The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-02-26

happen that he will save himself f. ON be-
'ng drafted.
Some on Oysters.
A Washington correspondent of an
Eastern contemporary thus discourses on
on the luscious bivalves:
STEAMED OYSTERS.
billiard Saloon" in fiery letters, at the
street corner pointed the way out to Canter.
bury. The sign had a crisp, rafting and not
over-virtuous air. There are plenty of such
all through the city. Another class fairly
make ones mouth water, and ones eyes grow
filmy looking at them. They seem to smoke
with the aerial effervescence of the toothsome
bivalves. 'Steamed Oysters"-the very sound
sizzles with a relish. One who hath not eaten
steamed oysters hath yet in store for himself
a most delicious stomachic experiment. Oy-
sters raw are appetizing, suitably condimented,
they glide with soft, unctiOus touch, down
the willing esophagus. The sensation is sub
fried, fricasseed and roasted are all savOry,
wholesome, dgestible, grateful dishes, sur
charged with aroma and gustatory Joy. Oy-
steers fried in butter are oysters vulgarized
oysters divorced from pearls. meerschaum and
mermaids, and done up in course mush.
sucketh out and retaineth their fragrant juices
But steamed oysters! Whereunto shall
liken the capacity of man who feedeth upon
steamed OYSTERS that civilized, refined, spirit
ualized produce of kitchen pot
If any one after reading the above cam
not eat oysters-yea swallow a raw oyster
whole-he deserves Gas the Athenians
would say to be ostrocised;; which means,
in modern parlance to be carried out on
the half SHE'LL" 1t is the most powerful
and persuasive argument against oysters,
but in favor of eating them we have yet
seen. 1t is enough to make even an Oy-
ster exclaim, "steam me and eat me -
A friend of ours who had read it said he
dreamed the next night that he was a
steamed oyster and awoke very unhappy
to fiad that although well " steamed - he
felt more like boiled lobster than an
oyster.
But as dissuaders Of gluttony We must
protest against all such new-fangled incen-
tives to epicurianism. We are still in
favor of the old kind of oysters and the
old way of eating them, that we have out
west. Here we treat the oyster in can
did and indulgent manner and we give
him time to make his peace or come to
pieces, just as he will, before We devour
him. We do not ravish him from his
mothers arms and eat him like cannibals,
toasting hot, before her. weeping eyes
but in humane manner We bring him far
away from the scenes of his childhood and
where the echoes of the sounding sea
never shall ask him, where are you ?"-
so far that Notwithstanding the keenness
of his smell and the power of all his in
stincts he will never find his way back
sgain-and there, in some disguised form,
80 that tie conscience of his consumer
feels no compunctions of ''cruelty tn dumb
animals, he joins the diversified caravan
Of human, inner comforts, and passes
away to that bourne from whence no good
oyster ever returns. Let eastern humane
tarians remember that though they have
charged US with hanging few murderous
Indians, yet that we are still innocent of
eating live oysters.
What a Democratic Soldier Saws.
We are permitted to make the following
extract of letter from Lieutenant JOSEPH
f. MURPHY, serving in an Illinois regi-
ment, to his father, Major R. G. MURPHY,
of Shakokee. He undoubtedly speaks the
present sentiments of nearly every Demo-
cratic soldier in the army:
/ am truly glad to know that
you approve my course regarding the war, and
hope nothing may occur to make you regret
that / am soldier of the Union. 1 believe
just as you do about the South. They have
never treated the Democracy of the North with
any kind of respect Every proposition that
has been made by the Democracy of the North
to settle this question, has been repudiated
and laughed at by the South. They thought
one rebel could whip four Yankees" and it
was not worth while to listen to anything that
the Democrats of the North could offer.
They were only "mudsills anyway. This is
about what the Senators of the South thought
and said at the beginning of the war;
but they have found themselves, by bitter expe-
rience, wofully mistaken; and if their negroes
are freed, which is certain if the war contin- |
ues, they can have nobody to blame but them
selves. think that many Democrats, in their
zeal for their party, do the Union cause an in
jury by throwing cold water upon everything
that is done by the party now in power. For
my part, care not what is done or said in Con- .
gress, or what Abe LINCOLN may do or say; 1 |
am for fighting the rebels until they come back
into the Union. Then we can discuss the SUBJ