The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-08-16
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FROM NEW YORK.


from North, South, East or West, the
coolness of atmosphere above mentioned,
is most acceptable. The cholera reports
preserve the usual average; the deaths
for the city and county of New Yorklast
week, by the epidemic, being 800. The
Hospital physicians are sadly vexed that
their patients are brought to them, gen.
orally, in the last stages of the disease,
and often with other .maladies at the
same time, which, alone, would result in
death. The most skillful of the city
physicians say that really every case of
cholera might be cured, if taken in its
incipient stages. The common form of
cholera is always preceded by a diarhoa,
continuing a day or two. This is easily
cured, but many people take no notice of
it until it has reached the climax, ohol-
era, when they become terribly fright
ened. Oh, for the abolition of terrible
names! There have thousands died of
a long word or an unintelligible one.
A friend of DR.. GRAHAM, the South
erner who killed Col. LoRINe, at the St.
Nicholas, complains of the of~iciousness
of the city reporters, in publishing every
little circumstance connected with the
tragedy, and thus influencing public judg-
ment prior to the trial. He had better
take care how he NEEDLES with the city
reporters, or he may stir up a hornets
nest. The reporters for the New York
Daily Press are essential to the public
quite as much so as their breakfast.
The details of every local occurrence are
what the public have been accustomed to
d%evour, till their appetite is almost insa-
table. 1t is quite amusing to watch
the strife for news between our three
great dailies, the Times, Tribune and
Herald. Each of these papers keep a
small army of reporters on hand, on the
gui viUe for news of all kinds. One has
the collecting of shipping news to do,
and a boat to do it with another watch
es the never-ending conflict of Bull and
and Bear, on Wall St. another attends
to the markets. Then, there is a corps
de reserve, to pick up "horrible TRACE
dies }" destructive CONGREGATIONS }"
daring burglaries +" " strange develop
ments }" and Interesting occasions .
of every description, all over the city
and it's suburbs. The criminal courts,
common council, etc, must be kept con-
stantly supplied with reporters. And
blessed be the paper that can get an item
of news advantage over its neighbor !
When the fire alarm sounds, night or
day, away shoots the Knight of the note
book and pencil, and if the conf1agration
be extended, is soon relieved by a fresh
reporter, and while the fire is yet raging
half it's history is in type, on the press,
and is issued in an extra News comes
to the Police Station that a drunken man
has murdered his wife. Away flies the
reporter, inks down'the shocking appear
ance of the mangled body and attendant
circumstances. Next day he goes to the
great Tombs, proeures a private inter
view with the murderer, and worms out
such particulars of the interesting indi-
vidual's birth, pedigree and adventures,
as he chooses to make public. If he fails
in this, he INDUCES in an elaborate per-
sonal description of the notability. Any
thing to satisfy the m~omentary craving
of the public appetite. When strongly
excited on the subject of Kansas and Ne
braska, copious doses of pro and con
meetings. professions, drawn out ad IN
fnituns, are to be administered. While
people feel uneasy about the cholera, our
journals will give US daily statistics of
its progress, and pleasing details of in
dividual cases, wherever such details can
be obtained. During the season of COM
Elementary dinners, plate presentations,
etc., the reporter is in clover. He eats
epicurean dinnersfree, gratis, for nothing,
and receives the obsequious attentions
of innumerable ineipent orators, or seek
ers after printed notoriety, who admire
his talents, and inquire if he isn't thirs-
ty? He generally is. In winter, espe-
cially, the reporter leads a very dissipa-
ted life, from necessity. Night is the
time when men must work, who have
any thing to do with morning papers.
Pass the Times, Tribune or Herald build
ings, at almost any hour in the night,
and amidst the prevailing silence and
darkness of deserted Nassau Street, a
long line of lighted windows fash on
your vision, high in mid-air. Ascend
almost innumerable narrow stairways,
and you will find a long room or suit OF
rooms, where twelve or fifteen men, fierce
with mustache and beard, sit scribbling
on slips of paper. which are carried or
whisked up every five minutes to the
printing room, above or below, by a lit
tie waiter, as !" copy. Such a life the
reporter lives, eating and drinking at all
hours, sleeping any time and any where
he can. The reporters in the Tribune
Office, are mostly foreigners.
New York is the place for literary
~vagabonds of all sorts. There are the
men who write poetical advertisements,
ballads for the Bowery songsters, carri-
er's addresses for newspapers, and terri
rible penny pamphlet hoaxes. By the