The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-03-01

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UPON CURRENT TOPICs-CONIPILRD EVERY
DAY FOR THE EVENING TEhEGRvPH
B.rnum Exhibited by Greeley.


From, ne World.
Horace Greeley was born to be the manager
oja wax-work show. Neither the Mrs. farley
fiction nor the Madame Tussand of fact can
Dc compared with him in prompt and pro6ta-
Die appreciation of the market value of mon
eter. His "Chamber of Horrors in the Tn
5tne is infinitely more fascinating, with its
daily Kaleidoscope of assassinated loyalists,
Tortured freedmen and crucifed school
snarms than any collection of the sort which
Is elsewhere accessible. And, such is the lust
confidence of Horace Greeley in his genius,
that he has not feared to grapple at last with
the Ong-recognized prince of humbug him
self and to attain, by a single stroke, the
Hottest pinnacle of fame. The spectacle of
p. T. Barnum exhibited by Horace Greeley
recalls that of the Emperor Valentinian used
as horse-block by the victorious Sapor. He
who had triumphed over Joyce Heath and the
woolly-horse, over the Feejee mermaid and
1he Aztec children, who had put hook into
1he nose of the leviathan public, and chained
5he morning star of Swedish song to his
chariot wheels, is now in his turn become
a show. Horace Greeley has caught him, and
shaved him, and clad him in white sheet; he
mas bound virginia. fllet about his mature
brows, and put penny trumpet to his lips,
@'behold the perfect man, and mark the up
right |" For the small price of four cents, any
purchaser Of the Tribune is invited by Horace
Greeley tS walk up and inspect the only candi-
date for Congress who will never "sell his
birthnght for a mess of potage," and who
S'would rather thousand times be defeated
than permit one grain of gold to be accursed
Sy hGsely using it to induce voter to act con-
9rary to his honest convictions" 1t is impos-
sible to deny that so brilliant and amusing an
entertainment has never before been offered to
an intelligent public at so small charge.
In The management has surpassed itself in the
general get-up of the booth, as well as in what
Squeers would call the "richness' of the curl
Osity it contains. Before the door stands
Horace Greeley himself, in big wig and black
silk gown, uttering these impressive SEN
1ences:-- ..- .
''The practice Of buying votes is so tiagrantly
criminal, palpably destructive to repub-
aican liberty. that no language can ade-
arrested at whatever COST" r.. .. -..
In ''the minds eye, Horatio," do we not
here behold Simon Cameron, Governor Nor
ION, and other ''hagrant criminals" Sinking
away, rebuked at these ominous sounds
WLat seitv. ~ "ei7es i mon their guilty souls
7he hearts of the public when they see them
flying with averted heads! And oh how
delicious the sensation that awaits us when,
having paid our small fee in the open hand of
the Snowman, we enter the sacred precincts,
and find ourselves face with the pure, the
proud the spotless p. T. B.
E'This, ladies and gentlemen" eXclaims the
eloquent II. g., sis the being who has resolved
TO arrest, at any cost, the infamous practice
which we all of us so cordially condemn !
Admire the apostolic simplicity expressed in
1he parting of his hair, the beatifc unworldli-
ness of his smile, the guileless candor of his
gaze He wears, you will observe, a white
sheet, in graceful allusion not only to the
classic custom whereby each candidatuS who
asked the suffrages of the people, being clothed
in candid white did so proclaim his purity OF
thought and purpose, but also because sheet
has no pockets; and our friend, fearing lest his
enthusiastic supporters might perchance insist
on spending his money unbeknown to him, in
order to secure his election, has nobly resolved
not to carry a sixpence about his person until
the polls are closed. You will the more appre-
ciate this, when you know that the wicked Cop
perheads who oppose him have nominated a
namesake of his-a very wealthy Mr.. Barnum, a
miserable manufacturer, not of woolly horses
and seven-headed calves, and other elevating
works of art; but of hoes and shovels, and
other vulgar implements of iron; and that
our great leader Senator Sumner, has received
several letters informing him that this
wretched man intends to spend $4,000 in
corrupting and buying up the intelligent
reading men of New England like sheep in
the shambles. All ! ladies and gentlemen,
what was the stole incorruptibility of Cato
what the confluence of ScipiO, in comparison
with the virtue of the remarkable man be-
fore you? Don't tell me that perhaps all this
story about the extravagant intentions of
the -mongering Barnum is all my eye
and also Elizabeth Martin. | am well aware
of that; but when you consider the
natural passion Of beings like our friend
for giving away greenbacks promiseuously
on the slightest provocatiOn, you must surely
see that the patriotism which could withstand
such temptation as this to the bestowal OF
more than fifty thousand dollars upon men so
worthy and enlightened as all men who vote
the Republican ticket straight must necessarily
be, can only be adequately recognized by the
unanimous election of our friend to Congress,
and by largely increased subscription to the
Tribune daily, semi-weekly and weekly,
which will be supplied to clubs on favorable
terms, with strawberry plants thrown in, and
no extra charge whatever for wrappers" Il
the voters of Connecticut the " intelligent
reading men of New England" can resist such
appeals as this to their nOaest sensibities,
they will deserve, every man of them, to be
furnished with compulsory season tickets tc
the gallery of Barnums Museum for the term
OF their natural lives.
BRTnUm at His Tricks Again-A New
Political Feejee Mermaid.
From The Herald.
Forty-tWo wears aoo John Randolnb q