Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-11-25

DR.. MAcKENzrF, in giving his readers his
tory OF the organization known as the "Asso-
ciated Press" touches upon the reason why
such combinationli is impossible in Europe
He says:
There is no such thing in England, nor, of
course in any other European country. of
news telegraphed from various places and
simultaneously conveyed to.newspapers of all
shades of politics and purposes, and by these
journals to their readers at one and the same
time In fact, Foreign newspapers make very
little use of the Electric Telegraph. The
leading London and Continental daily journals
receive kilograms from principal parts, but as
this is at the proper and separate expense of
each individual paper, the cost prevents any
like details. Two or three lines per diem is
all that At London paper receives by telegraph
from Paris, and; rice Tersa, that Paris paper
receives from London. Indeed, when, com
municddons in cypher are forbidden to be
sent over any line in France where the Gov.
eminent claims the right Of reading every
message before it is sent, and of dealing in the
same way with every Disqualification "outside
barbarians,n and putting veto upon the trans
mission or reception of such messages, it is OBJ
yious that newspapers cannot receive any very
confidential news in this way. At each tele-
graph station, a Government official looks over
every message handed in. The sender who has
paid for its Transmission, goes away with the
belief that in a very short time, his message will
reach its destination. But, if the official does
not like the wording of the message if he finds
or iancles that there is more in itthan meets the
eye, he simply says, This message cannot
pass"-and there it rests, on his private file.
speedily to be submitted to the Minister of the
Interior, who may or may,not aowit to be sent
on next day. The same way with messages re-
ceiyed. The Official Carefully reads them, one
by one, with asuspicious mind and very vigilant
eye. This says he, hath smell of trea-
| son" or "This hath an ancient and fish-like
smell of conspiracy. These must not be sent to
the persons for whom they are intended" The
| Minister of the Interior examines them, and
sometimes allows them to be sent to their desti-
nation-eighteen or twenty hours after arrival.
Suspicion fancies treason in every line "Rum
is riz," may allude to the outbreak of con.
spiracy, and "Sugar have FELL" may intimate
the intended prostration of dynasty. For
these, and other reasons, kilograms are very
scarce IN European papers, independent of the
whole cost being borne by each journal, and
mot, as with us, distributed among many.
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THE decision at Pittsburgh, in regard to the
Allegheny Bonds, is generally commended
The N. Y. "Courier" speaks of the decision
thus
"Itinvolves considerations of financial char.
Iacter which are likely to have lasting effect
upon the credit of American Securities The
decision will give tone to legal opinions out Of
Pennsylvania, and give great satisfaction to the
holders of Railroad bonds generally. 80
Our readers are probably aware that public SEN
timent in Western Pennsylvania has oflate lean.
led towards reputation, in view of the obvious
Imlsmanagementa and fraudulent conduct ofsomc
of the officers engaged in creating the now debts
now under protest, and if the matter were left
to popular vote, the majority in favor of assum-
ing these debts as valid, and taxing property
holders therefor, would be small, If any, in the
affirmative. This shows the necessity of placing
under independent judges these questions in
which popular feeling and excitement are apt tc
warp the views ofthe masses, and to blunt that
keen sense of honor which should be maintained
in large communities"
The Courier speaks of. this decision in con,
nection with the bad faith of Mississippi, Flori
da and Arkansas which stand before the world
as States repuumnng z1na1r- lInr1nar.a al4r1-
/
ALL ABOUT TA1L-A fierce war. is raging
in the Boston papers, in the shape of communi
cations from Professors Norton and Pierce
each ofwhom has theory of his own about the
tail of the comet, lately visible here. Prof Nor
ton says:
81 claim to have established, Independently
of others, the existence of repulsiYe force EN-.
anating from the sun, extending indefinitely into
space, and decreasing with the distance,s and
that the cometic particles are driven off into the
tail, singly and disconnectedly by this force''
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