Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-10-19
TELEGRAPHIc DISPATCHES.

respondence from Washington, more eS-
pecially the northern Associated Press, "
paw the Star high compliment in the
regularity with which they make up
their communications from our columns.
The conductors of those journals may
rely implicitly on the facts thus borrowed
from us, as we make it rule to state
nothing as positively true in our Wash
ington news, of which we are not posi-
lively certain. We have published the
Star daily since the 5th of July last, and
in all that time have not made what
might be called an error in our budget,
except in the single announcement that
it could not be possible that the Wash
iDgton Globe is hereafter to be political
newspaper. We were led into this error,
if error it is, by information from gen.
tleman who should have known better.
We are induced to call the attention of
the public to the fact of the invariable
accuracy of our statements concerning
what is going on in Washington, more
especially because the conductor of the
Globe, in his prospectus shows that he is
too slow coach to know what goes on
around him. Thus, he gravely says that,
at present, reliable Washington news is
not to be found in Washington paper;
and that among his purposes, is that of
sending it off ahead of those connected
with the distant press. As this conveys
an intimation that this is not done by the
Star, we take it for granted that he has
not been in the habit of reading the dis
tant newspapers of late, because it is rare
to find in their columns the latest Wash
ington news even by telegraph, which
fails to be taken from our columns. This
is too patent to have escaped his notice,
if he reads the papers. So we do not
write extravagantly, in saying that he
shows himself to be vastly behind the
times. However, we welcome him into
the field as gatherer of Washington
news and gossip, and are exceedingly Gu
rious to see what sort of a reliable me-
lange of general and particular Wash
ington news the Globe will present, along
with its eighteen solid columns of Con-
gressional reports daily made up, as we
are told it is to be, to the hour of going
to press. 1t strikes us at the first blush,
however, that we will find nothing of the
sort in the Globe which may by any pos
sible chance be likely to tread on the toes
of any gentleman who has vote upon
the compensation for the official reports,
to begin with and if we are not mista-
ken, the interest in Washington news
during the session of Congress centres
almost wholly in matters upon which the
members take sides. If Mr.. A. makes
stupid speech, squandering the public
time and money thereby, We will hardly
have that fact announced in the Globes
Washington news column. If Mr.. B. is
preparing to bring forward proposition
for the expenditure of public money for
an unconstitutional and unnecessary pur-
pose, it is hardly reasonable to presume
that the Globes reliable and early WASH
ington news will breathe a whisper in
exposition of the true character of the
scheme, and of the parties who are to
be benefited by it. If the Hon. Mr.
c. gets into a squabble in a gambling
house or bar room, and gets his nose
pulled, the distant public will probably
have to whistle as earnestly for early
truthful intelligence of the "muss," as
for paragraph to tbs point, explain
ing how the Hon. Mr.. d. may have
gouged the Treasury in making out his
account for mileage. While We readily
admit that in publishing full debates of
the Houses of Congress, we shall be far
behind the Globe, we are quite satisfied
that in furnishing promptly every Wash
ington news item of possible interest to
any one at distance, we shall be quite
as far in advance of the Globe as we are
now of all competitors; more especially
because we have no favors TO ask of Con-
gress, the Administration, OF any one
else. We rely on the great reading pub
lie of the country. They have received
our enterprise with such favor as was
never before extended to Washington
journal, because We invariably give them
early reliable information from Washing
ton on all interesting subjects. Our