Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1874-02-20

To thrcsh my back at sic a pit, h.
Lo-h man. hor mercy vi your match
your scdiptrs ba uld,
did IA suffer hal much
Fra Daddy AUDI
Burns.
In your issue Of the 30th January we took
occasion 10 pay brief and merited tribute to a
faithful public servant, whose position. far re-
moved from political contamination, has 70.
thirty years enabled him to exercise salutary
influence over our youth and therefore the
people of Charles county. The exercise of this
time-honored and constitutional right has il
seems, given great otitnSe in certain quarter
That il would do SO was suggested by a friend
AT the time, bat We thought he would possess
more dellcacy OF feeling than to fly in passion.
and thus uuSeemly thrust himself before the
public Al such an iuopportune moment. In
stead OF going TO work mantully and politely
TO prove that our eucomium was unjust which
he knew he could not do, he betravs his bad
temper, and the unteuahle nature of his posi-
ton 10y finding ful, with the printer for mis-
spelling three words in our Communications
Ne think his attempt 10 cast odium upon the
mechanical execution Of your paper, in very
bad taste, for il has been repeatedly remarked
10y us that the Times is as well executed as
any country paper within our knowledge. In
the article of this wise censor notice but one
word not spelled arcordiDg to Webster, that is
: II - y.
But we will not be so il-natured Us to quarrel
with the printer about it. For in such dar-
rhea OF words il would he strange if there were
/ not some mSprint, if not miSspeling. But we
| will leave this question of compliments to be
| settled by the Times and this learned author
and proceed TO a calm review of his school-boy
! production. And though our diction may not
suit ''Neritas, We respectfully decline adopt
Ing his, which would crafty morbid partcu-
~,
We used the word promulgdte, italicized, in
II playful sense as popular by-word in the
schools mot common schools, at which he goes
into conniptIoRs. See Devices on diseases OF
womcn.) Now the man who manifests such
acute perception of the tdcettous, would go into
an ecstasy of laughter over the amusing ship
wreck of ST. Paul, or shed tears over the solemn
savings of Josh Billings. But he gives us
credit for one happy result TO our innocent ar
ticle of the 3Oth ''N0nteS pdrturiunt naScitur
rtdiculus mus, which, to those who have not
had the exalted advantages of 'Nertas,' We
would say, means, according to ''Smart, by II
liberal translation, the mountains labored and
brought forth mouse To the monies Pdrturt-
INT, we acknowledge the error TO the re-
mainder of the quotation he has himself plead
guilty, as he crept forth from his hole lmme-
diately after the ''labor.' One thing, howev-
er, we did not dove are not guilty of the
ching we would have suggested Mus, in
stead of ~ eritaS.' BY the way, We are glad
We have at last found so learned linguist.-
| There are several questions we would like to
have the learned Mus decide For instance
that remarkable sentence of Nirgil'S expression
of the horror that seized upon his hero when
he reached that unpreposessing place vulgarly
| called h-ll-(to which we fear all those are
| Fastening who assume virtue they do moi
possess-such as truth, justice and mercy, y
| ''r01 hGSu tGucjjuS." An acquaintance of
ours at college IAN lrishman, by-the-by,) trans
lated, "dicH a ecord did he sloker' Is this the
right construction, Mr.. "Veritas?'' Please en-
Tighten us Or this ''Poco scia a. Jeuano per
Ia un,Lra," sc. and, when understood, lay it
well to heart, for a countrvman of the famed
| Cervantes says tmeant something about Git
tie learning being dangerous, &c We don t
profess to know much about our own tongue
and seldom meddle with that of anybody else; if
we can manage to keep tt still when uacdl!ed for
we will accomplish greater feat than dragging
into public view ridiculous 'hus" But
what is there in this peculiar diatribe, that
smells so Strong yotthe county academy, worthy
ofan argument to refue? Nothing. absolutely
nothing but words, words words signifying
nothing, except to aim hack~handed flows at
Mr.. Lloyd over our shoulders. The late Ex~
aminer" Truly, MIR. "4Nus, your expectancy
outruns ''Veritas'' in this matter. Mr.. Lloyd
has not, to our knowledge, been as yet remov-
ed to make room for this huge ''Mus,'' who
stands with jaws expanded to gobble up, not a
crumh of cheese, hut eight hundred dollars of