New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-02-21

rsised swarm Of 10, tiers and suckers about taeir
ears that are annoying, tsr'ecu'ns' ana bleeding
them Of every turn. Win. ec'owd OF rssgoS.
spoDgpg fellows have arisen, in tn shape OF cofro'
spondents Of Southern Journals, edis.' attaches.
drunmers for advertisements and subscriyt ns, WIG
surround them Ike .buzzsrds lowering sboss o
wounded buffalo on the prairie. The gentismsu
who are sound on the goose, or are anxious to b
so represented in the Southern one-horse preu, srs
beet by these fellows day and night at their stores
and countcg-rooms, at their houses, at the dining
table, in their bed-chamber, in their gongs on. and
comings in at their risings up aud sitsings down.
The curse Of frogs and locusts was as nothing to
their rsgamuffin appeals, their seedy mendicant
opportunity. The worst oft olls, it is next to i'm
DO, sible to distinguish the real vagabonds from
their counterfeit. Not that there is any essential
difference in the character of the nuisance, only
ore may not know enough to write matchmaking
paragraph, and the other may. To make sure
work, therefore, each poor, pitiful, meansprited.
craven, Inundated wretch Of merchant, who has
allowed himself to be entanged in the tolls Of these
land sharks, has no other escape but to buy Oh
from eyery fellow who besets him. He shivsrs In
bis shoes at every knock and every application and
planks down the dust in every case. to avoid tho
threatened attack on his business at the South II be
does net. Not knowing who is who, he pays to
all alike. The whole crowd Of beggsrs ana black
maers are thus Hourishing just now, Like Pigs In
clover.
We give publicity to this fact, so that there may
be fair play among the vagabonds. The poor devils
have struck placer, and al should fare alike We
want them all TO come on. Now is their happy
time. Now is their feast and carnival. The table
is spread The repast loads the board Money 10
easy, Ellis plenty, bank checks abundant. If any
fellow is hard up, or shining, or lodging corners
to ahun his ere iitors, let him show himself and
make his Jack.
Now ia his time. The fraternity of traders Is
rich; they are green, and easy, and give milk to
any kind of sucker. Come on, then, one and all.
Come to the gathering, come, come pimps, leeehes,
swinders, shysters, rsgamuffns, mock-aucton
graduates, counterfeitep, forgers, liars, knsyes,
cheats, blackguards, seedy -blOated lO.fers, jail
birds, dirty dogs of all breeds, every moral leper.
and every accomplished villain; come to the feast
of the New-York merchants who are sound on the
goose. They will be glad to see you, will welcome
you, will entertain you, will 60 down on their mar
rowbones to you, will pay you freely and literally,
for your help for Jour promises, for your knaVery
and lies, for everything you can do, and everything
you cannot do, toward getting or saving little
Southern trade. Our merchants who are sound on
the goose are paragOns of virtue themselves, bus
they have opened their doon to the scoundrels.
Let this interesting class of our fellowctzens ac-
cept the invitation. They viii never have better
chance 10 prey and fatten on the apprehension Of
Southern trade. Gentlemen scamps, will you please
to walk up and help yourselves