The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-11-17
"TEMPEST IN A TEA POT"

We took occasion in our issue OF the 9Th inst
to call in question the justice of an article
which appeared in the Dubuque Herald on the
4th inst, crticising. the official conduct Of Mr.
Seward, the Telcgraphc Operator this City
Our remarks were mild and to a man of sense
noffensiye; dictated from desire to relieve
an innocent party, of any unmeritcd censurc
which the article in the Herald was calculated
to call forth. In the Herald of the 9th, the ed
itor of that sheet flies into a hurricane of pas
sion and lets forth his pent up ,orath in the fol
lowing beautiful and touchngly grand eloquent
style:
"TELEGTAPEIc DIsPATcHEs.-For the sake
of our patrons and the readers of the Herald
generally, we mentioned on Saturday last the
fact that great discrepancies existed between a
a telegraphic dispatch conveying important
. news of the Presidential election, received by
US, and the same dispatch as received at Gal-na
i The editor of the Express, the Quixote of the
lower end of town--'urns knight errant, and
expresses the opinion that have been un-
generous TO Mr. Seward, the operator, in;ima-
4 ting that the blame may attach to the editor Of
the Advertiser by whose columns we corrected
ours.
Well this might be- if every other paper in
the west which we have received since that
time did not coincide with the ADVERTISE. But
what of that-what of the Dispatch was con-
fused, contradictory and far less than that re-
ported by other operators on the same line
Why this would be nothing at all if we were
as regardless of the truth OF the assertions and
statements that 90 to the public thro' The Herald
as is the Quixot of the Express Of what ap-
pears in his sheet But desiring that the intel
/ ligence which is contained in our paper should
be reliable-at least somewhat near the truth,
we deem such dispatches as the one referred to
as worse than valuless.
But enough as to the opinions Of the Express.
We are obliged to account to the readers of the
Herald for the absence from Mondays paper Of
the news contained in the Extra issued by us
hat morning, by saying that it was received at
the Telegraph Office on Saturday night, at III
o clock, and taken to the Express Office while
the operator did not bring it to this office until
Sunday, near noon"
To have ones veracty questioned by author.
Hy, is certainly TO be placed in a very unenvi-
but when We can trace in that authority the
man of moderate truth and no truth at all, when
it will better serve his purposes, we can discov-
er no cause for modification regret, except
as it exposes to the light, an animal, whose in
stiEcts render him more appropriately an object
Of darkness than light.
We have too often exposed the nakedncss
and deformity Of this fabulous hero in morals,
who revels in the excess of abuse and detrac.
ton, TO make it necessary for US to go into par
ticulars at this time.
But let US refer to the Dispatch, about which
our neighbor has lashe! Inns If into such a
storm of fury. The dispatch in question we
have before US in the "Chicago Press, and al.
though it contains more intelligence than the
dispatch received at this place, yet the same
biundcrs and repctitions are perceptable in both
dispatches. But as we have remarked befnrc,
the errors were slight as to be unworthy ofI
any serious notice.
AS to there being any partiai,y shown towards
thus office, over that of the Herald, d not be
-lieve such is the fact. When we want dispatch
es, we generally go to the office and get them
Our neighbor has the same privilege. lfhe does
not improve it, the fault we suppose is his, and
not the operators.