The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-07-01

HIRAM FULLER ON GORDON BESNKrr-PERsoy-
ALITIEs, AND THE FIsE AXIS. General Tayor's
Naval Storekeeper in Brooklyn, usually called,
among the small lenders Of money, Hiram Faller,
Esq, and who publishes small family paper, of a
few hundred in circulation, is constantly amusing
himself and interesting his readers by calling the
| editor of the Herald an "ogre"-an "ogre of the
| press'-the "ogre Of the Herald"-sn "ogre of the
opera an "osre" Everything VIZ know. What
/ ogre II is ancied or tabled animal, very
ugly TO look at half horse half alligator, some
such existence, found in nursery tales and described
in the legends Of fairy land If we were disposed
to retort maliciously upon the Naval Storekeeper,
we might not be under the necessity Of going TO
the legends of Elm for illustrations Of his personal
appearance and intellectual character We might
md II prepared FOR lie in the ordinary volumes Of
natural history, published by the Harpers and every
bookseller in New York. Somewhere in these
volumes there will be found account OF highly
respectable animal, with two long ears, and well
known for uniformity of braying in the same tone
d in The ssme s bSas he sa,s hses
the Naval Storekeeper is fac s'mils Of this highly
respectable animal in short, modern jackass on
two legs-,he jackats Of the press-the jackass Of
the operG-the jackass occupying naval Office.
living out Of its provender, and bray ing the same
note when any respectable person in the commu-
nifty passes by.
We will, however, by hard pulling, hoist him up
to our level, and treat cur coiemporary as man,
gentleman, person Of taste, and 20 forth. He is
very much mistaken in suppoeng that, in our per-
sonal linesments, We resemble the "ogre" OF fairy
| land. We much nearer the famous Apollo
| BelyideIe Of old Greece. For the last thirty
| years We have been so busy in making
| Presidents and putting bleckhesis into power,
| that We have never had much time TO
certain, from the mirrors and big looking
CHASER, our personal appearance. Recent circum-
stances, Ia however, have thrown us before full
-ized mirror, and much to our astonisbment, hav-
ing the statue Of Apollo in Italy and else
where, we have ascertained and made the disco
very, that in our person, we are much nearer tbs
| lnermens Of that famous model that "enchants
/ the world" than any other editor Of New York
| The only defect in our person, !. a certain obi
| guilty Of vision, vulgarly called "a squint"; but
even that i- different from what is usually termed
squirt. il is, in our case a vast philosophical ad
Vanoemcnt, or wonderful progress in the art Of
. VISION. We will explain The dimensions OF our
J night eye are Of such character as to make it
perfect telescope In vision, while those Of the left
more rotund in form, make that organ a complete
micrcscope. This singular organization we con-
| ceive TO be vast Improvement in the means and
| power Of vision and IL has given some rare
\ insi.L into the nature and philosophy OF colors
and distances, that, in wonder, is far beyond Mr..
1 paine's ga. light, or the Rochester knockings.
\ We have ascertaned the fact and now promug ate
| the dscovey-fhat ,ruy primary color has DIFFER
cnt dadc 10 dlGoenf individuals 10 the Upid, AMI
ihot his yhsno-,s.on arises from the di5,cseos IN
/ The shape and fofsr Of the sye. A beautiful cloud,
or a splendid rainbow is To our left eye altogether
different in shade, in color, in sze, in poetica cha
racier, to that of the right. This is the character
I Of cur vision and instead of being an obliquty or
/ defect, we conceive 1t as another instance Of We
progress Of the human race, and that in vision We
are one step in advance Of our contemporary, the
Naval Store Keeper, and even far ahead Of Master
/ Greeley, in his philosophy Of progress.
| This il no Joke and we assure valued cotem-
porsry, Master Fuller, that we are serious in the
matter, nor do we charge millioa OF dollars Tor
the discovery; and, in order to prove 1t, we will
make bet from one hundred TO a thousand dollars,
IL our contemporary will plank down the sum,
and place IL in any safe hand, for the purpose Of
determining the respective personal beauties, Ia
model and form, between Hiram Fuller, store
keeper, and james Gordon Bennett editor Of the
| Herald. We mean TO make this b,t-that we will
come nearer to the great statue Of the Apollo Bel
viderc in the judgment Of twelve OF the beet arsts
in New York, than our contemporary, who calls us
an "Oge"-an Ogre"-daily, weekly, and
monthly. And in order to make the bet more com
plste and as il has been lately introduced in Bar
NUNS hotel, to be stripped to the naked truth to
make philosophical experiments, we are perfectly
willing to 90 before the COMMITTEES Of thesa twelve
artists selectsd az jury, to be striped side by .id,
with Hiram Fuller, TO test which Of US comet
nearer to the great model Of Apollo, and that the
one who does come nearer shall have the money
TO be distributed among the poor Of New York
Will he accept our proposition
n Il. We only propose to enter into this test or
our respective outlines, personal proportion, Of
eraces of attitude and motion. The PHILOSOPHERS
and miraculous organization Of our eyes We reserve
FOR competition among higher order ofbeings than
: the present race Of men