The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-05-31
THE DISPATCH.

Arono the many rumors recently in cir
culstieu designed to prejudice this paper
was one relating to the telegraph.
A regulation of the telegraph estaohsn,
es office hours from in the morning III
10 at night. It's farther provided that aiter
10 o'clock any newspaper that desires IT,
may have possession of the line un1i 'ne
morning hour by paying certain sum per
hour IN the Operators in addition to the toi's
upon them for their messages.
This privilege Washington paper avail
Cd itself Of on Thursday, the Gath instant
and that night, at 10 o'clock, the use OF the
line was handed over to that paper. tele-
graphic message had begun to come Tor the
Richmond press, and was cut OH, and we were
told thst possibly about o'clock, we couid
qst our messages. That was an hour too late
for US, as our paper must necessarily 60 10
press before that hour to print oil our iarge
addition in time. The period was one OF In
tense interest, in relation to election news
It is indeed always important Tor the lhiof
nation of the public here, and for the com
mercial interests of the city that the messages
for the Richmond press should be receiveo'
The steamer America arrived on thal uSy'
and the Richmond press was deprived OF ner
news. Even if the America had orougnt L.
dings of the taking of Sebsstopol' on FRIDAY
morning, not a single paper IN hlchnonu
would have had the news.
Seeing how prejudicial such forestalilng
of the line was to the press and the puDhc
here, without consulting our cotemporarles'
we at once engaged thu line for after hours
the balance of the week. The engagement
was designed for the Richmond press ana II
turned out we were just in time to save 1t
from being forestalled again. After 10
o'clock Friday, the newspapers of Richmond
all received their messages, and all were pro-
tected.
Will it be believed 1t was circulated
about on Friday that we had absolutely mon
opolized the line day and night, and that no
one could get message over it! Aparty be
came highly excited and one of them visited
the Telegraph office, and threatened that the
wires would be torn down
Another rumor hostile to the paper has
also been in circulation. 1t is reported that
the Dispatch has departed from its neutrality.
When and where? Let us have the date
and department of the paper in viii Oh its
neutrality was sacrificed. Was 1t IN the edl-
torial department, the news department, or
the local department? Produce the para
graph or line in either of these departments,
in which the neutrality of the Dispatch was
for a single moment surrendered, and we
will admit that the report has some founda-
ton ia truth. AS it is, we deny it, explicitly,
emphatically, solemnly deny it. We will
cheerfully lay open our files to the most
searching investigation of all who feel the
the slightest doubt upon the subject. We
know it has been our sincere intention and
constant aim, as well as that of the gentle
men who preside over the various depart
ments of this paper, to make it most rigidly
neutral in spirit and in letter, and we feel
sure that that intention has been faithfully
and efficiently carried out.
The report in question however, we learn,
is founded upon advertisements, political ad
vertisements, which have been published in
the Dispatch. Democratic refreshments
have been published in this paper and so
have Know Nothing advertisements. If the
Dispatch leaned to the Democracy by pub
fishing the former, it must have leaned to
the Know Nothings by publishing the latter.
The editors rarely, if ever, see any Of such
advertisements till they appear in the paper.
Advertising for parties is done by the neu
trail press everywhere, the neutral press being
free for all parties and with such papers as
the Dispatch their circulation makes them sn
important medium, and causes them to be
sought by all parties. With such rules as
will exclude obscenity and gross PERSONAL
ty, everything that is offered and paid. for
is published. This is the invariable custom
with the neutral press everywhere.
The example of every neutral paper in this
city sustains it. Every neutral paper ever
published in this city has followed the rule
taking advertisements and payment for them
from all parties, and very justly, as the quad
pro quo was rendered. This is exactly what
the Dispatch has done. This is all that
it has done. Every political notice in
its columns, every political argument, were
paid for. This was the case alike with
the card of Valentine Hecker and the letter
efJudge Robertson. We challenge any man
who denies this statement to name single
instance to sustain his denial. The Dipatch
was open to all. Those who did not use it,
we suppose, choose not to do so; but they
have no right to complain that others did
The contract which we made with the pub
lie to publish neutral paper, has been faith
fully fulfilled.
THE ALTON HOUSE.
Il will be seen, by reference to our adYer.