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" GOD SAVE OUR PRESIDENT.'
BY FRANCIS EB DAIS JANVIER.
All hall ! Unfurl tbe stripes and stars !
The banner of the free ! '
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Tlio shrine of Liberty !
Come with one heart, one bopo, one aim,
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To elevnto, with solomn rites,
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With robes of majasty ;
Not to coufer a kindly crown.
Nor bend a subject knee ;
We bow beneath no sceptred sway,
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Columbia's sons, eroot and freo,
Knetl only to their God !
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No ancicnt.irincoly line ;
No logal right to sovereignty,
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Responding to her voice ;
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TALES AND SKETCHES.
lookhu 11 i:roit i'. li ipixj,
"I knnw lier, nntl n swett pirl is NelHo
West.- Why, Grtorgc, she's thi very ono for
you. And you have found favor in lier ryes.
I congrAtulute you."
"You nterln't, tlitn," was tlin sombre
faced reply of Lane, "tori am not witless
enough to Lars my neck to the hulter of
matrimony, if the act is to bind me to u per
petual serfdom."
"Whnt do yon -mean ?"'
"Simply, that tho manner in which Mr.
West has' raised his daughters unlit th"tn
for the position of wives of yonnp; men in
my condition. They have the education,
the taBtcs and the accomplishments we de
sire and must have, but their habits and ex
pectations are fatal dowerics for any poor I
young man to accept, 'l liev nave i-o lor
tune to bring to their Siuswinds, and yet
mint be supported in comparative elegance.
The idea of useful employment does not
seem to have entered their minds. Work,
in their view, seems to involve something of
degradation. Ah, well ! I must dismiss a
fond Illusion, that was sweet while it lusted.
I shall go no further iu this direction. W.nno
other man, bolder, or less inclined to count
the cost, must win consent from a heart it
would Le a life long happiness to call my
own."
"Nonsense, George," replied his fiiend.
"If tho young lady really loves you, she
will adapt herself to your circumstances.
Nellie it a charming girl. Press your suit,
and after gaining her confidence, talk over
life's sober realities with her. She bus sense
and rit'ht feelinir, and will readily compre
hend bow much of happiness is involved in
you prudential ideas. A woman who loves
a intui well ennuh to marry him, w ill cheer
fully aeeomiu.idate herself to his circum
stances." " 'Accftnmoduto '.' " exclaimed the young
man, curling his lips. "I don't like the
word. It hurts my pride."
"Pride is never a good counsellor, friend
George."
"ily manhood, then. It hurts my man
hood. A young woman without a dollar in
the world, 'accommodate' herself to the cir
cumstances of a vounjr man wuose iucome
is twelve hundred a year ! You can't recon
cile me to the case on that plea. My pride,
manliness, sell love, or sell esteem as you
will revolts against the humiliation. No,
ii'i George Lane has independence as well
ah pi adunce, aud thinks their counsels worth
heeding."
"While I think," answered the friend,
"that George Lane is a little too high strung
for the ca't uuder consideration, I know
Nellie very well, and think her a sensible
girl. True the way her parents have con
ducted her home education is not favorable
to just views in life. Hut love is clear-sighted
and strong-hearted. Take her out of her
present false relatiou to society, and she will
make you, I am sure, a good wife in every
respect."
"No, sir," waa firmly answered. "Even
as I talk with you, and listen to what you
say. I grow more rcso'ule in purpose to recede
f.'ora a dangerous position. If Nellie win
11I000 in the world, 1 might act differently.
Uut look at the case &3 it stands and see
what risks are involved. There are two older
sisters, both married ; and their husbands'
noses, to use a homely phrase, are well down
on the grindstone and ore likely to remain
there. Already both have gone through
the ordeal of a fall ia business and no
wonder.
"Not be!ng able as clerks to maintain
their domestic establishments, tbey were
foolish enough to set up in imitation of
oilier people as 6illy as themselves, they
must Lave stores of their own, from the in
come of which they spent with such unscru
pulous hands, that more than all tho protits
were consumed in costly living.
"Somehow or other, in their breakdown,
they man aired to keep their Cuj furniture
and houses, and still live before the world
in what to me is shameless extravagance.
Both are clerks again : but bow they man
age to keep up appearances as they do,
passes my comprelieusion. I hu-e met their
wives for a tew times at air. West s, ami
they hold their 1 earls as high as queens. I
am nobody in their estimation 1 Why, the
jewelry, lace and other showy things tbey
Haunt in people s eyes so shamelessly see
ing that somebody beside tuair liukbands
have paid for them cost more thau a third
of my year's salary - "
"Uut you nave notning to tlo with these
ladies," interposed his friend.
"Truo, and I don't mean to have anything
to do witn tnctn. uut ilo case woum nave
another bearing were I a brother-in-law. I
would have their bad influences operating
on my wife. She roust have as costly out
fitting as tuey. ue must nave as tine a
house to live in, and as fine furniture to dis
play to ber ftiends ; and my nosa must come
to a grindstone, luce me noses ot meir un
fortunate husbands. I've gono over the
matter twenty times or more, and could see
it no-different. It won't do, and there is
no uf in trying to harmonize things that
are utterly incongruous.
"Take another view. Suppose Nellie cama
into my views of theao things, and turned
herself from these allurements. Suppose
we, like sensible people, live - below our in
come, and set ourselves to make provision
for a time wtci ei ptoses would t greater.
I would gradually accumulate, set np )n
business perhaps, and Hse in a position of
some influence in the way of money matters.
Then I must consent to be ruined, or writ
ten dnwn as a miser or a churl by the whole
family. Papa lives on the extension princi
ple, just making both ends meet, ns I infer
Well, tibt times come every now and
then, lie has failed once in life and may
fail again. When the strain equals the re
sistance, a slight increase of force snaps a
shaft of timber. If prtpa gets in trouble
and son in-law is all right, son-in-law must
go to tho raccuc, sink or swim. It won't
answer, you see. I've counted the cost, and
thin.i it too great ; I have looked over the
hedge before lenping, and am afraid of the
ditch on the other side."
"I see how it is," answered the friend,
"yon haye large caution."
"Am I not right t"
"Perhaps to. But lovers, whose" hearts
are as much interested as yours seem to be,
are tot apt to throw prudential reasons of
this character in the way of their happiness.
They are usuully incliucd to take counsel of.
love nlone."
"I have seen pictures of love blind-folded,
but I think love a false god."
"As you will," said the friend. "But this
I know ; if my heart was interested in Nellie,
I would never abandon her on the plea that
you have advanced, nt least not before I was
well a.Hured the false life, which, by a kind
of domestic necessity, she had thus far led,
had so fostered pride and vanity as to de
prive her understanding. Be assured, my
dear George, that in this you sin not against
your own heart, but the maiden's."
"I spent an eveuing with her last week,"
ho replied. "I went with my mind more
than half made up to let my lips betray my
feeling. It so happened that she was not
alone. A young lady was her guest ; a very
sprightly, out-spoken, critical, rather sharp
tongtied girl of eighteen or tweuty smart
enough for twenty, aud thoughtless enough
for sixteen. People and things were talked
about with a flippancy and freedom neither
charitable nor delicate. Among other sub
jects, the marriage of a friend came uuder
discussion, and the well or ill chances of the
case were settled in a manner that made my
cheek burn.
"I never thought Amy tbo simpleton to
get married in that mean sort of way,' re
marked the young lady. 'She mu: t have
wanted a husband !' 'If a man cannot do
better by mc than that, I'd advise him to
give mv door a wide berth.'
"Nellie laughed at her friend, and re
turned a few assentin" remarks that stung
me to the quick. Tho prtseut of a ring by
the younit husband was remarked upon.
Nellie Baid it was an emerald, but her friend
pronounced it preen class, adding that no
thing but a diamond would suit her ideas.
I waited in uncomfortable suspense lor jnci
lie's response. It came in these word9,
'Nothing but diamonds for me.' -'
"Thoughtlessly said, George," remarked
his friend. "Yon teke too seriously the
light rpeecbes of girls, who often talk with
ouUtbinkintf."
"If it was icstintr," answered Lane, "the
aubiect was unfortunate at the time. But
this was not all. My ears were quick, and
I took Irs cvsry inflection of voice. Nellie
said many othrr things connected with the
subject of her young 1 iend's marriage to a
poor yountr. man who cotiltl not afford hor
a respectable place ia society, that it would
be folly for me to forget. ' Wlieu I left her
bous that evening, I drew a veil over ber
image in my heart, and I have tried not to
lilt that veil since. The pain it is costing
me I have not been entirely able to conceal,
as witness your observation of a change in
my appearance. But I am strong enough
to rlo ulmt reason (alls me is rieht. No
word or intimation of whit was in my heart
have I passed to the young lady, 8 that I
turn from her without dishonor. IToaven
send her a happy lot in life."
The voice ol George Lane (altered a little
on the closing sentence, lie was fully in
earnest, as shown by his subsequent con
duct. More deeply than ho had imagined
was tbe heart of Nellie interested as her
pale face witnessed. But ho did not return.
1 wo years afterward she married, beginning
life with n young husband just in business,
who drew Iroui lna light capital two tuou-
sand dollars to furnish his house in styic
suited to the social grade in which he had
been moving. In three years extravagant
liviug had consumed more than all be was
worth, and under the pressure of a "tight
money market" be had failed and was sold
out by the sheriff; Nellie being forced to go
back with her two children to her father's
house. The'husbaud,iu a fit of desperation,
went off to California and died from sick
ness and exposure among the iniuea.
Iu the meantime, George Lane, who could
never obliterate Nellie's image from his heart,
continued to live a single life, lie was now
in business, and gradually accumulated pto
perty. The death of her husband, and in a
few months afterward the death of her father,
awakened anew his interest. Ho km. .v she
was poor, and dependent ; and ho learned
incidentally, with pain, that since her father's
death she was living in the bouse of a brother-in-law,
who was not able to support his
family. That one still dear to him should
be dependent, and as he felt, humiliated,
hurt the young man. lie could not bear the
thought, and began turning over in his mind
one suggestion after another, looking to her
relitf. But her considerations of delicacy
and propriety were in the way. He felt he
could do nothing.
One morning bo met her in the street. lie
was walking with his eyes on the pavement,
thiaking of Nellie, when, looking up sud
denly, he saw her at a distance approaching.
She was poorly clad, and had a bundle oa
her arm, w hich Lane recognized at a glance
as work from a clothiug store.
Their eyes met and rested oa each other.
Lane made a motion as if abont to speak ;
Nellie dropped her veil over her face and
moved on at a quicker pace-. Ere tbe veil
fell he saw an expression in ber eyes, and
on her changed and wasted countenance,
that tilled his heart with the tenderest and
baddest feelings. What a history of suffer
ing was revealed. Tbe rest oeod net be
told. If Nellie lost her lover when skies
were bright, she found him when the raia
was falling into the dark abyss of her life,
and when painful experience had made her
vision clear.
On tbe lover's conduct in turning from
Nellie in ber sunny days we give no opinion.
We only record the fact, and u'i the reason.
Inferences and opinions are with tbe reader
-and the lesson also.
"I have just met your old acquaintance,
Daly," said an Irishman to his friend, "and
was sorry te see be hn almost shrunk away
to nothing. You are thin, and I am thin,
but he la thinner Ua both of ua put to
gether
MISCELLANEOUS.
tt())U.' lltt:rN.
Some German ladies of wealth and high
'cial position have met in Stuttgard, it
seems, and determined to attempt a modi
fication in tbe dress of women. They have,
it is said, called a commission of painters,
doctors, tailors aud dress-makers, whose
""'y il is ."lau toMnvcnt "a new toilet."
1 con''l;r a great boon upon wo
men if they can contrive a dress, or a system
of r.ross, which shall be sensible, appropriate
to the important rluti,., of life, economical,
nnd not nply. Uut thid y, nnt b0 jiaif io
diflictilt for them, nor half so important for
thejrtomfort of women, ns to put a stop to the
constant nnd violent changes in the fashions
of women's dresses.
Tho fashions have, for a number of venra,
come t.- us from Paris. They have been
adopted by women with as little question or
hesitation ns a new article of faith promul
gated by tilts Pope ia adopted by the Catho
lic world. But a new articlo ot faith is an
inexpensive luxury ; a new fashion in dress
costs almost every family in the land labor
and worry and temper enough to set 'tip a
small household. A new fashion brings to
a woman of average means many hours of
eager study and consultation, many days and
evenings of tiresome and unhealthful labor
with the needle, and a waste of as many
dollars as ber conscience permits, and more,
in general, than she ought to spend for the
mere purpose of conforming to a new and
probably senseless custom.
It the Stuttgard ladies succeed in their
proposed reform, they will make easier the
lives of millions of women ; they will make
possible a sensible economy in living, which
will bring comfort nnd ease to many hun
dred thousand households ; they will remove
from society one of tha most serious of its
minor evils. Will they succeed f It is very
doubtful. Society now a days is so strongly
democratic, or, rather, the democratic spirit
so strongly asserts itself, that men sod wo
men in every station of life aim to dress as
nearly like the wealthiest as they can.
The fashions are made and changed for
people of wealth and leisure ; for people
whose lives are idle, and who have few in
terests except those connected with social
pleasures. But, unluckily, cCstom, not in
this country nlone, but here more than in
atiy other, leads every woman, no matter
what her life may be, what cares she has nr
what means, to dress as though she too were
an idler; t-j adopt every new fashion of dress,
no matter how appropriate, often at the ex
pense of comfort, and sometimes at tbe ex
pense of decency. A woman's dress is
thought beautiful not because its colors are
harmonious, not becauso its stylo is graceful,
but because it is fashionable. It is in tho
mode : that excuses a train so long (hat it
sweeps the tidewalk; a huildlo of folds
which distorts the apparent shape ef the
wearer ; a bonnet scarcely the size of an oak
leaf; a stuffing out of the hair with filthy
remnants of the wig shops, or any other
absurdity or abomination which happens to
be worn by a few idle women iu Paris,
wbose c'.iiet business 111 lite it is to worry
their dress makers for a new "sensation."
American women have, as a general tiling,
uucommnnly good taste in dress; a large
part of their lives is now spent in attempts
to make the newest fushinn as little ridicu
lous as possible. They follow it ; but most
of them follow at a modest distance. They
ought to rebel. But that they have not.
courage to do. Ask Amelia to wear, next
week, in a modest eveuing company, the
dress w hich you thought so becoming to her
last winter, and to the manufacture of which
she gave so many hours which you would
like to have seen spent with a pleasant book
or in the open air ; tell her it is harmonious
in color, excellent in lit, of the most suitublo
material ; that it is in every way becoming
to her j erd what will be her answer? She
will tell you with a sigh it she is a tensi
ble woman that it is out of fashion, that
the style has changed, that to wear it would
make ber nttrculous ; and if bhe is idle and
wealthy shef will ordef a new dress from the
dress maker ; if she is poor and has a quick
eye, she will sit for the rest of the week iu
a close room, busily ripping, cutting, adding.
deducting, altering, and, at the expense of
more dollars and much more time than she
can well spare, making the new dress of last
w inter into a new dress for this winter, no
prettier, most probably uglier, certainly not
r',i i .A ri.!i .i,i.i
Ji.111wvt3t.a si mi niiMiit 1 n oin'URI IM'tnt.
any quality
a dress liked or its wearer admired. And so
Amelia goes at last to the evening company
attired in the latest fashion, but woru out
with labor and worry and comer home
cross, and with a dyspepsia.
Men sometimes complain of women's lack
of intelligence but it is hard to attain uni
versal excellence at twenty live ;' and h wo
man who has to manage ber household, give
her children the care which a conscientious
mother gr'B3 them, and then, over and above
all this, i'iu-t run after the ever chantrine
fashiot.s iu dress, has no tinw, no strength,
and presently no inclination lor good books,
and no capacity for rational conversation.
If men had to pay as much attention to dress
as women, they would all, probably, be as
uninteresting as dandies are; and a male
dandy is a much less interesting or intelli
gent creature than a female one.
What is needed for women is not an ugly
habit or dre;s, but emancipation from their
slavery to tha decrees of fashion. The dress
reformers have made a serious mistake in the
attempt to introduce a costume which has
no charms to the eye, and admits of no use
of bright colors, and whoso sole merit is that
it is convenient. That is not enough. Most
women very properly desire to look pretty;
and they rightly, as we think, reject a cos
tume which forbids them this gratification.
It wonld be a serious loss to society if they
should ever chauge their minds on this
matter.
But we do not ree why sensible women
should not combine to settle upou some
fashion of walking dress, like the very pretty,
modest and yet convenient short dress which
was generally worn last year, and adhere to
that as a street costume, tolerating no arbi
trary change of cut prescribed by tbe fashion
tyrants. Then, if they would1 agree npon
some equally sensible and tasteful style of
evening dress.snd absolutely refuse to change
this style, no matter what Paris or London
says, tbetr emancipation would be as nearly
complete as seems praticable. With such
set system of dress there would still remain
room tor tbe exercise of individual taste ia
tbe choice and harmonious arrangement of
colors, and in the selection of material. It
wonld be possible to dress as richly, as
brightly or as soberly as inclination dictated,
and yet women's lives would be made much
aeicr, and a dress once made would be fairly
wont out, as a inau's coat is, before it was
laid asida cr cut tip and altered.
Whet ter there will ever be an "American
coaiuca," ia th Mnaa ia which wa hy
spoVcrt, is doubtful ; women complain, in
conversation among themselves, loudly
enough of the evils of which we have spoken;
tbey feel the oppression under which they
lie; but they have not courage enough to
rebel. They dread to be singular; they fear
public opinion that is to say, the gibes of
the fashionables. Perhaps more thorough
education, truet taste, may, after a while,
bring the mass of women to the point w here
w hat is in tbe modo will not be alone thought
beautiful ; nnd where a woman will dare to
be pretty after her own way, and not in the
way prescribed by the passing caprice of a
few idle and wicked v omen iu Europe.
A". T. Kceniny l'ut.
The Art of i'ocKct-l'IcUlne.
Tho late Sir. De Quincey tvrote a curious
and elaborate paper on "5lurder Considered
as one of the Tine Arts." Ilad ho lived
half a century later be might have extended
his inquiries so as to include pocket picking
in that category ; for an art it has certainly
become. Your artistic pickpocket is a gen
tlemanly looking fellow, wears neat boots
and gloves, always has a new looking hat,
and is altogether the last man you would
suspect of any sinister desitrns on jour pock-
cia. nt- live. in brut-class hotels and board
ing house, often frequenting the same house
tor years, totally unsuspected, and remark
able only for his quiet and geutlcmanly du
mcunor. Ho carefully chooses fwurcouipan
inns, equally respectable in appearance, to
form what is called a mob, each ono produ
cing a certain sum to mike a bank, to be
used in case one of them fails, (taken by
the police,) in order to provide bail or to
pay bis counsel fees. Thoy then frequent
railway stations, public meetings, or any
place where they can find a crowd. A vic
tim is quietly selected as a probable find.
Two of the mob then place, themselves in
iront 01 nun ana two remain ueuinu, occupy
ing, as it were, the angles of a squ ire of
which the victim is tho centre. These are
called the front and back stalls. The unfor
tunate victim is then fanned : that is, his
pockets are softly padded to find out the
one in which he keeps his wollet ; the sigu
is passed to tbe operator, who is termed the
wire, wlio immediately proceeds to work.
He does not place bis band in tuc pocket,
that is a fatal error : but with the two first
fingers he gently draws np the lining of the
pocket to the opening, nnd with it the wal
let, and the trick H done. I his system is
called reefing. The wallet is immediately
passed to one of tbo back stalls, who quietly
luongti quickly levants
The most dangerous place for money is
undoubtedly the pocket of the pants. Again,
one of the front stalls passes his arm be for"
your lace to touch the other frsnt stall on
the shoulder, only to say "How are you 1"
but the wire from behind has your diamond
pin in bis possession. If possible tbey return
the empty wallet to tho pocket to avoid
detection in its possession, or the dangerous
necessity of throwing it away. For instance,
two gentlemen sitting nt one end of the car
get into angry altercation, high words ensue,
the attention of the other passengers is
Attracted to their dispute, and the young
lady who sat next to that nice lookiug man
at the other end of tho car finds, n arriving
at Stewart's, that her purse is empty. Tbe
nnSry gentleman and tbe nice looking man
are simply confederates. This they term
weeding. A corespondent of a newspaper
lately lost ti00 in this way while riding in
a Fourth avenue car.
Pickpockets are necessarily migratory in
their habits, finding n !oi,a residence in one
place inconvenient. This renders it difficult
to make any estimate of their probable num
bers in New York. Tbey prefer a locality
for tho sceno of their operations that has
numerous lines of rail, to enable them to
separate in various directions as soon at
they have a good swag, and to meet again
in some other town. These men stand' by
one another in trouble, and are strictly
square in their mutual transactions. A cu
rious incident of "honor among thieves" is
found in the following anecdote : Tbe elder
"Mathews and Theodore Hook, on one occa
sion, went together to tho theatre; while
ascending the staircase Mathews playfully
took a bundle of papers from Hook's pocket,
when ho was touched on the shoulder from
behind by a gentlemanly looking man, who
handed him his own pocket-book, apologiz.
ing for taking it bv saving, "I didn't know
j you was one of ua," and pertinently adding,
, til.... 1 . . . c 1 . , ... : .
,,ul" . " ' J,u ,mu" " curry u.
; there." Pickpockets, however, nevef save
i e it
money, for they are all bitten with a mania
tor gambling, and.stranjc to say, arc cenerul
ly unsuccessful at it. Their language is mort
peculiar, only to bt understood by that
intelligent body of gentlemen who hail
from Mulberry street, Their depredations
on the public amount tn a very large sum in
the course of the year, a considerable portion
of which is never recovered, from the general
inability of the victims to givo any descrip
tion which might lead to identification ; titer
j never, if possible, allowing you to have a
tull view of their face. N. 1. Inbuilt.
Hew to Coukt is Church. A young
gentleman happentug to sit at church, in a
peW adjoining one in which sat a young
lady for whom lie conceived e silden and
violent attachment, was desirous of entering
into a courtship on the spot, but the place
not being suitable for a formal declaration,
tho case suggesting the following plan. He
politely handed his fair neighbor a Bible
opened, with a pin stuck in tbe following
text : Second Epistle of John, verse 5 "A ud
now I beseech thee, nnt as though I wrote a
new commandment unto thee, but that
which we had from the beginning, that we
love one another."
She returned it, pointing to the second
chapter of Ruth, teuth Terse. "Then she
fell on her face, and bowed herself to the
ground, and said to him : Why have I found
grace in thine eyes, seeing I am a stranger!"
He returned the book, pointing to the
thirteenth chapter of the Third Epistle of
John : "Having many things to write unto
veu, I would not write with pen and ink,
bu I trust shortly to come unto you snd
speak face to face that our joy may be full."
From the above interview a marriage took
place the ensuing week.
A wajf, strolling with a friend through a
country churchyard, called attention to a
grave, the stone of which had no name or
ineriptiou on it. "This," said II ."Is
the grave of the notorious gambler.Mr. R .
"You observe there is ne name recorded on
the tombstone, but I think I could suggest
ao appropriate epitaph." "What would you
sugpest I" inquired hit friend. Waiting for
tbe last trump I" was tbe reply.
Tbe Major says, tbe reason that the young
lady gave, who first introduced the Grecian
bend at Saratoga, was that she wished to have
a place on which to rest her poodle dog,
when tbe dear little creature got tired.
What ia tbe palmy so a to a of life Tbe
tisA f otneeiAg gl' handle
Cieneral dran p-,1 m- .,.;
The following was written ,y General
Grant to the Hon. I. N. Morris, of itnoH
who had been requested by Mr. A:'-'.fi
Moses to get from the General no explana
tion of tbe much-talked of and often perver
ted Order No. 11. Now that the elect lot
is of the past, the public will undoubtedly
nccept it as conclusive :
GxtftfiA, Hi., fli'pt. n, ison.
To the Eon. 1. N. Morris :
DuAnStit: I am in receipt of a latter of
Mr. A. Moses, of the 8d instant, enclosing
ono from you, bearing same date. My first
inclination wus to niisaer Mr. Mosec, -.because
you desired it; then I thought ?t
would be better to adhere to the ruin it si
lence as to all letter'. Were I once to em
inence answering all political question? fak
ed of me, there weuld not bo time betwent
ndvr and the t J of November to get through,
.Mr. .noses, I think: will readily understand
this, In regard toOrdcrNo.il hundreds
of letters have been written to me ab'jnt ft;
by persons of the faith affected by it. I do
not, or did not, answer any of the writers,
but permitted a statement of tbe facts con
cerning the origi 11 of the order to be made
out and piven to some of then) for publica
tion, not 7rdcnd to tnntnin the order.
At the time of its publication I was in
censed by a reprimand received frora Wash
ington tor permitting acts which Jews with
in my lines were engaged in. There were
many other persons Within tn7 lines equally
bad "with tho worst cf them, but the rtiffef
nee was that the Jews could pas with iiii
punity from one army to the ether ; tnd
gold, in viohitirm of orders, was ! ti':g
smuggled through the lines nt. l!n.i ?a 'A,
was repor'ei.. I he order was lar.'ifrt
sent without aSy reflection nnd tutuo u
thinking of the Jews as a sect or race to
themselves, bnt simply as porter who bad
Hucccsnful'y (1 say successfully, i'ad t f
pcrsistenf'.r, because there werv pV:'y of
others v. Hhiu my lines who envieu ' In. ir suc
cess) Tia.iitft the order, wbibb gr.'tly inur
ed 'be he'.j- -.1 the rebel.i.
Gb-e Mr. M ism R'smaiKo that I have no
prejudice iair.H jert o- rac. but want each
individual to be judged by bis own tniit.
Order No. 11 does not snstuia this state
ment, I admit, bnt then I do rot sustain
that order. It never would have been is
sued if it had not been telegraphed the mo
ment it was penned, and without reflection.
Yours truly, V. S. Cimnt.
How to Jcdox Pollthy. As Christina:
is approaching, the following hints In regnrd
to tho selection of poultry may be regarded
as "seasonable :"
A young turkey has a smooth lcrf r.tid nft
bill, and the eyes bright and the tt .'. nioUt.
Old turkeys have scaly, stiff ieet. Young
fowls have a tender skin, smooth ler-i. anil
tbr breast bone yields readily to the pre -ore
of tbe linger. The best are 'thosa tnv. hss
yellow legs. The feet and legs., ,,'ie
fowl look as if tbey had seen hard service ia
tho world. Young ducks f-el tinder under
the wing, and the web is lrrsprent. 'fh
best are thick ari l bard on the t.r.r; .f.
Young geese have yellow I-:'!.;, ev 1 the fett
are yellow and supple; the skin may l-o
easily broken by the head of a pin ; the breast,
is plump aud the fat white. An old goose
is untlt tor the human stcma."!j
C!K4 iri-:!S, A 4'.
! IFrom the Gormantown Telegraph J
RSSDEIUNO I AUD FOR FANHLY UbE. It
should bo remembered in the first place that
the melting of lard praei'te if, without us
ing salt or any tiling tl-o. There is nothing
better for melting it than a cast iron pan,
but prcut c-c should be tak;i that tbe lire
applied is uni.'t rui and no pa. t of the lard
scorches. The fire should bo fitted to the
pan, or the pan to the fire, and the heat
should be as nearly uniform as possible.
Let tbe lard be cut in small pieces and use a
slow fire, and the boiling should never ex
ceed a simmer, and the stirring must be con
tinued until the wholo has melted. When
this is done, tbe lard is strained through a
sieve to catch any sediment there may be,
care being taken' not to disturb the sediment:
This sediment, which is about two thirds
lard and one third skins and jelly, should
be boiled very slowly in n smaller pan for
the purpose of converting most of ii -o
fiue lard. One great point is to prevent tbe
lard from scorching, and this can be don
safely only by constant stirring.
AN OLD HOUSEKEEPER.
A w-K-Dcmflisgs. As this is th feasor
for apple-dumplings allow me tbe liberty of.
saying that tbey can l o made eo that every
one, even of delicate digestive powers, can
eat them with impunity. Of course I am
saying nothing but what every good house
keeper must know already, when I recom
mend that the doutih, if it may be so called,
should be made of about one part flour to
six parts of potatoes, boiled and mashed
thoroughly and every lump removed. It
makes a good paste, and the dumplings can
be enjoyed by every one without tho tear of
after uupleabant results. Try it.
HANN'Ail.
Mixce Pies. The following is my way
of making mince pies and I think they are
equal to any I have tasted :
Take equal weights of tender Leef, suet,
raisius, aud apples which l avs been previ
ously pared ami cored, with half their weigh'
of soft sugar, one ounce of powdered cij-o
mon, an equal quantity of candied ors-igf
and lemon peel, am) citron, a little salt aid
twelve bitter almonds blaauched and gt.itd.
Chop the meat and the suet separate' r , im
and pick the currants, stone the ra:s'ns nnd
chop them with the peel ; and hari'v: inino.
ed all the ingredient very line, mix then'
together, ad.lirg a ii'itmrg grated and the
juice of a lemon. A sjIhss or two of w'uio or
brandy greately improves it. Line your
dish or pattypans w.tli puff paste; fid with
the mince, cover aad fineh the edges to
gether. Bake half an hour. xc. a. c.
Thipb. akd How to Cook it. Trtp !i
one of the most nutritous, as well as hrVlth
flit articles ef food we can procure. As an
article of meat diet for summer, it i untur
passed. It can be obtained in tlin" market,
put up in vinegar, either by tt'e kit, wholo'
r half barrel. We mv below two excellent
methods ot cooking it ;
Fritd, Trip.-Cut tbe tripe iuto suitable
pieces, say two iuches square, dip jam a
batter mad of eggs, flour and wattr, then
drop jnto boiling Urd. Cook tid biowo.
Trip R,U4. Pick the tripe up in strin-s-mis
with a little flour, chopped onion, ami
parsley; moisten with tgge well Ustea
form a re'l and drop it into hot fat. Wher'
brewnelitU itady for tho tables-