Sons of Freedom

“An entertaining diversion from the performances usual to the museum was offered by Mr. BARNUM to his friends yesterday, in the reappearance of that famous quartette which make Lilliput seem possible, in a brief and characteristic prelude.  Gen. Tom Thumb, his limited amount of wife, Commodore NUTT, and Miss MINNIE WARREN—having, like Mme. RACHEL, after her Court performances, ‘sickened of royalty,’ and probably, also like her, desired to ‘wallow in plebeianism,’ returned to the scene of their youthful conquests, and renewed their early successes in the customary 'Introduction,' supported on this occasion by Mr. SYLVESTER BLEEKER, 'song,' 'comic scene,' and 'dance by the party.' To these little NUTT makes a clever but noisy addition to a “drum solo”—in which he gives with exceeding faithfulness the conventional imitation of a rail-road train. The appearance of the little party is not greatly altered. The pigmy wife of the pigmy General wears a ‘marital grace and dignity’ worthy of a taller beauty. The General’s pride and attention appear to be divided between his matronly-looking spouse and an incipient moustache which he seems to have cultivated in foreign parts. These little friends of Swift will hold levees every morning at the Museum, and will give their parlor entertainment each afternoon and evening for the present.”