The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-09-17
OF Thunder,

When the badly tagged party of Pratorian
tourists got the news from Maine, we can imag-
inc perfect chorus of exclamations. "Thun-
derr' said Mr. Seward, smiling with agony
Thunder, by - said the President, with his
usual destical playfulness. "Thunder!' echoed
the bob-tail of the body-guard; and then, by
way of consolation, they all Invent to dinner and
the decanters. 4 s,.i'..- lnl ale
Without designing to lecture our readers up
on electricity, we beg leave to observe that
there are two kinds of thunder-the theatrical,
which they make with gongs in the play houses
and the real article, from the right-hand of
Jove himself If some geological proprietor
will be good enough to lend us an elephant, we
will engage to get up great deal of thunder of
a certain kind in town and country. AS we
march the beast from one settlement to anoth-
err all the little boys will come out and cheer.
Poor childreni let them cheer! they have never
seen an elephant before! And q President
may be but an beast of smaller growth. Wher-
ever he goes 999 seers-of-sights come together
to find out what he is like. The moment he
shows the tip end of ofhisproboscis, the crowd be-
gins to below. There is a deafening triplica-
ton of huzzas The proud man puts in an ap-
pearance; and 'tst i'f sa f1-l .. =.
.sDrest in a little brief authority; at
Most Ignorant ofwhat he's most assured. ,1u4
His CLASSY essence, like an angry ape,
Plays such fintastic tricks before high Heaven
AS mako cen angels weep" 20 ~ 49,,
That is thunder; nothing but thunder!'-
and not a bit like it. The noise which Thirty
Thousand Administration majority makes
down among the piney woods of Maine ism much
nearer the real reverberation- live thunder
leaping from crag to crag. 1t must be admit
ted that we have had three very remarkable
storms this season. There was the Connecti-
cut tempest, then the Vermont gale, and now
comes the Maine hurricane. There is no mis-
take about it; when the people thunder, it is no
gong, nor tin pan, nor sheet-iron business, but
thunder in real earnest. l5 giEasf II .f,le
Other States are also getting ready their lit
tie exhibitions. New York is expected to thun-
| der vigorously and sagely; Pennsylvania is near
| enough to make itself heard in Washington;
| Ohio has way of laundering of her own
| which is very expressive; Michigan has a fine
| voice both for size and quality; Massachusetts,
| never yet failed to perform well. There will be
| a succession of thunders like that produced
| when the jolly Dutch ghosts play at nine-pins
| on the Catskill mountains. There has been
| nothing like it since the long-roll Of the loya
drums awoke the slumbering spirit of the North
and West, and the young men of the land hur-
ried to the rescue of the Constitution. my
Policy" is very large elephant, but "Vox Pop
uli" beats it to flinders. They have fine me-
nagerie in the White House, bat, if the Presi-
| dent viii come down the Avenue, and take a
| look at tho next Congress, we will show. him a
| collection of members worth all his
| "Anthrorophagi, and men whose heals
t.il Do grow beneath their shoulders.1.iN
N. r, 4 N N, i.,,s --,r -Neso York Tribune.