Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1854-07-07

COURTEOUS The Free Press calls the
friends and supporters of Gen. Pierce " the
administration ianisarics." Does the editor
of that Journal think that black guardism is
manly and legitimate mode of newspaper war
fare or does it resort to epithcts for lack OF
arguments, wholly reckless of such matters
as candor truth and deccncy The Billings
gate vocabulary is II large one, and contains
some words quite as graphic as that which
the Free Press employs, which might be APP
piled with more truth than good taste to
many of the revilcrs of the friends of the Adj
minstration. a man who can find none but
the lowest motives for every act of his neigh
Dor, prOnounccs judgement against himself,
which he would scarcely consider llattering,
if it was written out in fitting terms.
We read that over from top to bottom,
twice What can it all mean thought we
We must have done something, but what is it,
To the first question, we answer no,--to the
second question, we answer no, but what of
it, We began then at the bottom. Our SEN
timents exactly, thought we again but what
is the application We don't see it.
We then tried it in the middle but for
some time could make no head way "Bil
lingsgate vocabulary ,-Billingsgate vocabu-
larry we repeated, yes, we have heard of
Billingsgate-a celebrated fish market in
London, where the fshmongers and fishmong-
ers wives use coarse and profane language so
freely, that the word, BiN,ngsgate, is signif-
cant Of the language of low and dirty abuse,
but what is that to the Free Press We were
about giving it up, when an old anecdote
started up in our mind, and threw CLEAN Of
light on the subject.
The story was told of the great English
photographer, DR.. Samuel Johnston, we be-
lieve, and any rate, it is just as good for
him as for anybody. Dickering one day for
some fish at Billingsgate market, in reply tc
some unacceptable remark. the ishwife deal
out to him some of the small change, in fire.,
circulation there. The Doctors head being
full of grammars and lexicons, the within tool
him to reply by telling her she was "a noun
a noun substantive A volley of Billings
gate was the rejonder, for his ''slandering a
honest a woman as his own mother was. -
, Woman" said he 81 say you are an adjec
tive" Another discharge of Billingsgate a
his head. 81 tell you again" said he "yo,
are an adverb-a proposition conjunc
ton" Completely DUN founded by set o
terms which she had never heard before, an
unable to match them with any oaths in he
list, she burst into passion of tears, sobbin
out "she never--was so--abused-in all-he
lfe--before.
There tbs, thought we. The word janis
sary was the poser. 1t was new to the Sc,
! hnei, and therefore was presumed to be Bi
lingsgate. We must explain. Meaning di
/ rectly a Turkish soldier of a celebrate
corps, it is often applied, metaphorically, b
good writers, to one who holds an Office wit
:. the understanding that he shall advocate al
the measures Of those who gave him, or pre-
cured for him, the Office and that if he falte,
= in 50 doing he must expect to lose his Office ft
the benefit of some more compliant spirit
We meant no offence of course. But no
we think Of it, can any one tell us how man
persons holding Office under the present A,
ministration, were members of that Dem,
cratic State Convention