New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-31
CHING IND COWHIDING.

CHING And COWHIDING.
There is an epidemic of personal chastisement
in the land Men and women. mounted upon
their injuries, are making for" other men and
women, who are supposed to have injured
them, with a ferooity which is truly formidable.
In Chicago, lately, the dramatic Amazons of
the Thompson Burlesquers thus unsexed
themselves, and, for once in their lives,
exhibited the most violent seriousness In our
own city, recently, one of our own guild was
greatly fustigated on account of an unlucky
piece of his penmanship. The telegraph brings
rs daily descriptions of these resorts to the
cane az the avenger of wounded honor. Thus,
in Chicago again, one Maurice Langloth,
who is the City Editor of German newspaper,
betrayed, perhaps, by that yearnng for sensa-
tional variety which renders feverish almost
the whole race of City Editors, published some
scandal of and concerning the Frau Stielman,
a German actress, woman OF great fame ana
equal virtue. Like a swift but savage Camilla,
she at once secured the streets OF Chicago, and
skinned into the office of the Teutonlc
Journal where between her and the urban
snapper ND of trfles. ensued word combat of
the intensest voublity. This we grieve to say,
ended somewhat tragcallv, for the City Editor
I'VE are 10th to write it, maddencd by the
repartees of Mrs. Stielman, was SO ungallant as
to stab her with that instrument of his v0ca-
ton. "a pen-knife' For this he was con-
Quoted to dungeon; but soon getting out
again, he resumed at once the business of
speaking evil of ThespanS, and especially of
man and maiden at the same Thcater For
this he was duly logged "by two young men,
upon the pavement this time with horse
whip" and so the honor Of the young per-
sons at the Theater may be considered as as
serted and duly demonstrated.
This business of chastizing is getting, 1t
seems to us, little stale and tedious. 1t
would be quite refreshing TO hear of somebody
who, having been blown to great hight in
the journalistic columns, did stoicaIly deter
mine to regard his involuntary elevation with
profound contempt. Speaking for ourselves
personally, and as general thing. we had
rather be despised than cancd and any body
who feels disposed, is, by these presents, ac-
corded full liberty to regard us with the utmost
loathing and horror; to consider us as ALSO
lutely beneath his notice, and especially to
treat us with that form of contempt which is
called and known as the silent. In this mis-
celaneous world. we have never dated
with the absurd ambition of trying to
please everybody. Spades are spades, and none
the less so though we may euphonically desig-
nate them as shovels. In the course of human
events of which destiny has designated us as
annalists, it sometimes becomes necessary To
speak OF human obliquities, and to speak of
them with q reasonable degree of sharpness.
1t happens-of course at rare intervals-that
newspapers should sometimes speak the truth,
not merely of measures, but of men and some
times 10 mitigate an otlense against dccency
is substantially to publish not a "a lie" Qor
that is word which it is never proper TO
use), but let Va say "an untruth.' which
is q more comfortable expression. Therefore,
we may be obliged to call man sometimes
by hard name; but should we do so, we
hereby permit, allow, and license that man to
consider us as caned or cOwhded-to post the
fact rs if il rere a fact, in all bar-rooms, ex
changes, and other places where men most do
congregate--to boast and brag and swagger up
and down the town at our expense; and to
publish, if he pleases, i'll a pamphlet. the
particulars of our chastisemcnt lie will
thus experience all the pleasures with
out the perils of heroic action.
while it will be our own good luck TO
escape the pangs. For his consolation, we
assure him that he will find fools enough to
believe him TO glory greatly in his valor and
our own discontinue to narratc the tale IN all
companies 10 which they may gain admission
with perfect crescendo of circumstances and
! to consider us as thing TO be pointed NJ,
ridiculed and dcspised. He will thus acquire
immense reputation our own Will not be
materially hurt ; everything will go on
! scrcnely, without recourse To the low and
Vulgar cxpednnt of logging, which is only fit
for the Five Points OF for -.nnybrook Fair. Men
beaten in the abstract feel no bruises, while
the complacency of men who so beat them is
perfectly illimitable.
To suppose that Il newspaper can be con
ductcd without provoking the extreme wrath
OF somebody, 10 the acme of ,bsurdity. Part