AMERICAN PERSONALITIES.

Evening Star, Issue 3058, 6 December 1872, Page 3

AMERICAN PERSONALITIES.

We have never come across such nbuaiveness as is contained in a paragraph iu the San Francisco Mews Letter', and to fully appreciate this awful Billingsgate, it may be premised that the name of the editor of the San Frannsco Bulletin is Fitch, that Pickering is its proprietor, and th,at the Mr Ralston referred to is a gentleman of high repute, and manager of the Bank of California. For downright I never read anything approaching this since the mutual slangwhanging of FalstalT and the Prince of Wales, ov Dan O’-Connell’s encounter with the Dublin li-h-fag. Listen and shudder 44 The Bulletin of yesterday devotes a column to blackguarding a genial banker of California-street, whom to name is to name the one citizen in whom and whose achievements probably the largest number of San Franciscans take a local pride. And there is probably bub one cibiacn iu Sau Francisco

who is held in more profound contempt than Fitch—and that other is Pickering. Now, is there not something radically wrong in our organisation of things, when a sneah like Fitch, set on by a hog like Pick., may lie himself black in the face through the 12,000 tongues of his printing press, defaming a man like Mr Ralst n ? Bammizize ! If we could have the settling of him, how would we I mot that bloodless ca’casc the length «f Mont .'ornery-street, till his viscera should protrude the temporal orifice, and his brains rattle in his skull like a pea in a bladder ? The spawn of a New Orleans pot-house ! —the louse upon the body politic !—the maggot squirming in our social sores I—the pismire crawling where to stink and sting ! the pimp making merchandise of the virtue of his press !—the scarahee rolling the bill of excrcmontitious morality in which to lay his eggs of mendacity and defamation !—this fester ! —this itch !—this gangrene ! —this putrescent, irriclescent pool of moral stagnation reflecting the flying vapors of spite this mass of spleen ! —this deformity ! No wonder that the six-shooters are so frequently carried about in the streets of San Francisco.