New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-11-12
THE AMERICAN ALADDIN.
From a recent leetnre BY G. ". CrtA.

From recent lecture BY G. ". Cutsa
When we 20 out on Saturday afternoons to moraze
and rec new houses, usually take our young ones
b. Aladdu's palace Alse din was Yankee. lie
started lite by swapping jack knives, then putting the
halves OF broken marbles together and passing them
off rs whole When he had gathered some brass
he went TO school all the summer 10 learn the golden
rule OF arithmetic addition for hmse and subtraction
tor bis neighbor.
AT gu early age Aladdin WAS considered to be goo 1
at bsrgail-which meant that he could al rays sue
coed 10 cDantng q worse for beter-si ways keeping
the blind side Of horse 10 the wall when he had I'd
cell IT. ana the vi lage said that certainly Aladdin
would succeed. When he left, be will be rich, -
said the village with more approval than it would
say he will be generous and true. To Aladdin the
world was but market in viii to buy cheap aud sell
Gear. For him there no beauty, DO history, no
piety, DO heroism Nainy the stars shone over him
yaiIly he south wind blew In the wake of the great
chip Argo IN which Jason AID hi, companions sailed
for the Golden Fleece, over the cleaning Medi-
terGneaD-where the chips OF Tyre Rome,
soo Of the Crusaders had been before
bim-thr0ugh the Pillars Of Hercules, through
which Columbus sailed TO find fame in new world
low sails ALADDIN to fbd fortune. 10 him all lands
are ALIKE. No Homer Sang fer hun in the Kgean; he
only cures the wind that will not blow nim INTO
Octisa. No syrens sing for him, but be loves the
huge oath OF the lively boatswsin. With the BILE in
bis hand auc quid Of tobacco in his mouth he goes
about the holy places in jerusalem and celcu 1tes
the exsct site. He sees the land Of the Ramess and
the Ptolf mics and the reverend records Of the by
were trsnped over by ALEXANDER army, are nov
egak ned by the shrill whistle Of Old Dan Tucker.
He insults the Grsnd Lame bObnobs with the Grand
Mo.ul, tuIns as back upon einperors, and takes
2 nch out Of the POpes snuff box He ctews Uth the
a, abe smoke Opium with the Turks, and rides for
BRIDE with the Calmuck Iar.ars.
Aladdin CONES home again, and the sdmrng vii
lsge points bin out TO the younger generation as
succtssiul maa: /" Ny sOn, look at him; he began
" nth Io,hing-Dow see" My son " dOes see, and
behods him ovrirg million Of dollsrs-Of all socie
ties Of which be u DOT pfesiden:, q director. His
name IL be good golc-he has bought pictures and
-tsiuts-be has also bought Mr.. Aladdin and
.iytr fork. He has = home for poet. but be makes
il hs bosst that nothing bat his newspaper.
lie goes 10 church twice Sundays, and emily wakes
ID when the preacher deuOunces the sinner Of SodOm
and GomOrrsh and those tough OLD Jess OF Jeru-
sslern Hs besd is bald and shiny with tse sermons
witch have hit and anoed of. He clsspSbis hands
In urayer. but forgets 10 open them when the poor
cess hi man thanking God that he s not IS other
And after dinner he sits before the nre 10 hs
easy chair, hgbe large cigar, and looks ienSuQy a.
Mrs. Aladdin through the thick smoke.
By sLo BY old Aladdin dies. The conventional vir,
tues are toc over the mourning carriages are csed
out. The papers regret they are ceeo GPoa GepGe
the loss Of revered parent generons friend, public
sui.iied citizen and plous man and the precoctous
srarrer Of isckkpives and the model set up TO the
,cn1d generation laid IN the dust Above his grave
The stars be never now burn with q soft us,er
which 10 lanpe about king tomb can emulate; and
the &C uth wind, for whose breath upon his brow be
vss lever grateful, strews his lonely lat bed with
&c and yioiets that bis heel crushed when liy
ing: enc we who are 10 be formed upon that model,
csy+ie .sly remark a. we stir our toddies, " So cd
Alacdin is goLe q; las, and, by the way. how much
. d.d he leave y