Georgetown weekly news., 1855-03-22
NO. %.
An Apology for an Editor.

Some time since the editor of the Allan
ia LnteIhgencer left home for week or two,
and an accommodating friend took his easy
chair In the following article he gives his
experience.
Our readers will excuse want Of usual in
teresting reading matter in the last four
numbers of the LteEigencer, as the editorial
duties have, during that time, been perform
ed by one entirely unaccust0med to them.
They will be pleased to learn that the editor
will return in few days. They may be
pleased but the present incumbent is abso-
solutely overwhelmed with joy in anticipa-
tion Of that event. For four weeks, count
ing by the calender-an age,-have I've,
L mean-tilled the editorial chair. Talk
about beggar's beds, seats of thorns, or the
sharp edge OF tinty rOck-these are pleas
ant adaptations to recumbent case in COM
parlson to this same editors chair. We
nave Played O'dayS in the sun, are familiar
with gruthng, worse than these, have prac-
tised law in Justices courts. WeproIounce
all these positive felicities when compared
with the duties Of an editor of even a week
ly paper-heaven pity those who have the
care OF daily. Hoping hereafter never to
be connected with the edtorship of raper.
and, consequently, unprejudiced in cur opin-
ions, we Will take this occasion to speak
openly and freely to the readers of neN spa
pers, hoping that they may be benefited
thereby. AS body, gentlemen, we think
yCu are most uDgrateiul set. You select
the coolest possible place, throw yourself
back into chair, stretch out your legs,
light cigar and open the paper to read
"War News" "Ihe papers are stuffed with
nothing but war news nOw-a-days.' "Pur-
chase of Sitka ."-"Ah here is something
funny! Your neighbor on the other side
of the street is disgusted with that same
something funny" and is deep into the cor-
respC ndents of the New York Times in re-
lation to the eastern question. One says
there is too much editorial, and one not
enough; one thing alone you agree in-fnd-
ING fault. Now sirS, we speak with indig-
nation-have you the faintest shadow of an
idea how much care, how much trouble, ex-
cuse me if | should say agony-has been
expended in the getting up of that paper,
not to speak of selecting mltter for many
tastes | wish to Heaven that one of those
fault finders had to do even Il at for the
space of one week, under penalty of being
burned IN eiigy-we are OF the opinion that
there would be one suit of old clothes the
less in the world.
Consider the editor seated in n room where
the thermometer stands at ninety-eioht hi,
eyes red with heat, every pore streamlet.
thinking, ponder;ug. delv;ng, diving, soar
ing, spreading for an idel which ems
parched and withered up, or dreadino the
eat Of the outer world, refuses to be drag
ged from its quiet recess. Fourteen times
tie ink dries in the pen, yet the sEelt re-
mains unblotted; it is no easy matter, gen
tlemen, to find subject which will satisfy
your fastidiOus taste. Politics are quiet
Congress has adjourned. No battles, and
the tillibusters won't descend on Cuba.-
Here we take the opportunity of returning
our grateful acknowledgements to Captain
Holllns for bombarding Graytown. The
paper will soon go to press, not line writ
ten; he grasps his pen, and with knitted
brows and oppressed lips much like con-
demned criminal, who undertakes with his
single arm to break the bars of his prison
d0or-he thinks, writes an article which is
| condemned as stupid.
Before we close, fer the benefit of editors
whom delicacy would forbid, on this subject,
to speak their minds, I will add one thing
more; when you call upon an editor, trans
act your business and leave Immediately, or
at least do not stay until you are urgently
pressed to do so; don't think you can read
the papers quietly, interrupting nobody; the
thing is impossible: one tires with looking
at you; your silence is bore. AS expect
to evacuate these premises, ], of course,
have no interest in saying wi at have said.
1t is the spontaneous effasion of soul gush-
ing full of good will to mankind, and pity
| to editors.