New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-19

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Wilson, James Hayward, J. N. Forbes, Josiah
Quincy, Charles Sumner, Moses Grant Nine other
gentlemen, including the Hon. w. Ii. Seward, have
each subscribed $50
of Barrum, the New.York correspondent of The
81. John (N.B) Courier writes:
Barnum il once more in the ascendant alive, alive
| alive o! and about TO catch 'em alive o once more
The last Of bis Clock Comparys notes or rather the
very last one OF his blank acceptances m favor OF the
| jerome Clock Company, which acceptances, you may
remember, the painfully pious managers OF that her
ally tint-serylpg corporation filled 10 10 tue extent
OF $500 900; the very Last of these little obligations
understand was extinguished last week, thus emanc
pating him completely from the incubus which for hve
years has weighed his energies to the earth, and put
curb and snafie his enterprise Look out, there
fore, for some brilliant speculation. During bis long
imprisonment in the land of Nod IL that's fair equiv
alen for enforced inactivity bis ingenuity, dssarez-
rous, has not been treabled with paralysis.
| And physically have now seen him 10 the ENJOY
ment apparently Of better health. His long, lean
face, has assumed an unwonted look Of pumpttudei
his heavy thoughtful step, has grown elastic As bis
poekebOok has wasted away, his clothes seem attery
TO have filled out; ana if he is worth few thousand
pounds Iess, at least he weighs a few solid pounds
more and has secured 20 much Of better grasp on
| futurty.
at has always been a matter Of great surprise to
me how Bsrnum, with his acute conception OF human
motives, his intuve knowledge OF human charlatan
ISM and bis universal disrust of human disinteresed
ness could have subjected himself to the manpu
ation of such innate scsmps were those profound
dissemblers who deliberately won his confidence in
order to inture his sacrifice. Ii Barnum were man
of strong attachments; his heart were aiicted with
an awkwa habit of running away with his head oc-
easonaly if long associations produced IN his mind,
the usual effect, and rendered him an unsuspcious
yicm If he even, ike the rest of the world, lapsed
into now.and-then dream Of selfforgefuness, pene-
trated by chvalric DESIRE for the nonce, even to
serve those who had served him with fidelity, my Won
der would be diminished Bnt he has none OF these
common weaknesses. He is honest, bat never LIBERAL
He is just, but never generous. lie Is naturally can
tous; by habit provdent; by system vigiiant. His
warmth is affection; it is always enthusiasm
His impulsiveness ia simply energy. II he ever seems
coDdng, 1t IS to extract the confidence OF others, not
betray his own.
offence, he may deceive himself but can't be-
eve that he puts faith enough in BODY else to
be- in sfrict sense, victim to deception His enthus-
renders him sangune, aud this metomorphoees him
sometimes into the blind follower of his own hallucina-
tion To that, suspect, true philosophy must at
tribute the conr6emps which mucted him 30 severely
in the Fire AnnatCr and the Crystal PALACE business
and eliminated in his crash amid the downfall Of the
Jerome Clock Company. But if his financial death
WAS owing to this active inrmity, his resurrection is
also due TO the same stimulating inhrmty. 30 7lDe Ia
BarDam The What Is III, is already crowdlng
the Museum, the What lie Ii = is a nondescript
supposed to be half negro and half ourang-outangl
and the grizzly bear and the sea lion may only be
considered 80 many induces OF the newly awakened
Barnumian enterprise"
Though the House OF Commons never rises 10 the
rowdy subimity of disorder which sometimes charac
teIizes the House of Representatives, it has its con
fiicts of bad temper and ill manners, Of which is
thus hit off by the clever London correspondent of TIE
Lirerpoel Albion in his account of the debate of
Feb. -:
"In Mondays debate there was plurality of sin.
gulariiies and few of them commendabls. The Bucks
mover got up a small momentum, and was certainly
poDderous enough for couI OF Lincolnshire squlres
amalgamated into one. Neither. Gladgones
tartness toward Dieraeli of the kind the OK Ionian
Con missioner can look back upon with satisfaction.
1t had far too large an infusion OF Thirses for 80
HomeTic cornoisseur and indeed, is sought to be
exenuafed on the Of certain morbid state OF
mind arising out of a peculiar mental cause at the
moment, well as an unusually dlsordered bilious
apparatus. The gods have made him ylxenlsh, bat
moi vehement in the vituperative line. Satire ID not
his forte; and il it were, he had better not have
courted comparison with one the remembrance OF
whose performance in that department puts all rivalry
entirely out of the range of possibility, that the per-
former himself has disdained these fourteen years
even to evoke the memory Of his proves by eXer-
csng ON baser game than he then struck down.
The esge-sayer warsno on barndoor poultry, though
he may occasionally give homely cocks a tap on the
comb when their Growing becomes ENTHUSIASTICALLY
obstTepeIous. Thus il was last night. While speak
ing he was interrupted several times by Glad
stone upon whom at last the Caucasian turned that
Peeleitic orb of his which had cscined the Sublime
Mediocrty into the of what is within one step
of subiimity; and, dropping sneer at the running
hon. gentleman, who had quarreled with his old
friend the Pope as he had with all bis old friends in
turn, was annoyed no more. As If stung by partic-
ulary lively puff adder Gladstone at first ecoiled, and
then cooled himself up, so papaby fostering to the
quick that not only did he not smile when Benjamin
auzzically affected dislike of Office because of Its in
Jury TO the nerves, but he didn't even try TO smile
when all tie House laughed aloud at the Tiverton
jokers reference TO the Disraelan nervous system.
Perhaps, however, his nonpartcipaton in the hiarty
awakened by his chief, in this instance, nothing
particular He seems terribly troubled by the pranks
OF the aged audacity; and nothing is more probable
than that some hne morning he may throw up Office
because Of his fastdiousness concerning the political
morality of the great bshop-maker. Thus take the
occurrence of Monday night Rising after Horsman,
whom he called his right honorable friend with an
interminable iteration whose significance il was i'm
possible TO mistake the Premier proceeded to pervert
the whole drift and scope, spirit and letter OF what the
member for Stroud had just uttered. This shock
ing enough even admitting the reality of tie pre-
tended badinage accompanying II. The Opposition
csmored ont its reprobauon of such proceed
ing and called aloud for Horsman, who repeat
edly stood mp, but had to sit down again. In
DO way abashed, the Premier went Louder
the uproar but yet, and bullying loud the
staggering tone and trucuent bearing of the Minis
ter not word OF whose utterance could be heard in
the din. Then reverberated such EXPLANATIONS as
never yet smote mortal in that building; and that
they did so would seem to be the knel of the ira
dton about the first assembage of gentlemen in the
world Will 1t be- can IL b. credited that there
shouts Of Shame, shame directed against the Chief
Adviser Of the Crown and leader OF the House of
Commons, far the most experienced of all living
ters in the ways and forms of Parliament for refusing
the most ordinary courtesy one denied in no place on
earth wherever the semblance OF discussion Is Oh
seryedl Yet 30 it was. At last he forced into
momentary pause, during which Horsman got up
Pamerston standing all the while, and, in the most
deliberate and emphatic manner pronounced / never
uttered one single word Of what the noble Lord says
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