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needed. As long as small matters continue to make up the sum of social and 

 domestic coml'orts, none can be too small to be worthy of notice in a journal like 

 yours, which professes to go for the useful. 



JBy-the-by, Sir. Editor, since I am at sea under a roving commission, that opens 

 to me every port, and makes every object a fair subject for exammation, let me 

 embrace the opportunity to express my testimony in favor of 



COLORED AGAINST WHITE WAITERS IN HOTELS. 



For this you need go no farther than the great " Delavan " Temperance House 

 in Albany, the " United States " in Philadelphia, and Barnum's in Baltimore, where 

 men of color exclusively are employed. Contrast the docility, prompt attention, 

 and submissiveness of these to the discipline which befits their station, with the 

 air and deportment (with some very clever exceptions) of the half-naturalized, 

 half-taught foreigner, too often picked up on the wharves for convenience, and 

 then only to be retained until they get washed and dressed, and in a few months' 

 breathing the air of our gloriously free democracy they get to be, in their own 

 conceit, quite as good if not a " wee bit better nor their employers," and quite im- 

 patient for promotion to a higher office — beginning with a leader at the polls 

 and rising to the ShexiSalty., or the Mayoralty, or, peradvenlure, a Judgeship ! 

 !No, Sir ; for a ruler, a man of philosophical temper and enlarged views, like 

 Madison or Monroe — unprejudiced and tolerant of difference of opinion where 

 reason is left free to combat it ; for a genuine tyrant, an old field-demagogue, who 

 has no idea of that liberty about which he is ever prating, beyond the usages of 

 his party ; for companions, give me high-toned, cultivated gentlemen ; but for 

 waiters, whether on the coach-box or behind your chair at the table d^hote, to 

 change my plate or to brush my shoes or my coat, give me colored men— and all 

 the better when brought up in the " great house " and manumitted for good be- 

 havior, after being educated in slavery to humane, well-bred masters. The 

 most accomplished head-waiter in all Canada, is a mulatto from Baltimore, iti 

 the Albion House in Quebec. — And now what shall be said of the 



MARKETS IN PHILADELPHIA AND BALTIMORE. 



This is a fruitful subject, and would require much more room than you can 

 spare, though it behooves every agriculturist to know in what a good market 

 consists ; and all ought occasionally to survey those within their reach with the 

 ambition to supply or improve what is deficient in quantity or quality. I have 

 often heard the late Robert Oliver, who was an early riser and a close observer, 

 and made it a point to go early through the markets where he happened to be, 

 whether at home or abroad — I have heard him often remark that there was no 

 such market iji the ivorld, take it all in all, as that of Philadelphia! In Boston, 

 you are struck with the urbane manners and remarkably intelligent conversation 

 of the butchers ; in Philadelphia, with the great attention to cleanliness in their 

 persons and stalls. The two things in which they there appear to me most uni- 

 formly to excel, is in their veal and butter. To their calves designed for veal 

 they never think of giving less than the entire milk of one cow — sometimes 

 more — and thus they bring it to be very fat and to weigh more than a hundred 

 pounds in six weeks ; and that, they say, pays better than any other disposition 

 that can be made of either the calf or the milk.* The richness, high flavor and 

 excellence of their butter has been attributed, as I see in your journal, by a nice 

 and accomplished observer of such things, (Doctor Emerson,) to the presence of 

 the sweet-scented vernal grass {Anthoxanthum odoratum)-\ in their pastures. If 

 so, it would surely be worth the while of farmers in the neighborhood of all 

 large cities to patronize that grass. I think it was cultivated near Baltimore by 

 the late Doctor Wilkins, whose memory deserves to rank highly in all agricul- 

 tiaral and horticultural annals for his intelligence and ardor in the cause of these 

 kindred industries. 



[* For valuable iiifoi-mation as to the Management of Cows and Calves, see this and the 

 preceding Number of The Farmers' Library, from Stephens's " Book of the Farm." 



Ed. Farm. Lib.] 

 [t With a more paiticular description of this grass the reader shall be fiimished at the end 

 of these Notes, or in an eai'ly number. Ed. Farm. Lib.'\ 



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