Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1861-09-27
"A Short Horse is soon
Curried.

The nominal editor of the now defunct
Eastern Farmer might have continued to
snap and snarl at our heels for years, or I'M
til he had reached the end OF his tow-lne,
without never word of reply, because he
was and is,a foe worthy of no mans steel
Ii any person still persists in thinking differ
entity, after witnessing the exhibition he has
made of himself, during the past year and a
half, while having the free use Of pen, ink
and paper, we will have no controversy with
him, for he must be wilfully blind.
HALF OF THE HORSE IS NOW cuRRiEp.
! During the incubation Of the bantum hen,
which hatched the " [ Mon Sizzle = Conyeu-
ton, a " vegetable fossil ;" was exhumed who
took possession OF the galvanized Farmer
aud undertook to impart to it some little
ability, and to spice its articles highly with
personal thrusts at oursclf and others. The
amount of ability, however, thrown into the
leaders Of the Farmer for the three or four
weeks Of its quiyerins life, will not serio1s-
ly endangcr the position of the London
Times as being at the head of all ncwspa-
perdom The leading articles in the last
numbers of this moribund sheet had COM
mon paternity and a stereotyped expression.
No one can fail in determining who the au
thor is. But rs it is some satisfaction to
have n dish of personal abuse served up,
though clumsily done, without that always
present and everlasting eh y of the old ed
itor, we owe the new one, for the agrt cable
change, some courtesy and good notice.
We feel inclined to pay this debt indeed,
feel rather earnest and impatient to SO so,
though our first impressions as to duty in
the premises, after reading the expiring
groans of the said new editor in the last but
now departed Farmer, were to let him pass
on. '-unrhipt, uRhonored and inqh1ng.
The first portion Of the leader in the Far
mer of Saturday which makes divers charges
of seeming personal character, don't suit
our case at all. The shots therein fired, are
random ones. We think we know as
uuGIl dDDul OuIStii tic VIC nI.Ali Va NLtlt "a
ticle, and a great deal more, and We aver
upon our word and honor, that not one
of the " old clothes - offered US by this
jew, fit us at all ! his dealer in second
hand clothing must hunt up a customer else
where. But pray don't so back to the time,
when certain Register of Probate hung
out the Republican flag, but contributed in
generous sums of - cts, and 80 cts, to cir
culate the Machias E.,on and Bangor Dem
ocrat in this county.
The serio-comie portion of the article re-
qulres also bu! little attention. The writer
has not the sngacity to conceal his NOR
tifcation at defeat. He got up the !" revo-
luton" which, like a crab Travelled tae
opposite direction from where the head
pointed. He was a sclfstyled Union caudi-
date He argued his own cause. For three
several weeks he begged the voters to under
stand that he was patriot-that he was a
simon pure Union man and as he never
had been much of a Republican, or borne
muCu VI Il tuOliS ClaiaShpif ~ "'N7 wv
much trouble for him to jump on and float
with the tide. Why, said this great patri-
OF, .. every body but Office holders and their
satellites" will 20 with US and vote for me
Well, election came; ard very quiet one
it was, and one as little influenced by poll
ticians and their money, as any we ever wit
messed. The result was perfectly astound-
ing to this R Van Wrinkle, who obtained
few more votes than Mr. Scattering. He
now, having lost his equaaimity, his 5 Is,
and suffered some in his new character Of
political prophet, falls to abusing the voters
for not following his lead, and ourself. for
having the a. lmpudence" to do just about as
our judgment told US was right.
But tins " new light" should not be
blamed for thinking he is patriot, 1t is a
Authorization of the mind, which, rather
needs the attention Of the village doctor and
the application of ice and leeches to the
| head.
The concluding paragraph for briliaucy
and pointed wit, beats any thing in Juaius
Letters or would, if there was a grain
Of originality in it. BE foul its own
nest " and d" write himself an ass are oft
repeated quotations and 50 common that
every sehoolboy uses, and every novice
rounds period with them. II requires 10
brains to string together quotations, aud use
them as Lord Timothy Dexter used punctu-
alton marks, without the least regard to their
fitness, or adaptation, or the stock on hand.
We hope the subject of this - first rate
notice - WILL in consideration that we have
spent full hours time in his behalf. per-
NIT US to tell him his forte, without calling
us Z" impudent" You are good at burro,e
ing sir yes at baerotc,ng and as this, no
aoubt, will end this uncoveted warfare on
our part, we may as well, also, hint kindly
to the borrowing editor OF the Farmer that
it requires large stock Of those traits OF
character called meanness, to fit one proper
ly for burro.eing IN a neigh6ors nest
The Republican Journal takes some