The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1858-12-24
CITY MEEkLEES.

upon the reading public perfect liood-tide oil
wishy-washiness and ''hi5h-iautin" nonsense.
They are p;Aed into circulation by flaming
hanG0iiIs insnuated into The hands of the peo-
pie through the medium offs gill" lotteries, and
paImrd off upon a gullible public, by every de-
vice Of humbug and trickery. Such are your
Golden Prizes" your ''Police Gazettes,' your
''Star Spangled Banners Il ID omne genus
They all contain the "Avenger" by Sylvanus
Cobb, Jr., and that is about all they do contain,
which is great attraction, surely. Let Ampri-
cln boys and girls read Cobb's "Avenger," by
all means 1t will instruct them in the
mysteries every day life it will teach them
how 10 raise up families and 10 better the con-
dilion of their kind; to be sure it will II is
not merely an idle raw -head-and-b bloody bones
story ii contains much sound philosophy and
much that will be of use to the general reader.
1t is true that lis philosophical and useful por-
tons are little hard to discover, but if they
are not discovered, the fault, OF course, is the
readers and not the writer's.
vi there is wide difference between these
trashy concerns, and The bona fde literary
| newspapers. OF this latter class, however, we
find but very few, nowadays. The "Home
Journal" published in New York City, is the
only really literary weekly that we can at pres
ent call to mind. "Harpers' Weekly" ap-
proaches The standard, but is given too much
to pictures, 10 be thoroughly literary. The
Boston True Flag has Preensions in this direc-
ton, but is slightly aashy and Goldfish. There
is more merit in the literature of the "New
York Ledger" always leaving Cobb out Of
consideration than some people are willing TO
give it credit for. Everett's contributions will
raise it out Of the slough Of milk and water IN
which ii has 1oundered since It's existence
The Saturday Evening Post" of Philadelphia,
has some claims 10 the title of literary aceekiy.
1t is generally, bow ever, filled with stories of
sickiy senlimentalsm, whilst its other articles
are often of the stalest and most improbable
kind.
These Journals all claim to be neutral in poll
tics. There are buL few of them that keep a.
Ioof from the political arena. For instance,
few years ago, the last named The Satur-
day Evening Post'') published some violent
Abolition articles on the subject ofthe imprison-
ment Of Passmore williamson 1t is still edit
ed by the same man who ,wrote those articles
and therefore, we cannot recommend it TO the
support of our Democratic readers The only
truly independent city weekly that we know
OF, is the "Dollar Newspaper" of Philadep phia );
and, by the way, it is the best family newspa
per published. We have given this rambling
sketch Of our notions concerning city aceekIies,
for the reason that we have no Ipatience with
the frauds that are constantly perpetrated in
the name Of !iterature,- and because we are
ready and willing TO do our share toward lop-
ping off those enormous fungi Of our li!era-
ture, which, if their growth be not stayed, will
most assuredly poison and destroy the tree
from which they derive their nourishment
G~"The contem ptible hang-dog villain Of
The Gazette" begs leave 10 say that Mr.. JoRDAN's
veracity is slightly at fault, when he says that
ne attribute the ''hard times" 10 the establish
ment of the Tariff of 1857. Our readers can
testify that we never made any such foolish
| assertion. We have always maintained that
the "hard times" were caused bv the rottenness
Of ouT banks the initiation of the currency,
and reckless system OF speculation superindu-
ced by the two first mentioned evils, and not by
the operation of any tariff whatsoever. On
the contrary, 1t was an assertion continually in
the mouth of Mr.. JORDAN, during the late cam
paign, that the present low Tariff acqs the cause
of the ehard times" But we are not astonsh-
ed at that gentleman's deliberate misrepresenta-
lion of our position on this subject, as ialsiica-
ton ofthe record, is invariably he ground
work OF his argument Besides he finds him
self driven 10 the wall, by Senator Wilson's
statement, and, therefore, must needs wriggle
himself into a new position. He finds that
he can no longer combat the overwhelming
array OF testimony brought to bear against his
side of the case and, therefore, inconllnently
abandons his charge that the '!hard tmrs'' were
caused by the Tariff Of 1857, at the same time
asserting that ii was the Tariff of 1886 that
dit.. the mischief. Mr.. JORDAN has discovered
that the people are as we'll informed on this
pet subject Ufhis, as he is himself, and that it
will not do any longer TO Insist that II was the
present low Tariff that brought about the "hard
times for in that case his own party would
be chargeabe with those ''harI times" they
havIn established that Tariff awe, of New
England" says Senator Wilson, every one Of
them being Black Republicans "used all our
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