Delaware State journal and statesman., 1863-09-08
Fashionable to Eat Like a IIOg.D

A traveller in Abyssinia says During
the repast, which owing to the fast, CON
sisted simply of teif cakes, dillik, and an
abundance of fermented hydromel, l
nearly lost the esteem and regard had
/ 'therto enjoyed, and that, too through an
unconscious offence against the etiquette
of aristocratic life According to the
Abyssinian notion, every man who claims
to be of patrician descent and noble line
age must possess fine shama, lined with
deep red border and be enabled IN emu
late Me noise Of a Cirtain uncLeda animal
aOhie eating his meals. This elegant ac-
quirement, which had unfortunately not
yet attained, drew upon me the frowns as
well as the whispering censures of the
guests. Unconscious of the cause of this
unexpected notoriety, asked Mr.. Bell
whether there was anything peculiar in
my appearance or department that pro-
voked criticism.
Certainly was the rejoinder; your
conduct is so ungentlemanly that all the
guests you think must be very low fellow,
and quite unaccustomed TO move in gen
teel society"
"And to what am | indebted for this
good opinion ~ returned l.
To the mode in which you eat for, if
you were gentleman, you would show,
by the smacking of your lips, the exalted
station to which you belong but, since
you masticate your food in this inaudible
manner, every one believes that you are q
beggar, and accustomed to eat in that un-
ostentatious quietneSs which pretended
poverty prompts individuals of that class
to adopt
al assured them that my breach of eti-
quette ought to be attributed to the differ
ence of the customs in my own count y,
and not the low motive they assigned
an apology which amply satisfied the most
accomplished courtier in that royal tent"
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ANOTHER DEMOCRATIC GENERAL ON
"PFAoG. ."-General William IL. Lyle, an
old Democrat of Ohio, in a recent speech
at Bridgeport, Alabama, spoke as follows
Of the peace mongers
cam | told that the Union restored by
force of arms is not worth having? Am
| told that if the States now in revolt are
whipped in fair fight-beaten and humili-
ated-they will be unworthy and degraded
members of the Union We must have
peace first, says a certain school of politi-
clans, and then, if we can, will argue the
south into reconstruction. LII other
words, these gentlemen would have the
government and the loyal masses of the
country drain to the dregs the bitter cup
which they would dash from the hands of
traitors and rebels.
''The territories you have occupied are
to be abandoned the public property,
the dock-yards and fortresses you have re-
captured after two years of war are to be
surrendered the victorious armies of the
Mississippi, the Cumberland and the PotO-
mac followed by the ieers and SCOTS of the
enemy, are to sneak, with arms reversed
and flags trailing in the dust, across the
northern border, and your government
the government of Washington and Jeiler-
son and ,Jaekson-is to cover, dishonored
and disgraced, by-word and kissing
among the nations. II the rebel armie,
II will not say the rebel States MOI
their constitutional rights)-if the rebe
armies and the oligarchs who control
them have their pride broken and theil
prestige humbled, let them blame them
selves. They have sown the to wind, lei
item reap the whirlwind, till the bloody
problem is finally worked out, ey'
to eye, foot to foot, sword to sword
bayonet to bayonet, if it need be, for tel
years longer, with iron hearts and irol
fleets, and iron hail. This generation 0
loyal men will, by Gods grace, endure it
heavy cross, and, until the broad dayligh
of peace and order and victory shall come
will stand to arms"