The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-08-15
TELEGRApHIC NEWS.


The New York Tribune, leading member of the So
called associated press for the reception and transmission
Of telegraphic news makes the following candid adms-
sion
we trust our readers do not hold US in any degree re-
ponsibe for the accuracy OF the teegraphic trash
obliged print from day day in place Of election returns
There u.s. and then, grain Of wheat hidden 10 stacks Of
this chaf and have choice but TO let slide and
ton readers (by this almost needlesy) against put
ting any in IT, Ii it should happen TO be in part true,
they will learn that circumstance in due of mall
While the ASSOCIATED press publishing from day
TO day amusngly exaggerated positively false accounts
Of know-nothing victories in Alabama Tennessee and
North Carolina, the Union only placed such facts and
figures before readers could be obtained from reliable
private Geographic correspondence from the papers which
reached us in the regular course Of the mail Our
ments at the time were questioned with warmth
than courtesy by those who desired different and opposite
intelligence but the result concusyey and triumph
any shown that our first published reports Of the election
differ in material degree from the actual record
In this connexon we take occasion acknowledge our
obligations to the editors Of the North Carolina Standard
Nashville Union, Montgomery Advertiser, aud Mobile
Register for promptly seconding wishes in regard to
the early transmission by telegraph Of election returns
from their respective States That their dispatches did not
to the teegraphc station is merely another provoking IL
lusration of the in which most Of great ee-
graphic lines at present managed.
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KEOw-NoTHING WITHDRAWALS IN LOUISIANA.
The Louisiana Courier of the 9th instant publishes the
.ubjoned list of Withdrawals from hnow-nothng lodges
in the parishes Of West Feciana and Benville:
To the officers and members Of tie secret political order called
knoo-aothings
This will give you due notice that longer
beers of said association believing object and conflict
with the constitution of the United States that is unequal
and oppressv operations and that oaths and obi
cations connected Herewith adhered to, deprive Of free
opinions founded in and the dictates of
own conscience right and just We, therefore, and here
by withdraw ourselves from all further connection with said
ORDER and ourselves from all obligations connecting
US with it.
Perry Dorman, James ?. Harper,
j. W. Shaw, Bat. Barrow,
G. b. Austen, William Elan,
Jones s. Hamilton, $. w. Simmons,
Isaac Suiser, John Reames,
H. p. Hyams, his
A. Lartigue, William = Maddux,
Simpson d. Scott mark.
G, ID. Smith, Wm M. Fletcher,
Wm Dalton Wm r. Barrow, jr.
Wm c. Lyle,
BAYOU SARA, July Is, 1885,
BIENvILLE PARISH, SrAETA, July %, 1865.
Mr. Epiroa: We the undersigned, citizens Of Hancock
comprising part of those who have withdrawn from the
embraced in that class which is grossly assaulted by
writer who appears in your paper Of yesterday the sig
nature Of Bob Short ask the privilege OF defending
selves through columns which have been used
the vehicle Of the attack.
Here follows the defence.l
A. D. Buekncr, Henry j.. Battle,
Frank Burnet, NJ. III. Holsey,
j. w. johnson, Jas III. Mitchell.
Many of the knownothing organs will not hesitate to
pronounce the above bogus Hundreds of similar
bogus names appended TO similar bogus cards appeared 10
the newspapers of North Carolina Tennessee, and Ma-
bama prior the recent elections in these States The
fate Of know-nothngsm in Louisiana is already sealed