The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-08-21
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A. Grano Event.

A. Grana Event.
zone of the grandest events in history"
Jas. Buchanan declares to be the unition Of
the Hards and Softs in New York. The Bal
timore Patriot thinks DIR. Holmes is very
funny man. but it thus compares the Doctor
and Buck: Dr. Holmes, the quaintest and most
mirth- provoking Of American poets. referring
to the alarming effect produced by one of his
y.oems upon an unsophisticated reader, in
bursting his buttons of, closes the pathetic
narrative by saying
"since then I've never dared to write.
As funny as can"
We give our delightful humorist great cred
It for mis- forbearance; but what shall we say
Of a Statesman, white neckelothed, grave, de-
curous and stately, who, at the advanced age OF
sixty-five, enters the list against DR.. Holmes,
and attempts to do that which the latter has
avowedly RETAINED from, in the benevolent ef-
fort to preserve the victims Of unconscionable
tailors from extraordinary charges in the way
Of buttons. The Sage of Wheatland has sue
ceeded in accomplishing in prose, what our
Boston Doctor was reluctant to do over again
Ia rhyme.
The Hards and Softs of New York have
sraciously notified Mr.. Buchanan that they
have succeeded in effectIng fraternal union,
and Mr.. Buchanan responds in return, over
the telegraph, that this coalition between the
Hards and Softs is lone of the grandest events
in history!" We once thought that Prince
Gargantua, who raked cannon balls out Of his
hair with a comb nine numbered feet long, the
teeth whereof were great elephants tusks'
and afterwards ate up six pilgrims in a salad,
which was brought him in plate seven times
isrger in circumference than the great tun of
Heidelberg, was an extraordinary young man,
but while he excelled in practical things, the
sage of Wheatland is far superior to him in
magniloquence. He characteristics a reunion
Of petty politicians as zone of the grandest
events in history deserving to be classed,
doubtless, with Marathon and Thermopyae,
with the passage of the Rubicon, the discovery
Of America, and the Declaration of lndepen
dence. When Mr.. Buchanan boldly Invested
himself of his individuality and announced
himself as the Cincinnati platform men regard
cd this daring avowel Of having become tran
substantiated by the act of political conven-
ton. as something wonderful; but for force of
Imagination it falls far short of that magnif-
cent hyperbole which declares the patching up
Of quarrel between two Democratic factions
as zone of the grandest events in history!' 1t
is extraordinary how grossly men have been
deceived in their previous estimates of gran
deur and meanness. Henceforth, however, by
searching for definitions in the political dicton-
airy of the sage of Wheatland, they may learn
if they will, to define things very differently.
In this new photography, parts of which have
already been given to the world orally, they
will find that the grand event" of Washing
ton resigning his commission, has its parallel
in recent times. in the agreement of opposing
sections of the New York democracy to divide
asuitably the anticipated spoils Of Office. That
this also IS zone of the grandest events of his
tory and that the leaders of these factions,
while aiming at personal ACCOMPLISHMENT,
have unconsciously performed an act of SO he
roIc a nature as to immortalize their names.
FUT Those however who do not want TO
travel by river can take the railroad at Cairo
or Evansville. From Cairo the journey to
this city by railroad is made in 80 hours, and
from Evansville in Is to 20 hours Lou Jour.
The time from Evansville to Louisville is
but little over eighteen hours; to Cincinnati
about fourteen hours; to Cleveland, twenty
three hours; to Pittsburgh, twenty eight hours;
to Philadelphia, forty-two hours; to New York,
forty -four hours. Passengers leaving by 1.2O
train, in the afternoon, do not experience any
delay in going through, to Cincinnati or Louis
vile. At this S tage Of the river, or even lift
should rise two feet above it's present condi-
ton, travellers from the Sonth would do well
to take the cars here for the North or East.
At any stage Of the river, those looking to dis
patch, should avail themselves of the advan-
tages of our Railroad. 1t is conducted in the
best manner, and no road in the West or in
the country, has been freer from accidents
than this road.
LADY's BooK.-Godey's Lady's Book for
September is already on our table. Besides
the usral reading matter, it contains engrav-
iooa fashion rNlatae natfarnS Of variOuS deScrin-