Democratic Curiosity Shop

Puck's iliuilile -paire cartoon is not as funnyas uual thi.s week, aomehow. - [Free Pion. [Tbü cartoon representa a lieadless donkey, hia foro and hind lioofs pointed toward eaeh other, n that locomolion is inposaible. (uu. Ilaucockis being brought toward itby the democratie managen, and xolnfms : " Great Scott ! iMust I bc tlio head of that thing?" All arouiid aio scattered fragnicuts of the democratie record. There is a skeleton trom Andernouville, tho cipher diapatohes, a rag baby, etc, e to. Wedon't think any democrat will fee very ïnucli f'un in it.] UAT TLCK savs. The democratie party bas a show, and Mr. Banium is the showman- uot okl P. T. Barnum, but a smníler Jcmoeratic Baruum. He aabowincQen, Hancock . through the Old Curiosity Shop. It il quite a new experience for the general. Lio is a thorough democrat, oh, yes ; he has boen a demoorat from birth ; but he hasn't had very mueh todo with his party since itwas his disagreeobleduty to def'eat it at (Jettysburg. lu fact, he noverdid run very mueh with the democrats. Ho is a soldier, and a good one, and it bas been his duty to detend the nation, and, naturally, this has brougliL him in company willi rimblioans, who aio lathor more in that line. So, you sec, he i,s quite a wtranger in Lis owu honto. The show cuntaina many things that re quite new to him. This may aoaount for his looking a littlo iale and startled. " Just tep right up, (Jeneral," says Mr. Hainuiu, smilinü blandly ; " Gueas you're astonfshed to Bod what an Al, first-claas Old ('urioity Shoj) wc'vegot here. Diila't know yuur noble heriiage as a bord deiuocral, did you? Nowhere, liy tliese highly interesting antiquitie!-, you may see the rise ol'tbe democratie party. It'fl riz pretty liigh, but that ain't nothm' to tho riso it 's iTiiiri' (o get. No, I don't mean it's goin up. Never mind, cast your superb ayea over this here. This is the whippingpost, the tainous pAtriarahaJ jpstitutipn f the south ; and here are the shaekles aud the whips - tho trimraings, so to speak - Lord?, you can almost hear tho liowl of the Digger- don't it seein life-like ? Ah, General, that there post was the pillar of the party1. Un I tliem dear oíd day.s üa g6ne, long gonejbut mebbe wo'll liov them back agin, if thc south staya solid. Vuu're a northern inaD, General; do you remember how tliose cbivalrous soutlirons used to cali us ' Northern Mqdailla ' n thcir playful way : Suumcr was a northern mudsill - there's the club that l'rest, Brooks laid Lim out with- chivalrous of .Brooks, wa'ntit? Now, hore's where wc get to the war- the uuholy war that was waged against the divine ordinance of slavery. You did some of the waging, Guneral ; but we don't think harder of you, if'you'ro solid with the south now. llere'B the first shot of' l'reedoüi - white ireedoin- strictly white I mean to say. It was fired pluuib into Suuiter. Here's oncófthe Nigger torpedocs- used to be set afloat in the buy in blockade timos. We ain't got niany Yankco battle flags to show ; but that's partly your f'ault, General. Thcre- just seo that -don't your heart beat faster at sight of that? It's the ïiistol that Martyr Booth sliot thc Tyrant Lincoln with. Chivalrous in I'ooth wa'ntit? o might liad some of Lincoln's brains that oozed out of the wound ; but that kind of thing ain't much in our our line. Sincc the war our stock ain't so complete and richin relies - we ain't had the chance. But you may like to glance :it a lew repudiated state bonds- we've got a noat colleotion of' them - and here'a our greatest triunjph of the late rears- thc real original rag-baby. There ain't no hardmoney nonsense about you, General, is there ? And here is General Hancock, your new mount. None of your oíd unión war-horses - this is tho genuino oíd democratie charger - just wants your .uperb head to make it a complete animal." And then Mr. Harnum stops, and waits fbr the enthumumii. General Hancock wipe his foreliead, and turna bis fasciunted eyes from the whippingpost, and the shackles, and crios : " Great Scott, aui I to be the head oí that?" Mr. Barnum flatters himself with thehope that tlio "good oíd days " he laments may come again ; they may ; but the chances are diminishing. The boys in blue are mm mure in line. They have had their little sulk all by themaelves; their aelfish schisin nearly broke up the party, and aided in forciuff upon it a rather unsatisfaotory candidato. But the stalwarts havo come to their senses, they are back in the ranks like good little boys, and everybody knows thnt uteans business.