New-York daily tribune., 1856-07-17
FROM BOSTON.
FIom sn Occasional Correspondent.

BOsToN, Monday, July IA, 1896.
What the deuce is Eagiology, l should Ike 70
kuowl Did you ever see such word before'
never did, till found it leading of in my last iet-
ter to you. However, it is wrong in me to seold
Won. After the warning of Mr.. G. A. Is. Us to
your i,literate condition, ought not to have made
use of 30 hard word l. could not be expected
that you would get it right lsupp"se you thought
as Y letter was chiefly about the Fourth OF July,
and 80 tf q patriotic character. that Flagiology
had something to do with Flags-ths Science OF
Flsgs, perhaps. Yes, yes / dare say you did. But,
You see. the word used was not Flagiology, but
Hogiotogu which il not the Science OF Flags, but
(htav.n save the mark y the Science OF Saints, to
a high place on the Kaleudar of whom proposed
10 raise the excellent Benedict Arnold for the ser
Woes be was prevented from rendering to his
country-ope of the chief of which would have
been the sufIoca alton in its cradle of that horrible
holiday, the Fourth Of July.
If yOu look the word out carefully in any Enghsh
dictionary you will find it and the two Greek words
from which it is made up i will spare you them
here, as they would certainly be too much for YOU
don't know whether you will find it in your favor
tie dictionary of the ConRecticut language or not,
a. do not suffer it upon my premises at ALL ior
fear of injury to the morals OF the younger
branches Of my family. am not very eIpurgato-
rial as to the character OF the BOOKS a.iow 70
stands high on the list of maia prohibitd. II
should ever find that old c0rrupter of youth and
debaucher of pure English sitting upon my table
he would be much more likely to sit there than on
chair, I should most ibialhbly take him by the
nspe of The neck and seat of the breeches and
walk him out of the hall door in double quick
time. 1t has long been my deliberate opinion that
- ,,la thaU raa% naIst init fiaa nj
this country are Slavery, Splitting and Webster's
Larger Dictionary. groan in spirit when think
how rooted these three Domestic Institutions Of
ours are.
Speaking of sitting on a table instead of chair,
combined with typographical errors, puts me in
mind Of one which beicll poor James Russell Lowell
of this kind He printed some years ago poem,
first IN newspaper published in your city, the
name Of which GOT the poem l mean, not the city,
cannot recall, and have not the volume into
which it was afterward reduced within reach
In one stanza medieval baron fourished who,
il wss sad by way of rounding it and exemplifying
something
"se, his armed heel upon the poor"
But the crss-erained types went to work, and
made il out that this muchDjured nobleman only
" Set his srm.d heel upon M> fw,r
q disposition of it to which it did not seem
as il any just exception could be taken.
MI. iDWVn HiiDsci pfoitsttu tudL he Qllu
SEE where else be could have set it, unless
it were on the table or the mantel.piece. have
had some very cOmical adventures with typss.
myself, in my limited connection with the press.
In one communication, emember, it did rem az
if the devil must have had his finger among them.
for they made worthy deacon demon, and an
excellent friend fend. But / must do your
eonpositOrs the justice to say that they have got
the hang Of my pOt-bOOks vi commonly well. and
n ia OILY and then they aLa vr,iat at.L..
Probably my communications have been kind of
education to them and to you all. dare say when
Mr.. {. A. b. returns to New-Y0rk he will oh.
serve a very cOnmendable improvement in The
1RIBUNE, owing to this advantage you have had
As write to-day merely for the purpose of say.
ing What you will find above written, have moth
il further in particular to say There is no fresh
political or personal gossip that hear Of All the
western part Of the city, where men chiefly inbab-
it, s as IadmOr in the wilderness, or Petraa in
the desert. Everybody is away, and Boston is
scattered all over this continent and the other To
be sure, the streets are full as they can hold:
but, Of course, that is nothing to the purpose Ii
is said that Mr.. Wendell Phillips in speech he
nsde at birmingham on the Fourth of July, ac-
counted for the dsgust excited in the Democrats t
Col. Fremonts having eaten dogs flesh among the
Rocky Mountains, by the instructive horror all ami
mails feel at such disposition of their own race.
AS you are well acquainted with the animals in
question, you can Judge whether there is any
ground for this study in Natural History.
And aprepos to Democrats, The Post of
this city makes q statement to this effect which
looks badly for yOu as the truth of what il saws
can Tever be cOntroverted. He says that a vote
VAS tskeD on the Presidential question on the New
York Central Railway one day, with the follow.
ing result: Buchanan (say) 25, Fillmore 10. Ere.
mont 2-and before the train got to Buffalo the
Conductor had both the Fremont men locked nm
in the saloon for picking pockets, 1t also states
that POtiphar Curtis is going to take the stumn
for Fremont 1t used TO be George W. Curtis
ESQ., or Howadji Curtis, butnow "Potiphar."
eleh changes do mems bebaviors work in their
cosnomsnstions. Thooeh believe after all there
was DO harm abolt Potphar II was Potiobar.