New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-08-16


orouo.e L. enter into no warfare with your paper
understano wei the advantages which an sssai.e0
anrfy suffers controversy with Newspaper owner
and esp.csy the latter be- preds posed 20 pre- juice
Your own agent. for obtsi Jog and receiving hsre
tho Foreign N-Ws wit soavad1 ergg osprs0H gJA ta7
MAKE on rana4 enf ~ re IeSrapt "4ss Ana ~ 4
eaaygG and unui you can a!sy mir assurance may
ssiely leave the public Olts own opinions
Respectfully your ohedieut servant
FRANCIS O J. Smith.
TsS<rspA OHo, Ee'o- FORK, Aux. Is ls49
Remark
Iti.ouite trae,we undcrsta, d, that Mr.. Smith,
IN contracting to expedite the Foreign News 10
tie Associated Press, did stipuste for the priv
lege Of tapping the wires at Portland, and draw
ins il of into his Umpire. That privilege Is &C
cordins 10 any mans conmon sense, 10 be exer-
ci.ed in subordination 70 the Interests OF those
vi hose money pays for all. To say that he has 6
right TO publish the news in Portland as he ad-
mits no has done) before It s used by those who
,ay for It. and thnt he may DO 1t even Ia destruc-
ton Of its value t. them. evisces perception Of
equity which we are not inclined 10 envy NJ
smith must know that nothing like this was un.
der.tood or anticipated by those with whom he
contracted.
?. We are quite willing 70 apprise the sdmirins
rid of MIR Smiths labors and sacrifices IN be-
half OF Gen. Taylor, bot, really, We cannot see
W at they have 10 do with this controversy.
3 We should like TO know how many Umpires
there are in Maine When were there last
Winter. We understood that the news was taken
al the wires for the Bangor papers while being
Transmitted from 81 John TO the Associated Pa
rsr.. aud We are very sure Il was so taken OF at
Bath the evening we were there and directly put
ia type FOR one or more Of the papers Of that city
Perhaps this also 10 stipulated ;or in Mr. Smiths
contract. though we have never heard that It was.
nor have we understood that these journals were
,astAined bv him out OF affection for Gen Tsy ior.
The material point IN the case il here-ll the
News is to be let of at half dozen points ~
Maine. Or even one. how csnwe be sue that some
| hierogyphic euiSmatic hint OF It's Mercantile
bearings does not get through TO some Spectator
IA Wall-st or elsewhere before It Is delivered 10
those who pay the cost OF getting il here. and
want 70 have all the world get fair chance al II ?
| one wey or smother, We are quite sue the eist
of the News ha. been obtained in at les.i one
instance by operators here IN advance OF It's re-
| c,ption by the Associated Pres, and. though ii
may be very difficult TO induce those y ho know 70
tell what they know. We shall make the attempt.
As 20 those sus, iciousy timed wire breakings sc
ay blame now here, bat we greatly desire light on
the subject
T. MI Smith SAYS the news published in ad.
vance m his Umpire at Portland could not hsve
reached Boston aad New York. because the
Esstera trsrs. sc. had let Portland before II was
| .sued-impiy. ue that. q messages made up from
Il hsd been sent to the Telegraph hce IN Port
and or Boston they would have been stopped
lhore. Bat. waving tie consideration Of his
| ~ sAt to send or suppress messages ST discretion
We insist that all that spectators would require
might have been sent IN such way that be
a "a his operators would not suspect It's character
A message from Portland saying simply. Bay
NE thirty barrels Of Floor" might be per ectly
understood BY the receiver In Boston 10 mean,
" The steamer is IN. and Flour bas advanced Tor
fallen. a. agreed on two shillnss 10 Liverpool
Need we enlarge on this head
| $ Mr. Smith has guessed quite wrong as to the
| writer no Knows. II was written by no
person now OF ever connected with The Tribune
The name OF the writer Is a; his service bat DIS
statements sre not The Tnbunss, any more
than Mr.. Smiths are, or any other mans whose
communications We see fl 10 publish.
6 Mr. Smith seems M 81 ease, and displays bad
temper needlessly. II he has lostthe money be -
pstrioucAlly invested in TIE Umpire, It IS no
lault OF ours and. beside, IS BOZ Virtue its own
ample reward Why should he, the owner o! AZ
ess, one Daily. speak 50 disdsinialiy Of contFo-
vsrsy with s newspaper owner, and represent
himself as taken AT a disadvantage Having
al his own paper and as much as be chooses Q;
ours, We think be ought not 10 complala. His IL
feeling has no warrant We rave 1T the honor OF
Knowing him from sside OF sole-leAtber, and wish
nm no harm whatever Bat We DO believe there
,sa esA somewhere with regsrd u the Foreign
News and We mean 70 locate II Il possible We
| oesPc AZ us jealous c 63erauou Ed Tr5
ALAsANA.-ln the Nth District. the L-asoussvs
that the Cheial returns from Greene Co. give
Inse Long .milesse LOcol 80 and Baldwin lWhigl
IA. The Uas0R, shereOPoa. inisrs that lnse Is
ected, as his majority IA the County Is greater
than in lsi,. We shall have a stronger oonvic
| uin that SUCH a calamity hiss happened when We
4 49, tha ra.n--< finn. tna whole district