The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-06-07
THE DISPATCH.

The following certificates will demonstrate
that the Penny Post has been misinformed IN
difference to the circumstances which are
made the groundwork of the following
charges
First with regard to the telegraph No notice w
,;yan 70 anv other paper, as tsr az we ca"
f.1n ,bat The Dispatch had engaged the teIe-
s,snb .ftsr ten O'Clock 1t therefore had ,he gsIne
r. ~. eysn hand. IL the news were very imPortant
70 Is on hre suppressed it until the morning when
:, mIsht nave made its appearance In the ptspaich
and in ne other paper thereby giving NE prs 81
no value of course the Dispatch could send around
TO the other papers. Why were not the o,hef pa
,sr, notified OF this contracil They are partners
Il ths sespatches that come to the associated press
The Dispatch newspaper receives them, and they
are copied at the telegraph once ana sem srouho
each We do rot mean to 'sY that the Dlspstcn IN
fded to taxa such advantage, bat 1t had the Poic
sy TO have done Il, and the fact that no nonee was
given to the other papers gives rise TO unpleasant
eonjectures-PoEt
Annexed are the certificates of MIR. Geo.
Rady, telegraph operator, and Mr.. James
w. Lewelen:
WAND N. O. TELEGRAPH OFFICE
June 9th, 1855
Tbis ia To state thst when the Dispatch engaged
the w. l. N. o. line Friday night, no message was
stopped By them One message that night came 10
the Associated Press after 10 o'clock ana 1t was Ia
ken BY Mr. H. C. Tinsley of the Dispatch, to the
Penny Post office, and copies were sent oy usto tue
Wing and Enquirer, but those papers were clo st
up. On Saturday night the Dispatch gave UP tue
line, and no message came through. aod on sunday
night the same thing hsPpenedi The plspsacn f fnl
the Associated Press that came through arter nous
was disposed of Sc stated aboye ,o.
w Il N. o. Telegraph Office
On the afternoon of the 25th of May, called on
Mr.. C. A. Rose, the editor OF the Penny fost,
and informed him that Mr. CowARDIN haa secured
the telegraph for after hours, the remainder OF the
week, for all the city papers TO prevent the At1e,
rican Organ from monoPolizing 1t sgan IS Il a'o
on Thursday night. }. W. LIE " E4AHEN'
ID. "Be,ide,. who knows that sll these loco.foeo
Roman Catholic illusions were paid for In haTd csAh;
The proprietor has the right to have them marked
paid. witbout exscting cent Who knows that this
practice has not been pursued herel'-Post'
Annexed is the certificate of Mr. John ID
Hammersley, the business agent of the pro
prietor:
RICHMOND, June g. 1856.
The undersigned hereby certifies that all the po-
litical notices which have appesre9 IN the Dlspsten
during the late election paid for and by persons
not connected with this Office, or their payment ss-
sumed by responsible parties. The letter OF judge
paid for by three gentlemen of this city, the names
OF whom any person csn OBTAIN 3y sppiyrng a. 1hs
office. JOHN d HAMMERSLEY.
Sd. "The very fact that the proprietor went mp to
the polls and deposited his vote for Wise, pompous-
Iy endorsing the back of his ticket for civil and
religious hbsrty,' is argument enough against his
neutrality ~ Post.
In reply to this charge, certificate is an
nexed of Henry G. Cannon, Esq:
RICHMOND June G 1855
While in the Office of the Clerk of the Hastings
Court, this morning. business | was shown the
ballot of James A Cowardin in the late election,
which ballot file together with others in the
said Office There is writing OF any sort upon the
back of the bsilet, except the name James A
Cowsrdin." Upon the face of the ticket appear the
names of the candidates for whom he voted. There
is not HRon any part of the ticket the words " for
civil and religious liberty"
| make this certificate at the request of Mr.. John
ID. EammerseY, by whom the ticket wss shown to
HENRY G. CANNON.
In reply to the charge that the general con-
duct and bias ofthep paper have been Catholic
and Democratic, the following is presented:
The undersigned, editors of the Richmond Dis
patch have in their hands the conduct OF the edto-
rial LEGAL and departments OF that paper
Their constant aim has been to preserve rigid neu-
traty In their several departments and in this they
believe they have fully succeeded: Being Protes-
taus, and each and all of them, ike almost every
other man connected with the Dispatch office, hav
ing voted the American ticket. they can of course
have had no bias towards the Roman Catholic Church
O. P. BALDWIN,
JAS. w. LEWELLEN,
HENRY c. TiNSLEY.