New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-10-09

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particularly cal the attention of my readers 20
the fact that persons are often buried awe
This is hint to Mr. Lester which it would be
philauthropic in him to take, but which we cann"'
blame him for not taking. But we wish that ne
would perch himself upon bis tripod and seriously
and we may say prayerfuly, consider whether ne
is alive or dead, or whether he II not so nearly
dead that il is time TO - hurry up the funeral ar-
rsngements. DR.. Weisse does not say distinctly
whether our dear Charles Edwsrd-who must not
be confounded with the other Pretender OF the
same name, who is unquestionably dead, and, what
ia better buried-s dead or not. We write IN all
kindness IF we were dead, We should prefer to
be buried. IT'S matter of taste; but, if we were
dead and did not know it, we should be obliged to
some friend if he would kindly but plainly mention
the fact. so that we might purchase LOT IN some
cemetery and there take up our abode. George
Selwyn liked to see dead people; they dote upon
dead people at the Office of The Spiritual Iae-
croph; dead people are in high fashion in certain
circles at present: but, as general thing, me
tastes Of the community are for the living. They
evidently think at the Office of The Telegraph that
Lester is dead. They suppose, no doubt, that no
living man would or could write the following:
What is this GIANT SPECTER which has haunted
"the human brain so ceaselessly through so many
"rycles of time and civilization so remorse-
"less in its exactions Of woe so relentless
Z" in its tributes to the human hearth so
"reckess of forms Of government so supe-
'ror to the tyranny Of laws, human or
divine l' To which We reply that We really do
not know the parsonage by name But Lester
knows Lester is upon thee-and-thOu terms with
the ghost That is why they are so polite to him
Lester, not the ghost-at The Telegraph Office.
They want Lester to bring down his shadOwy
friend for quiet bout of table-tipping. We sd
wise Mr.. Lester-if lising-to do nothing of the
kind. When man in his position has hrst-rate
private ghost Of his own--a tip-top g Giant Spec
ter'-he should not be exhibiting him for moth
ing, as if he were less than bcipital calf or
bicaudated pony. We would not show him for less
thM half price even to Mr.. Buchanan, who will
soon see all the ghosts in the other world without
charge. "No you don't should be the motto of
Mr. Lester He can 90 with the ghost to reviews
and races and show him in a tent--admission SIX
pence-but as for making this " Giant Specter"
common by trotting him about for all to gaze upon,
we would not do it until we could persuade the
newsbOys to buy The Democratic Age, which is
just equivalent to saying that we would not do it
at all. Giants common enough, but youdO not
catch Giant Specter every day. Your two-penny
ghosts are to be had nowadays for the asking
but Giant Specter-O, No it would never do.
What a pretty exhibition might be made Dir.
Buchanan in WAX Gen. Jackson in clay The
American Eagle stuffed The Giant Specter in
white, stirred up by Mr.. Lester, wrapped in the
folds of the American flag And they want Mr.
Lester to show all this, or the best part of it, at
Mr.. Partridge's. for nothing
The truth is, Mr.. Testers ghost is of too excu-
siye and aristocratic character to be allowed to
associate with the underlined spirits who patronze
The Telegraph. They have Spirit in that shop
who makes Pile Salve-they have another who
devotes himself to Fits-they have still another
who tries his hand now and then at Dropsy-
there is a shadowy pharmacopolist, supposed to be
the ghost of the Apothecary in Romeo and Juliet,
who compounds medicine called 1.-The Absorber"
and anybody with stomach-ache can be 'diag-
"nosed' Gas we are told) into perfect bliss in five
minutes But il is low-rather low. A ghost like
Mr.. Testers who is perfectly competent to pre-
scribe for the country,
g find her disease