The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-07-28

| 1t is great pity that DR.. DORIAN did not make
himself acquainted with the manners and customs
of the inhabitants of Georgia, before he wrote his
genial and clever book, entitled "Tabe Traits"
Although he has taken very wide range, and his
pleasant gossip about the astronomical tastes of
individuals and nations embraces the horse-fesh
hanquets of the Tartars the retas Soupers of the
Regent ORLEANS, the "fesh-pots'' of Rome and
Egypt, the Cafe de Paris, and the FIJI Islands,
he has by no means exhausted his subject. He has
neglected to notice political dinners in Georgia.
and his elaborate work is therefore, incomplete.
| To our rapid advancement in the refnements Of
modern civilization, which have taught us so
economically 10 combine pleasure with business
we are indebted for these entertainments at which
the inordinnte appetite of LUcuLLus, the poetical
fancy of Horace, and the philosophical mind OF
CICERO might have been alike gratifed Poetry
and pahos invest with something of their own
tenderness the parboied mutton, while impassion-
ed eloquence stimulates the Zest with which patri-
otto stomachs attack the aged OK. Unlike the
hasty meals which our fellow-citizens usually de-
spatch in three minutes the enjoyment of the guests
at those we refer to is prolonged for hours. They
told that on a late occasion, the grafton which
Senator INVERSION delivered occupied thirteen
columns of an ordinary newspaper. 1t was reple;e
with wisdom, and animated with the spirit OF
prophecy, and all these things being considered il
is easy to imagine the delight Of such meeting,
and the regret with which those who took part in
il mnst have witnessed the hour that dissolved it.
How pleasant it must have been to sit under a
shady tent. manufactured perhaps in Lowell and
shaking the Boston ice in ones tumhler listen to
the seer who was predicting the day when ''sepa-
! Grated from the North and united together as an
'independent power, we should take all Central
| "Amerca within our sisterhood of States" How
the imagination must have warmed up to fever
heat when with legs dreamily extended beneath
the table, some countryman was told that he would
shortly stretch his farms all along the line Of
'Northern Mexico TO the Pacific Ocean" What
a field was opened for deep and earnest thought,
! when gentleman, who confidently believes in bis
ability to destroy our present Confedcracy an
nounced that when another shall be established
on his particular plan, and Charger in ex.
''tent than all Europe nothing ''but the hand
"of COP could ever weaken or DESTROY it.
We give but a faint idea, we admit, of this fes-
tival at which such bounteous provision was made
for mind and body. But it must be evident, we
think, from what we have indicated of the pro
gran'me, that the people of Griffin, in the State Of
Georgia, dined more nationally and joyously than
they could have done with only dancing girl, a
minstrel or a QUEENS band to diversity the heavy
labors of the table. Unfortunately there are not
many Senators possessing the genial and enlvening
''tabe-raits of Mr.. IvERsoN and we can only envy
those who heard his thirteen columns of afterdinner
chat, without indnlging the hope of being similar
~ refreshed in Maryland.