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thlnk o1 administering to It's wants. For two such exlsences, or rather essences for your real editor IS the essence of twenty other men, just as bottle of florlGa water IS the essence of whole forest of mowers; for two such essences to fight duel with pistols, to argue with lead the symbol of other mems orains to settle question by noise, the only resort of most other men, at least of men not connected wth the printing busin ss, Is one of the greatest anomalies Tn common sense that we ever heard of. we should as soon expect to see two shadows throw bnck bats at each other. Duels, morta corporcal bodily dues, fought for the purpose of drilling holes Tn vile animal matter, are the things for your fellows who know not how to argue; who cannot compre- hend an intellectual proposition; upon whom logic IS lost and reason wasted like pearls cast before swine. To see two fellows with something on their shoulders in the shape of heads, but as hollow as a gourd or as solid as cannon ball, of whom one Goes not know that two and two makes four, and the other knows nothing else, meeting with pistols in their hands, try by the course of little lump of lead through the air, which of the two has the butt end of the question, is perfectly consistent congrl- ols, compatible, continuous and concatenatory It IS all ot piece, like roll of Kdderninstcr carpe- tlng 1t all hangs together like bunch of onions all the circumstances are uniform like the Albany Burgesses; they all stand together of the same

 

 out ot place, like quaker in the bar of criminal court. No one circumstance stands out from the rest like an incongruity, as if it had no business there, like the Arc de in chestnut street. Every thing IS in Keeping, as the printers call it, like the wild beasts in menagerie, or the chere annie of a man of fashion, Such brainless unintellectua ani- mas are doing just what they ought to do just what we should expect them to do, and just what we should expect nobody else to do But for editors to battle with any thing but brains. Eye upon it.

 These two cumulative intellectualites were Rob- ert Weir Junior, editor of the Montreal Herald,and Ii. Driscol, editor of the Montreal Advocate. They met with pair of horse pistols with rife barrels, mahogany stocks, and percussion caps. They fired twice at each other without hitting then the sec- onds lnterposed, declared them both satisfied and both honorable men, and made them shake hands, ihs last ceremony occupied quarter of an hour Tor their hands shook so much separately that was with extreme difficulty that they would hit so as to shake together. Neither hit his adversary with a bullet. Who could expect it? Hit an intellectu- allty An abstraction! A thought! Take aim at spiritual essence Let man shoot at his image in the water, and see what marks he will make upon it. You might as well try to hit politicians con- science by telling him that Washington was an hon. est man. lie would not understand you.-Penn. hq.