American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1827-08-17
From the National Mteiii. sncer.

douDt that our readers will enjoy it as much as we
ourselves have done. who are the cause if not the
subject OF it. The letter is from the Gazette,
printed at Darien, in Georgia and if the original
was forwarded to us at the time stated, it never
reached our hands.
Messrs. Gales g. Seaton,
Editors National Intelligencer:
GENTLEMEN-At the early part of the present
year directed letter to you, of which the fol-
lowing is copy:
DARIEN, JAN cath, 1897
Gentlemen: Last mail brought me your polite
dun demanding difference between your paper
and mine Tor the last three years. You can scarce
~ imagine my surprise and wonderment on read
ing your unc0nsclonabe demand of fifteen dollars
Fifteen dollars Sacre Dieu Vous etes tous deux
fous ce me semble. FIVE DOLLARS a year
difference in the value of our papers. 1t appeared
to me like quiz; and Mr. George Bolton, the
Moon buster, who considers my Gazette the very
tulip OF papers, pronounced it funny thing. You
who are fattening on the cream Of advertisements,
and bloated with public patronage, to call on
Gazette office, situated at the tiptail Of the world
Tor fifteen dollars Why, it AMAZED our devil =
should like to know. gentlemen, in what respect
your paper IS so much more valuable than mine !;
setting aside the difference in their magnitutcs.-
You furnish US with long yarns spun in Congress,
which person in our remote regions ever reads
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borrow something from them TO make an election
eerins speech, Now ! furnish you with novelties
from the Antipodes, 81 ch as you seldom. If ey
er, meet with in the centre. Here we see Mock
ing birds, perching upon rainbows. Boys, sans Gu
lotte, sliding down them: humming birds nesting
IN acorn shells. and sand flies dragging oil lambs
BY the ears; thunder gusts tanning the dust from
our cotton trees; water spouts irrigating the crops
! in dry seasons hailstorms that beat the cater
pillars ui the leaves of the cotton when these pests
attempt to tantalze the planters by building their
nests on them, and lightning that destroys them at
a single Hash: lightning is rare phenomenon in
our celestial regions, so much so, that it is a sure
sign caterpillars in some PERSONS field; and
now and then furnish you with other true, though
to you centrica folks, incredible accounts Of the
multitude OF our rice birds, and the scarcity of in
sects and reptiles in this end of the world AS re-
CARDS the rice BIRDS they numerous that the
negroes catch them in scoop nets as they fly over
by these means market is we'll supplied at
that season Of the year, with the most delicious Of
all birds; these BIRDS though not quite as large as
your domestic fowls, are Of far superior flavor -:
they would be still more numerous was it not for
the gally-npper that comes at that particular sea-
son, as if to guard the crops from their ravages-
These insects about the size of your Holsters,
and as they subsist altogether rice birds. they
keep their numbers down; otherwise the planters
could make no crops | am not certain whether |
gave you description of our grass hoppers when
| described the size and colour of mosquitoes
ewes; | will therefore hint at them here, merely
to convince you of the treats you are dcprving
your readers OF by Your unconscionabie conduct
in causing me to withhold my antipodian Gazette
from you. Our grass hoppers about the size Of
your hounds, and SO shy that at one hep they are
tive hundred yards from you; vet singular as it
imay appear to you gentlemen, the negroes catch
and yoke them in their sugar cane cars, and make
them haul the cane to the mill. Now these are
novelties worth reading, far exceeding in interest
those fathomless speeches with which you surfeii
YOUR readers; yet notwithstanding furnish you
with such rare food by way of variety for your rea
ders, you have the enormous and unblushng ef-
frontery to demand Of me difference OF FIVE
dollars year in the value of our papers =! Curse
your conscience l say. 1t reminds me OF the Gle
phant snuffing up the crumbs from the mousse
they could do him no good, but the mouse could
dine on them. Upon my word, gentlemen, think
in Justice you ought to have sent me the fifteen
dollars for having condescended to exchange witt
YOU SO long, considering the sleepy nonsense you
furnish for the lively and interesting novelties
send you. Where, except from my paper coulu
you hear OF catfish feeding brickbats ard pine
knots Rattlesnakes swallowing aligaors, and
turkey buzzards feasting upon dead live OAK
stumpss These rarlties you know nothing a
bout You now and then tell us something abou
making artIClal TlVeTS OF CdnaiS, DIS fUu Gall eih
as if to induce US to do the same ; but we wan
none of them. Here every man has river pas
sing his door, and not untrequentsy through hi:
house.
What do you give us in return for description
of Hurricane, Tornado, Wh.lpnol and Wa
terspoutr Phenomena l believe, that ynI in TIN
centre never have the pleasure Of witnessing ant
yet YOU have the assurance to charge me five dollar
year for describing those things 70 yoa-i'l b
curst if | can get them fifteen dollars down nj,
throat. Why they would feed me and NY stutte'
ing n--d-d-Davy six months. BY what car