The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-09-15

ORNITHoLoeIcAL.- --literateurs and journalists
treat us to the absurdest of bipeds in their
pendants for birds, " Mrs Gyundy has
discovered this, and her new ornithological
dictionary contains descriptions utterly dumb
founding to Wilson and Audubon. but true to
the life, according to poets and orators. Here
is the Raven bird discovered bv Edgar
a. Poe, who, says Mrs g., in animated con-
versation with a specimen of the tribe, elicit
cd the following novel and interesting facts
with regard to its life and opinions Unlike
the cat, which is always grey at night, howev-
er Nariegated its plumage may be in the dav
time, the Raven is of constant ebon hue. and
an inhabitant of "Ihe Nights Plutouian
Shore" From its native darkness the raven
emerges to make sudden and weird visits to
persons of imaginative temperaments, put
ting them into state of mind by the repeti-
ton, in an idiotic and irrelevant manner, of
the word :. Nevermore"
When seen and heard under these cir
cumstances, the Raven is said to present an
uncommonly "ghastly. grim and ancient y
aspect and we should think it would The
motive Of these startling intrusions upon man
kind is not clear; but we fancy it arises from
desire on the part of the Raven to get on a
" Bust, as Mr. Poe mentions his visitor
being on a " Bust of Pallas during the en-
tire interview.
But, pat all this in parenthesis. We got
started on tangen; on account of the " Con- |
stitutional Eagle lighting on us from Cam
den, Arkansas, and sent us by Capt Aldrch |
This visitor, which we would have taken To |
be rebel newspaper but for It's ornithoogica /
name, serves to remind us what preposter- |
Gus birds the whole family of Eagles are
The American Eagle, for instance, which has
been made. under the manipalations of am
bilious Fourth of July orators. to do such RI
diculous things as putting one foot or the |
Rocky Mountains and the other ON the Allie. |
shanies, and spreading ITS wings all over this |
happy land, and then made to talk such high. |
iamdn nonsense as novel; disposed and sen |
sibe bird would indulge in. eyeu could il talk |
well as woman. This Arkansas Eagle |
didn't ike the Peace that follows the Rebel |
lion.
1t says: Smiling Peace again lifts her PIN
ions, and oYeFshadows the land ; but her pa- 7
mage is soied, and her head droops with 4
shame and sorrow. Manacles impede her
gentle motions, aud letters bind her IN her /
walk. Her syren song Of cheerfulness, ends /
in the low notes of waling the clank Of I
chains is heard when she walks; the
smell of the dungeon greets US with her
presence, and her beautiful hand mai den.
Liberty, is no longer at her side.
That 'Snliling Peace whose head droops
with shame and sorrow" is rather mud w.
We are also in donl; from the above extract,
whether Peace is bird or an angel. This
Arkansas Journal is as bell iecrent coward the /
Negro suffrage men as the Cons, aud shows
the same spirit. /; say ''rhat everlasting
puritanical crew Of politicians. under the lead /
of sumner, Wilson. Phillips Il Co. not salts.
fed with robbing the South of It's valuable /
capital, impoverishing the whole country, aud 1
fixing a lasting cnrse upon the land. by
emancipatng the negro, are nov moving uaa-
ven and eartn 70 m&se ann equal IN the coun-
cils of State, at the ballot box, and in the ,
more endearing relations If social iio. They
have recklessiy agitated this one question,
until all others are merged aud absorbed in
it. aud the whole country has become sceth.
ing cauldron, around which steams the foul
stencil Of abohtionism, and from which are
fed and iattened all that heaitless .g.le Of
villains, whose hypocrisy and demagcgueism
have cursed the country for years. Every
avocation is tainted with the negro the nul-
pit, the press, the rostFpm, the family altar,
the educational chamber, all, e7efythtsq,
bears about il the impress and the saed of
that damuahle Sect