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Jl DGK lII.KH'N LETTER TO ATTOR NEY fiESERAL HOAR. Mr. lloar'a Eulogy on Ikv Isite Secre tary Stanton. WASHINGTON, Jan. 18,1870. Hon. E. E. Hoar, Attorney General. Snt I was not present in court yes terday to hear your remarks on Mr. Stanton, but to-day I was shown a newspaper report of them, which I presume to be perfectly accurate. The following' paragraph has struck me with surprise: "But it is not of the lawyer, eminent as he w as in the science and practice of the law, that men chiefly think as they remember him. His service to man kind was on a liigner and wider field. He was appointed Attorney General by Mr. Buchanan on the 2u; h of December lMili. in one ol the darkest hours of (he country's history, when the Union seemed crumbling to pieces, without an arm raised for its support; when without the public councils was doubt ing, and within were fears; when fee bleness and treachery were uniting to yield whatever defiant rebellion might demand and good men everywhere were ready to despair of the republic. For ten weeks of that w inter of na tional agony and shame, with patriot ism that never wavered and courage that never quailed, this true American, happily, no! alone, stood manfully at his post, "between the living and the dead," gave what nerve ho could to timid and trembling imbecility and met the secret plotters of their coun try's ruin with an undaunted front un til liefore t hat resolute presence the de mons of ir-ason and civil discord ap peared in their own shape, as at the touch of Itliuriel's spear, and fled bai fled and ho vlingaway." This statement was carefully and de liberately written down before you de livered it. You spoke for the American bar as itA organ and offic.al head, and you addressed the highest tribunal in the world, knowing that your words were to go upon its records and there remain forever. I take it for granted, under these circumstances, that no earthly temptation could make you de flect a hair's breadth from the facts as you understand and believe thein.— The inevitable conclusion is that you must have in your possession, or with in your reach, some evidence which convinces you that what you said is the truth. lam sure you will excuse me for a-kiug you to say what thai evidence is. The paper I have trans- ; cribed from your address sounds like I the authorative summary of a liistori- i i an, as lie closes the most interesting ; chapter of iiis book. You can liardiy j consider tiie curiosity impertinent • that prompts an American citizen to inquire what your judgment is found e l upon. Besides, I have some friends wlmse reputation is deeply involved in the affairs you pronounce upon with so much confidence. Moreover, 1 have a personal concern in your remarks, for lam one of Mr. Stanton's colleagues ana am as liable as any one of them to be *aken on your statement for one of the "secret plotters of their country's ruin." Be pleased, there ore, tu give me the in formation I seek. Do you find on the records of your i fiioe any thing u hicli shows that Mr. Sianlon was in violent or dangerous conflict with "demons of treason and civil discord ?" or any other descrip tion of demons?" Did Mr. Stanton himself ever lay claim to the heroic character you ascribe to bim or declare that he had performed those prodigi ous feats of courage while he was in Mr. Buchanan's cabinet. Has any other person who was in a condition to know the facts ever given you that version of them which you repeated to the court? If yes, who are the wit nessess? what particular danger was he exposed to which tested his valor, and made his "undaunted front" a thing so wonderful in the description of it? Whose "feebleness and treach ery was it that united to yield whatev er defiant rebellion might demand?" and how did Mr. Stanton's courage dis solve the combination or defeat its pur p< isse ? You say that for ten weeks "hestood manfully at bis post, between the liv ing and the d< ad " Now when the first jaw officer of the United Siates ad dressed the Supreme Court on u spe* cial ntnnsion, and after elaborate pre paration, he is presumed to mean something hy what he says. How is this to be understood ? You certainly did not intend to assert merely that he stuck to his commission as long as he could, and gave it up only when he could not help it. Standing manfully at a post of any kind, and especially when the stand is made "between the living and the dead," has, doubtless, a deep significance, if one could hut man age to find out what it is. Who were the dead and who were the living? and how did it happen that Mr. Stan-' to got between them? What business had he between them, and why did he stay there for ten weeks? These ques tions you can easily answer, and the answer is needed; for in the meantime, conjectural interpretations are very va rious and some of them injurious to the dead and living aforesaid, as well as to Mr. Stanton, who according to your representation, stood between them. I can comprehend the well worn sim ile of IthuriePs spear, but I do not see what on earth was the use of it un- I ss you thought it ornamental and orig inal, for you make Mr. Stanton, by his mere presence, and without a spear, do what Ithuriel himself could not do with the aid of that poweful instru ment. The angel with the spear com pelled a demon to lay aside his dis guise, while a mortal ijfan dealt with many demons, and not only made them all appear in their proper shape, but drove Lbem "baffled and howling away" out of his "resolute presence." I do not object to this btn-ause the fig ures are mixed or because it is an ex trvagant outrage on good taste. The j custom of the times allow men who make eulogies on their political friends to tear their rhetoric into rags, and if you like the tatters you are wel come to flaunt them. But I call your attention to it in the hope that you will talk like a man of the world, and give us in plain, or at least intelligible, prose, a particular account of the very important transactions to which you refer, together with the attendant cir cumstances. I suppose you have no thought of being taken literally. Your description of Mr. Stanton conjuring demons is only a metaphorical way yon have of saying that he frightened certain bail man. I beg you to tell mo who they were and how he scared them. 1 repeat you are not charged, and in my opinion could not he jus'ly charged with the great sin of fabrica ting statements like these. You have, no doubt, seen or heard what you re gard as sufficient proof of them. What I fear is, that you have been misled by the false accounts which partisan wri ters have invented, not to honor Mr. Stanton but to slander others. If you had known the truth concern ing his conduct while he was Attorney General, and told it simply, you might have done great honor to his memory. He was at that time a regular built, old fa hioned democratic union saver. He believed in the Constitution as the fun damental law of the land, as the bul wark of the public liberty, and as the only bond by which the States could be rightfully held together. He regar ded his official oath as a solemn cov enant with G<>d and his country, never to be violated under any circum stances; and he had a right whole some contempt for that corrupt code of morality which teaches that oaths are not binding upon the rulers of a free country wnen they find it inconsistent with their interests to keep them.— He uniformly behaved with "modest stillness and humility," except when liis opinion was asked, and then he spoke with becoming defer-nce to oth ers. From that part of his life at least, you might by telling it truly, have de rived a "lofty lesson" indeed. But this quiet, unpretending, high-princi pled, democratic gentleman is con verted by your maladroit oratory into a Hectoring buiiy of the abolition school, rampaging through the White House and around the department, trying to frighten people with big looks, I beseech you to re-examine your au thorities. If you still think them suffi cient to sustain you, 1 cannot doubt your willingness to communicate them for the scrutiny of others who are in terested. If on the contrary, you shall be satisfied that you have made a great mistake, then justice to all parties, and especially to the subje -t of your well mi ant hut unfurl mime eulogy , requires Some amends to be made. It will be for you to say whether you will or not a-k the Court for leave to withdraw i that part of your speech from the rec- j ord. J. s. BLACK. 411 AXIS 4l MAltltlA(>E. lii olden times, says' a Frenchman, who with llie usual assurance of his countrymen, pretends to know some thing about woman, female beauty was so fascinating that it was a certain means of securing a husband. Now adays, he adds, men have reflected up on the subject and it is seldom that a girl is married for her personal attrac tions, whatever they may be; so she runs a risk of always keeping her hon orbie title of maid, if her parents aie not rich enough to pay a handsome sum to some gallant or other to change it into that of wife. It is an accident, or in fact a sort of prodigy when a man marries a woman solely lor her beauty, a quality which has singularly fallen in value in our mercenary days. If it ever should take a rise, it might be well to adopt the Persian mode of reducing the num ber of old maids, This consisted in sel ling ihe beautiful girls to those who were willing to buy them, and giving the amount to the ugly; so that the handsomest endowed the ugliest ; the second in beauty, the second in ugli ness. et cetera. But this plan would be, we fear, In applicable in our days; for there would be but few bidders for the beau tiful women, and the ugly, ifthenmn ey was to go with them, would he the only ones to find takers. Seriously, continues the Frenchman who it must be borne in mind, is speaking in France and not in the United States, marriage is tending to disappear frotn our social habits. The number of old maids, es pecially of the middle class, is increas ing daily. A laborer or mechanic has no diffi culty in getting married, for his wife takes her share of the work. In such cases matrimony is a joint stock asso ciation. The working man spends leas wheu marled than single. His clot his being made and kept in repair at home, and the more wholesome and less ex pensive nourishment more than com pensates for any additional expense of having another person to provide for. This we need not say, alludes to France, and may he more or less true, as we hoje it Is In our own Coun try. Among the rich especially where the women brings a handsome dowry, marriage is also possible; but in the middleciass, how can it he nowadays? All the young girls were brought Up in the same way. Each one is so exclu sively adapted for the great prizes that there are none suitable for the inferi or ones. What are now culled the ne cessaries are far more thau v. hat were f irmerly considered Iheluxuriesoflife. All kinds of equality have been tried at various times, but oue only has been retained, and that the most dan- gorous and most fatal of all-—the equal ity of expense. Every girl is brought up with the idea thatshe will draw in the lottery of mar riage a first prize. It is imagined that style and accomplishments will make up for aw ant of fortune. It is a mis take; they will only make it more ne cessary ; in fact, absolutely indispeusi ule. Marriage is the greatest luxury a man can indulge in. When we reflect that all ihe women of the middle class are nowadays brought up to shine in society, that there ate no longer any maiked distinctions as far as expense is concerned, and that the standard of necessary living is fixed according to tliatot tho richest, a man must be in deed greatly in love if he does not hes itate before the "mountain of velvt , siJk, and jewelry tiiat he must consun e all bis days in accomplishing, in ord< r tint, his wife may be properly die-. ed." For men of this class, woman is not a companion, to take a share in propor tion to her strength of the common cares and labors of l ife, but an idol that he must pass his days in adorning ba the admiration of others. A poor man who marries such a woman without dowry would be capable of buying a a horse which had to be fed upon topa zes and emeralds instead of oats. So it is now rare to find a husband of the kind, and soon it will be impossible. This is what they are coming to in France, according to a very good au thority. Let our countrywomen take this warning fresh from Paris, togethi r with th' other fashions they are so fond of getting fiom the same quarter, and thus using the one as an antidote to the excess of ttie other, avoid throw ing away the chances of marriage. THE I.EST USE OF THE BIBLE.—"My mother {rave me a Bible for my giit last Christmas," said a little girl, com placent, "and Louise gave Cousin Har ry one, at the same time. Now just look a! them, and see the ditfeence!" Harry's was a little worn. Its git edges were tarnished, and the newness was gone from the cover, but it look ed as if it had been read very often. Here and there I saw pencil marks near favorite verses, and in one or two places it seemed as if tears might have fallen. Little Harry Gordon had become a christian, lately, and his Bi ble had evideutly been very precious to him. Minnie said triumphantly, after I had finished my look at Harry's, "Now see mine!" She unfolded the tissue p persfroinit.and there it was just as fresh and fair and uninjured as when it came out of the shop. "I've never had it out of the drawer but once," said Miss Minnie, "and that was to show to somebody." "Minnie," said I, "if your father was away from home, and should send you a letter, telling you just what h< wa.-.ted you to do and be, would it he good treatment never to break tie >< at, and my it away in the drawer unread? Would it not rather be bes ter to take it out every day and read ii over and over, trying all the mere each time to obey its injunctions?" "Yes!" said Minnie, blushing ar.d hanging In-r nead, as she began to ste my meaning. "This is God's letter to you, mj love! Litte the man who folded awa\ his talent in a napkin, you have folo ed up your precious Bible. Hereafter, my child,use it as God wants you to. 'Search the Scriptuies, for in them ye think ye have eternal life, and they are they which testify of nie.' " That was a profound philosopher who compared advertising to a grow ing crop. He said: "The farmer plants his seed, and while he is sleep ing the corn is growing. So with advertising; white you are sleeping or eating, your advertisement is being read by thousands of persons who never saw you or heard of your busi ness. nor never would had it not been for your advertising." An editor out West became a cap tain, and on parade, instead of saying "Two paces in front—advance," he un consciously exclaimed : "Cash down, two dollars a year in advance." He was court-martialed and sentenced to read tiis own newspapers for three months. A new style of bonnet is announ ced for the spring. When viewed through a microscope it is said to be exquisitively lovely. It is, of course, high in price, the diminution in the size of the article having greatly enhan ced its value. An old fellow being visited by his pastor, he asssured him he could not be a good christian unless he took i p his daily cross. Whereupon he caught up his wife and began lugging her e bout the room A hog was killed in Springfield, Il linois, the other day, and in its stom ach was found thirty nails, half a saw, one file and a suspender buckle. It is surmised that at some period the ani mal swallowed a carpenter. A body of infantry arrived at Knox vilie, Tennessee, the other day, from Virginia, on a train. The ears con taiued forty-seven babies. The man who is so fond of his de: r little wife as to caliber a bird, must not he disappointed if she asks him to buy her feathers. Wonder if the "pillars" of liberty are stuffed with the feathers of the A merican eagle? llow may a man be known from a fatigued dog? Cue wears'a shirt, the other pants. It is the tone to wear only ore glove. VOL. 65.—WHOLE No. 3,355. FAK.UKKH COLUMN. j There is something in a kind of J breeitig a hammer wouni evidently be an ad vantage.—Atw Lngiattd Homestead* Preserving Grape'Cuttings.—Grape cuttings made in cold weather, w hen it is 1101 practicable to bury iheiu in. the ground, may be kept in a cellar by simply tying iu bundles and theu placing compactly together. With an occasional sprinkling, they may be kept for a mouth or two without re ceiving the slightest injury. Ui cour&e it wouid be a much beuerplau 10 pack iu damp moss, earth, sawdust, or some similar material, but neither of these is usually attainable at this season of the year, and yet a delay in making the cuttings would not be advisable. Cheap (Xtkt. —Two eggs, one-half cup butter, one cup sugar, oue-haif cup sweet milk, oue-lialf tcaspounlul cream tartar, one-quarter ouuee of soda and flour to make as stiff as cup cake. Cheap Ojokies. —One cup good sour cream, oue cup sugar, one half-half te.- spoonlul saleratus, nutmeg. Do not knead very stiff. Hull middling thick.