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.