The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-08-15

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ages and classes came forth to effer them
rest and bread and wine, and many fierce
Turco and SCARED Zouave wrung the hand Of
the poor Prussian peasant who saluted him
with a kindly word and gave him bite or
sup. although twas in ''hostile" tongue aud
in the ''enemy's" land. On the battle field
of Woerth, almost ere the smoke began to
clear away, the white badges of the surgeons
and nurses, authorized by the International
Convention at Geneva, we're seen moving
about the heaps of dead and dying. But
everywhere, all over Europe and America, the
angelic hand of woman is stretched forth to
aid and save With them-mourning mothers,
sisters, and wives, as thousands of them soon
may be, or, perchance, are now, even while
we write-there is no distinction of cause or
nationality. The Empress Eugene and the
Queen of Prussia alike have hastened to the
blessed work, and every day adds to the army
of those who, amid all this frightful evil, go
about doing good. With such manifestations
of the boundless good that still exists, hu-
manity may still believe that, as the darkest
hour precedes the dawn, so will the very enor-
mites of this most cruel, most needless, and,
therefore, most wicked war of all, be the last
dreadful convulsion1 needed to disgust man.
kind with international murder, and usher in
the auspicious hour when all this gallantry, all
this genius all this love of country, all this
endurance, all this tenderness and charity,
shall attain their loftiest development in arts
and works which shall bear no stain of tears
or blood, but shall be indeed the glory and
not the shame of humanity.
THE NOSE AND THUMB OF MR. FISK, JR
From the N Y. Tribune.
We have never thought that the position of
the President of the L. S. A. was such O
sweet boon as to be much desired by any
body with reasonable funds in his pocket,
q roof over his head, and opportunities of USE
fulness in private station. Looking back, it
seems to us that the lives of the Presidents
have not been what Mr.. Cosey would call
comfortable" The great and good George
Washington was so slandered that an equa-
nimity less than his would have been seriously
disturbed. John Adams was turned out at the
end of his first term, greatly to the wrath of
that volcanically irascible gentleman. For
eight years the Federalists stuck pins into Mr.
jefferson Then Mr.. Madison was treated in
the same way. Only Mr.. Monroe had COM
paratively quiet time of it. How the younger
Adams was maligned, and caricatured. and
libelled, and finally ousted by General Jack
son, we need not relate. His successor was
always in hot water and always swearing and
being sworn at. Mr.. Van Buren experienced
the fate of Mr.. j. @. Adams. General Harri-
son was hardly President at all. John Tyler
made a miserable muddle and mess of it;
ditto, Polk ditto, Fillmore, after General
Taylor had died in Office; ditto, Pierce: dou-
BILE ditto, Buchanan. Mr.. Lincoln must have
found, during his administration, cause for
the greatest anxiety which could affict and
distract public man. Over the scandal of
Andy Johnson's Presidential life, let us. with
many bushes draw vail. And now. Gene
raj Grant has been SO eminently unfortunate
as to incur the personal wrath of James
Fisk, Jr
This we may we'll consider to be climax
and a crusher. What was the hostility of
Jefferson to Washington and Adams, of
! Nicholas Biddle to General Jackson, of half
Senate to Van Buren,, of all the Confede-
rates to Mr.. Lincoln, compared with the fero-
city of the Monarch of Long Branch, as dis
played when His Monetary Majesty, James
the Pecunious, dressed Sin velvet and duck, !"
and sitting in his chariot behind many
horses, met poor General Grant at Long
Branch aforesaid; and, to prove his deep de-
testation, put his thumb to his nose?" This
is what the correspondent of a Western
paper says that the Junior Fisk did ''to show
his malignity." 1t was not enough that the
! Emperor of Steamboats, should make the Pre-
sident pay his passage like any other man:
it was not enough that he should have a
whole regiment of retainers at his command,
every beggar and blackguard of them all
ready to cast contumely upon General Grant;
but he must, this dreadful Fisk, put his
thumb, upon meeting General Grant, to his
royal nose. One is anxious to know what
kind of nose it isis it sternly Roman
or delicately Grecian? does it turn up OF
droop? or is it the kind of nose known as the
bottle-nose? But whatever its shape, its
length, or shortness, whether it be aquiline
or snub, it is, we suppose, q nose capable OF
being pulled, and quite likely to be pulled
under all circumstances, though such violence
we deprecate. General Jackson's nose was
tweaked, and General Fisk's nose may be-
though we hope not. 1t may be broken, pu
out of joint, ignominiously fattened, un
gracefully turned from the centre upon whicf
It is planted, to the right or to the left. II
may be so disarranged that in attempting tc
follow it Mr.. Fisk, Jr., may be unable tc
walk after rectilinear fashion. 1t may be SC
damaged as to possess no longer the power
of shifting the breezes of Long Branch or o.
smelling change on Change. We beg Mr.
Fisk to be cautious of his nose. He may
carry his thumb to it once too often. Others
may not exhibit the self-cemmand of Genera
Grant, and Mr.. Fisk, without any nose at all
would be spectacle for the pitiful gods ant
for weeping men.
Moreover, we wish that King Fisk, Jr.,
would be little less naughty, for greater
monarchs than he have 'fallen, fallen, fallen
from their high estate; other sovereigns have
come to beg in the street like Belisarius
King Midas, who was richer than King James
the First of Long Branch, by his audacity
got a pair of asses ears which were not or
namental; and the majestic Midas was in the
gold business himself. At present, the
greatness of Mr.. F., Jr., is unquestionable
his name is household word in the moutt
of the land; he has thousands of paragraphs
about his horses and himself, his clothes, anG
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