The Daily Gate City

Col. Richardson.
The Times got out of humor with us for copying the remarks of a Cleveland paper concerning Col. Richardson; said they were slanderous, and all that. Below we add the testimony of the Louisville Journal, whose editor speaks from personal knowledge. We don't blame the Times for feeling a little restive under such allusions to its favorite, but the indications seem very decidedly to be that the imputations are not very "slanderous," after all. We prefer the authority of Prentice to that of the Times, and in the Journal he says:
Mr. Richardson of Illinois, whom the Administration members support, is no doubt ostensibly sound on the Kansas question, but he is a drinking, coarse, vulgar, and rude man. The remarks in relation to him, copied by us a day or two since from the Cleveland Herald, are true. We chanced less than two years ago, to be thrown near where he and several other members of Congress were gathered in a circle by themselves. A gentleman by our side pointed him out to us and remarked, that if we would listen a little while, we would hear some hard swearing. We didn't listen, but we couldn't help hearing. We have heard, we are sorry to say, a vast deal of swearing in our time; we have heard sailors swear, we have heard flat-boatmen swear, and we have even heard fish-women swear, but never in all our lives did we hear such horrible swearing as that of the administration candidate. The variety and intensity of his oaths were wonderful. And then the novelty of many of them would have been amusing but for their blasphemy. We could not help thinking that he was in the habit of devoting more time and study to the invention of new modes of swearing and cursing and blaspheming than to all the other pursuits of life. We do believe that he could out-curse anything under Heaven--except, perhaps, his Holiness the Pope. But if nobody else will suit the seventy-four for the Speakership, they must stick to him. If they elect him, they will have a Speaker to curse for them, and a Chaplain to pray for them.