The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-01-12


much of the article we have but little to do The
resignation of Mr.. Cammack, we suppose, will be
accepted, at least we hope that no obstacles will be
thrown in the way of his retirement to that privacy
which he seeks; nor can we complain OF the praises
heaped upon him by our contemporary of the Plea
yune; the intimate connection which has existed
between the gentleman and that paper in procur-
ing from the North the latest intelligence by express
and telegraph has given them an acquaintance
with each others principles and modes of action,
which no doubt rendered their association harmo-
NOUS and profitable, and made it a point of honor
or them to speak well one of the other. The praises
which the Pcayune lavishes upon Mr.. Cammack,
may, therefore, be set down as no more than was
due and expected from its editors,-as duty dis.
charged on their part as punctually as similar
duty would have been fulfilled on his, if they had
incurred public suspicion or censure on account of
any thing arising out of the acknowledged sc init
mate connection" 1t is enough that the Picayune
does Is not believe that Mr. Cammack has exceeded
little the line of his duty in the management of
the Office, and yet that it does not desire to i'm
peach the testimony of those who appeared against
him. This should be satisfactory to the gentle
man accused, satisfactory to Mr.. Lloyd, his accu-
scr, anu satisfactorily W Tie Three gcHlcLutu WHO
swOre positively to certain awkward facts, and ha-
bitual proceedingst certainly is satisfactory to U.s.
But while we bow in admiration before the inge-
nuity displayed in this paradoxical defence Of Mr.
Cammack. we must be permitted to object when
the same system of tactics is used in defending
those with whom the Picayune does not acknowl-
edge so intimate connections and who, there
FORE have apparent claim upon it for peculiar
an exercise of the art of peading-we mean the
operators of the telegraph Office Of them it is said
the poor operator has usually bear the brunt of
all the censure, and, if readers will believe us,
he has often to bear the sins of distant and negli-
gent correspondents, who, having failed TO deposit
in time important communications, find it an easy
mode OF escaping censure. to assure their friends
that they were the first the spot, but account
of fsvoritism, were unable to procure the mmedi-
ate transmission Of their dispatches And few
lines above" Much has been said of the mis-
management of the line; we have ourselves been
urgent in our complaints against it. Yet charges
of favoritism have been brought against the opera
tors in particular cases, which we know to have
been unfounded.' Of what the Picayune has
complained what Encouragement it has con-
demned, We are at present unable to say but it GER
operators, for the Picayune has never been injured
by that. But that paper should not, by wholesale
attacks upon correspondents, attempt to screen
those persons whose Encouragement it has, at some
time or another so urgently complained Of How
ever negligent correspondents may occasionally be,
there is reason to believe that they ever misdae
their communications, or that the operators, COM
trary to formal instructions, will forward commu-
nications with false dates. This being admitted,
we may as well admit at the same time, that it is
probable that the editor of the Picayune does know
of some charge of favoritism which is unfounded
But we now make charge of favoritism against
the telegraph office to which no such plea can be
urged. We charge that the Pcayune has been aud
Is habitually favored. unjusty favored, favored to
the injury of IFS competitors by the operation of the
telegraph favored in a manner which may perhaps
De explained by the intimate connection" above
alluded to, or in some other equally UNSUITABLE
node. And in proof of this CHARGE we need not
20 far back for evidence. We will not 90 beyond
he year 1849. On the 4th Of January, the Plea
yune published the arrival of the steamer with the
news of Bonaparte's election, but no statement of
he MARKET although there was material advance
n cotton, and an improvement in breadstuffs
Is well as one can know any fact of which he is
lot personally cognzant, that it was put in the
'ffice, at Baltimore, the 3lst of December, or
he LIST of January; and from the arrangements
which the Picayune and ourselves have made at
we know, too, that agent has at all
lines two or three hours the start of theirs This
not the only time that this has occurred with the
oreign news. The arrival of the America, last
November, was the first remarkable suppression, |
nd then, as now, the news was most important : |
mt the Picayune was the only paper that received |
through the SO intimate connection p
While we can prove that our dispatch was, on that |
occasion, put first in the office at Baltimore and
rrived first at Charleston
But to continue-the Picayune published, on the
tn of January, dispatches from Baltimore to the
tn, 9:25 P NJ, while the latest that reached the
;rescent was of the Sd. The Picayune's dispatch
assed ours on the way, and gained full twenty
our hours. But this speed is nothing to the feat
Inhibited on Wednesday; the Picayune having
ispatches to the 9th, while ours, delivered by the
,legraph, only reached the 6th-making the Picay-
ne gain three days upon us by a conveyance,
'hich in public opinion, is held to be instantaneous
We might extend these citations for months back
yed or altogether suppressed, though We had made
arrangements TO give to the public the earliest and
Hest information from all the Northern States;
nigh. cite the fact that the telegraph office had
a one occasion, at least, sent us dispatch, when
ne from the same point had been published in the
icayune, of that evening, two days later The
,erator did not know that our contemporary would
Sc his till next morning, and if he had delayed its
ALLEGATION till that time, both papers would have
I'D Geographic dispatches, but the superior energies
the Picayune would have enabled it to give the
sws of a date two days after ours
We do not object to the Picayune's making use
any eliminate connection " which it NAV form
Their with the officers operators of the telegraph
ne, to secure the latest intelligence, if it can re-
'nce such connection with its sense of propriety
1t when it defends those enjoying the honor and
easure of that connection, from any charge of
voritism it would lead the people to believe that
e advantage which has enjoyed in the reception
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