EDITORIAL ABDICATION.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 418, 19 December 1874, Page 3

EDITORIAL ABDICATION.

The editor pro tern, of the Yreka "Union" in the last issue resigns the tripod in the following terms : — With this issue of the " Union" we resign the position we have so ably filled during the past four months — that of the chief of the editorial corps of the " Union." We are aware this will be deeply regretted by the numberless readers of this paper in all parts of the world ; but deeply as we deplore the pain it will cause, we cannot avoid it. The ruthless hand of time rolls on ; kingdoms and empires are built and overthrown ; monarchs are made and unmade ; and the Californian Legislature has been adjourned by constitutional limitation — consequently " we have got to slide." We have received reliable infor-, mation that the proprietor (and the editor when he is at home) of this paper, will return to Yreka by Monday's stage. In order to avoid the demonstration of excessive joy he is likely to make on again meeting with us, we have placed a ladder at the back window of the office, by which we will go out as he cornea in the front door. It may be insinuated that we have taken these precautions purely out of selfish considerations forourselvesbutsuchis not the case ; it is entirely for " thai other fellow." Any person who may have been displeased, or who considers himself insulted by an article that has appeared in the paper during the past four months, can demand satisfaction of the editor any time after next Monday evening. Any friends contemplating presenting the editor with any little tokens of their appreciation need not wait till then, but can do so immediately.

The following extract from " Cassell's Book of the horse " is worth reading :—: — •' The blood horse and the dray horse will breed together, and their?produce will be fertile, but with the exception of that fact in natural history, their qualities differ so much as those of the horse and the poor man's friend — the much-endur-ing ass. The cart-horse requires courage, but not the sort of courage which blood bestows ; he requires pluck to move and draw a heavy load, and to pull again and again until he stirs the inert mass ; but the courage of the blood horse would in him be quite out of place. The beauty of the cart-horse depends not in fine quality or delicate symmetry, but on a sort of elephantine ponderosity that bespeaks , power in every muscle and every limb. The true cart horse, for every particular j purpose, is a distinct breed, which soil, ( climate, and food may diminish in size ; but which no change, no selection however careful, can convert within historical times into anything but a cart horse, destined for drawing heavy loads at a slow pace. In the same way the blood horse uncrossed may be as small as a Sardinian pony barb, or tall as the last roaring monster of the English turf ; but no internal changes can reduce his bones, his muscles, or his blood to the condition of the draught horse breed. In the East, the birth-place of the blood horse, the cart breed is unknown. The nearest approach, the Turcoman, is coarse, vulgar, and carty in appearance ; but he can gallop, which, unless for a hundred yards, is beyond the power of a true cart horse without risk of foundering and dangerous exhaustion." When men of business leave their offices during office hours it is usual (writes the " Maryborough Standard)" for them to put a notice on the door stating where they have gone to, such as " Gone to the bank, back in ten minutes :" " Gone on a tour of inspection," or something of that kind. The town clerk acted in this way on Thursday last, but unfortunately worded his notice as follows — •• Gone to prisoners " (alluding to those who are w orkingior the council). Some one struck out the^* c ers ; " making it appear that the town clerk had gone to gaol ; and shortly afterwards another person, who, itmay.be supposed, is not very friendly to that official, added—" And may he never come out again."