Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1872-09-27

WaIds Kmerssn as Negro Win.
'streis.
New York Correspondence Chicago Tribune. J
The fluctuations Of fortune in this
country are so sudden, and men so fire.
quently change their avocatlons, that
IL Is not strange Foreigners can be
made dupes In regard to the antecc-
dents and occupations OF our public
men.
An Englishman, quite well Informed
for al Emglishman In regard to Amer
lea, arrived here recently, and was
much astonished at the peculiar things
he saw and heard. Finally, he was
prepared to credit anything. and STROLL
Ing through Barclay street the other
morning observed over small shop
the sign:
"wM. c. BRYANT, TAILOR"
~ say, now," he remarked TO his
companion-a journalistic wag OF some
note-"do you see that sign there !?
lt's the same rs your faverite poet, the
author of 'Thanatopsis.' 1t isn't the
same family, dare say. now:"
"Not only the same family" was
the reply, "but the same man."
is it indeed? Well, that Is very
strange! thought Mr.. Bryant WAS u
wealthy journalist, the publisher Of
one OF the greatest newspapers here"
"He was" answered the joker, ~
few years ago. Then he owned the
greater part Of the Ereniag Post, but
be went up to Saratoga one Summer,
got 70 drinking champagne and betting
on faro till he became bankrupt and
was for some time dependent OIL the
charity of his friends"
Really. that is very extraordinary,
now. 1 think I remember something
of your Mr.. Bryant's singular career.
Let me see. After he lost his fortune.
didn't he 60 into the negro minstrel
business? Seems 70 me that have
heard Of Bryant's mlnstrels. Devilish
queer that great poet should black
his face and play q tamborinc, now,
isn'tit?" ......
"oh. no!-not queer here nothing
u queer in this country. Bryant made
great deal OF money with Ills min.
strels by dancing the Camptown horn-
pipe every night to crowded houses"
''How did he happen to be a tailor
then?"
"He tried to monopolize the peanut
market by getting up a corner In the
trade, and, again losing every dollar
he had, he was forced to set up this
shop In order TO make livelihood.
"A corner In peanuts. Now, l
don't, exactly understand that, you
know. Did heget Into the corner him
SELF. or did he get somebody else Into
the corner? But there's no use Of my
irving TO. understand such q beastly
business. It's enough to floor fellow
completely, you know. to think Of a
great poet getting peanuts In corner,
aud then bursting up, rs you say In
America, you know"
mot many of our public men do
20 into the peanut trade but the mini
strcl business Il quite favorlte with
our scholars and thinkers. You've
heard Of Emerson, the Sage OF Con-
cord, as he Is often called, have you
not?" .,---.L II
"Ralph Waldo Emerson? oh yes;
he whom we name the American Car
lyle. you know. He Isn't a negro
minstrel, IL he?"
"Of course he Il. He's playing
here now. and when It comes to first
class banjo solo. Rslph Waldo Emer-
son Il hard to beat" ......
"But, really, now," said the per-
picked Euglishman, IL shouldn't
tMnk q man who wrote the English
Traits would be forced to do that sort
OF thing. What's the use of being
man Of genius In America. you know,
nyou have to earn your bread and
butter BY playing bloody banjo. you
know? This Is indeed an extraor-
dinary country, and the more learn
about It the less understand It."