The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-04-09
RATES OF ADVEKTIsIN &.
A Good Deal Mixed.

AS politics make strange bedfellows. SO q
great fire may result for a time, IN queer
eommiDgling. While the Inquirer peopic
are constructing a new establishment in place
of the one burned, that paper is being printed
at the Times office. The editorial corps Of
both papers occupy the same room. We can
imagine the embarrassrnents that must occa
sionally result from such a minghng of poll
teal ntipodes-Abohtion editors on one
side of the table and Democratic editors on
the other, peppering away at each other with
the deadly lead tpencill and thrusting vicious
stabs at each other with flashing steel (peal
to say nothing Of tlIe clash Of resoundlng
scissors which play no important part in the
engagement Just think, nothing but g mar
row table between such fiery belligerents
One side trying to haul ten States into the
Union by the collars of their gray jackets
and the other side endeavoring to keep them
out by Juggling at their abbreviated coat tails
Between them the States are having tough
time of it.
Enquirer editor is Mortified to find himself
writing an article in favor Of the Civil Rights
bill, and discovers that he has got on the
wrong side of the table. Times editor, max
ing similar mistake, catches himself eulo-
giving Andrew johnson
to the compositors, and if it Were not for
great circumspection on the part of the re.
spective foremen each paper would copy and
endorse the most pernicious doctrines. Sup
pose the pressuan should print the Enquirer
on one side and the Times on the other, the
mistake not being discovered until several
packages had been sent off with the early
mails. Who can picture the CONSERVATION
which would seize the respective proprietors
Boiling with rage, they rush to the press
room together, and discharge the unfortunate
pressman with one voice. The indignation
of the Enquirer folks is only equalled by the
shame of the Times people. Both assert,
with equal bitterness, that they were never
so Inundated before.
1t must lie very confusing to visitors, this
singular fellowship. A Copperhead, from
Holmes county, rushes in, grasps lines ed
tor warmly by the hand, under the impress
sion that he is editor of the Enquirer, assur-
ing him that ''Hollnes county can't be draft
ed" He don't know the war is over. Nlahg-
nant radical mistakes Enquirer editor for
Times editor and, to curry favor with him,
chuckles over the destruction OF the Enquirer
establishment. He is sulnmarily kicked down
stairs by the combined editors Of TIE two pa
pers
What a scene election night must present
as the returns came in, each side of the table
trying to figure out victory, and each SIDE,
of course, claiming it. A frantic struggle
between the Times man and the Enquirer
man, as each tries to thrust his flag out of
tile same window--compromise at last BY
hanging them from different stories, which
is quite appropriate, from the fact that they
tell different stories about the election. The
brass band is played in front of the Office
The serenade is claimed alike by the Times
editor and the Enquirer editor, They appear
at different windows and return their thanks,
both speaking together, which confuses the
band to such an extent that they march Of
in several directions, each man playing diff
ferent tune. 1t is terrible mix, take it al
together Cincinnati CoaugveFciai.