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ound. Yet, though the Yankees are tasteless and vulgar, let it not be thought that they do not know how to appreciate memorials. Far from it. They value them in their own peculiar manner, according to their idea of the money that can be made of them. They took up all the headstones over the graves of the soldiers who fell at the siege of York, designing, no doubt, to exhibit them for pay, as they would exhibit a monkey or a rhinoceros, or as the Boston man exhibited the remains of old Parkman, who was murdered some years ago by the amiable and philanthropic professor of chemistry in Harvard College because he presumed to ask payment of a debt which had been long justly due. They steal pictures, too, to sell; and the Yankees buy, because they read that to have pictures is an evidence of taste, just as they think it an evidence of learning to have a large library, although the majority of the books be nothing more than wood, with the title of a book printed on the back. Of silver