Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-05-25
Sciss Chorus TrdUeSty.

SwisS Chorus TrdUesty.
Mr.. EDITOR - confess myself to have
been both interested, instructed and amused
by the discussion of the school question, that
has been going on for some weeks past in our
city papers; while | cannot but express my
qualification, at the same time, at the business
of the whitening rebukes that have been adj
minstered with such point and force in the
Tribune by S. S. c., to the luckless "One for
Many" in the Mirror. | am not surprised
that ''One for Many has pcited under the
chastisement SO justly administered to him,
nor that he has been ''left alone in his glory"
and deserted By The srear guard if he had
one, as is alleged; nor am surprised at all,
that, under the circumstances, when all other
resources have failed, he has made an effort,
as derner resort, to change the issue and
drop his mantle upon the shoulders of band
of headess Hessians. When driven to ex-
tremites, men will sometimes, to recover
their desperate fortunes, or effect an escape,
have recourse to strange, not to say ridiculous
expedients. And so it is with Gone for
Many" There is evidently "getting down
STAIRS"
From priest to tinker. and from tinker down,
If dozen can be from him to nothing"
would not add single pang to him who
is smarting so severely under the scorpion
lash Of S. S. c.. nor would | provoke the
ire Of the scribbling ounces, that would follow
in the footsteps of their ''illustrious predeces-
sor'-for they also must soon die of exhaus-
ton. There is wonderful taintneSs in the
whole corps of retainers, and it is not true, in
this case at least, that, as Pope says,
Ounce the thousandth, thinks like Ounce the
first"
| cannot better give my ideas of the present
state of the question than by relating little
anecdote heard not long since, and which
seems to me happily Illustrative Of the down
hill turn which the school discussion in the
Mirror has taken. | must give it in my own
way, and for this reason it may perhaps have
less force than it might have, were it given
in the language and style of the narrator from
whom first heard it and as it is cat story,
it will be so much the more in keeping and
so much the more in accordance with the taste
Of the Mirror folks. The story runs substan-
TALLY in this way: A man obtained fine
little kitten, and it soon grew to be a cat.
AS soon as it became of due age and its feline
instincts were developed, it entered with zeal
upon the discharge Of its duties as a good cat,
and soon gave unmistakable evidence of the
predominance of the organ Of destructveness,
by "heaps of heroes slain" Puss early ac-
quired an enviable reputation as mouser,
and for keeping the homestead premises clear
of the hordes of those little animals that are
sometimes such a source of annoyance to good
housewives. She soon made herself a favor
lite with her master, as we'll as the good dame
and the little ones Of the household. She
spent her days and her nights in useful pur-
suits; and her evenings were spent in lying
stretched out upon the hearth before the blaz-
ing fire, or in jumping from lap to lap around
the family circle, purring her peans Of vic
tory.
Thus for months things went on, when to
the surprise of all, and the joy of the little
ones, puss was found in possession of a batch
of kittens.
Well, continued the narrator, the kittens
claimed more of grimalkin's care than the
mice; and her "heaps of heroes slain be-
came daily less and less, and as her family
cares increased, her hunting propensities were
weakened. The mice increased, and the fear
Of cats was not before their eyes but her
progeny increased, and continued to increase,
but not in the qualities of good cathood in
deed, in proportion as it increased in numbers,
it degenerated in true feline character; and
it kept on degenerating, till at last poor old
grimalkin mysteriously disappeared, and there
r0as nothing Of the progeny left but their tails.
Such, Mr.. Editor, seems to me to have been
the rundown among the correspondents of the
Mirror
Allow me to add now special nota 6ene,
for the benefit of the Mirror man, lest he
should find himself in the same ridiculous
plight as did the chivalrous Don Quixote,
when meeting the barber with copper kettle
on his head, and supposing him to be doughty
knight in armor, drew off to give him battle
Let not the scurvy wight number me among
the School Committeeman scourge that has
SO completely l0iped out "One for Many; for
| am not Of them or among them, although in
sympathies and sentiments with them, as are
the great mass of my fellow citizens Go IL
tdils-brdinS are scarce. JEEMs,
Reported for the Eastern Times
CITY GOVERNMENT.
| In Common Council gIru 17fb 1874