San Andreas independent., 1858-06-12
Mixing up Mud"
AiAzEPPA.
MURPHY'S June Sth, /

MURPHY's June 9Th, 1853
Mr.. Editor A correspondent of the Big
Tree Bulletin, signing himself Mud has
published in the columns of that paper one of
the most insolent, insulting and personal let
ters it has ever been my unhappy lot to peruse.
His dignity as a genteman-if he is or ever
was one-has been thrown aside all courtesy
and politeness discarded, and we behold him
in his true coors, green and black, embemati-
cal of his verdancy and impudence. He has
discovered a new star, bright, particular
star" it seems, and is so elated with the dis
covery that he has permitted the eye of an in
telligent community to penetrate his flimsey
disguise and to discover beneath it, not gen.
tleman, or even man, as they had expected,
but consumate -. According to his re-
Hable statement, all the others-his own ex-
cepted-have been lost in the unnatural bril-
liancy of this zone bright, particular STAR
D, far-sighted, discerning, astute, magnani-
nous, gentlemanly and classical g Mud p' 0,
courteous, philanthropic, calculating, eloquent
and digniied " Mud P' What an eminent as
tronomer we have lost in him II Galileo Her.
schel, La Verier and La Place, would have
sunk into utter insignifcance before the unut-
| terable brilliancy of his STAR" had it arisen
l have walked into quartz" he says and per-
haps have; but no one in a sound state of
mind would ever dream of "walking into
Mud" in the vain hope of finding glitter
! ing particle of pure ore" for an eternity of
crushing would fail to produce a single scin-
tillaton of honor. He has no need of can
die to expose has arrogant ignorance, for the
broad glare of day has been revealing it to US
! for years. "The community swinging by their
ears" What community? Why, his own
chosen little one, consisting of two beside him
self, who might well swear by their " ears" if
they swear at all, they being the most promi-
nent and by far the most reliable portion of
their heads. 0, dear, devoted and ambitious
Mudi" He is too modest in thinking that
he can curb or tame the fiery spirit of my
wild Ukrainean steed" or back my noble Pc
gasus. No, mol A quiet old animal, taken
from a dray, would suit him far better; and if
he will mount aloft let it be upon the buzzard
wing of his own sleepy imagination, and poll
lutte them not with his touch What pretty
/ figure either of the noble steedS which he has
presented to me- would cut with an ungainly
lump of 4" Mud" upon their backs. They would
never consent to carry that which they have
been accustomed to trampe upon with dis
dain and lofty pride. 'Who shall bind the
wild ass 2" Now, as this question most un-
doubtedly refers to himself, and seems left to
me to decide, unhestatingy answer, in the
words of the gallant old Miller, g try sir
As he is running about loose, and seems some
what dangerous to old women and children
will endeayor not only to bind, bat to brand
him with his own brand Nothing could be
more beautiful or appropriate-moret touching
and simple, than those three graceful letters
MUD. | opine that the task will not be
difficult one, as mud will easily, and has often
received the impress of "Mud." ["Not from
the Bible"1 How sensitive he appears to be
upon this subject lest we should think that he
had been guilty of looking into it. He may
rest easy on that score, for no no one would
ever suspect him of anything of the kind But
| how could he have found it out? Is it remi-
niscence of childhood, or have some of nv
would-be friends been so ohlging as to tell
| him? Perhaps he it upon leaf of his
/ Bible-a mothers gift-which he had torn out
to light his cigar or pipe with or, may be,
/ being absent-minded and mistaking his Bible
for novel; he unwittingly glanced over few
pages, and retained their contents in his capa-
cious memory Poor fellow how generously
! and deeply he sympathises with me for having