A PEOPLE OF TASTE.

The extraordinary liberality of the generous people of Connecticut has

frequently excited apprehension in the minds of their friends, that,

sooner or later, as the result of their spendthrift career, they must

come to beggary. But we are glad to hear that they are making an effort

in New Haven to reform. The grocery men there say that their customers

taste so much before they can make up their minds to buy anything, that

what with gratuitous slices of cheese and specimen mouthfuls of sugar

and sample spoonfuls of molasses, the shop-keeper's profits are most

dolefully diminished. A particularly BLUE LAW against this economical

custom will have the effect of sobering down these brilliant Cullers.

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"What Answer?"

Is it likely that HORACE GREELEY, or any other man, could steer this

country through its difficulties by means of the tillers of the soil?

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