Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1873-06-29
De Longs Letter to LeSate.


the subject matter of Il letter concerning
the same from Charley De Long. A
certain class of stree. critics like Nudge
and Charley May, have put on great
many AXIS about tia. fish aud s''!.sa IL "
blamed old Chinese coffee stcaiE@r,
whales bladder AID so on ; ami solne OF
that crowd of srluties have gone SO 'af
Az to declare in Isiblic that they diah I
l,aIiev, but thas I4esate lied when he
said that it was ofJapanese manufacturer
and they Just hooted at the idea that
De Long had sent it to him. johnny
Moore jast jumped up and s~ote th'' lie
saw Legate when he made the ilsh ana
r,,;p,ed it with an old BARRIERS brush,
himself and that he knew that lie
Long and Legate weren ON speaking
terms. ie. alone the idea that DE Long
woula correspond with a one-horse hash
singer like Charley Legate. Now Just
tn let these Smart Alecs know that
Lec.te's statements have all been fn'-
This opce-we herewith reproduce the
said letter:
U. S. LEGATION, JAPAN.
Yokohama, May, IS, 1873.
Nv Dear Charles have often OBJ
served with pain and regret that IN your
business you frequently lose custom by
your silent, modest demeanor. which
prevents many from knowing where you
live or what business you are conducting.
/ send YOU by our mutual frltnd }. Il.
Latham, an imitation Fish. The Gus
sedest sucker probably that mas ever
climbed old Mt. Davidson. Run him
up on a tag staff attach the cora you
will find in his month 10 the top thsfeoi,
and AS the gentle zephyrs wait thfouSh
him he will sweiland float and lan5ulolF
turn about in truly remarkable man
ner. Men will look ~ HIM, will wonder
what 1t means, viii call, and seeing
large, quiet man, with curling locks, en-
g.ged in restaurant business, Will prob
ably patronize you. ..
This NAV aid you a little, though It
may possibly be the worse for them.
In this country there IS custom pre-
vailins on the LIST of May OF each year to
herald the fact that son has been
born in the family by hosting a thing
like this ON pole in front OF the house
that has been blest.
Friends send each other SO clrcum-
stanced presents of this nature, and you
will often see string of fish on one pole
cannot be supposed to have intended
by this present to intimate any desire to
compliment you in this manner. for
well know that You have long since
passed beyond any usefulness IN this
line of business.
The japanese. too, have an old legend
to the effect that the island rests on a
Fish. Hence this first of May holiday
is in part intended as religious day
sacred to the old whale on which the
country is supposed to float.
As YOU have no other religious opln-
ions of my knowledge it is barely posi-
BILE that YOU may believe IN tins doe
trine, therefore the present possibly may
assist YOU immensely at your devotlons.
Let these things be as they may, run
these your colors to the sky. Let them
scale the azure. and if they do not make
the stage drivers swear who undertake to
stop tUplE (caluS III llOue VI AAS AhsNAAAos
tional, then miss my guess.
Yours Truly. De Lone.
C. T. Legate, Virginia City, Nevada.
WE DON'T profess to any extraor-
binary inspiration, nor yet to the gifts OF
genius. save in one modest and unob-
trusive direction. We can perpetrate
and perfect and canse to blossom out
and take form and color and vitality a
greater number and larger diversity of
inexplicable and wholly groundless and
objectionable mistakes i'll giving sy-
nopsis or brief relation of a decision by
the Supreme Court than any Chronicler
of ancient or modern times. We say 1t
not in the vain and offensive spirit Of a
boaster. but from a sense OF self respect.
1t was the very imp and genius OF per-
versity which made us say in yesterday s
Appeal that the decision by the courts
liked the County seat of Humboldt
county at Unionville. We knew better
aud intended to state the truth; but the
inspiration was upon us and we said
KNOXVILLE when we should have said
Winnemucca. And then gifted printer
and a glorifed proof reader came to the
assistance of our guardian spirit perver-
sity and added unge Of idiocy to our