Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1820-12-05
From A WESTERN PAPER.
MISERIES OF EDITORS,


(which, not the stcrnest of ourfoes couldhear,
@Nor firm Ulysses tell, without tear"
Erst.-A kind visitor, whom YOU
would make almost any sacrifice rather
than oHend-without the least i'll inten.
zion in the world, but merely moved and
instlsated by mother Ewes fatal vice,
curiosity, rumaging your private desk,
II IL happen to be commodiously open,
examining your letters and other cores
pondence; resorting to your compost
ton drawer, on the ground of intimate
acquaintance, deranging and inspecting
manuscripts, when you had as lieve he
had introduced himself into your wife's
dressing room; or peeping over cases,
and lnterruptlng compositrs, to see the
original articles, which, you did not in
tend to show him, or any one else, ex-
Cept through the medium of the press.
4Second.-Recoiving a manuscript, of
which 1t seems doubtful, whether the
writer intended to represent European,
Ehaidaic, or Chinese characters and
after patient attempts to decypher the
hieroglyphics, resorting to the author;
and hearing his unfeigned expressions of
sstonishment, that you did not find all as
plain and legible as Market-street sign.
Inn Dust as you are in the very
busiest part of your daily duties, in pre-
palrlng your paper, having an oblging
call, with a very verbose communication
OF private nature, which you are re-
CURED not only to receive, but to hear
a'ead, amid the din of other calls, proofs
ready; waiting for proof, sir; and the
prospect OF late paper, and subsequent
complaint, in anticipation grinding on
your feelings.
Fonrth.-Inquiries, "who wrote that
article {! when you have no fair right to
INFORM; when it seems unkind to refuse,
and Incredible to say you do not know.
Fyth.-ln busy moment, receiving
a personal lampoon, which you are re-
solved not to publish; yet wish to give
your reasons, without time to explain
them. N. B. The writer full of the
justice of his cause, and perfectly mere
dulous, thatthere are two sides to ques-
ton.
&rth.-A modestrequest from good
friend, just as your paper ought to be at
press, that you would prepare special
article, to suit his particular views;
which article must be long, heavy, and
uninteresting to all but the applicant.
SeOenth.-And lastly for the present,
q qulck succession of complaints-such
as" why was our advertisement omitted
that communication will be quite to late
to-morrow-the other papers have that
news much more in dctail-I wonder
you should publish so many light arti-
cles and leave out commercial ones
this is an important time, and politics
ought to be your principal obiect-ite-
rary articles ought to claim a part Of
your attention." till, with forlorn gaze,
you measure, with your eye, the extent
OF the columns of your paper, and visit
fully exclaim,
Eye Gods! annihilate but time and space,
SAnd make us printers happy"
PostcrHt.-.fnother dreadful misery.
While you are collecting news from
O dozen or twenty different papers,
when you have to keep in your minds
eye the leading features of all; to have
all your papers misplaced, and your ar
engagements broken in upon, by the busy
interference of half a dozen good natured
friendly loungers, who, after having ago.
nlzed your feeling into high fever, re-
nre one after another, humming tune
Of" wha's this dull town to me-" or Civ
ing some other indication of their idle
propensity or negHgentaire.