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First and foremost among the recipients of this politeness vas Mrs. E. Blessey, vho had sat up three days and nifehts to prepare for them, who had all trut turned her house first into a kitchen, and then into a ball-room. She vas greeted at the balcony vith "Home, Sveet Home,'1 and aftervards at the gate vith "Good-bye."
The procession then moved to the residence of Mr. diaries, proprietor of the yacht Sarah. He had remained vith his boat, avay from the Mobile Regatta, on purpose to see the firemen, and during their stay had been unremitting in his efforts to please them.
They called in on the family of Mr. A. L. Hasling of Algiers, residing next door.
Here they had been entertained until there vas hardly a ripe peach or a full blovn flover in the garden. Master Charles Beyer Haslihg had not only nearly exhausted his stock of powder, but actually blown up his brass cannon in salvos in their honor; and to the little fraudlein, his younger sister, there is no enumerating her charming courtesies. All this, of course, was more than deserving of everything that could be done, and in a most spirited and energetic way did the band return the compliment.
Mr. J. V. Douglas was similarly visited, but though courteously invited, they were prevented by a warning whistle from calling on either Gen. West, or Mrs. Mulholland, of Back Bay.
A Musical Treasure
In his conviviality, the writer is about to be betrayed into a burst of confidence. He is about to speak of a particular little sanded parlor, with an upright piano, presided over by a little body in a pink striped linen dress, and a particular musical entertainment presided over by six little children, dressed in every variety of style.
Being altogether impromptu, and, in fact, a family entertainment, expressly for the amusement of a music-loving mother and her little flock, to mention it at all. is, of course, entirely irregular. But when one hears "Whispering Winds" played with a correctness of touch, equaled by very few women, from a child of 12, and the variations from the mocking bird, running through never so many pages from the same hands, he is apt to speak of it, if not write about it. This little prodigy is known as Miss Lilly, the initials of her surname being Blessey.
Presently, Kiss Ida, aged ten, sang with much sweetness, the "Ship^po-vil" and "We parted by the River Side," and then accompanied her sister Julia, still younger, ina duet. The little mother, with a sly twinkle, then called on Master Walter, aged five, to accompany her in another, that precocious urchin playing the tremble.