GOLD-BUG, n. In political matters, a miscreant who has the wickedness to know that legislation cannot maintain a permanent relation between the values of two metals, even by the luminous device of binding them together in the same coins. A miller who grinds the faces of the poor and takes the whole grist for toll. A hideous monster that disturbs the Bulletin’s repose by sitting astride Deacon Fitch’s stomach, picking the bones of “the debtor class” and blaspheming the dollar of our fathers.