Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1864-09-10
Taatalizing.

faruSsns IN Ms speech at the Fssineate2 ;
neeiing on Thursday evening Tset
Sere anxious 10 hear the Big guas-Pov- !
ell and Hendricks and TO hear Dass
'plutter out his commonplace and plat
tales with a continuous pop pop POP
ike he rattle ola pack Of FIRE eraekerss
SaS tAntahEing ia the extreme.
To change ths comparison. the rest
iessness Of his aadaors under his irls,
someness, and their expressions Of im-
patience, reminded Us Of scene which
Is sometimes Witnessed st dinner-tabls,
Of a fashionable hotel, where it is stb.
ruie Of the house to eat soap before
the solid courses and dessert ays,ssrved
imagine the guests, at la:s fasbioss-
BE dinner, sharp set and raseDevs g.
fanished wolves They see throuri
= fancy eve, dishes eentainiug iuiey
aud fat beef mutton, ksh, aud foai.
vegetables in season, Infinite ia variety
and aFtful in continuation; fruits blush
ing from the kisses Of warm summer
sun, ana luseions as the oriental mau-
gosteen or the occidental p..ach passft
ambrosial in eompositioa; isily-m6uids
shaking their corrugated aud ruby.col
ored sides in exquisite ecstacv; ices "a
cool the blood with their refriVerating in
haenee, and wine Of The vine benirn
TO heat the vital current into a tropicar
temperature, and 10 warm the genial
current Of tke soul and unloose tae
frozen fountains Of wiz sentiment, Wis
dom. and poesy
We have ail heard of the new Irish
waiter, just hired 10 i'll a sudden vacan-
ey at a hotel, and told hurried.y that the
guests must take soup first; and who.
when one guest said he did not wat
soup. insisted that be must take Il, as II
was the r-rule Of the house 10 ate soup
first" SO landlord Law, the chair.
man al the Mcclellan Ratification meet
ing, insisted on the audience taking
Laird first
Days speech, of over an hour, was
the hasiy plate Of soup" Ii was thin
soup, weak SOUP, diluted soup, poor soup.
It was worse. It was water Cruel; i, was,
a. the Yulcanized fireman, whe after
wards spoke, rsansrt 4 Of soidisrs' COT.
fee--it was spoiled wafes Aud here Il
poured, in one wishy-sashy, Everlasting
food, for nearly two mortal hours, until
the audience were petvsded By one
grand disgust
Aud there stood those eager expect.
"a. fall -
the Powell beef and sthe Hendricks
trimmings, and the Law wine. con-
PEELED 10 stomach the insipid soup, be
cause it vas the rule Of the house =
We pited EN-.
Thsn, 10 make matters. worse, after
/ the regular course; AFTER the Inevitable
Whittlesey, the maudin Spsoale, and
the agile facfoium--Misier Burruk-
I had swept away the eramhs. aud reHos,
ed the tableeloih, who shoald come IN.
anbidien aud anwelcome-after the ap-
petites cf all the gormandizers had been
saiiated, and their heads reeled from the
inference Of Simulated patriotism and
stimulating polations-but the sedltious
individual whose mission seems to be q
feed the fires Of pro-stavery aud revolu
| tionary fanaiicism. What did this soup
ernumerary being dor Why be served Of
fer relish Mexican dish composed
principally Of red pepper aud gafliek
Afier examining il down the threats o.
! Sproale and q hundred others Of the
faithful who fingered behind to drink
the dregs Of The wine-eaps and lick the
empty plates Of the respectable guests,
the unkempt, unwashed, vaisar, pro
! fame, egoiisiieai jaeobin was forced 10
4 -givv ssr hss- soeapaiion from sheer ex
haussion, and the reinonstranccs o.
Christ Hedderiehs tired, sleepy, disgust
ed, and bored boarders aud gassss
/ So ended the grand CoppeFhead din
ner; 50 the partAkeFs were alternately
ianialized, gormandized, hqEonzed and
HatebinFonized.
Everybody has heard q Tanlalss rglic
starved to death in sight Of dinner d
luscious food An have read Of The
Mirage, a hmpid and refreshing lake
which the thirsty and half-erazed travel.
e. Of the desert sees in imagination, bul
finds to be gone when be reaches tie
place whore be expects 20 drink is cool.
ing water and battle bis fevered form 10
its invigoraiing food
So the hapless ratifers realized The
experience OF TaRtaias, aud tainted ia
viev Of the Mirage, when compelled 70
hunger and thirst under the minisira-
tons Of the preacher of Hepsidam.