A FEW THOUGHTS ON JAMES FISK'S NOSE.

Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3212, 30 May 1871, Page 3

A FEW THOUGHTS ON JAMES FISK'S NOSE.

James Fisk, Jan., not satisfied with making the President pay on his boats, has insulted him several times by putting his thumb to his nose when they met, and the " Tribune " seizes the occasion to give some good advice to Jem, junior, as follows :— " What was the hostility of Jefferson to Washington and Adams, of Nicholas Biddle to Gen. Jackson, of half a Senate to Van Buren, of all the Confederates to Mr Lincoln, compared with the ferocity of the monarch of Long Branch, as displayed when his monetary majesty, James the pecunions, dressed in velvet and duck, and sitting in his chariot behind many horses, met poor Gen. Grant at Long Branch aforesaid, and to show his deep detestation, ' put his thumb to bis uose'? This is what the correspondent of a Western paper says the Junior Fisk did to ' show his malignity.' It was not enough that he should crush the President by his superior equine glory ; it was not enough that the emperor of steamboats should make the President pay his passage like any other man ; it was not enough that he should keep a regiment of retainers at his command, every beggar and blackguard of thorn ready to cast contumely upon Gen. Grant ; but he must, this dreadful Fisk, put his thumb, upon meeting Gen. Grant, to his royal nose. One is anxious to know what kind of a nose it is — is it sternly Roman or delicately Grecian ? does it turn up or droop ? or is it the kind of nose known as the bottle-nose •' But whatever its shape, its length or its shortness, whether it be aquiline or snub, it is, we suppose, a nose cnpable of being pulled, and quite likely to be pulled under all the circumstances, though such violence we deprecate. General Jackson's nose was tweaked, and General Fisk's may be, though we hope not. It may be broken, put out of joint, ignonimously ilattened, ungracefully turned from the centre upon which it is planted, to the right or the left. It may be so disarranged that in attempting to follow it Mr risk, jun., may be unable to walk after a rectilinear fashion. It may be so damaged as to possess no longer the power of sniffing the breezes at Long Branch, or of smelling a 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-command of General Grant, and Mr Fisk without any nose at all would be a spectacle for the piti ful gods and for the weeping men."