Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-07-12

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The Goldfish Fuss and the Mackerel Muss.
We have on two occasions discoursed
to our readers of these difficulties now
eneompassing our country, and which
the mighty sovereigns thereof, in every
part of the same, demand of President
Pierce and his chosen counsellors to re-
move. They trouble US. We want peace
and quiet. We abhor wars abominably,
but 'srumors of wars" (which distract and
disquiet us worse than would the actual
conhict) still more. The desperate con-
fict, as we fear it may be, with the
British, about the in-shore fisheries round
about their colonies, is the most momen-
tous matter involved in the diplomatic du-
ties of the present Administration. We
fear our Yankee fishing brethren are not
entirely without blame in this business.
We have before adverted to some of their
faults, in breaking the Sabbath and the
Maine liquor law, and dancing and sing
ing and frolicking in counting the girls
of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, and
in making disturbances whilst ashore,
on the 4th of July and the 9Th of Janu
airy, and in seducing the mackerel out to
sea. We now feel bound, in strict impair
tial justice, to tell of some other of their
conduct, which has excited the present ILL
feeling. at.
Why can't they refrain from talking
politics while in the colonies A very
respectable Nova-Scotian says that loyal
colonial patriot cannot open his mouth in
compliment to Her Gracious Majesty and
Prince Albert, Ia very respectable and
worthy couple, to whom everybody ought
to be civil, especially while in their do
minions, bat forthwith Jonathan puts in
his oar, gets his republican dander up,
and begins to brag like all wrath of our
President, mo matter who he ISL and if
the Duke of Wellington or Lord Mark
Kerr be praised, he praises Washington or
Jackson "a darned sight, faster; and he
SHOWS Sir Allen McNab, nor Capt. Drew,
can neither hold a candle to the famous
Captain "sBill Howard" who used to hail
from Quoddy, and who didn't ''care a
darn for the Dotterel, nor her boats, Meth
er." As to Nelson and Hardy, Jonathan
them sets off with Paul Jones and Decatur;
and if the loyalist speaks of Admiral
Seymour, or Young jenkins, Lindsay
Horsey or Purvis, they are sure to brag
back with Stewart and Shubrick, and
Morris and Larry Kearney and 10 Smith.
Sometimes the colonist boasts of Par
lament, and Sir Robert Peel and Lord
Brougham and Lord John Russell, and
then such roll of Yankee big guns is
called over: Tom Jefferson, Harry Clay,
Dan Webster and South Carolina CAL
houn, &C.; in truth, there's no end ont
Our militia Generals, Quattlebum and
Commander and Zeke Foster, take the
shine clear out of the colonial heroes,
Hatch, Peters, Hayward, Kerr and others.
Let Patriot subject but allude to Coke,
or Hale, or Blackstone, or Mansfield, or
Butler, and Marshall, and Patterson. and
fancy, and Story, and Woodbury., and
Nelson, and Catron, and Kent are brought
forward, on sight, to match 'em: and it is
quite common thing for our fishing bows
to offer to bet leash DOWN that if any
English Judge that eyer lived Tor even
Judge HALLIBURTON was to have his head
crammed as full of the claws of nations, "
admiralty law" '.salt- water law" and
"fresh-water law, !" fishing law ."Hcom-
mon law" "civil law" criminal law"
and ''land law, and law of all sorts, as
have our first-rate States Judges, it would
certainly split his skull wide open. Bill
If the colonists are disposed to loom