The new South. [volume] (Port Royal, S.C.) 1862-1867, 1863-12-05

The following eloquent strain is from speech
by Gen. JOHN Coc1IRAN1, at the Brooklyn Aead-
emy OF Music -
Speaking of those incontinent vicssitudes OF
atmospheric pressure reminded him OF singular
scene that might now be transpiring in another
Northern port think see the parties passing;
with somDre and lowering brows, looking NJ each
ether. Upon Wonder lines, at Windsor Pass VAL
landicham and his friend Horatio L Applause and
hisses)-I think hear, said the speaker, the sym
pathizing hiss the metallic sparkle, the burnlshed
copper of some grovelling reptile that would seek
a warmer climate. Grovel and sputter and mss
in YOUR PROSTATE, grovelling condition! The AMI
NAL cannot be changed, however this country may
advance to victory and restored Umon. TAP
plause) l see the friend of Horatio grasplng his
cloak about him to screen him from the Northern
blast: and also behold Marcellus Wood. II Is
the peace platform on the Canada line. They
tread the stage and remind ME Of that scene con-
ceived in the mind of natures poet, composed
undoubtedly with reference to the events now
transpiring 1t was melancholy Hamlet-Nalan-
dieham-his friend Horatio, and the officer, Mar
cellus Wood, that occupied upon dreary night
brief hour upon the peace platform at Elsnors.
Kisses and applause.) 1t was cold to them, but
kissing hot to the gentlemen present, VINO were
wrthing in their seats.
HNnE2 VAIL Ayp1GHAM-The air bites shrewdly; it is
very cold.
HosATIo-1t is indeed unhappy and an eager air.
HAMLEr-What hour, now?
HoRaTIo-Mcthinks it lacks OF twelve
N,RcEILUs WooD-No, it has strucS.
HoRATIo-Indeedl heard 1t not -, ,
Heard it not Horatio? Heard you not Rhode
Island, one? two Vermont? three, MassacLu.
sets? four, New Hampshire? five, Maine: SIX,
California? seven, Wisconsin? eight, Illinois! !!
nine. PENNSYLVANIA? ten, Ohio? eleven, Mary
land and New York, twelve? (Uproarlous ap-
plause y which lasted for some time, the audience
rising to their feet and cheering en- maSSe.) And
there struck the last syllable of recorded time
If Horatio Your articular nerve was dead to that
Il must be the dull cold ear of death with which
Won are struck. The dead heard 1t, looked up
and wondered at the miracle The living heard
It and reioiced, and as our army stood shoulder
to shoulder in the front, the people We're standing
shoulder to shoulder in the rear. (H sSes were
heard from few In the audlence.) he VINO
vonld hiss. replied General Cochrane, when your
country is threatened, would laugh like hyenas at
the f,neral of YOUR ancestors, and would gloat
over the corps of your mother He had no terms
too severe for that rascal rebel rout. They who
stood manf,llly in arms for the Unlon
believed their cause to be right, however wrong II
may he. but manhood was no attribute OF theirs
tho copperheads. 1t was the fat of the Almighty
tbot he who was addicted to treason should for the
ramainder of his life eat dirt (Hisses. Aye,
ynn have it. (The speaker addressing himself to
tba party who hissed) 1t rankles and 1t Will
neyar be withdrawn, but will rankle deeper and
deeper as our country ascends higher. Generai
t,ochrane proceeded for some time In MS usuai
eloquent strain, and concluded py saying ina.
soon would be heard throughout the land that
harbinger song:- ,,.a,
The union OF lakes, the union OF lands, =
The union Of States none can server: