North Carolina Standard

THE "LOCUM TENENS."

The "Locum Tenens" is again at his post, at the head of the Register, in the absence of the Editor, firing away as if the existence of the universe depended upon his exertions. Now he whacks somebody, and now he punches somebody else; and then he pops up and down on the wave political, like a frolicksome porpoise, imagining all the while that he is establishing a new era in newspaper editing, and that posterity itself will hear of his exploits and sing his praises. The "Locum" leads off in the Register of the 21st, with a labored eulogium upon President Fillmore. We say labored, for it must be hard work for a citizen of a slaveholding State to eulogize such an individual. But the thing had to be done, and at it the "Locum" went. "Praise the bridge that carries you safely over" is an adage which the Register thoroughly understands. If the Editor of the Register should remain absent from his post much longer, his paper will either go off in a cloud of gas, or the "Locum" will run his craft upon some unexplored coast. If such a thing should happen, it will make no difference whether the "Locum" gets back or not. It will be all the same to him, provided he is allowed to write, and imagine himself all the while taking immortality by storm. The "Locum" is said to be in favor of Fillmore for President and Graham for Vice President. We beg him not to afflict us in this way. Such a ticket would freeze the country. It would be as cold as a Lapland iceberg in January. It would nip the "Locum's" nose with an untimely frost, and congeal things generally. We beseech him to spare us.