Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-06-25
Written sNprvs-iy Tor the Dayton EmpreJ
A SUMNER In EUROPE,

A sRiLtiANT FAar RoY.--rnr nuIxE.

specimens Of the genus Fast r y, Ia class
always interesting 10 me--and listened to
them aud watched them with much curiosity
Unlike che race in the Northern States Of
America, they we're polishsd in manner and
10 some exteut cultivated in mind, and in the
midst Of their reckessness, they kept within
the limits of gentlemanly propriety Their
demeanor TO each other was kind--cveu cares.
sng--and 20 us, iaultlessly courteous OF
course when hey discovered our nationality
and we came TO disouss the war, they very
frankly said their symTatbes we're with the
South and they hoped she would succeed in
establishing her Independence, but assured us
they did not feel 40 because they had any
hatred for tho North, but simply because the
South IS the weaker party, aud because she
is very galInntly maintaining her right 10
wthdcsw from partnership that is no longer
agreeable 10 her
One Of them, young B Of Edinboro' Is a
genius, His father was Scotch lawyer the
author Of come standard legal treatiscs, and
he hlmaelf though not twenty-Gve- and up.
parently much younger--s graduate Of the
Edinboro University, member oftho Scotch
bar, aud was expecting soon to enter upon
tho practice Of his profession in London lie
said in speaking of our country that he liked
to be accurate in the use OF language, and bo
could not therefore call them the United
States, and the commonest rules Of politenaas
required that be should not call them IN our
presencc the dis United States, and therefore
he would say, il we would not object, The
more or less United States He WAS highly
entertained in looking over "A copy OF the
WEEgLY EMPIRE chanced 10 have with me
The platform adopted by the Democracy last
summer at Columbus, he considered an ad.
mirable enunciation OF fundamental princi.
plies, bat he wondered that such truths should
ever be- questioned, or. that i4sue sbouldi be
taken upon lhem in a country that professes
to be free, why said he, these have oil
been held as axioms in England for at least
two hundred years. A glowing paragraph,
eulogistic of our candidate for Lieutenant.Goy-
ernor, which abounded in superlauves, fur
nished him much amusement, ~ have no
donbt, said he, "that Mr., PUoH is glorious,
Fearless eloquent gallant silver voiced
and trumpettongued, just as the editor says
but our chursh newspaper men in England
never will say such enthusiastic things about
anybody This is charaeteris,cally Ameri.
can't goes the whole Onimal-it don't
damn with faint praise--its all climax, and
although laugh, like IT,
We stopped at the same hotel and in the
evening, while sitting out in front Of the Kur-
saa, watching the fountain and listening 20
the music, b joined us again He had been
gambling, and had lost every kreutzer he had
but one solitary gulden, which be forthwith
invested in brandy and water, He was much
excited, and laughed aloud and evidently con.
$ dered it a 'jolly go Said be "l AN not
the first man who has had to pawn his watch
at these internal places, but perhnps fortune
will change to morrow He returned with
us to the hotel aud in our room awaited the
arrival Of his friends lu the meantime, he
delighted us with the most brilliant stream OF
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old The liquor had greatly excited his brain
and az every now and then, he would spring
up and walk the aoor, gestculation earnestly,
but with infinite grace his handsome features
all aglow and perfectly carried away by the
enthusiasm which possessed him, be seemed
like an angel, rejoicing in youth sh ming
and great, bnt fallen, and almost drunk II,
was only necessary for us from time to time,
10 suggest a subject would seize il at once,
and We never desired 10 interrupt him We
mentioned Poetry, and instantly he was of ia
a eul0gy OF our American poets. All the wor.
Ihler works Of Longiellow, Poe, Bryant Sig.
Quincy, and Halleck, were nj his tongues end,
and he exhibited TO us beauties in them that
we had never dreamed OF before. Bryants
"Thanatopsela be thought unsurpassed in any
language, but Poe was his iayorite Of oil,
and he repeated "Annabel Lee The Bells
and 'lhe Raven" in a style that excited, and
made us almost as enthusiastic as he. we
talk about beautiful Rlliterations' he said, land
quote "Begot by butchers but by babops
bred and that celebrated couplet Of Virgil,
but where in any languaue ia there anything
like this line from the Raven
And tho sRlsa sad, uucsrtaia.
Ruatlhg OF that purple curtain"
Aud what ia there in Southey's "Lodore" 10
compare with "The Bells2' And then he came
aeross.the water to his own land and spoke Of
Ton Moore, Sir Walter, Campbell, Keata, BY.
ron, Shelby, Aiken and Tennyson, aud his
memory seemed have ready for utierance ev.
erythinR they ever wrote and for each and
all, he had discriminating euogy or criti
cism lie gave MS rennyson's "Ode upon Wei
lngton, Lady Yere.de.Vere,' and extracts
from Il locksey Halr and "Yiyien He was
amazed he sniA that lndv nouid road rugb "A