The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-05-09
HARPER AND MR.. DANIEL.

has ioa cVAS sniV uastiukulsueu tnai HlODtH-
ly. No less than twenty five pages of its
fine print are devoted to the Editors Tia.
BILE" that same individuals EASY Chair,
and his Drawer and his Literary notices.
The Harpers must be wonderfully wrapped
up in the Editor, or their smart judgment and
instructive good sense as to what is most pro-
per and best calculated to suit the public
taste, would never permit them to acquiesee
in the numbering up of their paper with his
superintendent lucubrations and stolen, stale
and trashy anecdotes and jokes Their ma
gazine is very well selected-we should say
very well stolen; for the origin of none of the
vast number of articles taken from other
journals is ever made known to their read
ers But its editorial department is very con-
ceited, very affected and very Indifferent
much below the pretensions of the journal,
and entirely unfit to go along with the stolen
part of the periodical
One of the leading editorials of May, is
devoted to Mr.. DANIEL, our Charge to Sardi-
MIA, and to Mr.. GEORGE SANDERS, late Con.
sui to Liverpool; but chiefly to Mr.. DANIEL.
1t assails Mr.. ID. with severity for the private
letter written to a friend in this city, more
than six months ago, in which he very freely
| expressed his opinions of the nobility of Tu
rim, and his disgust for garlic, dc. The
Harpers' Editor has not the fairness to say,
however, that it was a pricate letter, and was
published without Mr.. DIS consent, fact
which he certainly could not have been ig-
norant Of He makes this letter the theme
tor the indulgence of much very conceited
talk about the proprieties of Representative
life at Foreign Courts. The Editor does not,
| however, confine his censures to this subject;
but having made blunder in saying that
| "Mr. DANIEL either calls himself, or is called
by his friends, Citizen Daniel" he bestows
upon him liberal amounted sarcasm there
for. "Mr. Daniel" he thinks, awould be
simpler and more democratic title He
| then describes the manner in which the term
becameto be first employed in the old French
Revolution. But, he says, "Why initiate
France? Why not be called Man Daniel,
and be done with it?' If there were any
| truth in the charge that either Mr. Daniel
| or his friends used the title Citizen in con-
| nection with his name, the criticism of the
editor might then be considered But he has
made blunder which shows him very igno-
rant of the personal politics" of the day
Some years since that jolly. old gentleman and
most agreeable editor Major Noah, styled
| the venerable Mr.. RITCHIE, then editor of
the Enquirer, "Cati-en RITcHIE;" and the
fame and good humor of the Major, as well
as the distinction of the Editor of the Enoui
rer, gave effect to the title, and it became af
| forwards quite frequent. 1t was used both
| by political friends and foes of the veteran
Editor to whom it was applied. We sup
| pose the very sagacious Editor of the Har-
| pers has gotten Mr.. DANIEL COMPOUNDED with
| this bit of editorial history
| But what has Harpers' Monthly to do with
all this? And why has it waited thus long
after Mr.. Daniels letter appeared before it
| commented upon it Why couple Mr.. D.
with Admiral Saunders? They are not in
similar positions-their cases are not similar.
The false charge about the Citizen and the
| overstraiped effort to be severe on Mr.. Dan
| lei on that score, shews that there was some
strong desire to ''pitch into" that gentleman
We suspect that there was such desire, and
that it was prompted by some very tart cri-
| ticisms of Mr.. Daniels in the Examiner be-
fore ne left home, upon the publishing tact
and scheming Of the Harpers, which he did
not seem to think always squared with fair
dealing. The attack itself is poor affair, and
if the motive be what there is strong reason
| to believe it is, it is anything but honora-
BILE to the great publishers.
AN AMERICAN SERIAL-We have from
MIR. WooDHoUsE, No. of Serial publica
| ton, entitled MARTIN MERRIvALE, HIS X
MARK" by Paul Creyton, who has written