New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-09-11
Buffers Hudibras.

upon which 1t stands into the geological,
carbOniferOus, meteorological, and botanical
aggregation destined to he Known at a later
period as TIE Terrestrial Globe. In that
time what alterations of firm may have
been experienced by the ancient book shop
of Osgood d Co.; what varieties Of mortal
vicissitude must have been witnessed by
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe; what SUGGESTIONS
of human generations must have arisen,
taken the Adrertiser, lived in Theodore
Parker and died in Emerson, while the re-
mainder OF our subsequent spherical world
was gradually growing out from under their
city, and being leased to other towns. AS
the stranger in Boston lays aside the lead
ing morning journal of the place
after reading therein four-andtweuty edi-
tOrial paragraphs on the contents of the
last AHantic Monthly and a notice to the
effect that owing to delay in the arrival
OF New York exchanges, the news of the
day before yesterday can not be given until
to-morrow-he invOuntarly sighs to think
that even Bunker Hill monu cent, some
times mistaken for the chimney of gas
works. must itself crumble into decay at
some future period, leaving the earthly
planet, of which it has so long been the
linchpin, to fly off it's axle and roll helpless
into the nebular eternities. Alas !
alas q he says to himself, "why
can not things be permanent! How
extremely difficult it is to obtain
glass of beer in this community! Why
must even Boston be subject to mutations :"
AS thus be bewails the memorable law of
change, peevishly marveling that the latter
is 30 visible in everything save his pocket,
a venerable contributor to oar Young
Folks reprovingly directs his attention to
an aged figure walking ma estically in the
cOmmOn-a figure of immemorial antiquity,
much shirt collar, and unspeakable dignity
of gold-headed cane. II Is an Adams! Aye,
poor raiier at the swift passing away of
minor things, you know the name Of your
first parents; you remember the title OF the
gentleman OF Eden Adam il was and the
Adamses still live in BoseonS and fab"
heavily as ever, as DanocpaIe candidates
for the governOrsbip.
They look at the COmmoa For antold
years this wonderful handiwork of nature
has been the same. Upon its lawns is the
grass expressly invented for it of old; here
you see the ornaments since become so
popular under the name OF trees. During
the day time it Is illuminated by an object
called the sun, believed to be 900,0 600 miles
in diameter; and on pleasant evenings the
now universally known lumlnary styled
the moon, said to be over 1000 miles broad.
is added to the attractions of the ancient
pasture lot. AS survey this noble relict
of the primitive Hons, when the men OF
cities had cows to provide for, and always
reserved a verdant enclosure within cor
porate limits tor the lacteal herd, l am
overwhelmed by sense of hay smelling
rural antiquity, and can appreciate the ex-
quisite fitness of the recent organization of
grange" of the patrons of husbandry"
in city o6 such eweetly eustic sc minis
cence.
Fain would linger in Shis cow-1ike mea-
dow of delights until warned away by
policeman for smoking. or looking with my
hat on toward Faneuil Hall; but Beacon
street invites me to note the anguish har-
rowing the bosoms of its resident nobility
and gentry at thought that a person of the
kitchen pantry name of Butler Is aspiring to
the sacred gubernatorial chair of the
sublime old Commonwealth. Leave weo
ther, the lovely Common, with its
sMoan of doves in immemorlal e4Inee
And murMur of innumerable beesoS
not to mention the bowls of boys being
arrested for whstling secular tunes on the
grass, and turn we TO any one of the ada
cent stately mansions, in which the best
blood of Boston nantes an appropriate
luxuriance of cheek. Never since the eli
macteric harmonies of the immortal peace
Jubilee, when at the sound of thirteen
organs, twenty-five brass bands, and the
bouquet of artists Of all nations, a middle
aged, unmarried Bostonian lady, with the
neuralgia, audibly wished Gilmore was
dead, and Immediately jumped headlong
from third-story window-has there been
such perturbation of spirit in Beacon street
before. "Batler for Governor!" ejacu-
leather merchant. Mr.. Putnon Ayres, to
me, when l delicately advanced the SUBJ
ject-''That man of comparatively recent
ancestry and imperfect optical distribution!
Why. sir, the idea is enough to make the
Websters. Wnthrops, Everetts and An
drews wall, the Common in their winding
sheets, crying 'Ichabod,' and wanting to
deliver eternal orations on every possible
political subject" Seeing that the grand
old aristocrat, like all his patrician neigh
bors-whose Mortified groans from their re-
spective palatal residences around l could
plainly hear in the intervals of our CONVEX
sation-seeing, l say, that he, like them,
was excruciated in spirit by the threat
ened disgrace to Boston, | cordially
seconded his views Of the mat
ter. and added perfectly unlimited
fuel to his righteous wrath. Waving my
um brella, after the manner of an irritated
mother in-law. and speaking in the rasping
double-base of abhorrent fury, | recalled
how baleful Butler, at the outbreak Of the
war had, like Logan, Daniel S. Dickinson,
Grant, Sheridan, and many other degene-
rate characters, given up q glorious old
party for country, and actually taken arms
against former Southern bosom friends.
How, like Mcdowell, Mcclellan, Hooker,
Burnside, and many other wicked Generals,
he had been horribly worsted by the enemy
more than once in the field. How, IN the
cruel conquest Of New Orleans, he had won
from many of the highest born rebels. and
quite a number Of illustrious British cot
ton spectators, the opprobrious titles of
Beast" and "Spoon thief" How, after
the war, he had gone into Congress and
presumptuously fOuted and outwitted
and outshone some of the most splendidly
and majestically hazy old intellects there.
to the great standardization of persons for
melly accustomed to take delicious maps
during congressional debates. How he had
iniqultously favored scheme allowing
Congressman sufficient pay from the nation
to make the vulgar quality OF unpurchasa-
tality possible to the poorest of them, and
then audaciously refused to deny bis share
therein when rich Senators and Representa-
tives, who wished reelection, magniticently
declined to accept the extra sum. How,
having once been defeated in the battle for
the goverHUrship, he had cravenly allowed
himself to work vigorously for his success
full rival: and now resumed the battle in
meanspirited expectation of reciprocal fair
play.
All these great points did make against
the presumptuous pretender Of Essex, in
nv most terrible voice; and was preparing
to eliminate the dread arraignment with
scorching review OF the plebian defect in
one of his ewes, when to my excessive re-
greet, Mr.. Ayres interrupted me with the
observation that there was the door, and
that nv hat would be thrown to me on the
sidewalk. Had not been a journalist, en-
gagged in the coercive and artesian profess
sional operation of interviewing a'fellow-
being, l should have felt seriously offended
by his tone: but inasnuch as an interviewer
from the press learns to regard the expulsory
of men as but abstract ebullltlOns