Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1878-07-19
MAILS.

n Eureko Faber-ShOver Pitches
Into Uncle Sam and Her Brit.
annie Majesty for Losing Hts
Letters.
In the London Mining Journal Of June
18th we find the following growl from Eu-
reka:
I There is something inexplicably
strange regarding the silence OF the Jour-
nal in relation to the last three communi-
cations which I mailed it. That they, at
least the two subsequent ones, despite
transcontinental mail Irregularities, have
~journeyed in safety l cannot disbelieve,
but If they did arrive safely l am no less
puzzled to solve the problem why they
have not been published the same as have
been all my letters of the past three or
four years.
OF the two last mentioned, one was writ
ten in reply to the caustic criticisms Of
that ingenious gentleman who, on q recent
occasion, took me to task in a lengthy effu-
sion over the initials 81. H. r." for hav-
ing, in a prior letter, penned some COM
planetary notices of the managing director
Of the Richmond. Whoever this gentle
man is, who, for his own wise purpose,
conceals his identity behind the sheltering
initials AFORESAID, though l have good
grounds for believing him a large share
holder, l have o no disposition to open,
de noco, old issues, or to open q second
controversial tilt with him. 1t would at
this j~uncture do no good, and would, il /
gave loose reins to my Faber or to my hu-
NOR, only serve to engender an acerbity of
feeling which / would much rather prevent
than foment. This / deem the most
desirable course in view Of my having,
in the letter aforementioned, and
which has not yet seen the light
Of your columns, while in a very angelic
frame of mind, paid him my regards for
having had the temerity to impugn my
motives and cast doubt upon what / had
written. But though he has ingeniously
sought to distort my meaning and make it
appear that / was the recipient Of Mr..
Probert's bounty and favoriteism, l will
lingly grant him the absolution which 1
think he sadly stands in need of. but with
the understanding that he shall not again
wander from the straight and narrow path
way usually travelled by uncrooked Faber-
drivers.
Should my reply to his letter ever turn
up, or become resurrected from the accu-
INFLATED waste Of you capacious basket,
into which receptacle l am persuaded it
was carelessly flung, not by yourself, but
doubtless by that traditional Mephistophe-
liam imp who keeps watch over your typo
graphical department, and plays the deuce
generally, it will, without l am mistaken,
help to remove the scales from 81. H. RS"
eyes, and allow him to both see and con-
slider things differently to what he had
stated them. / am still OF opinion that
those two letters will yet be found, II not
in your sanctum then quietly pigeon-holed,
as / presume many such documents are,
in some one Of the unmanaged branches
of Uncle Sans postal department, which
abound between this a~ltitudinou region and
the crested waves of the Atlantic. But it
is just possible that after all they are at
this moment INDUCING in q sort Of Rip
Van Wrinkle nap in n OF her Britanic
Majesty's methodically governed offices. II
the latter conjecture should prove true,
then l owe both your d. and the hard
worked geniuses who furiously fling Uncle
SANS mail bags about an apology for hav-
ing even ~momentarily doubted the fidelity
Of their actions.
Although ! nave had some suspicious of
a not very complimentary nature in relation
to the non-publication CT those letters, /
must and do hold the proprietors Of your
paper guiltless Of any completely tending
to prevent their publication. To make so
grave a charge would be contrary to my
convictions, and manifestly unjust to a
journal whose columns have always been
open to me, and which / have also always
found strictly impartial, unprejudiced and
independent, as all journals Of its type and
character ought to be. / have, of course,
as is reasonable, some feeling in this mat
ter, and / would be less than human did /
not utter a complaint. ! have from
day to day waited, hoping that
they would ultimately appear, partic-
ularly the former, in vindicati, IN Of
the ingenious aspersions Of ~. H.. r."
whom, for the reasons already given, !
shall for the nonce leave to pursue the
even, or uneven as it may be, tenor Of his
way. My main object in writing just now
is to institute some inquiries regarding
them, and to show both yourself and my
friends and the public that my silence was
not caused by my fear of crossing lances
with SO intellectual an opponent as my
friend Of the triple initials.
Henceforth l shall address the Journal
regularly in regard to the mining interests
Of this and other sections Of the State. Our
camp is now q large and important one,
and since its mining operations are no
longer conducted on the Lifiputian princi-
pie in vogue in early pioneer times, when
all was an uphill struggle, but on a scale
and magnitude BETTING the giant strength
it possesses, I shall in future devote a
portion Of my lottery to such a portrayal
Of its existing and projected enterprises us
l hope will prove acceptable to your read
ers. J. D. Power.
Eureka, Nevada, May 80.
1.-THE letters referred to never reached
us, or they certainly would havs been no
ticed, if not published.-ED.