, 1873-01-26

pedigree as O passport, and your nocial ante
cedcuts a5 r. Recommendation, before he vel
comes you to his tent. In Boston, the soc'ety Is
said to DO exclusive, and its tono cold, but my
own c1perioncc o'liges me to say that never have
received such kindness, such lavish hospitality,
as did from tho Eostoniaas.
GENERAL aRANT-A PORTRAIT.
or small stature and badly -proportioned frame
with small, lard eyes, and O mouth closed with
firmuess that says more for this soldiers ton
acity Of will than the whole Of his military REQ
ord, what strises one more than anything else is
tho utter lack of expression on his countenance.
No ono looking at the face conld succeed in de-
fning any chaEacteristics. At times he will ap-
pear to be conversing freely; at others, and
when any attempt Is made ut q leading question,
an impenetrable mask falls over his face, like q
veil, and the interlocutor is left to ujecture
IT have often met him driving buggy. with q
pair Of communicating horses (irst-rate trot-
ters, nevertholcss), looking like commonplace,
amiable bourgeois, and sometimes walking nlong
with Minister scowl on his face, and an uncom-
promising determination on hia thin lips, which
might characterize conspirator."
THE "HEATHEN cHINEE."
At dinner party at New York, tho lady met
Mr. Bret Harte, and bohlnd his chair stood the
" Heathon Chinee, yes, verltable John Chi
naman, smooth-faced aud imperturbable, with
tina pig tail and loose garments in the ample
"bowors might have been safely slowed away )!
The lady's naighbor-tbe author Of "Littlo
Breeches Explained to her that the Celestial
was Illustrating cheap labor as servant.
TIE NEGROES.
The opinion OF the authoress is unfavorable 10
the mixed race. tGiye me pure negro of
either se1 for q servant, aud. unless ho OF she
has been previously Bpolt. shall be certain to
find the creature devoted, grateful, respectful,
honest.-ay and even intelligent and hard
bot rof.- tnfF h~rn
the chances OF his or her turning out to be de-
ceitful, impudent, aud dishonest, are too great
to be risked." The negroes have good manners
and pleasing address as 3 rule !; they nre
delightfully."- good-natured, and, though ahe
watched gangs OF men at work on ths streets,
she never once heard q negro swear. Though
their language is By no means grammatical, - it
is far less Offensive than that Of the nliterate
class in England"
AN AMERICAN "noME."
With the following picture Of q home on the
Hudson, at which the authoress stayed with q
distinguished family, my notice Of this agreea-
bic little book must close: " What a hayen OF
rest is this exquisite spot, which looks aa it. no
matter ut what season OF the year, the SUI must
always shine, and the soft breezes blow to the
ssson' a1s mu'9 Of The oFEhsnsed Rstsrs Of e.
Hudson loved to linger under the
ogerhanging trees, which stretch further back
into woods deep and quiet, breathing coolness
and balmy rest and solitude; where the wander
er, peering through the foliage Of hem1ock,
soft haziness OF blue space, and careBsed by the
shades as with the touch OF angels, dreams Of
Elysium between Heaven and Earth.
"And the house; 1t does not look as il it had
been built, but as il it had been grown there,
under the trees, larger granite boulder than
to brenk the line OF turf or underwood. What
English home could surpass it In comfort,-that