The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1850-10-11
NeWapnper InleIIlrenGa.

facilities possessed blythe present sge 20
acquir.usa rapid kuowlrdge Of event
passing az renidtc sections Of tn country
Our readers Will perase the following
with pleasurei a
Yesterday, tH6n, being The 9th ofJune
1850. The subscribers oflbe North Amor
lean found spread before them on theiI
breakfast tables snd in their counting
houses, nd matter how early the former
were laid or the ldttet opened. foil re.
port ofthe proceedings of both Houses Of
Of Congress of the day before. up to the
adjournment of the lower branch at Bulf
past nine o'clock, P, M.-Mat Of course: (:
but commonplace as The every day
service fthe press has now become, it is
none the less wonderful. in reality, that
Philadelpliian. New Yorker or Bos
tonian should thus be. every morning,
made acquainted with The doings of the
National Legislature of the day before.
Let the reader Of five years since bs sum.
moned to acknowledge it. One little
circumstance may revive the conscious.
Hess ofthe important nature o the change.
During the preceding day. all Philadel.
phia was agitated by exciting news-the
Cuban news-brea,hing bloodshed and
impending war-from Washington, and
appearing simultaneously there and in
New York. AT ten o'clock at night, we
were able to despatch questions To Wash
inglon, and within halfhour- could we
haYe reached our readers al that time
we had received al answer enabling
US 10 contradict the intelligence. which
exciting as ii had proved. was nothing
more, in the most essential feature, than
an unfOunded rnmor. .s
In the same edition we were enabled
To present news from Halifax-the for.
eign news brought by the steamship A
merica. eleven hours after her arrival at
that port, and ten days after her depart.
ure from LiverpooI-this of course, also;
but the mere suggest on of such service
10 newspaper reader five years since,
would have made his hair briste with in
creduity and perhaps IL dignation. This
Halifax news, he it remembered. passed
through New York, Boston, Portland,
and all the dozen or hundred towns on
the long line of more than thousand miles
between Philadelphia and Halifax; and
from all these towns. too, intelligence
could have been furnished at the same
moment, and would have been, had there
been anything Of consequence to commu.
nicate.
The same paper supplied Intelligence
from New Orleans of the preceding day.
OF California interest aud golden moment-
intelligence from city more than nine.
teen hundred miles distant. aud all laid
before Philadelphia readers the same
morning when it was first rernsed in
New Orleans! Mobile, Charleston, Bal
iimore spoke at the same moment aud in
the same way; and from twenty other
towns on the route, news could have been
furnished with equal rupidity aud ease.
The same paper presented the news
of the day before from Nashville and ST. |
Louis, two cities each about q thousand
miles removed from Philadelphia. The
news 10 the morning journals Of those
two cities was issued in the Philadel
phia papers ofthe same morning. Nay,
marvellous as it may seem. yetilis strictly
true, the difference nf longitude being so
far in their favor, the good peuple of Phil.
adelphia were. yesterday mnruinig, able
to read the news from New Mexico and
the Praries the account nf the anti Tex.
as gatherings in Santa Fe and the move.
ments of the great Caiifurnia caravan on
the plains, an hour earlier than the citi.
zeus ofSt. Louis; and with the proceed
!ngs of the Nashville Convention, the
Of those patriotic sages who
expect 10 preserve the Union by disun.
ion, they had similar advantage of three
quarters OF an honr over the inhabitants
Df Nashville ilsrf We are ashamed to
refer 10 the account from Cleveland
Ut the arrest of Insurance Company
robbers there, and the recovery If the
money, because hat was actually stale.
Cleveland is about 500 miles from Phila.
ielphla; but the news WINS day old.
The world ofthe ne wspaper press does
not yet revnve at n speed of a thousand
miles minute; but it will be seen, from
his little retrospect Of the effort yester.
lay. that it carries its race Of readers a.
ong with it at rate which very nearly |
space and does outstrip time
when the longitudes allow it. 1t is true
hat all this amazing gain-these vast ad.
which readers If 1850 have over
hose enjoyed by readers in 1870 are
he results oflhe invention ofthe magnet
C telegraph. But what were the lele.
oraph without the press2 1t is by the com.
,ination of the energies and means of
publishers, that the Invention
IS rendered available, and its benefits
ecured to the public. individuals alone
;oold saver sustain or enjoyit. The tel {
graph is. in fact. the instrument and :
ervant Of the press, from which il de
ives its existence and its means Of use. {
illness. {
New YORK PoLITrCs. Ills altogether {
probable that the recent splitin the Wing {
'arty of the Empire State, upon mere
distraction or rather matter Of person.
Al choice. following as il does upon the I
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