om, as the
Orangemen call the Pope; in consequence, they say, of his sitting upon
seven hills. The editors of these papers are too decidedly opposed
in general, to be on bad terms with each other; or, to speak more
intelligibly, they are not on the same side, and consequently do not
hate each other as they ought and would. The town of Castle Cumber, like
every other country town, is one mass of active and incessant scandal;
and, it not infrequently happens that the _True Blue_ will generously
defend an individual on the opposite side, and the _Genuine Patriot_
fight for a High Churchman. The whole secret of this, however is,
that it is the High Churchman who writes in the _Patriot_, and the
Evangelical in the _True Blue_, each well knowing that a defence by
an opposing paper is worth more than one by his favorite organ. In the
instance I am about to specify, however, the case was otherwise, each
paper adhering to the individual of his own principles. On taking up the
_True Blue_ I read the following passage, to which I have fortunately
obtained a key that will make the whole matter quite intelligible. The
article was headed:--

"Susanna and the Elder; or the Conventicle in trouble.

"'For some time past we regret, sincerely regret, as Christian men, that
a rumor has, by degrees, been creeping into circulation, which we trust
is, like most rumors of the kind, without foundation. The reputation
of a very pious professional gentleman, well known for his zeal and
activity in the religious world, is said to be involved in it, but, we
trust, untruly. The gentleman in question, has, we know, many enemies;
and we would fain hope, that this is merely some evil device fabricated
by the adversaries of piety and religion. The circumstances alluded
to are briefly these: Susanna, says the evil tongue of rumor, was a
religious young person, residing in the character of children's maid in
the family. She was of decided piety, and never known to be absent
from morning and evening worship; it seems, besides, that she is
young, comely, and very agreeable, indeed, to the mere, secular eye her
symmetry had been remarkable, but indeed female graces are seldom long
lived; she is not now, it seems, in the respectable gentleman's family
alluded to, and her friends are anxious to see her, but cannot. So the
idle story goes, but we hesitate not to say that it originates in the
vindictive malice of some concealed enemy, who envies the gentleman