The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-11-15
The German Language
One OF the greatest thinkers Of Germany, ]
p. Richt.r. SAYS.

"a. preicfence distinguishing the German ma.
, aso'' from the most nations Of the rIobe is the
,he .nss Garsi oi lis language. Hew honorable to
language has not been obtru.iesi nnon Then, hv
-. eisn conqueror, nor learned by servants
s ao,n Wrant bat that 1t is a free. original
Of ,a. asse. Those sounds in which thousands
~ ~ Sesfs ago our ancestors entreatet the god of
unueT Tor the power of his liphtnincs 10
haa sn some s invading foes still now rise to
trea, ~ o,n ,heir grandsons' mouth, and en-
dor, 10 nanighty Ose TO protect our Free
a,,aa we are not Obliged TO cast down our
.anraa i@esara @ to the slave brands of foreign
,,yhn s,o s cah lit mp free looks to the father
thsir hn.,,,,, ms German children the bulk OF
-, piy aha mental powers 10 he n bul.
Walk OF rocks against the tvrannv ~. %a,t
Ihousanos OF years ago in this iancnaga onr
i,ee ahces tors, using their flashing swords
~ sna,.e'eu run, against the Roman servants of ty-
rants, an thls language the Germans of the
miadIe age told the rapacious Madchars that
they would pay with their swords the tn xes
demanded by the foreign conquerors for keep
ing OIL arson from their dwellings This Ian
guage IL the creation of freenaen who as i I
were, laid down their free spirit in it's Infinite
shapeahIlity. and their power and courage in
its sonorousness. Therefore, as long as the
German language pure and unmingiediy
sounds from German lips, no rapacious people
Will succeed in rendering tolerabie the dicta-
torship of an effeminate and scottish language
Infinite, like God, is the human mind, infinite
like the human mind, Is the German language
The important circumstance that we can
expresseyery thought in the mostNaried man.
ner-that our mother, besides her usual, hon.
'rable dress, possesses a royal holiday gar
ment, that in the most German words long
and short syllables regularly alternate, that
the conclusion of them equally admits OF male
and female rhymes, and that their sounds
faithfully initiate the objects signitied, rem
ders the German language glorious materials
OF poetry. 1t rolls with the thunder. roars
with the storm, blusters with the sea, bushes
with the night, iisps with the leaf, whispers
with the hree1es, flutes with the field, shouts
with the heavens, bellows with the hell. Its
chasteneSs and purity attires, in poetry. lnDo-
cence like white garment. flows like the blne
of the sky around the perfect mankind. Its
symmetrical gait murmurs like brook, thro
flower gardens, through gay fields of life. Its
Internal seriousness its solemn dignity decks
complaint with Grape. It's honest and upright
sound renders it The dear confidant of hearts.
Its na.uiike strength bestows divine weapons
10 the hero, and falls like mountain torrent
upon the rascal Full of sublimeness, l.
stretches its hand 10 heaven, presents its coura-
geous right hand 10 earthly virtue when strug-
Cling, strews TO it when victorious, with Its
left one, lovely flowers, and with its mighty
feet tramDles down vice into the nights OF
abyss. Whilst fools and traitors made il beg
at he doors of poverty, and deched Its rosy
face with foreign dirt as paint, II noiseiessly
prepared for itself an ophlence from which II
can reach a regal alone To the deep iinguis tical
poverty OF many other nations.
g EIosITIEs FROM AFRICA.-Nr. Paul du
Chaillu, of New York, moved by a love OF ad-
venture, has been hunting beasts and birds iii
Africa for the last four years, and has returned
laden with polls, a part of which he is ex-
hibiting. Among the novelties which he in
PRODUCES to the American public for the first
time are several splendid specimens of the
nswly-disco ,ered race of ro.lodytes known
as Gorillas. These creatures are exaggerated
monkeys, and combine the cunning and nim-
bleness of the Sinnian tribe, with the muscu-
lar power of at least three prize-Hghters.-
q Sc of DR.. Cnaltiu's iull-slZeQ males would
probably whip Sayers. Heenan, and Morris
sew all tsgethsr The larger specimens are
about five feet five inches high, and fifty
inches around the chest, with neck like
bulls, and arms as thick as mans thigh
They eat fruit but are furnished with very
long and sharp mandibles, like a squirrels or
woodchucks. and probably could tear flesh as
easily as a tiger. The general appearance OF
the Gorilla is that OF iibellous caricature on
mankind and some skeletons of the Species
exhibited in the same collection, would be
easily mistaken, on casual inspection, Tor the
frame work of deforned human SOeings.- Be-
sides the GorillaS, of which there are several
representatives old and young, Mr.. du Chail-
la succeeded in 'bagg.ng' some amlable mon
sters of the same genus, which lac claims to
be new varieties, and which, by right of dis
coyerv. he has honored with the tough names
of "Nschieeo' and sKoelo kamba.''
The "Nschiego'' is the most intelligent of all
three, and bsildS canopy OF boughs and
leaves in tree, and, quattng on Dfoao
branch beneath this shelter. defes the rain nd
the scorctiug sun. II is to be regretted that
Mr.. Du Chaiilu could not have brought his
troglodytes and his many other indescribable
quadrupeds and birds 10 this country in liv-
ing state but that was utterly Impossible,
owing TO the scanty assistance which he had
from the natives, and the great distance of his
hunting ground from the sea-ccast. Although
stuffed tney will be objects OF great interest 10
naturalsts, because most of them have never
in
private collections, auc some of them are alb
solutely new to the most complete geological
or ornithologcal classifcations. The Phila-
delphia Academy OF Natntai Sciences under
whose auspices Mr.. Du Chaillu made his eX-
pedition are enchanted at the wealth of new
birds which he has brought home with him,
and have purchased from nm, at nigh prices,
a specimen of every bird in his possession
They are of all sizes, from the little killer
tthe humming- bird being unknown in AfriGa)
10 the towering crane, and are distinguished
by the gay colors OF the tropical world
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