The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-11-06

. sury where II was not, and never had been.
n From all which Judge Pierrepont, like the
| neople IN the Park on Satui day, came TO the
| Conclusion thai General Butler was both DIS
| honest aud false, la1cener and a cheat. Living
| in the Filth avenue, Judge PlrrrepoBt OF course
did not state his conclusion In this terse, sh arp
| way. BE stewed bis sour apples in sugar before
! he flung them, but even then they we're not
| very pleasant. As thus:-
Each man in his sphere, however narrow or
extended, will find that his felow-meu (wbether
he Will or no) weigh his character and his abli-
Ties often; and upConsciously stamp him with
their estimate, and that the average resultant OF
these frequent estimates lSJUsL
"IfGenPral Butler shall finally succeed in keep
ing Mr.. Smiths gold TO himself, he will lind It
an uncomfortable possession; and as his shOwy
, carriage rolls by, his honest townsmen will look
up, and think Of the boy who from Saratoga
county, went down to New Orleans in earch OF
be- ter fortune, and whose $4,000 in gold the
proceeds OF patient toll, and the il dustry VI long
years, was taken from him by General Butler
And some humble, pious neighbor may say TO
the rich general
Your gold and silver is caukered: and the
rust of them shall he witness against you, and
shall eat your flesh as it were fire.,
What the Fifth avenue prophesies, the Five
Points, you see, brings to pass. The rust OF the
gold of Smith Il Co., and OF the silver of innu-
merable spoons, Iods witness against this pam
pered pillerer on Saturday last, ana d,d verify
'eat his flesh as 1t were fire." For this pros
porous criminal. who had gradually Garnet n
reputation for beng pretty nearly iron-clad in
triple plates OF shamelessness, sin, and success
fairly broke down under the concentrated scorn
and contempt OF the multitude, and the ill-dis-
guised exultation OF his own friends who
must have intensely enjoyed the hooe OF a ne
martyr" made at such slight cost to them
selves
He utterly lost his temper, and exclaimed:-
Why, you Door fools. have laced your supe-
riOrs in Baltimore and New Orleans; [ have
hung your 6et'ers, and il you do not behave
yourselves, / shall get the chance to do the
same with you; / have seen great many more
than you, with arms in their hands, and vet not
tlnched. DO you suppose | shalt finch from
onion stlnk'ng breath? man who has smelt
gunpowder can stand garlic Do you think that
you are the equal OF the negro? Oh. no; the
negro is as immeasurably your Superior as
Heaven is above nell, where you will go TO.
do not certainly respect you, and you may be
quite cure | do not fear YOU Men of Five
Points bullies OF the bawdy house thieves of
the LOT by and burglars OF the Tombs sim
ply declare here, as the voice of this nation,
that You are not ut tor the exercise OF the cleo
tive franchise, and in no better way than tnis
could you demonstrate tie fact"
Since the time when the man who has smelt
gunpoWder" was hit so terribly by General
Grant in that official report winch described
him as getting out of the "bottle" in which
BeauIegard had "corked him up" only 10
disobey orders by sneaking of with the expe-
ditlon to Fort Fisher that he might witness
the explosion of that famous ''pOwder-shipr y
whereof the Rebels, says General Grant, never
OWNED the meaning until they 'reaG ABOUT II
IN the Northern newspapers" STnce that tre-
mendOus box on the ears. brought tears INTO his
contradictory eyes, and a scream of rage from
his lips, the ''hero OF New Orle ans" has never
talked so naturally as in this choice passage.
Scratch Russian, said the Marquis de Gus.
tine, land you will find a Tartar" Hit Butter,
LID, in the pit of the stomach with q sour
apple, and you will hear from Butler, the de-
lender OF Lowell dra6s and pimps, and the pill
tering bully of Norfolk. In its man outlines
the scene OF Saturday in the Park was scream.
ing farce, in which it i'll became would-be
Car to figure. But it has serious side, also,
worth considering, for it ought 70 bring home to
the minds Of men who, like Horace Greeley and
Andrew curtin, aspire to be resDectabie in
private lie, the ltnite scanoai OF public asso-
citation with and political Endorsement of men
whose baseness and corruption are matters
now of history.