Dusky Belles

The Washington correspondent of the Cincinuati Qazette writes : " There are ome very beautiful colored girls here, juat of that cafe au lait color so exquisita when accompanied by fine features. One pretty Creóle married an officer of the Freedman's Bank, a colored man, wno formerly played the piano tor private Germans, etc. He built her a fine house and took her to Niágara on the bridal trip. Another girl, bo nearly white that the African blood would never be suspected, waa highly educated, and had eyea large and lustrously black, like thos" of the Spanish woman ; her hair as purple aa the raven'a wings; her complexion: creamy, with the faintest suspicion of coleur de rose ; her lipa full and scarlet ; her hands and feet wondrously tiny. Her father intended to take her abroad, where her pedigree was unknown, for if discovered foreignors would not show the horror of Negro blood evinced by Americana then he hoped that his daughter's beauty' acoomplishments and wealth might attract Caucasian wooers. But, alaa, for his fond hope8, true to her race, ahe married a black man, son of a restaurateur , and broke her father's heart, as well as his pride."