The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-11-29

We are disposed to bear evils, while they are
bearable, without complaint or murmur; but the
evils inflicted by the operators Of the Telegraph
somewhere between this place and Baltimore, have
assumed character which no patience can endure
in silence. Previous TO the Presidential election,
we had made arrangements at Philadelphia to have
sent to US the details of the vote in all the northern
States; we have the best Of reasons for believing
that they were sent, but we never received any of
them. We know that general statement of the
returns was dispatched to us and other papers of
the city connected with us in receiving Geographic
dispatches from Baltimore, on the morning of the
Sth of November, but it was never received. We
know that the news of the steamer America was
put into the office at Baltimore some hours before
the dispatch for the Picayune-we know that the
Picayune published the news on the 18th of No
vember, and that our dispatch has not arrived yet
We might continue this enumeration, but we have
gone far enough, we think, to show that there is
fraud carried on somewhere on the line-fraud re-
dueed to a SYSTEM for so many remarkable failures
corld not be the result of accident The arrange
ments for Foreign News, particularly, which we
have made at Baltimore, should ensure us the ear
LEST and fullest intelligence, yet it is certain that
our dispatches, if they do not fail altogether, which
is often the case, are detained somewhere on the
route and others which started later are sent ahead
of them. These are facts susceptible of proof in
court of justice. And they are facts which are in
the highest degree dsgraceful to the management
of the Telegraph Line. And we call upon the d.
rectors of the company to have this matter closely
sfted, and thoroughly investigated. II system of
avoritism is to grow up in the line-if messages of
importance may be entirely suppressed whole
business and correspondence of the country, en-
trusted TO the Telegraph, may be kept back, for
warded, used at the will or for the purposes of
irresponsible operators, then the sooner the wires
are broken and the posts burned the better for all
parties Some of the proprietors of this route have
shown themselves very willing 10 appeal to the
laws, and invoke the nterposition of courts of JUS
tice to prevent competition and secure to them
selves monopoly; but they should remember that
they are to do as well as to ask Justice and that
whatever the decision of the Courts upon existing
laws may be, there is in this country higher
power even than the laws-the law makers-the
people, who will not submit to a monopoly used
only for the selfish purposes of the subordinates
connected with it. If the stockholders and direc-
tors of the line desire to obtain the confidence of the
public, which we sorry to say their line has not
yet deserved, they must give this subject their i'm
mediate attention-when they begin to do so we
shall give them credit for itbut if things continue
to go ON now, we shall take occasion to expose
the Encouragement in no fattering terms, but in
what may be worse the words of truth and Justice