dinner S'till'ud sYecould not or would rot tik tho int. At last the Colonel spoke out:-L 'Longley--I'm deuced hungry 'So am I. 'Longley-got any monej?' aske he Colonel. 'A few,' ireplied the manager.. 'Well; then,' Laid the Colonel, 'i'1l ell you what-you lend me fivedollars -and I'll order dinner. 'I'm agreed,' the manager, and- the ooney was forked over. It was a famous dinner to whi6h they at-down; there were quails andliprair ie chickens, and venson iteakdrid tao nd'of pies and custards with a- botte f wine and segars to wind -off., The long-faced man, and the manager crack d jokes, and 'all went merry as a mar. sige bell.' Dinner ended and the bill paid, they ralked back to St. Louis, merrily -and ightly. That very afternoon, howev r Longley, who was famous for keep.; ng a sharp look -out in money matters, ent his boy, a lad of eleven, to the Co onel's office, to get 'that money he lent tim in the morning.' 'Tell your daddy,' was the Cotonel's nessage, 'I can't pay him to-day. The next morning,; bright and- early, he boy made his appearnce again with peremptory demand foi'that five dol ars.' The Colonel finding his dreditor so 'uspicious and sharp set, deterimined to mnish him, and accordingly sent ;back: vord that 'he was hard up--hadi't a Lollar in the world-nobody would lend iim any-sorry-couln't help-it-ho >ed to be able to return it some time or ther,' ctc., etc, After dinner Longley'sboy re-appear-. d with a pressing demand for 'that ive dollars.' 'I can't pay it,' said"the Colonel. 'Please, sir,' said the boy, 'father aid that I must stay here till I got the noney.' '0, very good,' replied the Colonel, you're a good boy; you can stay here is long as you've a mind to. You can ;o down in the yard and play with the log till you're tired, and then you can ;o up in the garret and sleep, but you nusn't tread no mud in on the carpets. The boy embraced the proposition. le went into the vard and whiled away he long afternoon with the interesting juadruped to which his attention had >een directed, and when perfectly worn >utre.entered the house, carefully clean ng his boots on the scraper, and rub >ing his feet on the mat. Supper would iave been very acceptable to him, but is he was not invited to partake of that efreshment, lie ascended gloomily to he garret, and there forgot his ouffer ngs in sleep, The next morning -be resumed his port with the dog, but being hungry, 1e soon abandoned the Colonel's premi ies, and returned to his worthy parent ninus the five dollars Longley was in a perfect rage at the lisappointmnent and the treatment of his uvenile collector, and directed there ment certain fulminations against the iead of the Colonel, winding up with only wait till I catch one his boys; I've got a dog in my yard, and a hod in my ;arret, too.' Now there was a certain club-room n the suburbs of which no one, not a inembcr, was ever admitted, either for ove or money. The number ofmiem ers was strictly limited, and Longley and in vain attempted to proctire a inembershmip and entrance. It was no ;o. The Colonel, however was a mom wr, and this fact increased the aggrav ition of the manager. After revolv ng various ways and meanis of circum Pentinag his defhtor. and gaining admis ion to tihe covoted coterie, Lonigloy hit mn the following expedient. He deter nined to present himself at the on a ~ertain evening, to knock boldly as the leer, and whenm interrogated by the per. or, give the name of Colonel Walton, hus efibeting an entrance, trusting to ecuro a welcome afterwards. He accordingly presented himnself md knocked sternly at the door, 'Who's there?' inquired a rough voice 'A friend.' 'A friend! what name?' 'The Colonel.' 'The Colonel! what Colonel?' 'Colonel Walton, of course.' 'Not quite tall enough for the Col nel,' replied the well- known voice of that individual himself. 'Not quite tall enough for the Colonel. B3ut yotz're a r got th eul gave up 1he sms *alk into- the port to theO Mg we went W e , -0 till gentle lee d carted-,s hard not elittle afnakd ht ~0ao porteraidbt4 said "sosfewgete hy, ,were of 0og that no distuejpay leaving it open. ,A said when "4houh itCw ago asawhen ~ ~ E and wasithexAry; enteredt tlie landof a but very :fw, Ms trance, ut. athey-4 9 9J m morkingsthats thoyey b 4oq~ some otherj 49- pr open after pp for, adults *he t'A Mo -nt *.H're we get 4 ubins with win atl hurn of bene. weroetooe slepiM W~ weriteb1ur p RBVBRY thath n4 4p, wh soun e r w migpt .iie and in te bd nthQ 5W PSI& uniform of thisiW A wpa because- v1 gate. It as, men, having finaah rolling eyes .. t depot ofthe go accustomed tu c cest packge Opium-gate, thol~~~ run. Themore oe this all wereIm season)was fri qs which Xerxes cross~ h.Lllep It was strewed with xiftlyr *s withiout a theri, aitJofb oe fiosted.around oi'gye was mnelinchqly all gs 'vie6 i that whose walkl 61i u4 ~ hw stars,and ivhfiir"~pes~~ weariljyit~he'u~ poe thing wj~ in ~~e~n~ was narrow as th or mid,anli r contirn'allyiidethit limb 'after'imb Yrbid the' I ellers. Fai'ious iehsisrnetztl flning instant death, Enttbbhofftfili to live on, carrig de~Ih'in t1geri/Bili and never pers~q'n dto die;' k N~ext w~as n the entrance of descent of stege. descent were mraumeae shops, th6ewibty' fore they wer .i'4dt o Some~ walkedi~6A' det'si amiable, aznd Yt gt some snealcti do1~~' e~~ in their nieh edd;dho w4e at ed# and yell i wi ~b ah ' e ~ t the person fled esaeba~t4A1 ly. Somiooledib6 Ai~l slipped dontvi;@ idib WW~~ down by the re head of the way. ThO' te~ sputteringsnhlrih t the keeper of th'e &e4ke'4l~~ The nextbts &O 1 afa Ag~nA hfiroM Iabl M tio.li if ON' e clves N2y ne. some 0~ -4 - - w . n - - - R A 4.t. M 66 4' '.9 .2,.~ - 6 - - .4 4"-- 4.-.-4 44') 1- ne, dsme,.k-ds d6~o~ . auvricca~ ~- amt f idrel u n