“HOW IT IS.”

Virginia Daily Union:—The editor of the Daily Enterprise has, during the last two days, in his anxiety to injure a cotemporary, seen fit to place before the public in a false light, and slander in a cowardly manner the printers of this city. We refer to his misrepresentation of the circumstance attending our donation to the Sanitary Fund. We wish it distinctly understood that we have no sympathy whatever in any issue between the proprietors of the Union and Enterprise. Nor do we entertain any feeling of rivalry toward our fellow-crafts-men employed on that paper. We consider that what redounds to our credit is equally due to them. The editor of the Enterprise has asserted that but for his promptings, the employés of the Union would never have paid their last contribution. In this he wilfully lies. The employés of the Union were in no way instigated to make the donation by their employers, and never contemplated repudiating it. Thursday morning’s Union gave a full list of the men who had donated the money, and the receipt of Mr. Black, Secretary of the Sanitary Fund, attesting that it ($315) had been paid. This should have removed all doubts, if any existed, as to who were the donors. Why does not the editor of the Enterprise accuse Mr. Geo. F. Jones, Mr. DeLong and many other prominent citizens who subscribed repeatedly during the evening, of being influenced to do so by a spirit of rivalry toward his establishment.

We can only view his blackguardism as an attack upon the members of our craft. In asserting that we “Had not intended to pay the bill, but on secondary consideration, and for the sake of saving an entirely imaginary reputation for virtue and honesty, concluded to do so,” he has endeavored to misinterpret the generous, patriotic promptings of laboring men who gave their little mite willingly; and in so doing he has proved himself an unmitigated liar, a poltroon and a puppy.

THE “HOW IS IT” ISSUE.

When last the Sanitary Commission called for aid, the publishers and employés of the Virginia Daily Union unostentatiously united with their generous fellow citizens and contributed the sum of five hundred and fifteen dollars. We have paid that sum in gold to the Treasurer of the Sanitary Fund for Storey county. The Territorial Enterprise newspaper has only pretended to contribute. It has paid nothing of the contributions which it, with great self-show, promised—always in the presence of a crowd. This sort of showing off was not sufficient in itself. The Enterprise must contemptibly boast of its liberality over the Union, and, in the most unmanly manner, carry its unwarrantable assertions so far as to say that the gentlemen in the employ of the Union would not pay their subscriptions. We showed the utter and unprecedented meanness of the Enterprise in this instance, and that paper yesterday returned a string of despicable stuff knotted so full of lies that there was not left a space sufficient for the smallest thread of truth. Never before, in a long period of newspaper intercourse—never before in any contact with a cotemporary, however unprincipled he might have been, have we found an opponent in statement or in discussion, who had no gentlemanly sense of professional propriety, who conveyed in every word, and in every purpose of all his words, such a groveling disregard for truth, decency and courtesy, as to seem to court the distinction only of being understood as a vulgar liar. Meeting one who prefers falsehood; whose instincts are all toward falsehood; whose thought is falsification; whose aim is vilification through insincere professions of honesty; one whose only merit is thus described, and who evidently desires to be thus known, the obstacles presented are entirely insurmountable, and whoever would touch them fully, should expect to be abominably defiled.