The Republican journal., 1875-09-23
LETTER FROM BOSTON
BOSTON, Sent. %. 1871

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sufficiently dlsnterested as far as public morals
are concerned, to hope that the suit will be
pressed. or course what they want is to see
Zen Butler as Moulton's counsel catechise Mr..
Beecher. Butler has not been seen i'm his early
field OF Nlctory-the criminal court-room-for
some time, and lovers Of wordv warfare who
remembers his former achievements in this
line, are DESTROYS of witnessing one more Skin
nllsh, If only to see if the aggressive general is
up to his Old standard. In these discussions
one hears many stories Of Buffers, CID proves.
One that | overheard in this way seems so GOOD
chat venture to repeat it, even with the chance
Of its proving Old. Butler is VIGOROUSLY hard
on his opponents witnesses. and on this occa-
| sion he bore on relentlessy that the Judge
| felt called upon to interfere and he said ''Mr
| Butler, you press the witness too hard.' But
| Butler continued, and seemed not TO heed the
judges reminder till again his honor felt called
upon to repeat his declaration, "Mr. Butler,
| you press the witness too hard" Still 10 ap-
parent attention was paid to this remonstrance,
and Butler went right Oh with his rasping i'll
quries Finally the judge became irate, and
| i'll angry tone demanded, ''Mr. Butler what am
| here for:" Then that worthy individual, turn
! ing only one eve upon the honorable occupant
OF the bench, while he still kept his hold on the
witness with the other, responded. ''Iou ask
me a puzzlng question, your honor" That is
| the sort of legal fitting that 4 large class are
not ayerse to reading the reports Of, and which
they think there will be plenty of if Butler has
the opportunity Of handling the ease.
w inNra # o,lI I.,s
every one Shiycrng, and the result is lust what
the tailors and feminine costumers want-a
rush to their shops for fall ovcrcoats and warm
wraps. The laughabe part of it is that these
establishments are hardly prepared for so early
a run, As it is quite unusual for the counters to
be completely filled with new goods, or for open
| ingS to he held before the first or second week
| in October. Last season the whole month of
| October was 50 beautiful and mild that business
languiShed through the very period that is gen
orally regarded as the best Of the season. ''Do
wait" dress makers said last week. give
| hardly got acquainted myself with the fashions,
and our imported goods are not vet out of the
! Custom House. This, by the way. is great
| grievance to tradesmen. They are found to put
! up with delay Of two or three weeks for their
| mportatonS to he turned inside out and upside
down, and very often handsome dresses are
considerably tumblcd by the operation, while
| they declare that ladies with mammoth trunks,
| full OF dutiable articles, merely take oath that
lheY have nothing Of the kind, and that the
trunks contain only their personal property,
and they ure allowed to Whisk them off home
In iitfy' This, Il gentleman told me last
| week, he saw done by ladies who came from
| Europe on the steamer with him, and who had
| no peace of mind during the entire voyage, be-
cause of the rumor that prevailed on board that
| the Custom House officials had become much
more strict than heretofore in their eXamina-
tons. ''If could soop to do the thing" said
| this gentleman, Il could have brought home
| 5000 worth Of laccS without paying cent of
| duty" II has become chronic complaint now
| With our shop keepers that the upper class of
| Boston ladies do nothing whatever toward the
| patronage of the dry goods and costume houses
of the city, Everything must come from Paris
| or Berlin and they do not consider that in send
| ing so much money out Of the country they are
| doing anything toward depressing trade ut
| home; but are they not? On the other hand
w
| eXquisey done. We can't sew, trim, embroil-
or or finish up die>, Paris seamstresses
| do. Neither can we compete with them in the
| price of Labor. | know of a lady now who is
| soon to be married. aud she has taken an empty
| Saratoga trunk and gone to Paris. She is to be
absent about five weeks, and She will return
with Il complete wedding outfit. She will enjoy
! rs pleasure of her journey, short STAY in i''~
| tive Paris and bring back something odd and
| tartiNaingly pretty for what She would have
| 10 pay Tor the same outfit here. But ask me
not II She intends TO pay the duties on the con-
| tents Of the trunk. Our trades people have
| done every thing to turn this stream of gold into
| Their own Golfers, which unQucstionably in
! luln would benefit the community in general;
| but thus far to little purpose They have i'm
| ported French dress-makers they have arrang-
| ed TO receive monthly invoices of Paris patterns
| Nc.; but neither Of these can give French dress
cs; that charm lies in the def little fingers of
| the French Seanstrcss and their Well-kn0Wn
| capablllty of making much out of little. The
| way in which they sew on bradS, even, is SIM
| ply marvellous. So smooth and even is the de-
| sign put on. that it seems woven into the fabric
/ N'''''' 'ii ~
may look like simple matter, but is feature
OF French garments, ana is especially so this
| year; but if anyone doubts the difficulty of the
| task let her try to sew several rows of narrow
| braid on garment without wrinkle OF puckcr
| OH the cloth.
| The newest wrinkle in chatelaincs, is Il belt
large enough to cncirce the hips. These bands
4 or in h.;l,I
through them, or of velvet, OF ribbon with sill
Yer buckles. put on lit intervals of about an
| inch or more. From them depend at the left
| side long loops of velvet ana fan, or such
other articles rs it is desirable to attach Some
| ornamental bags, it is said, will also be worn
on them. The idea recalls the pretty little
satchc worn i'll this manner by Marguerite In
''faust," only the latter is ali Of Russia leather,
ana both simpler aud pretter, and also more
>eryiceablc.
| These are great days for inventors but the
| pafentees must make all the money just as
| the weakness of one class of persons i patent
medicines, 50 that of another is improved kitch
en- utensils; and as these latter increase and
| multiply to fearful rate, it is a malady that
costs money. | know of one gentleman who
has become mono-maniac on the subject OF
refrigcrators and minute ice-cream freezers, in
which the ice never gives out. II he could af-
ford it, he would keep neither of these articles
only till he had secured the latest edition, when
the former, for all he cares, might be immedi
ately consigned 10 the fire. As it is he buys as
many patent arrangements as he can, and en-
ploys all his leisure time in posting himself on
their PROJECTIONS, and advising his friends what
to get or in seeking to induce them to buy his |
own articles at a ruinous discount, so that he |
may rejoice in the purchase Of the improved
ones. Another gentleman of greater means is |
II victim to patent cooking implements. Scarce
~ day passes that he does not 90 home, his |
pockets laden with Il new egg-beatcr, apple !
parcr nut-cracker, rasin-stone extractor, or |
something of that kind. His wife demonstrates, |
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