The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1855-05-05
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ERRORS AND MEASUREMENTS.

ERRORS AND MEASUREMENTS.
rrIIerc is a communication called out by
errors on the part of the Editor and cores
pondcnts of The Wing and which should be
Il sautary lesson to both. The haste with
which a newspaper is gotten up and issued
necessarily leads to numberess mistakes,
and to the oversight of many errors which a
second reading would detect. A large amount
of the inside pages of The Wing each week
is put in type on Friday afternoon and even
ing: it is printed during that night, and now
that its circulation has grown to be so con-
siderable. the whole of every Friday night is
occupied with tall the hands in the Office
being at work the entire night. This leads
to many errors, not only typographical, but
errors in fact, which time for examination
would detect.
The error referred to as having been made
BY the Editor. occurred in that way. On
the occasion Of the receipt of the news Of the
death of Nicholas reference was made for
something os his history TO a work consider
cd good authority, that paragraph Of infor-
Sec Rcdficld's "Nlcn of the Time" page $50
and ISL. 1t was a reference to those pages
which led us into the crIor-thc item was
cnncd-thc press shut down on it and we
had never read it afterwards.
1t is our wish and effort to be correct in
all matters of fact; and no week occurs that
kttcrs are not suppressed, or paragraphs
stricken out on account of supposed errors
or supposed mis-statemcats.
1t would be strange if among so numerous
corps of correspondents as that of The
Wing, whose styles and stations arc so diver
sifed, occasional mis-statemcnts both intcn-
tional and accidental did not occur, without
the possibility of detection by the Editor.
Feeders of The Wing, such as "Ceasor "
should always. when they detect such errors,
set them right through its columns: that
course would diminish their frequency at the
same time that it corrected those which had
passed. 1t would be prevention as well as
cure. We conclude by saying as at the
start, that the communication Of "Ceasor"-
for which he has our thanks-should prove
salutary to both correspondents and Editor,
and that its author would do well also to
correct such injurious mis- statements as he
detects.
NOTTINGHAM, 4th mo-, 2Sth. '55.
TO the Editor of The Cecil Whig During
thc year past, which is the first of my regular
acquaintance with The Cecil Wing I have
been agrceably disappointed in lis :haIac CT.
i's moral bearing Is more pure tslah nae,
"Srcc'cd 10 tha IT, ana the literary standard
n'"ei' VI ~" coi'eh's is aooNc repi"'cn'
.'' ar,'c1cs lave apF'arca from 'iille 10 l'me'
from u'G pens OF some OF us correspondents;
III s'FlG fa'ier waning IN rcilheh'ent' ana
some Oh mem containing siarii'S ms state
:''ehtS Oh 'acs: me novice III composition
Is prone 70 i,''''a'e inc style he Is cof'ersan'
WIN al" whenever such an one a'temprS 10
Prepare an article 'or 'he press ne VIII DC
a'kry 10 copy 70 Sois'e extent inc f'ode OF OK
preston o! MS eNo" correspondents. "neh
we c"hSiaeT inc Miue'sPre"a 'hhecnce OF a
weekly paper OYER lhoSc VINO are accustomed
10 ro'fu ~ e'lce!a',y inc you,,s' IL St''hcs US
as a ,iIa.eer OF Isa'por,anoe taat '''e A"'I'i
enou'u eHerc'se at'lot SUI 'e'S''c' o'ef 'i'
s'yie ana tone ui its columns
nul IL Is ,rul''ul''ess; 10 "h'cn L especial
~ aihae. uooot ''ot had inc Eal'or kho"r
Inc Ja''s treated OF py some OF MS correspoh,
cents, thar letters would not nave appeared
IN pr'nt. one , on thcm speaks OF OF village az
Containing = eoZem evenings, shops' &C
NO" 'he only ouiiding "l,hm ABOUT a quar-
Ter OF ini'e OF ihe S ROADS whe.e ths news
aaper village ~ 'ocateu Is one la'm mouse n
WIN l,s appur.enahces ohe pefso" a'i,iueu
10 as gong business II, sa'd ll'lage llvso
"oou' nl''c os'ai' ifo''i ,he ~ ro'uS
Al'oa1er ~. CORRESPONDENT uesc'i , .'ll,ase
eaueIea, inc writer perhaps kl'ows where
heard: and then goes OH TO tell of the sale oil
"a farm for more than $500 ''per acre. y
The fact of the latter transaction was that
the individual there named sold lot of per-
hars three acres, with house. stable. &c.
upon 1T for specific sum. l could adduct
other instances IN which the persons or things
treated of have come within nv knowledge