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-A handsome sword has just been completed in New Orleans for Gen. Sterling Price, of Missouri, at the instance of the patriotic young ladies of that city.
The Picayune thus describes it:
The scabbard is of solid gold — the blade of the fines steel, beautifully embellished, and the grasping part of the hilt of carved ivory, and the guard and ornaments of gold.
The bills and guards are contrived so as to blend together the products and the public insignia of the States of Missouri and Louisiana.
The estrums head conches of a pelican feeding her young, and on the plate on the guard nearest the blade, is delicately engraved the complex coat of arms of the State of Missouri, with its two mottoes; "United, we stand; divided, we fall," and "Salus Popult Suprema Lex listo" The wreath which forms the guard to the handle intertwines the cotton plant, the sugar plant, and the tobacco plant, and the scabbard, which is pointed in the semblance of a sugar cane, is gilded and tipped with rep