Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-11-28
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drew the portrait Of Col. Mulberry Sal
lsrs. and John 7. Raymond has given
the character . most graphic. mas
tsrly and vivid impsrsonation. This
man Sellers 10 not q myth; hs il TO Be
found everywhere; he Is omniprsssnt in
the wslks Of life. In high and low c.
tate; in Office and out Of Office; in the
palace and in the hovsl We may without
difaculty and members Of his numerous
family.
The New York Tribune. in . recent AZ
ticls. dsvotes q column to "Ths Tribe
Of Sellers" 1t is too long for our col
umns, but w herewith publish ex-
tracts:
Mulberry Sellers has taken his place
in the galaxy Of representative Amer
leans. He IL . ~earicaturs, an absurdity
this genial speculator who borrows
ten cents while he divulgss his scheme
involving millions-but he 10 never
thsless q living and distinctive typo OF
real American and peculiarly American
character. He Is no dramatic myth.
American society is full OF these inter
eating wrecks stranded on the shoals Of
misfortune. yet always basking In the
sun. Every one knows Mulberry Sell
lsrs at once, and recognizes in him his
next dsor nsighbor. his chum at col
lsgs, his wifs's uncls-ths that ruin
cd the family. He 10 TO be seen every
day in the street, every night at the
club or the theatsr. every morning in
the neighbsrhood OF some cheap res
taurant. Every man In New York. every
man in Washington. every man In fike
county. knows him. He IL in law and
in literature. in politics and in business,
in real sstats and in journalism, in
soap-boiling and in the drama; and
everywhere the same odd. incomplete
genius, who never more than hall be-
gan, half did Or half finished anything
in his life; whose slssping hours are the
least crowded with dreams. and who IL
always constructing q new rainbow out
OF the scattered prisms Of the old.
At Washington, Mulberry Sellers Is
ubiquitous and influential. He has held
a score OF seats in every Congress within
the memory OF man, while in the lobby
he il always in the majority. Mulberry.
the lobbyist. lives q gildsd, hollow sort
Of life. dining s~umptuously, during the
session and starving during the recess.
His bill fails OF passage for want OF
three minutes time on the morning OF
the Fourth Of March. and 10 knocked on
the head by the blow Of the Speakers
nallet which declares the Congress
ended. or his project Is referred TO q
COMMITTEES whose Chairman. he fnds 70
his disgust. Is v~irtuous. He inaugurates
Pacific railroads and lays the tounda-
tons for vast fortunes on which others
build. He takes q hand at President
making, and his candidate suffers para
lytic stroke the week before the conven-
ton. Mulberry, the Member. fails to
get the appropriation his constituents
wanted, and those kindly souls burn
him in efiU. and intimate their Pur-
pose OF running him out OF the country
II he should ever return to II. Mulberry.
the writer, IL always beginning q new
i mover Nulou u W W tho Bheo<
novel. and Of which he roads you the
frst-and last-chspter; or he declaims
his poem to you, aud his eyes water at
his own pathos. Mulberry. the dramatic
aspirant, wants TO star the first night.
Mulberry. the journalist, starts q new
paper without any gresnback mill to
back 1t, and makes II IN organ. Null
berry. the politician, joins the other
party Just before IL goes into . minority
and leaves 1t just before II regains its
majority.
Many . man is . Mulberry Sellers
who would Be astoundsd II you dubbed
him so. Superficial men whs never
learn or do or say anything thoroughly;
| immethodical men who lack the system
and fidelity that make success; incon-
slant men who abandon enc purpose as
soon a. their quick brains conceive
another. and accomplish nons Of them;
foolish fellows who think that real sue
cess il q thing to be stolen or bought or
snatched out OF the hand OF Fate-thsse
are representative Americans and repre-
sentative of much that Ii raw and worth
less in our civilization. The moral Of
Mulberry Sellers is good. whatever his
morals may be.