The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-07-30
TIE GREAT AMERICAN SNOWMAN
RETURNS FROu CALIFORNIA.
A. wards Opinion "m 0attcrs Rud Things
GpuerHiIy.

ana humlfGu IN Nhhuh parts OF tue 4 nlltu
States OF America large ycler haud-bills, which
not ouly air gems Of art In themselves, OUT they
truOthfully ST iurtn The attractions of my shOw-
a show, let me here Obsarye, that contains many
liyn wild animals, every one of which has got
Beautiful Moral.
Th,m hundbi Is is scu'pt in New York.
&, annOoaliy repair here 10 git some more on
'um.
&, bein' here thot I'd isso6 Il Address to the
public on matters aud things.
Since last | meyanderrd these streets, have
bin all over the Pacific Slopes and Utah. cum
back now, With my virtOo uuimpared, but I've
got TO git some new clothes.
Many chang has taken place even duriu' my
short absence * sum on um So lum to cDntem.
pulate. The house Ia NIrveck sire {, where |
used To Boa d, is b In torn down. GhU house,
which was rendered memorable by liyiu' into It,
Is "par>iu' away r,iu AwayW But some of
the timbers will &c made into canes, which will
be sod to my admirers at the low price of Que
dollar each. Thu is changes gon' ON couinerly.
In the New World il !, war--in the Old World
Empires is 'otterin 4 Dyseut lreS is crumblin'.
These canes is cheap ata dollar
Sammy Booth, Duane street, sculps my hand
bils, and he's artist. He studied in Rome
State OF New York.
I'm here to read the proof sheets Of my hand
bills as fast as they're sculpt. You have to
watch these ere printers pretty close, for they're
jest as apt 10 spell n wurd wrong rs anyhow.
But have time to look round sum, & how do
l find things | return 70 tle Atllntic states
aiier absence Of ten months, & what State do
find The country in Why, don't know what
Stale iud it in. Suffice it to say that 10 not
1nd IL in the State of New jersey.
find some things that is cheern, partclly the
res olive ON he par of the wimn of America TO
stop wearin turin goods
IneVer NEEDLE with my wifes things. She may
wear muslin nom Gree lands icy mountains, aud
bOmhoz en- from lujy's coral strands, II she wants
to; but I'm glad TO state that superior woman has
peeled off all her turin clothes and jumpt into
fabrics of domestic Manufacture.
But, says some folks, If you stop importin
things, you stop the Revenoo. That's al right
We can stand il II the Reveuoo can. On the same
principle, young men should cOntiner TO get drunk
on French brandy and 10 make their livers rs dry
as a cOrn-cob with Cuby cigars. because soO'h
II they don't 1t will hurt the Revenoo This talk
bout tie RevenOO is of bOsh, boShy. One thing
itI,lby certain, il we don't send gold out Of the
country, we shall have the consolation of know.
ing ILa 1t is in the country. SO say great credit
is doc the wimn for this patriotic move; aud, to
tell the trOOth, the wimin generally know what
they're bout. OF all the blossoms they're the
sOOthinest. Ii there'd never bin any wimn,
where would my children be to-day
But hope this move will lead 70 other moves
that air just as much needed, one of which is a
Renral aud thcrTer cuTtainment of expenses all
rOund. The fact is, we air gettln ter'by eXtraga-
CANT, Onless we paws in our mad career, in less
than two years the goddess of liberty will be seen
dodgin into II pawnhrDker's shop, with the other
gown done up In bundle, eveu If she don't have
10 spout the gold stars IN her head band. Let
us all take hold justly. and live and dress centsi-
bly,; like our fOrefathers, who bnow'd mOren
we do, il they want quite 80 honest (Suule
gOaketh y
There are other cheerin' signs. We don't, for
instuns, lack great en'rals and we sertnly don't
lack brave sojers-but there's one thing | wish
we did lack, and that is our present G Cpngress.
| ventur 10 LAY that if you SO irch GoddIemity's
| fortstool all over with a ten-hoss power mkri
scope, lou won't be abe to tind such another
! pack of poppy cock gabbers az the present Con-
gress OF LBe Unliet States of AmerIcl.
Gentlemen Of The SENT & OF the IL iuse, you we
/ sol there and draw'd your pay and made sum
mer complaint speeches long enough. Tue
country at large, inc 0dn the underlined, is dis
gusied with you. Why don't you show us
Siatesman-sumOody who can make a speech
that will hit the poplar bsrt rite under the Great
| Public weskit Why don't yOu show us stltes-
man who can rise up to the Emergency, and cave
In the Emergency's head
Congress, you won't do. Go home, You miz-
Zerable devils-gO home!
At Especial Congressional lection in my dis
trct, the other day, de ib'rity voted for Henry
Clay. I admitth Henry Clay is del ; but in
a,much as we don't seem TO have live states
man in our National Congress, let US by all
means have a hrst-ClasS corpse.
Them who think that cane mad from the
timbeIs of the house once boarded In Is essen.
tial to their happiness, should not delay sendin'
the money right on for one.
And now, with u genuine hurrar for the wimin'
who air gOn 20 abandon furrin' go IDS, aud
another for the patriotic every where's I'll leave
public matters, and indulge in little pleasant
family gossip.
| My reported capture by the North American
savijls of Utah led my wide circle of friends and
creditors 10 think that l had old adoo to eartly
| things and was IA angel playn' on llden harp
! HGnts my rival home was unexpected.
IL was IL in the evening when reached my
, homestid ana knockta healthy knock on the door
| thereof
4 nightcap thrusted itself ou. of the front
chamber window. (It was my Betsy's nisht-cap.)
| And vols said .%@
"Wlois It ~
at is man !" answered in gruff vols
al Gon't believe it" she sel.
"Then come down ana sea, ch me" replied.
Then resumin' my nat'ral voice, said, alt il
! Your own A.; W., Betsy Sweet lady wake
! Ever of thou 70
"oh," she said, "its you, is il Thought l
! smelt something"
But the old girl was glad to soc me.
In The mornin' found nat nv family were
enteTtainn artist nor Phisdelphy, who wal
there paintin' some sta tIin' waterfalls and noun
tains, and morein Inspected he had hankerin
| for my Oldest dar ser
"Mr. Skimm' .rNorn. father" said nv dauter
"Glad 70 % you, SIR" Ireplted in hospisd
VoiSi Rla 20 sec you"
.h "He + ~ arlist, father" sed my child
| "a @H.chisti"
ttS'nd elazier lsa askt. care you painte
My dauier anl wife was mad, but couldn'
help Il, / felt iH b comikil mood.
Il ''It Is wonder 10 me, sir sad tue artist
| Ueonsiderip1 what widespread reputation yo
have, that some OF our Eastern managers don
secure YOU. ,..L,, - ,s a.,
l somctodV don't secure him with chain"
r ASter breakfast went over TO town 10 see m
; old iriends, The editor OF the Bugle greeted IN
: cordially, aDd showed me the tollerin article he
lust written about the papes on the other side