WHAT A DWELLER IN LITTLE PUDDLINGTON WISHES TO SAY.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 826, 17 June 1871, Page 2

WHAT A DWELLER IN LITTLE PUDDLINGTON WISHES TO SAY.

(To tit* Editor of the Westport Times and Charleston Argus). Sib, —In these days of " putty and varnish," the man, who is so forgetful of his own interests, as to keep in stock any such commodities as truth or honest intentions, keeps that which is not only unmarketable, but is very likely to breed him much annoyance. Yet while deploring the evils entailed by the use of candid words and honest actions, U is refreshing to find that our Provincial Council can boast members, who, in the

of any tainted dish being served up, do not shirk the painful duty of removing the cover, even at the terrible risk of offending the sensitive nostrils of your bristling contemporary the "Charleston Herald." But why that journal, should wail so

dismally atf the demise of a goldfields representative, and spread her maternal (j[ng3 so prptectingty over the member fur Charleston, is one of those mysteries ivho i- dark depths I had not long • ' i a .c'u'aon. At that epoch in history, when Mr Donne was ~,, -L-d ! - the Provincial Council, that jentloman [denounced...the " Herald" as a " literary harlot." Eheu ! tempora puttentur, ct nos mutamur in Mis. Jfow this reunion might certainly lead ua to suppose tb.at our local luminary has returned to graco, but we all happen to know that the " Charleston Herald" has a very dangerous rival jn.the " Westport Times—we are also aware that the member for Charleston has returned home " broken with the storms of state " —and we know how easily little domestic brawls of the past are forgotten in the magnitude of the common danger of the present—that danger proceeding from a common enemy. It is hardly to be expected that the proprietors of the " Herald " are more or less than human, and we all know that a successful rival is some-

thing too much for weak human n.itu:e to endure without grinning a successful rival in fact embodies that proverbial monster, who has breakfasted for time out of mind, on pistols and coffee, and who is thoroughly detested in all circles by everybody from the king to the cadger. I can, therefore, make due allowance for the human weakness —not to say, general debility—displayed by the " Herald" in thus attacking Mr O'Conor, though as regards the dear departed Gkddh'elds' Eepresentative, our disconsolate journal and all surviving friends can " lay the flattering unction to thi ir souls," that just before he started for the happy hunting grounds (where, it is to be hoped his " solid work" won't be repeated), he. "collared" a sufficient quantity of Provincial " sugar" to "square" the Stygian expenses en route. Sensible to the last !

In conclusion, I beg to hint that the public of to-day cannot thoroughly appreciate leading articles such as those lately manufactured by the "Charleston Herald." No doubt, they contain "mighty conceptions;" but the reader may well be excused if he cannot enter into the spirit in which they are written, and fails to derive any mental benefit from their perusal. Such articles, indeed, cannot advance the interests of the public, nor can they promote the welfare of the journal which bears them on its pages. There may be a few grams of truth, but the reader cannot discover them amid so many bushels of the other things. Ecno. Charleston, June 14th, 1871.