Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-12-17
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 49, 1870.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 49, 1870.
If gruff old DR.. johnson, who said
he dearly loved, a good hater, could
again be clothed In flesh and revisit
this earthly sphere, he would have to
travel far and wide before he could
find so many men to his liking as In
the small world.of San Francisco jour
nalism. DR.. Watts, in his we'll known
hymns for juvenile Christians, has an
oft-quoted reference to ill-mannered
dogs, with an untruthfull fling at their
propensity forbarking and biting; but
IL he had beesa deeper student of hu-
man nature, he would have pointed his
moral with an editor instead Of wlth'a
canine, especially ifhe had lived In
these latter days and been a resident
of this city. Shakespeare's Calibass,
who exclaimed to his keeper on the
enchanted Isle, 400 trg r,s 80 ngL
lyon taught INC language. and my, Pront ont
10, l know how to curse," A
would have made an excellent San
Francisco editor. He had the raw ma
teria1 In his nature, and a, opportunity
had occurred, would have put his pen
to the use he put his speech-an abso-
lutte essential IN local Journalism.
rdon't know who commenced this
last quarrcl-probably tho Alta, for old
women are proyerbially slanderous
and meddlesome-but no sooner were
the cables struck dumb for lying, and
the flood Of war news cut off, thar. the
brethren Of the Press, for want Of other
topics, opened their inky batteries Of
ill-nature on each other, aud have
since then continued to amuse them
selves by fighting through the types
with a vigor that can only be inspired
by genuine dislike. sI,-a.- go rs7g
believe the Alta began 1t, by nm un-
pleasant reference to my two papers.
both daily" which, coming from such
a source, so touched the Bulletin on the
raw that 1t at once r%eciprocated by al
lusions to the senility and general
Grannyism of its attacks. This was
too good a chance for the Chronicle to
miss, so 1t came in with q shot at both,
and the echoes OF the opening conflict
reverberated so sweetly in the cars OF
Figaro that James +. Bowman sprang
to his guns and commenced an attack
OH the big dsilies on his own, account
his grievance being that true talent
was not properly appreciated by them,
as instance his own neglected self.
This brought out the savage article In
Tuesdays Bulletin oil ''Blighted News
PAPER Genius" which the Chronicle
kindly copied next morning, with an
Introductory personal, 80 that its inte-
! rior readers might know for whom 1t
was intended. Oh, this journalistic
world Of ours Is 4 fine world {or ha-
tired, malice and Observation-Disclosures. 1t
beats a Sunday School, and Is far ahead
Of a Church choir. And Ill Is not merely
a professional hatred. but 4 downright
personal one. Greeley and Bennett do
abuse each other through their papers,
but they are, nevertheless, good friends.
But our Greeleys and BENEFITS have no
such dispositions. If the prayers OF
Loring Pickering were Of any avail,
there would long since have been a
special earthquake, combining Its opera
tions strictly to the sanctum Of the
| Chronicle. and limiting Its victims to
two dead De Youngs. If the De
Youngs had any influence with that
particular Genius who arranges and
presides over earthly casualties the
two fine bays that prance In front Of
the Bulletin rooms during business
hours would months ago have been the
medium for introducing Loring to the
society Of the saints and the departed
| elect. IL Fred. MacCrellish had his
aspirations gratifed, thore would be
| three grayestones at Lone Mountain,
commemorative the virtues Of both
the BaLietia and Chronicle men, and
If Bierce, OF the Nees Letter,
had only tho ears Of Providence, the
monument makers would have as
much as they could do for weeks TO
come engraving epitaphs on dead
genius. 1don't often say a good word
Tor the Examiner, because for II rca-
son 1t does not need It. But i cannot
help commencing the course Of its pro-
prietors In connection with these un-
professional feuds. The Erdminer peo-
pie have no private enmitles and In
this respect they differ. from every
other paper In the city. Let a man
only keep out of the arena Of Republic
can politics and the E1drafns7 will let
him alone. It's conductors cxpend all
their wrath on Republican heretics
and have none left for private qlarrels.
This Is q good plan and the reason that
while all other newspaper men are Mt
daggers drawn, they all have a friendly
feeling for Mr.. Roach and his coadjn-,
tors.
Literary Setes. $50
The canvassers for Colonel Albert
S. Evans work, Our Sister Republic,
have met with the most gratifying suc-
cess. The first edition Of 10, 600 copies
has been all taken by booksellers and
agents, and a second edition, with cor.
rectioris and additions, will soon be
ready.
Mr.. Francis Bret Harte who has so
suddenly sprung, into Eastern fame
you an hardly take up nm Eastern
paper without seeing some Of his pro-
,duct'on in itA has received an offer
from a View York mapaziue fora series