pril 12--Genl. Thaddeus Kosciusko puts into my hands a
Warrant of the Treasury for 3,684.54d to have bills of
exchange bought for him.

May 8--Tea out, the pound has lasted exactly 7 weeks, used 6
times a week; this is 8-21 or .4 of an oz. a time for a
single person. A pound of tea making 126 cups costs 2d, 126
cups or ounces of coffee--8 lb. cost 1.6.

May 18--On trial it takes 11 dwt. Troy of double refined
maple sugar to a dish of coffee, or 1 lb. avoirdupois to
26.5 dishes, so that at 20 cents per lb. it is 8 mills per
dish. An ounce of coffee at 20 cents per lb. is 12.5 mills,
so that sugar and coffee of a dish is worth 2 cents.

As to the code of official etiquette which we have seen to exist in
Washington, the President himself was responsible for it, for we
have, written out in his own delicate hand, the following explicit
instructions:

The families of foreign ministers, arriving at the seat of
government, receive the first visit from those of the
national ministers, as from all other residents. Members of
the legislature and of the judiciary, independent of their
offices, have a right as strangers to receive the first
visit. No title being admitted here, those of foreigners
give no precedence. Difference of grade among the diplomatic
members gives no precedence.

At public ceremonies the government invites the presence of
foreign ministers and their families. A convenient seat or
station will be provided for them, with any other strangers
invited, and the families of the national ministers, each
taking place as they arrive, and without any precedence.

To maintain the principle of equality, or of pell-mell, and
prevent the growth of precedence out of courtesy, the
members of the executive will practise at their own houses,
and recommend an adherence to the ancient usages of the
country of gentlemen in mass giving precedence to the ladies
in mass, in passing from one apartment where they are
assembled into another.

And so on, through reams and reams of a strange man's life records.

Why should we care to note his curious concern over details? The
answer to that question is this--obviously, Thomas Jefferson's
estimate of a man must also in all likelihood have been curiously
exact. He did not make public to the world his judgment of Colonel
Aaron B