The Opelousas patriot. [volume] (Opelousas, Parish of St. Landry, La.) 1855-1863, 1856-01-19
ANoTHER BEER BoTTLE BURST.

side OF last week s UpelOusaS courier .
MDREAM OF THE LITTLE ORGAN.-We would be
| glad to know where our neighber obtained the in
formation that the circulation of his paper is larger
than ours. If he knew the reason why it was he
obtained the publication of the letters remaining in
the Post-offte. little would he have thought of saying
a word about it. The little organ, having been in a
state Of lethargy since the bitter pill he swallowed
on the 9Th of November last, has at last had a singu-
lar dream, in which all he has seen has taken gigan-
tic proportions. He has seen the Courier, a large
circulation, etc. ETC., and the shock has been 80 VIC
lent that he has awakened startfngly with a smile of
satisfaction upon his lips. Have no faith in those
night geniuses dreams are always d%eceitful."
The witty editor Of the Courier is slightly
mistaken. We have had no dreams in which
the Courier circulation has assumed " gigan-
tic proportions " if we had, we should have
known to q certainty that g dreams are always
deceitful,", and his recommendation to g have
no faith in those night geniuses" would have
been, as it is, entirely gratuitous. 1t appears
that our neighbor has worked himself into a
ferment upon the strength of the following
modest announcement in the Patriot Of the
9th ie . u
UNCLAIMED LETTERs-1n another column will
be found the List of Letters remaining in the Opelou-
sas Post-oflice on The LIST inst. The laws of that De-
partment order that they shall be, published in the
paper which has the largest circulation hence their
appearance in the Patriot"
We certainly did not dream that so small
a spark would cause an explosion SO terrific but
now the damage has been done, and it can't be
helped. In the endeavor to repair matters as
much as may be, however, we shall, with that
courtesy for which we aspire to become celebra-
ted, inform the Courier briefly Of the fact that
early in this month, KNOWING that the %circula-
ton Of our little organ was much larger
than that of their big lyre, and feeling
an instructive desire to do the public as
much good as laid within our province,
we submitted to the Postmaster in this
town q statement specifying the number
of our actual subscribers in each town of this
Parish, and asking as a right the Post-ofice
printing, which by law belongs to that paper
whose position will give it the widest publicity.
1t appears that the Postmaster exposed our
figures to the Courier, who, after the manner
of Esop'sf fox, suddenly discovered that the List
of Letters was nothing but a bunch of sour
grapes, and "wouldn't take the trouble " to
count their list!
Now we are aware, of course, that the re-
Enumeration for publishing the Letters is not
suficient-we know that, as a business trans
action by itself, it doesn't pay but we also
know that it is q matter of interest to the pub
lie at large, and as such we consider it q piece
Of information to our subscribers. We shall
therefore, while it belongs to us on account
Of our superior circulation, insist upon having
it furnished to us.
But the Courier can not imagine how we
discovered that our circulation is greater than
theirs. AS far as that is concerned, it does not
matter. We haze discovered it, and it is so.
We challenge a denial Of it and as an induce
ment for them to " take the trouble to count "
their list, offer a bet of a basket of champagne
that we exceed them by a fourth if not q third
of theirs. Neighbor, We hope you will con-
slider it worth " the trouble"
We must confess that our Sag NIGHT friends
show strong in numbers when they come to
the polls but taking newspapers is quite a
different thing, and probably not so much to
their taste-pity it is MT!