New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-02-09
THE CONFRDRRACY COMING TO
GRIRF,

The Southern Confederaey, as the readers Of TIE
TRIBUNE viii remember, is not yeta commonwealth,
but only newspaper, published at Atlanta, Ga. 1t is
daily newspaper, which on the goth ult had reached
the twenty.fiIst number Of its second volume. That
we should never have heard of it till quite lately is
certainly misfortune, and possibly our fault but
in these days when Southern Confederacies are
promising to be as plenty as blackberries, and it
may be cheap, this particular one could not but
be forced upon our attention, and especially as it
has made itself the organ and patron Of a class Of
our New-York tradesmen, and has undertaken to
regulate our trade with the South. That this Con-
ftderaey, which is not yet State, but only jour
nal, is nevertheless an important institution
down South" is not to be doubted, and the jobber
OF importer among us on whom it turns its counte-
nance besming with bland and benignant smiles,
ia one enyied of men and esteemed Of the gods, as
he on whom it frowns is an object of commisera-
ton and contempt.
But The Confsderaeyis not without its troubles.
1t is what gentlemen of mild form of speech call
given to inebriation. In stronger terms, it has
taken to drink. 1t has taken to drink in manner
go abandoned as to interfere already with its regl
lar issue, and TO threaten that this COgederaey of
Atlanta at least is about to be dissolved into its orr
ginal elements. cater three days suspension"
says the paper of January 20, from the want of
" sober printers, We again salute our friends aud
"patrons." II is very well to say printers, but
he of Tie COnfedsraey knows, and we know
that he knows that we know that he knows
better. Even if we were not up to what
might vulgarly be called an editorial dodge,
the more unenlightened and unprofessional
mind would repudiate so absurd a statement as that
daily journal in so fourisbiug and important
city as Atlanta could be suspended for the want of
mechanical force. That there might not be more
than one mild in even such place capable Of edit
log such sheet is conceivable. The want of the
mastery intellect which Eliminates the double
loaded editoria! column of bourgeois type in that
paper can alone account for its temporary suspen-
sion Indeed, the editor confesses as much in an
noun cpg on resuming his labors that Orchards
himself again" Oh, Richard how can We predict
anything of a daily paper that has come to be
issued only semi-wcekly, but that presently steps
will be taken for that end to all Southern trouble
the dissolution Of the Confederacy.
But Richard has taken TO worse than drink; he
has taken to bad drink. "The liquor shops Of At
anta are so nume'o Gus and the liquor so Internally
mean, that ii is disgrace to the city" The edi-
tor is careful of bis grammar, an editor should
be- 1t is not they the lquor-shops, but il, the in
formally mean liquor, which is dissracsful He is to
be pardoned for speaking with some feeling and a
little tendency TO profanity under The circumstances.
He does not object to drinking saloons. He even
4" sdmirss wellkept bar-roOm, good liquors. clean
"couIters, and fine cigars 1t is your retail
"EQucr-shoPs, Gred with diluted poison, vsga.