[The Eagle has very few]

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The Eagle¹ has very few of the traits of the noble bird whose name it bears. It endeavors, parrot-like, to model itself on the fashion of that model sheet, the Herald² of New York. It has succeeded only in copying the Herald’s worst features. The slang language, vulgar tirades, ill humor, irreverence, and, above all, the ridiculous boasting, are faithfully reproduced; but the sagacity and enterprise of the Herald it cannot imitate in the faintest degree.

Every one knows that language is often used to conceal thought—that the loudest gasconading is used to cover the utterest weakness and defeat. If the one half of the Eagle’s pretensions were valid, it would not need so often to assure the public of the fact. He who is forever boasting of his own exploits, is always a sorry poltroon.

The latest chapter of the Eagle’s vauntings contain two sections—first, that it has a wonderfully large sale in Greenpoint, and next, that it has fuller and better reports of the Legislative proceedings and matters generally than we have. With regard to the first, we only trust that it will not cultivate Greenpoint to such an extent (as it did yesterday), as to render it oblivious of the current Brooklyn news, such as the opening of the Oyer and Terminer, and the Judge’s charge. As regards the other matter, we are too modest to contest the point as to which paper has reported Albany matters best, either this year or last. The only remark necessary to be made on this head is, that while in neither year have we had to borrow a line from the Eagle, it has been compelled, despite its own superior sources of information, to copy whole columns, both this year and last, from the “two or three sketches” to which it now so disparagingly alludes. It is rather too bad, first to steal our reports and then decry them.

It is somewhat remarkable that after ignoring our existence for months, the Eagle should have so suddenly and so uproariously fallen foul of the TIMES; we are surprised to find that the meagre diet of Lent can have accomplished the secretion of so much bile. Surely, if the Eagle is so prosperous and so far ahead of its neighbors as it represents, it ought to be a little better-tempered. Folks that are well-to-do in the world are not commonly troubled with envy and spite, nor do they watch, like a famished cur, every morsel that is put into the mouth of another.—The Eagle knows what we mean, and whereabouts in the fence the colored gentleman may be found.

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