The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-11-11

crew. whose flesh he had devOured for break
Ssst nioJred his teeth with a marlingspike,
and waded ashore on an uninhabited island,
in the midst of fury Of hurricane, and mad
only been caught by the whole population
tuininT out and surrounding him with lassoes
and guns. ...--
we half believed, and sent our reporter,
with twenty-five cents for ticket, and ten
cents for omnibus fare, to get a look az tne
devouripe monster and tell us the truth
about him He did So and we blush for the
result. After making his way, with fear and
trembling, but with loyal determination,
through the crowd that blocked up the side
walk, the step, the oapacious hall, and the
three first floors of the stately edihCe, crowd
that every Eve minutes, hearing the cry,
tsHe,s loose beware 20 fell into unoontrolla-
BILE panic. and swayad to and fro in wild pc
wilderment and fainting, vOi0eless horror, ne
made his way directly to the front OF the cage
that held the Awful Despot of the Tropics, and,
mastering all his courage, gave one bold ana
manly look at the thing. To his great aston
ishment, and equally great relief, he saw no
gorilla at all, but a PLAN plack monKeyy
whom. ifhe was not greatly mistaken, be had
often fed with apple-cores and pennies after
the creature had gone through his vari-
ous uncouth mops and moves to
the music of his masters hand-organ.
He even thought the creature himself
looked up with a faint smile of recognition in
his faded peanut eyes, as he saw before him
the one being who, in cold and heartless
world, had taken pity on him and ministered
to his few and simple wants. There he sat, a
melancholy picture care-worn, flea-bitten,
hungry: now playing abstractedly with his
useless tail, now looking with blas6, discon-
solate air at the aimless flies that crawled over
his whitewashed cage, now scratching himself
as if he had been struck with an idea, then
giving it up, and walking back and forth with
a maudlin air, and finally crouching down In
one corner with an expression OF pity and con-
tempt for the swelteriug crowd of human beings
who wasted their time and money for the sake
of seeing gorilla, and were ready to faint at
the imaginary threats and ferocitY of plain
organ grinders monkey.
For some days past-for some months, in
deed-the newspapers have been full of ter
rible rumors of the awful things that Mr..
Johnson is going to do, some time or other
How he is going to act as if he were Cromwell,
julius Caesar, and the two Napoleens-the
great and the little-rolled into one How he
is going to disperse Congress, and backed by
Swann's militia, to say nothing of Swami
himself, put down the North, put up the
South, and ride to glory over the PROSTATE
bodies of the majority of his countrymen,
How he is as mad as he can be; how, to use
the children's phrase, he is "hopping mad,
and means to show us that he is not to be
trihed with. How we are to have frst-class
"coup d'6tat," whatever that may be, an6
how, in a few weeks, A. Johnson the First
(and we may add, of our own knowledge
"the last'') is to wade to his throne in blood
and sit sole despot over a conquered CONT
nent. In short the very air is black with
horrible imaginings and direful threats.
'where we live,
The chimneys are blown down; and as they say
Lamentng 8 heard i the air strange screams OF
death;
And prophesyIng with accent terrible.
or dire combus ion, and confused events
New Matched from this wotul COOP"
All this is very distressing; but we beg oul
readers to take heart of grace. Threatened
men live long, and Mr.. Johnson's coup, like
DR.. Cummings Millennium, will no doubt prove
prophecy that can be pushed ahead and aheat
as often as fulflment is found to be inconveni
ent. The bloody banquet he promises Vallan
digham and Seymour, Weed and the rest o
his braves, is no doubt movable feast, " AM
will be found very feast Of the Barmecides
The President is running about the White
House grounds with a terrible pumpkin head
lighted by very cheap tallow candle, and W
misdoubt the American people are not to b
scared by any such childish nonsense. Let u
only look boldly at the bugaboo, and we shal
find our great gorilla is after all nothing bu
a harmless and foolish monkey, with no talen
but to make himself laughing stock to a
idle world.