San Andreas independent., 1858-06-12

/ been so unfortunate as to have "a soft place
+ IN my head" This may be so, as | am not an
exception to the general rule, and the best
headS ever formed have had some small and
elastic spots in them; but | defy the sorrowing
Mud. though he should search the universe
to produce one that that will match his own
IN " liquid hardness" Write me down an
ass he goes beyond Dogberry" Dog-berry!
here he is again, in all his car-tailed glory. as
a standard OF comparison. s'Wrte me down
/ an ass f" | may have been unfortunate enough
to do this, but if so, did it of my own free
viii and am willing to leave the decision to
the discriminating judgment of generous
publlc bat i'll his case it is very different
thing, nature having marked him as such while
yet In the cradle. o, irritable, malicious. in
sulting Mud!" What pity, that my letters
should be either so far above or beneath his
gigantic and grasping intellect that he is una
bic to tell whether they pleased him or not
eak wishy and watery," how they could
fall IN pleasing him, is mystery to me- Not
one OF his inspirations but hinge on the Flume"
They have right to hinge upon the Flume if
wish them to do so, and as the Flume has
gone up" they had right to 90 up with it,
which his will never be able to do, embedded,
as they are at the present time, in g Mud"
Lon-like, he crawls forth from his den to
shake himself and roar, thinking, with his
usual modesty, that this will be quite sufi-
cient to bring q Dido" and " Mazeppa" to their
knees before him, and that in this humble and
penitent posture, they will be glad to listen
with fear and trembling to the commands of
his hairy majesty. He knows little of the old
Cossack Hetman" and the " fair daughter OF
/ Beius," if he thinks this; for the first never
knelt to friend or foe, and the meanest subject
OF the last was more than the equal of I" Mud"
FORCED to the encounter, let it be to the death
If he wishes it, for | ask not for quarter nor
will | give any. That Mud" may have fair
chance to complete what he has so gloriously
began, and to vent the gathered spleen and
malice of long years, | now spread the map of
both my public and private life before him.
Let him use it to the best of his ability, while
amuse myself by examining his character
| That | have used the " "sigs'-as he calls them
of Dido,' Mazeppa," and some twenty
more, l will not deny but that ever used the
signature of G. F. B., to any Of my newspaper
correspondence, is palpable falsehood Ny
thanks are due Mud" for a list of names to
be used hereafter, but not wishing to be his
debtor for such lame attempt at courtesy,
will suggest a few for him in return, although
none will be so appropriate as his own choice
Mud" What does he think of Bachus ?"
Why wouldn't "Nnny" do? "Nnow-noth-
ing" wouldn't be bad. blue Mud" Black
Mud" Stick in the Mud" &C., &C., yet
of all these, not one suits him so well as
Mud" the abhorred and despised of both
man and brute, filthy, foul and loathsome
Mud" 0, deceptive, dainty, ubiquitous and
immaculate " Mud" How | envy him his
rare gifts of low cunning and sarcasm Hop
ing that Mud" may be able to comprehend
this, and that it will please him better than
the rest of my letters, will take the liberty of
placing beneath, those initials which he has
so insultingly held aloft to public view.
G.. F. B.