LITTLE PUDDLINGTON AGAIN.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 830, 27 June 1871, Page 2

LITTLE PUDDLINGTON AGAIN.

(To the Editor of the Westport Tims m 1 Charleston Argus). 1 Sir, —Some men are remarkable foJ their perspicacity, but the letter (J " Ke-echo " which appeared in "M " Charleston Herald " of WednesdaM last betrays the writer to begift ftl H with'more curiuosly developed bump'M of perception than falls to the lotofor-jH dinary mortals. The ingenuity he shown in disco verine; so many hits and "sly digs," hypocritJcaljM wrapped up in mv last letter to »M " Westport Times " and aimed sciously of course) at the cause I I |3 JH pretended to defend, is sufficient M make us pause, and admire so« original shrewdness. 9 _ Be it remembered, I have no ,' rt tion to enter into a war of words, I thoroughly detest that style m " your anotherism " which is affected by scribblers for and inebriated washerwomen. bavo a most particular objection V fjotlirig walloped with my own in that sangfroid manner w '" c echo " has chosen to adopt:—' m sir, he tells the " Herald," by *TM

solace," the man is playing into your hands." Now, that is consolation of a more philosophic kind than most men could draw from my letter and tender to the " Charleston Herald," and I believe that journal looks upon it very much in the same way that a dog looks at a whip; but again, he rather inconsistently says, I am one of Mr. O'Conor's "few admirers." "Well in order to remove the film which evidently has settled over the mental vision of" Re-echo " I will endeavour to speak without sarcasm (for one never can tell what construction it may guit some people to give one's words) when I inform " He-echo " that lam one of Mr O'Conor's very numerous admirers, and I am well aware, that were it not for his candid words and honest actions, as well as his thorough contempt for snobbery and jobbery, not to speak of the crimes that must attach to the proprietorship of the " Westport Times," he would now be exempt from all the annoyance created for him by those who bow to the shrine of " putty and varnish." Mr Conor has ever protested against the useleßsexpenditureof public money,and he has lifted up his voice to denounce those Provincial parasites who arc sucking the life blood of the country. These are Mr O'Conor's vices, but such failings •—it is to be hoped—rather " lean to virtue's" side. " Re-echo" would have us believe £hat he speaks with the tongue of Westport, but, of course, we take that cum grano salis, for we know Mr O'Conor has proved himself true to his trust in the Provincial Council, and the people of AVestport are not to be charged with the crime of ingratitude. Indeed, if the interests of Little Puddlingtou had been so zealously guarded as those of Westport have been, our M.P.C., mining advocate, and mining speculator (under .strange cirumstances), would not be ': so stale and common in eyes of men" as he is at present. Mr Donne is in particularly bad odour here just now, but, dear bless you, he doesn't mind it a bit, but goes on in his career of usefulness, kissing the rod that smites him; indeed, he seems to have adopted the philosophy of the man who said his character was like his boots, all the brighter for blacking. His constituents would like to see him doing the Casino, for the purpose of relating his Provincial Council struggles in our behalf, aud letting us know how much money he has wormed out of that close-fisted political mill to be expended in this district, besides the £3OO he got for himself.

By the way, I am at a loss to know how the Province will get on without a Goldfields Representative; perhaps the " Charleston Herald " would enlighten me. I would suggest the propriety of erecting a suitable monument to the last one, that future generations, while enjoying the lasting benefits he has conferred on the country, may bless his memory. No ordinary sized tombstone could record half his worth, or tell half the simple tales of disinterested unselfishness which characterised him during his experience amongst Intestate Estates. . In conclusion, I trust " Re-echo" will not accuse me of any more '* sly digs" at the cause I mean to defend, yet, 1 must say, that the man who could perceive such suicidal intentions in my last letter is capable of seeing two moons any night.—Yours, &c, Echo. Charleston, June 23,1871.