The weekly Arizona miner., 1869-12-18
San Diego Bombast.

cd to tell its thousands ot readers that the San Diego Union had entered upon the sec ond year of it's existence, and that it had "labored earnestly for the good of its town and county, regardless of truth, facts or principle" Now, we meant what we said, and still stick to it. The Union has worked hard in the laboratory of the falsiiier but, with all the taies produced by it, has not yet brought forth mouse, Its menly mOuthings have, however, induced many wharf rats to settle in San Diego, and they and it have grown fat by inducing decent, honest, indus trious people to go there and get gnawcd We'll, the lines above quoted were copied ap- provingly into many California papers, the editors of which commented upon them in a manner that riled the editors of the Union, who, we judge, are gas-bags and vainglorious humbugs. They did not like the echo of the plain, simple truths told by us, but, at the same time were mighty careful not to bear down too heavy upon our corns. No. They selected the Los Angeles Republicaa for their rack, accused it wrongfully, it appears, of publishing the item and commenting upon it in a spirit of leyity if not of irony. Now, the ReDuNicdH is good mild, inoifensive sort of paper and the editors of the Des- ert Shrieker thought they had soft thing when they bounced upon its editor in the following style:
 There i, one thing oertaiH-thst the edit or of the Republican will never be accused of advocating any interest, in any manner. He has not life enough to get out of the way of an OK team. The Republicans of Los Ange- les county, are ashamed of his paper as a party organ, the Democracy hold it m silent contempt, while the people think no more of | it, as newspaper, than so much brown wrap ping paper
 This did not annihilate the Republican, for we received copy of it by last mail, which contains sufficient proof to satisfy the Union that it woke up the wrong customer, when it pulled DuBois' hair.
 Emboldened by what it had said regarding the Repubdcan, and thinking, no doubt, that it would have an enfeebling effect upon our nervous system it opened its sharks mouth and said:
 As for the MINER, it's capital stock in
 trade is slang, and the 35th parallel railroad. Now, that the 32d parallel railroad is a fixed
 fact; that the men are at work upon 1t, and
 the eyes of the whole country are upon San i Diego as the Western terminus of the road
 and the Both road is losing standing all over
 the country, the MINER falls back in despair
 and filings mud at the Uhi0a. We have sue
 ceeded, and the MINER is starving to death
 that's whats the matter. We pity the poor
 devil of an editor, and if he will come down
 to San Diego, we will sec to it, that he gets
 into the County Hospital; we don't make
 this offer to the Los Angeles fellow; for we
 don't want such stick of a man about
 he is "dead matter" and should have been
 "pied long ago"
 Pardon us, Messieurs Slangwhangers of the
 Union, while we inform you that "slang" i.
 no. part of our stock in trade We leave
 that to such fellows as you, who talk glibly
 of "shiprecked water-closets," etc. We spike
 our faith to the proposed 35th parallel rail
 road because it is the only road likely .c be
 built in the next ten years. You are mista
 ken in saying that the 32d is fixed It is not
 yet fixed, but will be in short time. Con gress will fix it by leaving it ont in the cold
 The eyes of the whole country are upon San
 Diego, not, however, as the Western ter
 minus of trans-continental railroad, but a.
 the abode of land-sha and swindlers. who
 lie outrageously about the place and it's pros
 poets, in order to induce verdants to go ther,
 and fall into the numerous traps baited witt worthless lots. The Legislature of Califor mia should put stop to your heartless opera ] tions, and the law of the State should prose cute you for robbing and running those whom | you have induced to sell out their homes ir Northern California and emigrate to youl town, where, after getting rid of their cash they cannot find employment at which t, make living Such barefaced swindIing anC misrepresentation should not go unpunished Why, confidence men and faro dealers woulc } scorn to use such means to lure men to de struction as are every day used by tn, spectators of San Diego. You have succeeded, have you? How q, we know that you have succeededl But, ad mtting that you have, you ought to hay, kept it to yourself Some of those whom you have helped rob may get after you anC take from you your ill-gotten gains. Then again, success achieved at the expense O : truth, facts and principle" is not likely tc stick. "The MINER is starving to death Pray, who told you sol and what ground have you for thinking SO? You als,
 say 1t is "trifiing sheet" So it is. But i