WASHINGTON LETTER WRITER'S
{"newspaper_name": "The Columbian fountain.", "edition": "01", "page": "p2", "byline": ""}
{"character_count": 2183, "word_count": 399, "ccnet_language_score": [0.9603000283241272], "ccnet_perplexity": [1008.9000244140625], "fasttext_language": ["en"]}
| WASHINGTON LETTER WRITER'S


Have OF late made quite TOO free IN their


very common ercesses. But this is not so much
10 be wondered at, when we consider the dis
position Of our own citizens TO have something
new and extraordinary, abodto own city, and
especially if it can beplaced before our readers


by journal from a distant city, while II has


not been noticed BY one Of our own. If some


most marvellous affair that never took place,


and is never likely 10, should be published in


one Of those foreign sheets that pander 10 this


yitia,ed appetite for the sake of - ----- t.,


Oh, what fine paper--is the ----- -----i ----77 j,
See there, there is news about our own city,
coming from distance-noihing of 1t in our
papers. The fact is, the people love TO be
gulled. #ia ganid 4. NaAs"t t.st gaaD "a
But there are some Of our inhabitants who


would rather have things stated about as they


exist, according TO ruth and facts ~ "A.


Lately our city has been represented as be-
ing unhealthy. This, perhaps, has not been


strictly in accordance with the truth. If we
compare our city with other places, we shall


find il is not more sickly than other places, or
more so than usual for this season of the year;
nor does the number Of deaths, or alarming
cases come up to, much less exceed, those Of
former years at this time. But these letter
writers must present the most alarming pic
ture Of every thing, TO makest paper ior
which they write. take with the people. Hence
some times if there is even the talk OF a battle,
! il is made to exist by correspondence. and then
corrected by mistake through correspondents,
and so the people like to have il. But we beg
Of you, letter writers, in trying to make SOME
THING out Of NOTHING, do not misrepresent our
city. We believe at this very time, It you


would only reflect, and then state the facl,
you would acknowledge that an evil, more 70
be feard than any fever or ague, or any other
fever among our citizens, is the traffic IN the
different kinds of intoxicating liquors among
lus. Ye scribblers, try your pens to draw


trighlful picture on this subject, and there IS
but little danger Of excess. et2iA se'SfN