Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1853-02-12

To Much Reading.-To the Editor of the
n, Y. Tribune: like your paper, but | shall
have to stop it. | have to work for my living,
and | can't fad time to read half your sheet
Column after column of Foreign Intelligence,
News from the Pacific, Correspondence from all
parts OF the world, Court proceedings Reports
of Meetings, &C., am obliged to leave unread,
not from lack of inclination to peruse them, but
from sheer want of time; still do cantrive to
worry through the greater part of your regular
sheet, by staying at home evenings, when l
should otherwise be looking about town; but ev-
cry now and then you double the dose by an
extra sheet or supplement, and that quite does
me upsE ] can't begin to read it. think, there
fore, shall have to discontinue the Tribune.
Yours, &C.,
JOIN H. SMITH.
Response.
DEAR JonN-Your case is distressing, but it
| is by no means SO peculiar as you seem to i'm
agine. 1t not in the Tribune alone, nor even
in reading generally, that people labor under
difficulties akin to yours. For instance, your
brother, Baxter Smith, came down here from
the country the other day, and stopped at the As
tor House, but had to quit 1.-THE living was too
high for him. The food was very good and a.
bundant-in fact too much so--and that did
him up. He didn't eat more than half way
down the bill of fare, while he saw others on ev-
cry side who had got very near the bottom of it,
and were still working away when he left the
dinner-table so full that he could hardly stand
or walk. He had touch of the Cholera the
second day, and was threatened with Apoplexy;
so he had TO quit the Astor abruptly and take
board at chop-house, where he only ate what
he called an1 paid for, plate by plate. Had he
stayed, the coffin maker would have taken his
measure before this time.
| Then there was your cousin, John 2. Smith,
who came down and bought ticket to Barnum S
Museum, and found it was regular gouge.
He thought he was going to see every curious
object in the world, and perhaps he might have
done so; but after looking his eyes almost out OF
his head for nine or ten hours, and giving him.
self torturing headache, he had to give up,
leaving half the objects unseen, because the at
tendant began to blow out the lights, and told
him it was time to shut up and go home.
And then your nephew John Wilkins Smith,
who came down with akloop-load of turnips,
sold them satisfactorily~ and therefore resolved
to treat himself to a saltwater path, which he
did; but staying in too hours in order to get the
full worth of his money, he came out with an
ague, and is now suferiAg severely frem rheum
attic debility. His case is even harder thar
yours: for you can stop the Tribune, and he has
been trying to stop the ague, but can't.
There is more such cases, but let them pass
We will stop your paper very cheerfully, but We
can't stop putting in more than any one patror
will be likely I'd PeruSe. In fact, we can't give
each reader what he wants of the news of the
day without giving his neighbor great deal tha
he don't want. Nor can we give any one jus
; what he needs to-day without inserting many
things that he probably would not want tomor
row. Good by; john Ed.