Wall-Street To Cashmere

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1A BBEEZE.

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3•whispers to my English acquaintance and self. Copenhagen,

4from the warm weather, is comparatively dull ; the wax of the

5Duchies lends a helping hand to stupefy, and the king adds the

6climax by his own domestic scandal. He is a most di.9reputable

7fellow, twice married and divorced, and now again married to a

8woman of neither character nor birth, of the Lola Montez genus.

9The merchants appear to live in considerable style, but our

10blackey, with a contemptuous toss of the head, and flourish of

11his skirts, said they were not worth a d - d cent. You will

12doubtless admire his elegant and graphic style.

13There are many pleasant walks, especially near the moat

14Attached to the Bourse is a curious tower or spire, formed by

15four twisted dragons, the heads, bodies, and tails forming an

16exterior spiral stairway. Tlie Observatory has so wide and gra¬

17dual an ascent that two carriages may be drawn up abreast.

18From Copenhagen steamed to Christiania, in Norway, in a very

19nice boat ; officers and steamer attached to the Norwegian navy.

20July M. — Stopped at Elsinore a short time; saw the old

21Castle of Konigsberg, a fine, large structure. The boat was

22very crowded ; of us one attended to the luggage, and the other

23secured a cabin. "We were among the very few who did ; most

24of our acquaintances slept in the sahn, and toileted in our cabin.

25One of our compatriots, a vulgar, tobacco-expectorating brag¬

26gart, from somewhere on the outskirts of civilization. South or

27West, being among the number of unfortunates in the sahn, had

28laid his coat on a sofa to secure it, and returning to take posses¬

29sion in the evening, found a young cockney reposing on it.

30Without askigg him to let him have the place claimed by his

31coat, which would instantly have been done, he came up to me

32to ask if it was not the place he had taken. On my saying,

33“Yes” (as I had been talking to him at the time he took it), he

34went out and brought the captain in, who was wondering what

35was to follow this unexpected captivity, when the compatriot

36asked if it was not the custom when the steamer was full, and a