The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-01-06
The Telegraph-Again.

The Telegraph-Again.
The controversy between the Geographic gentle
men that were, and those who now occupy that
pilloried position of public admiration, has been
going on for week past with great ardor, and the
victims of Geographic man9uvres have derived
much profitable instruction therefrom, and some
amusement of melancholy sort-such as the
traveller would derive from the mutual abuse and
quarrels of banditti who had just rified his mails.
For ourselves, we have looked on with q sort of
grim delight, expecting and hoping every moment
to witness second edition ofthe catastrophe of the
Kilkenny Cats but we have not been gritified in
the extent to which the parties would injure each
other although the quantity of mud which has been
thrown and adhered, is sufficient to satisfy their
most inveterate enemies. In any other city than
this, such a state of things as ha been exposed
would be sufficient to drive the mercantile and
business community to desperaHon-to seek redress
in some way-ether by law or by some more sum-
mary means. But in New Orleans, we have so
long been in the habit of being imposed upon by
bold charlafans, impudent pretenders to respecta-
bility, the overbearng airs of hypothetical wealth,
and the downright knavery of individuals and cote
res that the people have almost forgotten that they
have rights or least that they have the means of
indicating them, but like the faithful Mussulman
when the bastinado of the Cadi is applied to his
feet in order to wiring the sequins out of his purse
they ready quietly to suffer, and patiently MUIR
muir, "God is great and Mahomet is prophet"
Where else could it be known that the correspon.
dence of the whole community was subject to the
surveillance of self constituted and irresponsible
oveIseers, without causing an excitement which
would make itself seen and felt, acknowledged and
respected by the culpable parties-where else could
the mock-dignity of Mr. Cammack, the impudent
aippancy Of his man Noel, and the bad English and
worse sense OF their anonymous defender, pass as
they do here without arousing resentment at the
wanton insult with which they cap the climax Of
accumulated wrong? Whether this thing shall last,
we will see We, at least, do not intend to submit
to it. We have been personally defrauded, and for
that fraud rather for the long series of frauds from
which we have suffered we intend to have redress if
it be obtained But in injuring the proprietors
of the Crescent and other papers, the Telegraph
Company has inflicted an equally direct injury
upon the community at large We know and we
can and will prove that important dispatches have
been sent to us from Baltimore and other points,
containing of general interest to all our citi
zens, containing the arrivals of foreign steamers
the state of the markets, the tendencies and pros
pressed; we know, and will prove, that others, and
generally all, have been detained the route, and
the dispatches of at least one other paper given the
precedence over them. To such an extent has this
been carried that the Office in this city has actually
sent us dispatches which had been duly and timely
sent from Baltimore after the news had reached
here even by Cave Johnson's slow mail Why
has this been done! We will not presume that it
was on account of any personal enmity to our
selves-we do not suppose that the gentlemen who
gamble in corn and cotton have any feelings to-
wards us either good or bad--but it is because we
do not happen to be either directly or indirectly
associated with them, or dependent upon them
and when we received the news it would be i'm
medately published and not withheld to facilitate
their specializing operations If justice were done
% us, the preference which they have secured to
themselves in the transmission of news or even
the innocent means to which they resort to learn
the news transmitted to others without their know
ledge or permission, would avail them but little
We have made, and have had for months, arrange
ments at Baltimore by which the foreign news
would be started southwark at least three hours in
advance OF that received by any paper not employ
ing the same agency; for the dispatches are ready
for the Telegraph Office by the line that the first
boat from the steamer reaches the Shore either at
Boston or New York j; they are thence sent imme
diately to Baltimore, and without any delay for
warded to this city. 1t must be apparent that if
these dispatches are not delayed in the transmits
sion by the Washington and New Orleans line, all
chance of fraud, concealment and unwarrantable
speculation, is done away with. But we know that
they habitually detained at some of the Offices
, he limo bot eli
suppressed. We know from the publications re-
Gently made in this city, that the Washington and
New Orleans Company employ operators at rates
OF wages less than day laborer can earn, greatly
less than the news boys get for vending the morn
ing papers; we know, TOO, that the men having
control of the line at this end of the route at least
are largely engaged in speculations and we do
not much believe in their scrupes of conscience, or
IN the integrity Of their poorly paid operators. The
motive Tor suppressng or retardng these dispatches
is so apparent, the means of doing it so easy and
the fact thatt is done, certain that no one need
longer entertain doubt as to the existence or the
cause of what the President of the COMPANY him.
self was compelled to acknowledge as a fraud
The outrage upon our rights committed bv this
Company, has been a matter of sore grievance to
us. We have been at heavy expenses to obtain
the earliest and most authentic intelligence, and
have found ourselves thrown in the background by
combinations that defy all fair competition. We
have labored hard to make our paper useful to the
business community, by giving it that kind of nfor
nation requisite to the existence of wealthy and
prosperous commerce, and destructive of the mere
gambling operations of trade, and through no fault
of our own We have partially failed to do so-and
the consequences have been Immediately disadvan.
tageous 10 us, and to all. For these reasons we
have the right to complain--and we shall continue
to do so, in every available form, until things are
changed--whether we are backed by others or not.
The public may patiently suffer long as it
chooses-our merchants and traders may, if they
please, have the load piled upon them till it break
their backs-we have done our duty to them in
exposing the wrong /: we shall do our duty to our.