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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 89, 13 February 1863, Page 3

A New York correspondent, speaking of the New Orleans ladies, says : He thinks that it was “ evident that many took the oath under a degree of excitement that would bo hard to understand by persons who have not lived in New Orleans. It was a bilter draught to swallow that oath, particularly by women, many externally beautiful, who had rendered themselves locally famous for their denunciation of the national government, and by their openly expressed contempt for the national soldiers.” “It was no pleasant position,” lie most truly says, “ for such a young lady after all her protests and vehement declarations of eternal hate to stand up on the Lyceum stage, and before a thousand people ho Idup her small jewelled hand and pale with confusion and indignation swear to support the constitution her father, and probably her brother and cousin, had been teaching her for years to contemn and despise.” In a Vert Bad Wat. —Why, you seem quite wretched Frank!’ * Wretched my boy !Ah you may imagine how wretched I am, when I tell you I don’t even care how my trousers are made! What word is there with five letters from which if you take two six will remain ? Sixty. Why is a nobleman like a book ? Because he’s got a title. What policeman is never behind ? BA.