The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-05-16


According to the numerous bulletins recently issued
IN all the newspapers, Earnum is now the manager
Of five or six remarkable exhibitions of deep inter-
est to the public, and great profit to himself
estimated at $3.50, 900 per annum. At Castle Gar
den, he has that celebrated and popular arfiste,
Jenny Lind, the greatest yentriloquial vocalist Of
any age, with the tc:sor Of Sav (who has been bet
ter,) and the borstoae Of Belletti (who is better
than be has been), to carry his concerts. He
has also the BAteman children dimnutye in sta
tnre, and great in Shakespeare, just returned from
the great West, and now about to be sent by the
indefatigable to London, where they ought to take
the same apartments, at Markweils hotel, which
were consecrated, without tha at service Of plate
bythe genius and presence Of General Tom Thumb
Besides these wonders, Barnun has got nine ele-
plants and big snake, recently arrived from Siam
Tom Thumb rides on the largest elephant-with
which ho hopes to astonish all the world and New
Jersey. These elephants are great travellers, and
carry their own trunks, and perform wonderfully
well. They not like the show at Castle Garden.
which is an exhibition Of consummate, downright
art; but they perform naturally, and shake, and
scream, and dance in and out before spectators the
emblems Of natures own innocence.
In addition to these rarec shows we learn that
the vast minded Bamun is Indirectly engaged in an
entertainment emanating from the Tombs in which
"the hero Of hundred shows conclusively shows
or will show, how he has been shaved out OF thirty
thousand dollars by the expert operators of Wall
strcet-we mean the trial of Cryder and Mckay
This viii be u rare exhibition, because it will be
very curious inquiry how Wall street has been able
to obtain handsome per eentage out Of the Lind
concerts. The brokers there ought to have been
contented with ten free tickets each. If the nves-
tiga.ion at the Tombs does not reveal enough to
exhibit the glory of the great Napoleon of show
men as fnancier and Spectator, the public can
look little further, for Barnum is getting to be
baronical as to estates. lie is likely TO have as
many palaces as shows. lranisan having been
desecrated by the Slight footprints Of the aristo
cratic Chinese lady, Miss Foy, is to be closed, or
sold of--and Nick Bidile's palace, bailt like the
old United states Bank, with the funds Of that in
sttution, and called Andausia, has been purchased.
As Fonhill Castle, on the Hudson, is also in the
market, we presume that Mr.. Forrest will surren-
der to Ia rnum, the Of all that is legiti
mate, and shall soon hear, also, that the Bona
parte castle, at Bordcntown, now boarding house,
has fallen into the hands of the greatest man Of the
age.
That Barnum has no equal in the world is now
evident. He beats Brandreth, and sarsaparlla Town
send, and DR.. Mofat all to pieces. Day and Martin
were something ard Warren, 30 Strand, was ditto;
but Barnums soul IS above backing, and needs no
foreign polish. Though we esteem him as a 90 ID
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
jas,ice to him without recording our perfect as
NJ his ertarpriso In trntl, Ia bo, not
only made US wonder, but al Wall street into the
bargain; and If leryi, Nano were alive-hc who wa
Gagged in London as the wild man from Africa-he
would be .onished, too. Why, Barnum has authors
writers, poets, and correspondents, who ou.number
those Of Flmores cabinet, aud who Gil the
newspapers, from Maine to Mexico, with his praises
Even the Nae York Herald has not more than twice
many authors, poets, students and reporters at
tached to its editorial department, as Barnum has
to the skirts of his black coat. His corps writers
form the "real central literary bureau" which has
anlihilated criticism common sense, and every ra-
tional opinion upon art, BY flooding all the journals
Of this metropolis, and the country beyond, with
whole vocabularies Of hyperbole, poetry, philo.o
ply, and fustian Nobody need ask now--vhere's
Barnum +! He is everywhere, and every body else is
nowhere. By and by the sun will shine alone
for Balnum or his agents-thc moon aud stars
will gid the night for Barnum alonc-and the
world viii be, as il has always been, his oyster
his exclusive oyster. He flls the whole country
with his deeds, his fame, his shows, and his hum
bugs. lie takos Jenny Lind, and the Baternans Of
small dimensions, and the nine elephants of large
dimensions, and the snakes Of huge folds, led by
General Tom Thumb, and carries them through
the world as though he woe monarch. He sits,
with embroidered slippers on his classic feet, Is
suing edicts sacred than the laws Of the Modes
and the Persians, and there is man large enough
to compete with him. Jenny Lind, Joyce Heth, Tom
Thumb, Saly Belett, the woolly horse, the giants,
and all the remarkable rersonages, living and dead,
whom he directs has directed, if rolled together
TO form one great being, would not equal, in point
Of universally Of genius, Barnrm, the profound,
the magnificent, the stupcndous Barnum, the great
millionaire manager Of the age.
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