Weekly miners' express. (DuBuque, Iowa) 184?-1849, 1848-10-31


The following from the St. Louis Uni
on, explains more satisfactorily thanany
thing we have yet seen, why it is that we
haveso many false Election returns sent
by the telegraph. We publish the ar,i-
Gle entire, that it come later than we
could have wished. We have cautioned
our readers against putting too much re-
lance upon these Geographic reports, and
still continue the same caution. -,
As the motives for making these false
reports, no longer exist, we hope, in the
returns of the Presidential Election, the
community will not be annoyed by them.
TELEGRApHrc RErURNs.-As the cleo
tons in Ohio, and Pennsylvania "conle
off" next Tuesday, we do not expect any
but Wing and one sided returns Of the
election in Florida, Georgia, Maryland
and South Carolina to be forwarded by
telegraph. The reporters along the tel
egraphic route are Wings, and the worst
kind of Wing partizans, who have secur--
ed thus far q monopoly in dispatches
They disregard all rules Of fair business,
and distort every thing to answer their
party ends. The Louisville Democrat
has taken the pains to collect long list
of false returns sent by them during the
last ten weeks. Pending the Kentucky
elections, they suspended the news from
North Carolina as it was against the
Wings; and the grossest msslatements
with regard to Illinois and Iowa were for
warded. The errors thus sent on, they
never corrected, but left them to be dis
covered by the slow course Of mail.
The dispatches are paid for by demo,
Gratis as well as wings, and all we want
is the truth We want that, too, prompt
lv and without coloring. The Despatch
es are received toe late at night to pass
under the eyes Of the editors, and conse-
quently they 90 into the Democratic pa
pers generally just as they are decipher-
/ ed The election in Maryland took place
on Wednesday last we believe, and we
could have had returns from Baltimore
on Thursday or Friday. But as they
were not sent, we are left 10 conjecture
the result. If they had been nattering
to the wings, we would have had them, we
doubt not, without delay. The returns
from Georgia make out Wing gain OF
one Congressman; but so many false
hoods about elections are sent by tele-
graph, that we place no reliance on that
despatch. The election took place on
Wednesday. and we received the first dcs-
patch on Thursday morning, giving the
result in Savannah, and in Bibb county.
On Friday, we had the pretended returns
from six of the eight Congressional Dis
trc;s, without the figures, however,
The telegraph could be of but little aid in
collecting the returns from the different
counties, although it could forward them
without delay when collected. We must
again put our readers, and the public, on
their guard against telegraphic returns
Of elections, as long as there is an cleo
ton to be held any where.
Why not, ii may be enquired, obtar
returns from faircr and more reliable
sources. We answer that the combina
ton which has been formed by the pres
} ent reporters along the route, gives then
virtually monopoly, which cannot be
broken up, except at heavy cost. We
expo nded large sum in the effort; bu
as it was impossible to induce our Demo
cratic contemporaries along the routes tt
Join in the arrangement and expense 0
new corps, we had 10 do what they
were doing make the most out Of the
present concern, which sometimes sends
| US valuable news on other than polltica
subjects. Our democratic contempora
ries generally did not think that Their
was so much danger Of false election re
turns as they now see; and they conse
; quently placed too low an estimate on tn
value Of proper reports during the can
vass. The telegraph, like the Post Of
flee, delivers whatever is given, just a
: given. If false statements are sent, tn
operator can't help it. The reporter
d who are employed by the papers, howe'
err, are deserving Of the severest rebuk
for the course they have pursued; an
they have destroyed all confidence i
their integrity and the value Of newsp;
) per dispatches.