"After admiring the furniture, paintings, &c., they were conducted to the gardens, where they enjoyed themselves for some time. Refreshments were then laid out in the dining-room, and they were invited to partake of the President's hospitality. The champagne was passing round pretty freely when the President entered. They received him with acclamations of '_Vive Napoléon!_' The President, after the usual salutations, took a glass of wine, and proposed the toast, '_A la santé des dames de la Halle de Paris!_' which was responded to in a becoming manner; and '_La santé de Napoléon!_' was in turn proposed by an elderly matron, and loudly cheered. The ladies were particularly pleased at finding the bouquets presented yesterday arranged in the dining-room. Louis Napoleon chatted for some time with his visitors, and expressed, in warm terms, the pleasure he felt at seeing them under his roof. The ladies requested that one of their companions--the most distinguished for personal attractions, as for youth--should be allowed to embrace him in the name of the others. _Such_ a request no man could hesitate to grant, and the fair one who was deputed to bestow the general salute advanced, blushing and trembling, to perform the duty. Louis Napoleon went through the pleasing ceremony with much credit to himself, and apparently to the great satisfaction of those present. In a short time the visitors asked permission to retire, after again thanking the President for the honor he did them. Before separating they united in one last and loud acclamation of '_Vive Napoléon_.'" * * * * * JOHNSON J. HOOPER, the author of _Captain Simon Suggs_, and several other works similar to that famous performance in humor and in the characteristics of southern life, is editor of _The Chambers Tribune_, published somewhere in Alabama. Few papers have as much of the quality which is commonly described by the word "spicy." In a late number we have an election anecdote which will serve as a specimen. The hero is Colonel A. Q. Nicks, of Talladega. We quote: