‘a clean live weekly paper, devoted entirely to the interests of the working-classes.’ A Texan organ ‘will seek to be a photograph of all the resources and needs of Texas; a mirror of her markets; a barometer of pure principles, sound public faith, and private honour. Democratic, but conservative, independent and outspoken in the exalted interests of just criticism—no panderer to partisan men or measures, whether right or wrong!’ This is independence with a vengeance, ahead even of the gazette which ‘favours immigration, morality, and the Christian religion; and unflinchingly opposes shams, rings, rogues, and enemies to the people. It exposes villainy and crime wherever found, and hence is read by the more intelligent classes of people in the field where it circulates.’ The conjunction of immigration and the Christian religion reminds one of the much bemourned lady who ‘painted in water-colours and of such is the kingdom of heaven.’ But there is a still more frank linking together of things temporal and spiritual in the ‘only Democratic out-and-out paper in Western Iowa,’ which sails under the motto, more Yankee than reverent, ‘Fear God, tell the truth, and make money;’ the editor further announcing that if he ‘is allowed to live under a Republican administration another year, he will carry your advertising at five cents per line, fifty dollars per column, or furnish his paper for one dollar fifty cents per year.’ The _Horseheads Journal and Chemung Co. Greenback_ ‘exposes rascality everywhere, and aims to give something to interest and instruct everybody every week,’ from which it may be surmised that the _Horseheads Journal and Chemung Co. Greenback_ is happier in its object than in its title. Many of these ‘wide-awake and spicy’ representatives of Western culture are not remarkable for the elegance of their names, the admixture of Indian and American resulting in some curious compounds, such as the _Petrolea Topic_, the _Klickitat Sentinel_, the _Katahdin Kalendar_, the _Waxahachie Enterprise_, and the _Coshocton Age_. Yankee, pure and simple, reigns in the _Weekly Blade_, _Jacksonian_, _Biggsville Clipper_, _People’s Telephone_, and _New Haven Palladium_; but there is a charm of euphony about the _Xenia Sunlight_ and _Golden Globe_, and the brevity which may be the soul of wit in the _Call_, _Item_, _Plaindealer_, and _Editor’s Eye_.