Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-11-25

being material in its character, this second is, we
suppose, to be treated as ethereal. 1t is that from
all we have, out of song or story, heard read Of
the heroic race of the Puflenbergs, and Trinken.
bergs, and Snoozenbergs, the Van Blasts, Van
Dams, Van Observation-Disclosures, and Van Sehwear.
agens, the Derhagetrss, and the Derteulelsnahms
the Vanderv enters and Vanarsdales, the Wolien-
bottles and the Brantybotles, the Vanderpeos and
the Municipalities, the Munchhousens, Chawsour-
krouts, and Schwolow smearcases, and all those Of
| far-resounding names who fought under Peter the
! Testy, or fumed with Tietrich the Trumpeter, no
human force of conception can image TO Itself a
buchanan, in whatever feat OF war or fact OF gal
antry engaged, except as all the while enveloped
in cloud of tobacco smoke and reeking with an
atmosphere of beer.
Now, as TO beer, we hold that drinking of all
sorts is most friendly to love. Sine Baccho, fri
get Jenus," said the ancients, who, in this matter,
are the best nasmuch as the oldest authority. The
Irish, who, among the moderns, most excel in both
exercises, aver that not only imperial Joye, tunefm
Apollo, and the Cyprian queen OF smiles INDUCED
in hot whiskey- punch, but that " zen chaste Diana
took drop" Drinking and loving have, indeed,
al all times gone together: witness Anacreon and
all the subsequent poets, who, il must be confessed,
| only loved so well because they drank so well.
1 Nor is that all /: even ordinary uninspred mortas
grow tender as they get hpsy, and kindle up IN the
ardor of their cups, with triple flame of love, and
| valor, and eloquence. To clench the matter we
might call up the amorous shade of him who, at
\ Halifax, in remorseful mood
"Took drinking rataie and thought upon Miss Baiy"
and of her, the despairing g Landady in France
| whom love inpelled to what best, through the
neghboriug stomach, heals wounds Of the heart
the brandy bottle. For it hath, like the weapon OF
~. arnt,rt
for the inward bruise' which whilom it helped to
make. Now, such being the connexion and such
the power Of potaton in general with regard to those
emotions which make men 'sigh like furnace,
how can il be but that beer, the most hatulent of
drinks must be also the most love!nspirng, as fur
nishng the largest of all provisions for signing AS
TO the malt liquor, if Mynheer's case is not made
out, the deuce is in it. We should like to see the
law or the logic that can touch it.
Next then, to show that there is no incompatible
lily between smoking and love. If the pipe be a
modern iuventon-lf that to which nymphs and
| shepherds danced of old in Arcadia different
INSTRUMENTATION is Sir Walter Raleigh, one of the
most gallant ofcayaiers its dscoverer for hecivized
world. The amorous Turk rejoices in his chibouk,
not less nan The Hollander in his meerschaum.
The Sulsna of the harem fair as pearl, !" blows
her cloud SO does the Partisan "lioness," the
pistoiled disciple of that acme OF feminine genius,
| Madame George Sand. In that land of love, Hava-
ma, the languid beauty nhales the continual soul Of
cigars. The stll sotter-eyed belle of Mexico not
only breaches the rolled tobacco, but, as the most
touching Of compliments, when she has finished,
permits you, by ravishing condescension, TO suck
the ambrosia which her lips have left upon her
stump. Incompatible mode of kissing so chaste
| and yet SO luxurious smoking and embracing all
in one! Only to think how
Her mouth has lent its bAlmest sweet to
That stump of her soft cigarito
In Mexico there smouches
But these out OF tobacco pouches.
A fair ones lips no amorous swain
Can there adventure 10 profane
But, through contents of cigar. box, he
May tope to hang on them by proxy.
A kiss ask but ask her whether
Shell blow cloud and kiss together
Tragedy Of Oronoho.
But our argument ascends yet higher: Smoke
was acceptable to the Celestials of yore in sacri-
fees the censor still smokes in those seemly cere
monies which the Roman ritual preserves: why
should we not, then, in the worship Of the only Pa
gan divinity Love) that we still adore, use smoke !!
We have thus, we think, indicated the possibili-
ty of Manhattan romance, of love-affair and its
woes among the New Amsterdamers, and of the
Residences Of ones being affectedby it otherwise
than with recurring commissions of merriment At
every distress. Should there, however, be any left
unconvinced, even by the whole weight of our ar
gumen let them read the " Tale of l673,' and
Weld to fact. They will find in it an agreeable
story, well conducted well told and, on the whole,
in a style much more uEcorrupt than now generally
prevails 1t was, Of course, the authors business
10 conform the manners of his fat burghers to those
which, however largely supposititious, Washington
Irving's art has rendered real to every body; and
his Stuyvesants, Grosbecks, Knckerbockers, Van
Rensselaers, Ten Eycks, Livingstons, Duyckncks,
Van Schacks, Van Schoonhovens therefore main
tain the classic demeanor OF the antique Dutch
man-that is to say they are heavily thoughtful,
clumsy sagacous, duly hot and valorous; they
carouse enormously, smoke tremendously, and
swear oaths inordinate and unintellgible, such as
no degenerate modern Jaws could WELD /; but they
are simple right-hear;ed, brave, kindly patriotic
and these better elements harmonize the grotesque
into the romantic. The novelist has, in word,
caught something of the spirit of him whom il was
necessary to initiate and this is no slight praise.
We are indebted TO the publisher for the volume,
which comes to US through the hands Of Mr.. FRANcK
| TAYLOR.
SPEECHES or LORD CHATHAM.
new edition OF the Speeches of the Earl Of
CHATHAM, 10 some noble passages Of which we
had not long ago occasion 10 call the attention OF