American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-09-13

Secretary Robson has made some re-
markable statements in his day, but the
most refreshing bit of intelligence he has
yet communicated is contained in a recent
statement of his touching the Admins
tration's intermeddling with the present
| Gubernatorial canvas in massachusetts.
Mr.. Robson says: 1.-The National Ad-
ministratiOn is not in the business of
either making or unmaking the Govern
| ors of Massachusetts, or of any other State
| If it should interfere, directly or indirect
| ly, for or against any individual, the peo-
| pie would have just cause for complaint.
OF course, every Federal officer is at per
| feet liberty to exercise his own judgment
in perfect freedom in the discharge of his
duties as a citizen. and voter. And these
l know to be the sentiments of President
Grant, The above is important if true;
but, unfortunately for Secretary Robeson's
veracity or memory, or both combined,
this doctrine, however admirable it may
be in the abstract, will strike the most Or
binary observer of the political events of
the past three years as something entirely
new and remarkable. There is very
general impression abroad in this country
that the Administration has been doing a
wholesale and very profitable business in
seating and unseating Governors. 1t is
probable that Secretary Robson has for
gotten that last fall the Administration
Illlcu NOI StIOllusi Will us SDcdkcTS,
levied assessments on the Office-holders to
meet the expenses, pardoned Ku-Klux
prisoners upon condition that they should
work for the Administrations candidate,
and, by the most persistent use of politi-
cal chicanery and threats of intimida-
ton, succeeded in placing Caldwell in
the Governors chair. Secretary Robson
has also probably forgotten, the part the
Administration played in the election of
Hartranft in Pennsylvania. 1t is still
stranger that he should have forgotten the
interference of the Administration in
Louisiana affairs; how it put its own can
didate in authority, and has kept him
there by force, although he was illegally
elected, against the wishes of the major
ity of the people of the State. 1t is need
less to refresh Secretary Robeson's mem
cases in which the Administration has
been engaged in making and unmaking
Governors. Those we have already cited |
are sufficient to show that the Secretary |
of the Navy has very treacherous men, |
DRY, and that neither his sentiments nor |
the Presidents sentiments on this matter, |
although they happen to agree, are of any |
possible account so long they are not |
put into practice. 1t will become the |
Secretary of the Navy hereafter, when he |
makes public statement, not to trust to |
his memory, but to consult facts, especial |
" when they are SO easily accessible as in |
the case in question.-Chicago Tribune.
Baking Apples.-"I do not think, said |
n correspondent, that housekeepers have |
cooked apples nearly as often as they |
should. There is nothing more whole
some for dessert than apples baked in
various forms. They should be cored,
put in dish with little warm water,
each with a teaspoonful of sugar over it;
Ill. oil n,
cream or good milk Or make an apple |
float, by taking a dozen tart apples, stew
and prepare them as if for sauce; when
cold add the whites of two eggs, beaten;
then beat the whole until quite stiff; hav-
ing made previously soft custard with
the yolks, usisg about pint OF milk.
Or make an apple pudding, by filling the
cored apple with nutmeg, sugar and but,
ter; make Il batter of one egg, flour and
milk, and pour around the apples. Or
pare, core and spice say ten large apples;
bake until nearly done; put away to get
cold then prepare icing as usual. Pour
off the juice, lay the iccings on the tops
and sides as thickly as you can; then re
turn to the oven, to just harden and set.
haven't that, as the article is scarce nova
days, good milk will answer, if You can
get it.'
In his Elements de StatlSque, NJ.
Morcau de Jonnes gives IL table of the
number of marriages which are effected
annually in the principal countries in
Europe Ireland comes first, with one
marriage for each ninety inhabitants;
France is sixteenth, with one for one hun
bred and twenty-two; England twenty
seventh, with one in one hundred and
thirty-seven; Tuscany twenty-e'ghth and
last, with one in one hundred and forty
three According to these figures, the
English, Notwithstanding their reputed
headstrong imprudence, actually marry |
less in proportion than the prudent, cal |
culating French, who balance things 50
carefully, and look before they leap.