Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-09-05
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PHILADELPHIA LETTER.

" BLIND TOM AGAIN--wEALTH IN THE GAR
RRT--POLITlCAL oRosCoPEs---ANDREw
JACKSON DAVIS ON THE "suMMRR LAND
FAILURE OF AN ACCIDENT INSURANCE COM
PANy--THE AGENT GOES up IN LAND
LORDS BALLoON-MBTIIoDIs NOME JOUR-
NAL AND ITS DEMONSTRATIONS AND
THINGS IN GENERAL.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 4, 1867.
Eighteen months agone, Mr.. Thayer, the agent
of Blind Tom," made his appearance In this
city, and posted every nook and corner with
green bills, and red bills blue bills and black
bills, setting forth the virtues of black rirtuoso
on the key board. What u grand success 1t was
or rather what n grand success he was Old
Bethune, the cighty-yeared Georgian, who owns
U him. carried not less than thirty-flvc thousand
dollars away with him, after six weeks eihibi-
ton. Then he lived ut the st. Lawrence, then he
was courteous, then he dressed more like prince
In mediocre dresses. To-day that same Blind
Tom returns to Philadelphia and opens up his
exhibition, mastered by the same old gentleman
Bcthune. Since last here he has made a tour
through Europe, and has made over two hundred
thousand dollars Bcthune, poor soul, Is too
poor to hire an agent, too poor to stop ut hotel,
too poor to dress fl to be seen In company, but
does his own advertising boards in the garret OF
second-ratc house, and looks as though he had
Just came from Georgia fighting his way through
Rebels and Federnls Snch rapacity Is to be con-
demned most surely. Bcthune cannot he worth
less than half million dollars, through the
lingering of this wonderful prodigy, ~ M
tnre-ircak, and yet unlike the majority of show
men, he is unkind to editors and the whole party
of news-men This is an instance OF the curse
of gold. 49,,
coming campaign.
Nb..t 4. \ g t.II
| you. They are not all as good as they might
have been, though You cannot censnre lis for
nominating Russell Thaycr for Associate Judge,
| can your
C6,ceni well there might have been something
better there--tliere is no doubt of 1t but what
can city convention do?
| But the Radical ship is safe enough, IL betting
is any sign of the patients pulse. II relative Of
mine were to die to-day (they never dlc-I mean
the rich ones, and leave me an abbey, could bet
| 1t all away evenly on those Cowell men In front
| of the State House.
| Major Flomcrfelt is one of them, the Major Ia a
side issue of the Radicals, IN otf-shoot from the
great Herbarinm anS is now planted In the Con-
serrdfoire. He is forSherif, with small living,
and very small one, may his shadow grow less.
The other dishes served up on that bill of fare
arc raw looking and may he passed over.
| On the first day Of autumn, Andrew jackson
Davis sp'rifuene treats us TO variety of ethics
on the summer land. If you can understand It.
my boy, cannot. Let me give you specimen
After the orator had wiped away the perspi-sweni
and looked cross-eyed at sleepy sister whose
strong mind had whirled her into tho presence OF
the spirit of dead canary, he says:
| THE summer lind from oil the better lands oul
oil which IL is conceived, signifies repository
land garnerng up, and gathering together all tho
results OF these countless belts of human produ-
cling planets"
| felt summary all over, after this It was as'
| tonlshing how cool the hall became. He demol-
shcd modern christianity with one grand sen.
tence, and 1t is needless to say that after this you
may write me down as splritualist bound fol
the summer land. am never going TO give an
other penny for the foundation of q christian
church, nor six-pence to educate mixed scpoy
do you wonder what prompts me to this conclu'
sion just listen moment.
ministers throughout the land, talk of the
Father coming down to us through the medium
| OF his Son, and dying for few people upon lit
Tie planet, 25,0O0 miles around, and 5000 miles In
diameter. What more than mediumship Is that
shallow indeed, silly and wicked teaching all
Chrstendom that tbs Almighty is obligep to send
His son to give himself mp and die on this little
| spot In space, when the infinite universe was
swarming with planets, thousand times vastcr
and with people infinitely more worthy of his at
| tention."
The captain of the first nine of the Athletic
Base Ball Club, waited upon Mr.. Davis ut thu
close of the Summer Land" and asked permits
sion to use the earth as ball in their match will
the Mutuals.
An Ohio Accident Ins urGncc Company agency
in this city has came To grief, md the agent ha,
all his goods coniiscatcd by his landlord. 1t II
generally believed that these Insurance Com
panies (mnny of them ifr,) are taking the place.
of the oil fevcrs. We must have something Il
excite us.
Rev. DIR. Nallacc's Methodist Home .Iourna
circnlates nearly ten thousand copies. You will
recollcct that always predicted success for it
II cuts hard into the lists of New York papers o
that denomination.
That steamboat ride on the Eliza Hancox
cured my consumption, after having tried toDics
bitters and springs. Captain Burns is the speci
men of gentleman that one wishes TO meet oc
casionally. The racing of the Two Wilmington
steamers crowd the wharves of our city with per
sons, and not unfreqncnty money changes hands
The llancox is n New York boat and ms keen us
knife, the waves In front of her prov dance lik
corn on q hot skillet 1t is too dark to writ
more. A.. w. A.