Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-06-06

like virtue in the midst of burning world, envelo
ped but unscathed by the devouring elements. Ma
poleon stood and gazed this scene in silent awe
Though nearly three miles distant, the windows and
walls of his apartment were so hot that he could
scarcely bear his hand against them. Said he years
afterwards
{" 1t was the spectacle of the sea and pillows of
fire. sky and clouds of fame, mountains OF red roll
ling fame like immense of the alternate
ly bursting FORTH and elevating themselves to skies
of fire. and then sinking into the ocean below. Oh !!
it was the most Naked the most sublime and the
most terrific sight the world ever beheld.'
Barnum, the Great Napoleon OF showmen.
According to the numerous bulletins recently is
sued IN all the newspapers, Barnum is the manager
of FIVE six remarkable exhibitions of deep interest
to the public and great profit to himsef-estimated
at S25O,000 per annum. At Castle Garden he has
that celebrated and popular artistic, Jenny Lind the
greatest yentroqual vocalist of any age, with the
tenor of Salvi (who has been BETTER, and the barry
tone of Bellett (who is better than he has been
| carry on his concerts He has also the Bateman
children, diminutive in STATURE and great in Shak-
speare, just returned from the great West and
about to be sent by the indefatigabe to London,
where they ought to take the same apartments, at
Markwells hotel. which were consecrated, without
that service of plate by the genius and presence of
Gen. Tom Thumb Besides these wonders. Barnum
has got nine elephants and big snake, recently ar
rived from Siam-Tom Thumb rides on the largest
elephant with which he hopes to astonsh the whole
WOTlu anu view Jersey lneSe elepnanuS are great
travellers, and carry their own trunks and perform
wonderfully we'll. They are not like the show at
Castle Garden, which is an exhibition of consum-
mate, downright art but they perform naturally,
and shake and scream and dance in and out before
spectators the embems of natures own innocence
In addition to these shows, we learn that the
vast minded Barnum is Indirectly engaged in an
tertainment emanating from the tombs, in which
the hero of hundred shows conclusvely shows or
will show, how he has been shaved out of thirty
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street-we mean the trial of Cryder and Mckay
This will be exhibition, because it will be
very curious inquiry how Wall street has been able
to obtain handsome per centage out of the Lind con-
certs. The brokers there ought to have been
tented with ten free tickets each If the investga
ton at the Tobs does not reveal enough to exhibit
the glory Of the great Napoleon of showmen f.
nancier and speculator the public look little
further for Barnum is getting to be baronical to
estates. He is likely to have as many palaces
shows. lranistan having been desecrated ty the
slight footprints of the aristocratic Chinese lady
Miss Foy is to be closed, or sold off-and Nick Bid
dies palace built like the old United States Bank
with the funds Of that institution, and called Anda
lusia, has been purchased. AS Fonthill Castle, on
the Hudson is also in the market, presume that
Mr.. Forrest will surrender to Rarnum, as the sue
cessor of all that is legitimate, and shall hear
Also that the BOnaparte Castle, at Bordentown
boarding house, has fallen into the hands of the
greatest man Of the age.
evident. He beats Brandreth, and sarsaparia
Townsend, and DR.. Mofat all to pieces. Day and
Martin were something, and Warren, 80 Strand
ditto but Barnum's soul is above backing and
needs no foreign polish. Though we esteem him as
good friend to everybody and to the human race
and admire his lectures on temperance, and his care
of the nine elephants and the big snake we cannot
do justice to him without recording perfect as
constituent at his enterprise. In truth, he has not
only made US wonder, but all Wall street into the
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was engaged in London as the wild man from Africa
he would be astonished, too. Why, Barnum has
authors, writer's poets, and correspondents who out
number those of President Fillmore's cabinet and
who fill the newspapers, from Maine to Mexico, with
his praises. Even the New York Herald has not
more than twice as many authors, poets, students,
and reporters attached to its editorial department.
as Barnum has to the skirts of his black coat His
corps of writers from the real central literary bu-
reau,' which has annihilated criticism common
sense and every rational opinion upon art, by flood
ing all the Journals of this metropolis and the
try beyond, with whole vocabulares of hyperbole
poetry philosophy, and fustian. Nobody need ask
now-where's Barnum He is everywhere, and ev-
| erybody else is nowhere.
| By and by the sun will shine alone for Barnum-
the moon and stars will gid the night for Barnum
alone-and the world will be, as it always has been
his oyster-his own exclusive oyster. He fills the
whole country with his deeds, his fame, his shows
and his humbugs He takes Jenny Lind and the
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plants of large dimensions and the snakes of huge
folds, led on by Gen. Tom Thumb, and carries them
on through the world as though he were a monarch
He sits, with embroidered slippers on his classic feet
issuing edicts more sacred than the laws of the
Modes and the Persians and there is no man large
enough to compete with him. Jenny Lind, joyce
Heth Tom Thumb, Salvi, Belletti, the woolly horse
the giants, and all the remarkable persona ges v-
ing and dead whom he Directs or has directed, if
rolled together to form great being, would not
equal, in point of universally of genius Barnum the
profound, the magnificent, the stupendous Barnum
the great millionaire manager of the age.-HeraM.
A New Claim against Mexico.
Some time since we saw it stated that the Next
can Minister, at Washington City, had made for
NAL demand for sum of about S46 0O0 being the
amount by which the sum appropriated to claimants
tor Mexican spoliations exceeds the sum found due
by the late commission. We find in the San Fran
cisco papers heavy demand, which California
makes against the Government of Mexico, which
will absorb thirty times this
The San Francisco Herald of the 18th states the
is presented to the State Legislature in report
by one of the members. More than hundred years
q LARGE amonnt of nronnrty was henuea thnd nv