THE AMERIcAs INsrrvrx-cHARLArAsrsM--
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IHE AMERICAN INsTIrUTE--CHARLATANIsM


This is the third week of the Fair OF the Ameri-
can Institute tor the exhibition Of domestic manu-
factures. At the close Of the second week, the
managers boasted that hundred thousand per-
sons had visited the Fair, which, at twenty-five
cents head, made the sum of S25,000 Making
all reasonable deductions for free tickets and Incl
dental expenses, the sum netted was probably $20-
600 During this years exhibition most extraor-
dliary policy has been adopted by the managers


which cannot be characterized in any other way
than as charlatanism of the lowest kind. We are
credlbly informed that these managers have been


inviting all the foreign artists in the city TO sing at
the exhibition, and thus furnish inducements to
the public to visit it at twenty five cents ahead.
The managers represent the appearance of these
artists as quite grautous and unsolicited, and as
being made solely with the view Of sIgnifyng their
esteem for the Improvement Of American manu-.
facture. more preposterous piece OF charatan-
ry to gull the public and cheat deserving artists,
we never knew. We know that in the case of
Ole Bull he was mportuned again and again, and
in the1case Of of the Italian artists, the
nagers Of the Institute have repeatedly pressed
them to appear and sing.


Now, this is not ALL We have learned that those
eminently patriotic and gentlemanly managers
have been begging the "Belringers'' and the
"Negro Melodists" to appear at the Institute, and
all sorts Of mummery and clap-trap have been re-
sorted to for the purpose, forsooth, OF promoting
the improvement of American manufactures. The
fact is, that this Institute have entered into digni-
fed rivalry with the "Amercan Museum and
are contending for the palm Of humbugging with
Barnum and other showmen round about the city
and country. And what is the object of the ma
nagers in thus degrading and disgracing national
end respectable institution, established merely for
the purpose of promoting the various branches of
domestic industry, skill and art? Why, TO catch
money at the door, an account of which is never
given, land nobody knows what becomes of it, and,
indeed, nobody seems to care. We have been
collecting materials for the purpose of fully ex-
posing the impertinence, humbug, and msmanage-
rnent of the committee of this Institute, and we
will perform the painful but necessary duty. This
humbug has been tolerated toe long.