Semi-Weekly Dispatch

"A journal, calling itself the Day-Book, has been published in New York city, and has not only made itself infamous by its traitorous attacks upon the Government, but has rendered it necessary for the Administration to suppress it, as a measure of self-preservation."

The above statement we clip from the last number of The Times, a paper published in this place, whose editor is now engaged in the interesting exercise of trying to ride two horses at the same time--the Union and the Rebel.

The Times admits that the Day-Book was not only "infamous," but that it became "necessary for the Administration to suppress it, as a measure of self-preservation." Many Breckinridge Democrats of this County were patrons of the Day-Book, and if we are not misinformed, Mr. Orr, the President of the Democratic County Convention, was one of them. One thing is true, that during the day that the Convention was in session in our town, the Book Store of Messrs. Shyock & Smith, where newspapers and periodicals are sold, was literally beseiged [sic] by Democratic delegates to obtain copies of the Day-Book, N. Y. News, and other similar "infamous" sheets. Another thing is true--that these same Democratic patrons of the "infamous" Day-Book have been most earnest and bitter in their denunciation of the Administration for having stopped its publication, which, The Times admits, was "owing to its traitorous attacks upon the Government" and which was rendered necessary "as a measure of self-preservation."

In characterizing these friends of The Times and former patrons of the "infamous" Day-Book, as "Day-Book Democrats," thus intimating that all such were no better friends of the Union than they ought to be, our professed Union friend of The Times charges us with being a "calumniator."

A man who gives "aid and comfort" to the enemy is a traitor who patronizes and promotes the circulation of a paper which The Times has denounced as "infamous," owing to "its traitorous attacks upon the Government," and which, "as a measure of self-preservation," the Administration was compelled to suppress? Is not the support of such a paper as the "infamous" Day Book, giving "aid and comfort" to the enemy? If it is, are not the Day Book Democrats, over whom The Times is now spreading its wings, guilty of treason? If so, are they not traitors? We pause for a reply.