Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-05-20

I present Idio6 WE'VE
But the worst is not yet. These pa !
pers deprave the moral character Of ev-
cry one who habitually reads them
The passions which they describe and
which they excite are those which least
of all need cultivation, having already
far too much influence in the world
Stories Of love, murder, and suicide, are
not the milk with which to feed the minds
and hearts Of our youth. And yet you
will hardly find a single popular story in
any Of these papers, in which one of
these things is not the chief seasoning,
and well it is if all three of them, with
other things equally unsuitable, are not
made TO give zest to the story and add
prodigiously to the sale Of the paper.
Especially do these papers become
rampant when some hideous crime is at
tracing the attention Of the country
The Cunningham Burdell tragedy fur
nished a copious subject on which to
comment and to illustrate with pictures,
real or imaginary, Of all the persons,
places, and things that were at all rela-
ted to the transaction. The recent Sick
les affair has been a perfect-we were
about to write God-send, but will substi-
tute--devil-send to these papers. The
horrible and the nasty were so excellent
~ blended in that affair, as to furnish
Just the thing for their purposes. They
give US portraits Of the actors, picture
Of the handkerchief with which the adul-
terer lured his paramour to the bed of
fornication Of the weapon with which
the murderer killed and sought to multi
ate his deGenceless victim a fac-simile
of the wanton's confession, and probably
will give us portraits Of the lawyers and
jurymen who have made themselves ac-
completes in the murder by efecting the
murderer's acquittal. Away with such
vile stuff from the houses of all decent
men and women.
1t is no answer to the objections we
, make against these flash newspapers, that
there are some good things in them
There are, indeed, some good things in
them, and il is by means of these very
things that they are able to do so much
mischief If there were no good things
in them, they could not gain access to
half as many houses as they are now
welcomed into. But the good compared
with the evil is as two grains of wheat
in a bushel Of chaff. Edward Everett
writes for the New York Ledger" and
his column or two of matter well worth
reading is made to atone for dozen col
umns of Sylvanus Cobb's wishy-washi-
ness, as much more of Mrs. Southworth's
Observation-Disclosures, and an indefinite
, amount of iniddling prose which Gods
and men despise," from sundry other au
H. thorlings. Bayard Taylor writes for the
, Mercury, and for the sake Of his pure
- transparentstyle, and entertaining nara.
- tive, we are asked to endure the St. Vi.
, tus' Dance Of George Albany pen, and
- the brain-dribble Of F. S. Smith, anC
- sundry other Smiths, Browns,and Joneses
The good things in these papers are thu
L. thin coating Of sugar which DISCUSSES tn,
. nauseous pill. Far better were Their,
, nothing good in them; then there nigh
~ be hope that the public stomach woul
70 revolt at swallowing such disgustin,
,o doses.
st We have written at such length O.
nj these papers as a class, that we have al
h. most no room in which to notice the la:
rs two specimens sent US. We hope tn
Is publishers will excuse US, as we shout
nd surely be glad to do them most thoroug
d. Justice. Marie Louise Hawkins !, Co.
n Gazette Is so ambitious a Journal tbs
nd there is not room to publish it in any on
city, and accordingly it is published /
Boston, New York and Philadelphia
principally in New York, which is III
IT, grand spawning place OF story papers,
It has much to say about females"
employs " female contributors, wish,
to employ female agents" and is edite
by female We hope all these f
males are Of The human race, thong
ice from their style Of writing, we shou
nc infer that the " female boarding school,
rm which they were educated was one
the which the higher branches" only We
ch taught, to the utter neglect Of such trif
lily as grammar and rhetoric. BY a de
Ii perate effort, we read the first ten SCI
The fences of the leading story, but respe
nal for the memories Of Liudley Murray al
lat' Hugh Blair compelled US to abandon II
ers enterprise. The New York Weekl-
her copies the Ledger, with all possible fdt
or ity, initiating its arrangement, its headin