The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-06-03
CHARLESTON.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 8, 1853.
In the Name of the Prophet -Brag.

The Mercury is very funny and does not
know it. Now it takes to. task one Of its
modest contemporaries for describing, with
native simplicity, the brilliancy of it's for
tunes or the fruits of its own ''unaided en-
terprise, now it hurls its paralytic thun.
derbolts at all who dare to deny that the
World is great and the Mercuryis its pro-
phet. Itfumes, and frets, and ruffies its
feathers in a very 'dem' d moist, unpleasant"
way, and when it. has leotured its rivals
sufficiently upon the duty Of being dumb
totheir own glory, bursts out with a oocK-
AsDoopLE-Doo which would put the Herald
to shame and bring q sigh Of envy to the
lips of the virtuous .FoRNEy. The Mercury
crows Justify, and its brag is unlimited. 1t
brags Of the fact that it has lost no sub
scribers except those who were hard up, and
it might be very good thing for ourjooular
neighbor ifitwould strike from its rollsallits
subscribers who cannotpay. Itbrags that the
Mercury has been retained amidst the
wreck of fallen fortunes, and leads one to
the inference that ruin and the Mercury
are in some sort synonymous 1t brags Of
the RuTIEDaEs and HAMproNs, and throws
up-its hat for the idol oftheir heart-the Mer-
curry. It brags Of its city subscription, and
suggests that politics is business as its own
business is politics. It brags with inefable
drollerv of tha nraoi nai,.dA--l:-.- a-~rv-fn-
auencsdit, and boasts with queer difidenoe
that in the hands of its present editors it
maintained its influence and did not lose its
prestige. It launches out into recapitu-
lation Of its own doughty achievements, and
hints that if the State had hearksned to its
counsel the Club House Convention would
never have been held. It alludes to its ap-
pealslto the constitution, and inally-with
great tapping Of. wings-crows that the
policy Of the Mercury has been adopted by
the whole country, and that the whole of
the United States, are, in fact, nothing more
than the tin; kettle which clatters at the
heels of the Mercury, as it runs up and
down every lane and alley of the great
elias been"
All this is good joke, but we submit to
our contemporary that this warm weather
is hardly a fit time to kill one with laughter.
OF course, it is admitted that the Mercury
is very decent average newspaper but
when it leaps atone bound into the heavens
of biggest cncuiation, it must expect to be
taken at its word and challenged 70 the
proof -
The Mercury says: awe have now no
hesitation in saying that we have the larg-
est number Of permanent annual and semi
annual subscribers of any journal in South
Carolina" This is very foggy. What does
it mean? Does it mean that the Mercury has
o larger daily circulation than any other pa-
per in South Carolina; if 80, it had better not
try to count chips with The CHARLESTON Dali
LIZ NEWS. Again, what does it mean by a bona
fde circulation. THE News understands
bona fds circulation to be-THE NUMBER OF
COPIES ISSUED DAILY FOR CASH, OR TO SUB
scR1BERs WHO HAVE PAID IN ADVANCE, ac-
cording to the published terms of the
Charleston newspapers. If this be the way
our funny neighbor understands it, The
News denies that the Mercury has the larg-
est daily bona fde circulation, and is ready
at any time for show Of hands.