New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-09-19
(ERASINNIANGE.

This is a hard word. we natter OURSELVES lhd'
| few or pOne of our readers will know what II
means at first sight, till after some little beating
of their braibs and thumbing of their Greek exI-
| cons 1t il not only hard word but new. We
made it ourselves. But then the thing is new, and
though anything rather than neologically inclined,
| we hold new lame is allowable when new thing
| under the sun presents itself for baptism 1t Is
| what all scientific men do. Whenever they i'm
pale new bug or mouse out fresh plant, or hook
on anomalous fish, the first thing they do after
bringing il within the domain Of Science is to be-
stow upon it some frightful name, for the purpose
of making the vulgar keep their distance from those
well kept preserves. Our right then, to enrich
the vocabulary of the language beiog thus estab-
lshed we will cOndescend to tell what our neOlO
gism ueans,-in which particular we conceive that
we set before our scientific brethren as above, an
example well worthy their imitation CerdsiOmancy
then, means the Art of Divination by Cherries.
This we apprehend even Solomon would have al
lowed TO be q new thing under the sun, aud well
worthy of an appellation of learned length and
laundering sound, such as we have bestowedu it,
The Great DiscOverer of this new telegraphic
communication between the ignorant present time
and the wiser time to come, is distinguished man,
of whom our readers have all heard, and whom
most Of them have seen; a man whose peculiar
triumphs would have enrolled him amor the heroes
of demigOds, had he had the luck to have died
three or four thousand years ago. This benefactor
of mankind is no less a person than the renowned
Herr DIiesbacb the tanner of the wild beasts of the
desert and the forest. Not content with his vic
tories over the fulyOus lion, the maculate leopard,
the striate tiger, it seems that he has measured
bis strength with the American Eagle, aud has
learned a method by which he can divine, If not
direct the course of the fight of that Bird OF Free
dom. This he does by consulting the oracle which
lodges in a fatidic cherry-tree which grows upon
the farm in Wooster, whittier the hero retires from
time to time to recruit his strength after his en-
counters with the Monarch of the Woods and the
feudatoIies of his sylvan court. A Democratic CO.
temporary assures us-On authority to which we
ever bOw-that Herr Driesbarh declares that Judge
Douglas will c. rtaiDy be elected the next Pres-
dent of the United States. And this prediction he
plucked with its other fruit from the fatefll
cherry. tree, which never bears excepting on a
Presidential year, and when Democratic caud
date ia going to be elected. This year, our cptem
porary.pr, DIS to nfom us, the tree was fuller of
blossom ana of fruit than before and the
fruit was of better quality; from which he draws
the inevitable conclusion, that the victory of Mr.
Douglas wi be an easy one, inasmuch as he is the
best candidate the party has ever had
We infer from this that our CerasOmaucer and
his cherry tree hold fast to the true faith of Req uar
Nom LatiOns. Hence the sbylline leaves Of that
viz nous plant scatter no ambiguous voices which
might be violently interpreted in favor of Mr..
Breckenridge. He knows at once which of the two
Ricbmonds in the field the bending boughs
of that Tree of knowledge salute as our
future ruler. We congratulate the Little
Giant on this confirmation strong of his hopes
And, while offering our cOngra ,ulatiOns to the
coming man, we can afford TO indulge in the
luxury of sympathetic tear over the sufferings of
the losers. OF course, we refer only to Messrs.
Breckenridge and Bell. The Express, The Boston
Courier, ex Gov Washington Hunt, and other
equally iDfallble authorities, having pronounced
he election of Mr.. Lincoln hopeless, we put him
entirely out of the case, and can limit our con
dolence to the actually suffering parties Especial
ly do we commiserate the hard fate Of the Old
Gentlemen who have come up to the help of their
country sgainst the mighty. After hugging them.
selves III the belief that they were to carry their
venerable candidates ght to the Capitol over
the PROSTATE necks ofYouug America; after seeing
themselves carried to the summit of power by the
entire South and all but contemplate fraction of
the North, it must be cruel disappointment TO
find then selves sprawliDg on tn, ground by tlm.
bic from Herr DIiesbach's cherry tree. Their case
is lihe that of another most respectable Old Lady