The Nevada journal., 1858-02-05
GRASS VALLEY TELEeRApB.-Tbere ,

are certain duties mortlfymg to the pride
which devolve occasionally upon jour
nalists. One of those duties has arrived
to us. We must notice the G. y Ttle-
graph. We do so feeling duly the
depths of humiliation to which we are
| placed. For more than two years that
paper has constantly and Systematically
pilfered our articles. We have been
reminded of it by the fraternity an
cursed by our associates and friends for
not noticing it publicly. Harsh words
have often fallen upon our ears for the
leniency we have shown. We have
been exhibited that sheet, and our at
tention called to nine articles in single
number taken from this paper We
| have had letter of ours to the Journal
paraded before our eyes in the Ttle-
graph almost word for word in the shape
Of original matter and no acknowledge
ment accompanying it, and have been
taunted to reply, but have always re-
Trained from using one sentence to re-
mind the Telegraph or any other cotem-
porary of its dereiictions in this regard,
but have positively forbidden any allu-
| sion to them. These instances mentioned
are not solitary ones. They have been
repeated and re-repeated until they have
become to be regarded by our friends as
good jokes" whenever occurring. These
second hand affairs have been copied in
to other newspapers and credited to the
Telegraph, and have thus been shown
us as the "best jokes Of the season.
We bore it all with Christian fortitude
and resignation until the Telegraph nat
urally took to falsifying our productions
and giving credit, when we took notion
that its old plan was preferable and gent
| ly intimated we would excuse it from all
further trouble in mentioning our name
in connection with garbled and misrep-
resented articles. Whe' eupon the Tel
egraph for once wakes up with an air of
injured innocence and calls us "courte-
Gus" and "Chesterfeldian" and sich like,
expending a half column in dictionary
terms hunted up for the occasion.
The little affair which caused the edi-
tor of the Telegraph to stick his nose
in our business, was slight slap at our
Broad street neighbor-a paper conduc-
ted with quite as much courtesy and
more ability than the Telegraph and
abundantly able to give quid pro guo
without the thankless and impudent in
termeddling of the granny of Grass Val
ley. We have heard of man who got
rich minding his own business, and we
commend his case to the editor of the
Telegraph, taking, as we do a lively in
terest in that gentleman having right
smart" of this worlds goods he can call
| his own.
The Telegraph, with barefacedness
we have never seen surpassed, parades
its own efforts to relieve the county of
its burthens and wants to know what we
have done in that line? Where did the
Telegraph learn that the county was
nearly 100000 in debt but in our col
umns Where will it find the first III
functions of retrenchment and the first
urgent call for an examination into the
finances of the county, but in the arti-
cles announcing the startling" fact
that we owed SI5O,OOO? The Telegraph
is right in saying we have never sccon-
ded its eforts-we never did-ours were
always first. That paper always follows
like certain sheep in the spring of the
year, far in the rear.
The Telegraph envies our "advertis-
ing columns in its last effusion 1t
might as well envy us our numerous in
telligent and liberal patrons-one is en-
tirely dependent upon the other. 1t
may not be amiss however, to remind
our fossiliferous contemporary that by
making free use of all parts of our pa
per alike it can obtain large share of
the advertising columns it covets.
One word more. The Telegraph en-
deavors to prove, IF it has flched any
thing from us it was "trash"-which |
gives us chance to be "Chesterfeld- |
ian," at least in one particular.
The distinguished writer on etiquette
counsels his son to hatter the other sex.
Taking our cue therefrom, and without
in the least alluding to giving certain
old fellow his due, we say the old gran
ny of the Telegraph writes very good
quartz article. A chap at our elbow
quotes Esop, speaking of a fox getting
hic toll hit cbort oG ~ tro,o ,.yho