The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-06-09
THE NEW ORLEANS DISTURBANCE AND THE DE-
SPATCHES BY TELEGRAPH

As one Of the Associated Press paying our proportion
Of the expense of maintaining the arrangement for
curing the latest by telegraph have right to
inquire into the conduct Of the agents who under
take to supply the press with such During the
citing events in New Orleans last week, the public mind
much interested and concerned in the progress Of the
instruction against the authorities of that city, and
everybody throughout the country looking anxiousy
for intelligence from that quarter Two days elapsed
without single word Of Information, and then, Mon
day morning, after the complaints of Of the Sunday
of the delay the agent published in the va
papers of this city the following explanation to the
dispatches dated the 4tl and 5th instant
Sandcy ErnThe above dispatches tho latest received
on the tslssraph line between Pbug and Wheeling 50 thai,
the dispatches accumulated Wheeling during tho whole Of saur
morning, and from thence transmitted TO this city"
Az this explanation does injustice to reliable tele-
graph line, which unbroken in its connexion from
New York New Orleans and In full working operation
during tho entire period the dispatches delayed at
Wheeling, took the trouble yesterday Of making some
inquiries about the matter We applied to the assistant
chief operator of the Magnetic Telegraph Company from
New York to Washington, which is connected with the
Washington and New Orleans line, and he sent from
this city the following despatch to the operator at Wash
ington
June 7To T. Caldwell, chief OPERATOR Wash
ngo We're wires in good working condition between Washing
New Orleans Saturday morning and since that time
tho IrssentY b. r. SNYDER
He received an answer that at Washington the Office
had got despatch from New Orleans early Saturday
morning. announcing wires In good working order, aud
continuous communication had all day On Sunday
morning the wires also in good working con-
dton to New Orleans and continued up to the hour
Of closing Sunday. The following communication
was also sent;
PnIADnA TO Joseph Beach, ESQ., Chief Operator
10 Sv anng an ne% "oo %
time 10 the present. IL 7. SNYDER
The answer follows
YoRK, juno 7-ToB snyder Philadelphia Worked
New Orleans On saturday and Sunday. BEACH
An inquiry was next made in regard to the commune
cation between Baltimore and Wheeling, follows
PHIlApErsnA June VIM barrett Esq Chief Operator, West
Baltimore Wheeling Saturday morning that
tme ~ W tho present Please reply. "a IL
The answer was
June n !. ., nydsr Philadelphia rs, good
These proofs establish the that there was an un-
broken working connection during Saturday and Sunday
from New York and Philadelphia to New Orleans and
from Baltimore to Wheeling, yes tho dispatches Of Fri
day which should have been published In the morning
papers Of Saturday did reach here till Sunday evening
and then by mail from Wheeling TO Pttsburg They
could have been sent here by the Washington and New
Orleans line, connecting with the New York and Wash
ngon line, or, having reached Wheeling through other
lines they could have been sent to Baltimore through
the western line, from Wheeling to baltimore, and
thence to Philadelphia, New York, Boston, &C. These
two last named lines are however not In the MONOPOLY
which parties seeking to establish from New Orleans
the British possessions the British provinces the
Atlantic and thence to London To help this monopoly
the news agents prefer to dsappoin their employers the
newspapers by letting them wait for two days for their
telegraph dispatches when by using the line which
in operation the newspapers could have immediately
ceved the dispatches they pay great price for They
willing, appears to receive money for services they
do not perform, when they have the ability II they
may wait for the mails to them In instance
they may do in Others and put the money the news
papers into their pockets If the newspapers were
the only sufferers by this conduct tho fact would be
for their consideration only and their correction but a.
the people Of tho United States, from end Of the
Union to the other depend almost exclusively upon the
newspapers for the of the day. which CO. greatly
Affects their business and their interests the unwnrran
BILE withholding Of dispatches unnecessary delay In
their delivery becomes great public wrong which should
be exposed to public reprobation.