TALL WRITING.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1450, 25 March 1873, Page 2

TALL WRITING.

j Stanley Lowe, formerly Secretary to the Auckland Harbor Board, is, we are informed,now editing a New Soujbh Wales country journaL His ; labora> do not appear to be appreciated by, his brother editor of the Sill End Tims, Vho in a recent; leader fi go ( es. tor? Stanlej^ the flowing forcible if .not eloquent' language ;— That tadpolerlike excrescenoe, all head (save a very puny body), fjust flung h^ii and dry on the inkyriTer^-W6 allude to the Mudgee Knw^— has wriggled beneath a few truthful remarks we lately made concerning this miserable nondescript: 1 - Wesaid that the water from the Mudgee Waterworks was impure, and this mendacious scribe (who resembles his own. journal in having a bigr and remarkably hideous liead, and nothing in it) politely applies to us the term o£ " liar. " It is unnecessary for us to resort to the iv qiioqiie style of retort, because this "gentleman's" propensities are so we"}l krib'wn/ in iKe soene l T|w2 labors, . t*hat to do" so would be gilding refined gold, and painting tiie.liljr. . . To a man with even the' ordinal/ amount of brains, the appUc^iß^ of keen satire is generally snfficiefit^but where we find the semblance of a human toeing, having his brain-pan occupied by some extraordinary callosity which renders him impervious to a gentle shock, smiting him oue,r that gr^at mistake a ' Jiead wi|h W h6Svy blu.dge'oii is the .only way to keep ; hiih iixTjourids'.' . . . "Ignoramus" is savage with us for rilling him a new chum in the Mudgee district ; also for styling him a sucking scribe. , .; .. The "new paper"— -of which by the way (we use the editor's own quotation) the mountain was in labor for an unconscionable (period — has brought forth a ridiculous mouse in earnest, whose feeble squeak is heard with contempt by those who .expected something great of this literary Johanna. Southcote, ■■■"■■'•■■ ♦? -^jgles'.' of the sayjs ;— lt is sometimes objected that the Australian Pjress is prone to personalities.. Let anyone who holds such an opinion read (with thankfulness that Melbourne journalism is no worse) the following elegant extract from the San Francisco tfeios ; ie#er, of 11th of September last. To fuD/ appreciate this awful Billingsgate, it may be premised that the name of the editor of the San Francisco Bulletin is Fitch, that Pickering is its proprietor, and that % Mr rß.a.ls.toij refenrad ,tq js, a gentleman of high repute, knd managter of ihe Bank of California, .^or downright jabusiveness I have never read anything approaching, this since. the mutual slangwhanging of Falstaff and the Prince of l^fdes, or Dan O'Connell's encounter with the Dublin fish-fagi, Listen and shudder :— "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 Fran-r ciscans take a. local pride., And {here i^ probably but one oitijjen in San Francisc v who is held in more profound coritem}: than Fitch— and that other is Pickering. Now, is there not something radically wrong in our organisation of things, when a sneak like Fitch, set on by a hog like Pick., may lie himself black in the face through the 12, 000 tongues <of hisprinting press, defaming a man like Mr Ralatpn ? JQammizize ! If we' could have; the settling of him, how would we booV that JbloocUesS carcase the length of Montg^iawy iitreer

till his viscera should protrude through 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 ! — the pismire crawliqg whereto stink and sting !— the pimp making merchandise out of the virtue of his press!— the scarabee rolling the ball pf excrementious moralityin which to lay his egg of mendacity and defamation ! — this fester J — this itch ! — this gangrene ! — this putrescent, phosporescent, irridescent pool of moral stagnation, reflecting the flying vapors of Bpifce, envy, and spleen ! — this deformity ! — this abortion .'—this Fitch .'" Is it any wonder that six-shooters are in occasional request in the streets of San Francisco ?