The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-07-31

began to rain-of course it did! / have
never been in Albany two consecutive
lays in my life that it did not rain! But
am too old bird to be caught in q
green cage, and was prepared for emer-
gencies with overshoes, scut,tm coat, UNI
orella, and oil-silk for my hat; so l
snapped my fingers at the weather, and
at seven O'clock started Westward-Hol
All my old companions of q hundred
Journeys were on board. The old lady,
bound for Buffalo, who was possessed
with the insane idea that she must get
| of at the next station, was in my car;
md so was the young woman, with
| more brass than beauty, who travels on
| her eyes and impotence, and who got
| UP q desperate Irritation with an intense
| youth in blue flannel and short hair
| Directly in front of me sat the Teuton-
ic gentleman, with his wife and four
| small children, who are under chron-
| ic diet of boiled Onions--occasionall
varying the dose to the same vegetable,
| stewed or raw. Supporting my "left
| liankp was Fenien brother and sister,
| redolent of bad whiskey and super-fetid
Was "1ny'tndo. While, lpltoa lew seets,et1
was rather carnally wrathful in regard
TO the weather, and seemed ever on the
point of exhorting the congregation ,
Leu us III
IT rained heavily for time, and II
seemed as if the weather was trying 'put
us down. but ii gave up the contest, at
| length, in disgust, and, before we reach
ed Utica, the Sky was clear, the fields
and forests clean, and the sun shone
bright over all So the day wore on,
and. about the middle of the afternoon,
we swept, with grand curve, around the
foot of the beautiful Cayuga, and, a lit
tie later, the clear, uniathomable depths
of the never+freezing Senaca appeared
in view, and, with the customary shrek
and rumble, we stopped at this urbane
village of Geneva. Cordial greetings
awaited me from young impulsiye
hearts, unscathed, as yet, by worldly
contact, and untarnished by the seiiish
race for worldly gain. 1T is commence.
| ment" week at Hobart College, ana iet
levery college graduate apply my words
Ito his own case, and, in all its tender
mess. will come over him the feeling OF
veneration and affection for his Anna
| lfdter,r After striving for greatness
seldom attained, we come back and lay
at her feet the few laurel leaves we may
, have gained. Maddened by the deceit
:, of men, we turn to our friends OF earlier
. years:
Dear brothers by the mother side, the babes OF days
I gone by,
All musings Of her Juno breasts whose milk is neye
1 dry,
We come pgain like half grown boys, and gather a
her beck
Abouther knees and on her lap, and cingns rouhc
her neck"
I shall not weary you with the detail
of the commencement exercises-n1y in
terest was that of q first triennial--that
jumping off" place from whence we
are privileged to write a. Nj. after our
names, and after which we become
known among the students as "old
v graduates There is great deal Of
/ / sameness about college commencement,
all over the country. i could make &
skeleton SCHEME to suit any institu
: ton, in five minutes. Let me try
First - choice article of midnigh
d diobleae, where all manner of grOtesqus
!, costumes do everything but conceal The
: identity Of the wearer. Second. =
S prize oratorieal exhibition, where thu
e best talent of the competitors friend!
: is laid under contribution to furnish thu
speeches. 7hird.--A side-dish of priz'
. essays. n. B.-The majority of thos'
we get are very insufficiently supplied
] with quotation marks. Fyth. Com
mencement, where often the only re
E deeming exception, in chaos of high
flown platitudes, in some stray disquisi
" tion-such as I heard yesterday, from
6 an incipient A. B. " De connubu tetdct
f0fe ~