Show opposition ou on editors and mules some of the opposition papers are ex cre r g their inventive faculties on the subject of mules they are di scanting at great length on the prices of this valuable animal and exhibiting a degree of knowledge in the matter of mule tiesh flesh which would have put sancho panza to the blush many of their editors seem seem to be clever experts in the mule trade I 1 and the world is induced to think by their heir profound dissertations on the sub eject act that a good many excellent mule jackies have been spoilt in making as many india indifferent ferent black republican editors of all the kinds of romance in the world we cannot conceive any that aliat would be more interesting and re cherch than mule romances especially as associated socia ted with the march over the plains of the utah expedition with the miraculous mira growth of leavenworth and with the hoarse political shri ekings in kansas cervantes founded his great romance in considerable part on dapple and if the editor of the st louis democrat and his copyists had been odaries of the ancient sire rather than of his numerous pro progeny creny of dapples in in kansas with which they are now associating socia ting their names so intimately they would have been rendered immortal in a romance drawn by the pen of his genius rather than made ridiculous in prosy backs drawn by the clownish hands of modern writers of mulero mule ro mances for the newspapers to watch the growth of this new cles ries of romance will vill be ka we propose to do so fo for r a little while until the species of fictitious literature shall become unduly prurient and extravagant trava gant when like croker of thi the quarterly review we shall have to apply the critical knife properly sharpened to the preposterous or 0 dropping the metaphor to apply a little fact act and reason to the cunningly dev devised ased fables and show what shakespeare Shak speare are meant by putting down ingeniously 11 froug wrought ht falsehood with a plain tale wash union |