New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-07-11
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The Albany Erening Journoi has large leader
on "The Mendacity of Our Own Correspond
I" ents," which cOses as follows;
eft ia high tine this triiiIg with the public credu.
lty had ceased It il high time a stop had been put 10
these wicked inven tons Of the representatives of
sensation Pess. The peope are fact losing confidence
in Journalism. They "a learning 10 look upon news
papers rather panderers TO morbid curosiy than
fhtoful cbronielers of events. They are learning to
look upon tn as unsafe anG treacherous gmde'-as
caring for savory hoaxes tban they do for facts
as unscrupulous wilully mendacous ana faithsss to
the mi zion they have TO perform.
The leaclng New York journals owe 1t TO the pub
lie welfare 10 the OF truth It TO their
own good name, TO put stop to these wholesale mpo
slions. They doing TO eTd6arTass and weaken
the Governmcni-Gong more to derange the plans and
purposes OF the campair- all tho Secession jour
nals from Maine to California II they cannot succeed
better in reaching the sources Of intelligence than they
have thus far, they had better recall their War Cor
Respondents and trust to the old-fogy method Of
waiting until the great incidents of officially
announced. TIE country bad better be left in tempo
raiy darkness than be Jared by false lights."
- We should be more impressed with this ex-
hortatiOn did we not find, on turning to the next
column but one Of this same EueniRg journal,
liberal display of extracts from the Special
Dispatches Of THE TRIGUNE, Herald and World,
but especially from those of THE TRIBUNE. 1t
strikes us that if il be so bad thing for us to
spend thousands of dollars per annum to obtain
these dispatches, it can hardly be laudable in The
Journal to borrow and use tbem for nothing.
But The Journal is great deal too well informed
not to know better than 10 talk as above. knows
quito well that no journal Of standing and wide cir
cuiatiOn prints wicked inventions, knowing them
to be SUCH gives currency willlully TO any false
hood whatever. We pay more money annually for
dispatches from Washington alone than the entire
cost of publishing some daily newspapers; and our
principal correspondent at TINT point receives sal
airy double that of an average Governor. The Jour
nal knows him, and will not question either his
ability bis intelligence, or his integrity. IL is our
aim, in employing gentleman of such character, TO
have him silt the rumOrs constantly set a1Oat in
Washington and send us only the truth. OF course,
he is not inialiibe and ii is possible sometimes to
mislead him; but that his dispatches are interesting
and valuable, the columns of The Journal bear wit
ness Yet where AN incident like the arrival
of flag Of truce from JEFF. Davis to President
Lincoln occurs, while the purport of Jef.'s mes
sage is carefully shrOuded In mystery by our
rulers, Rumor begus at once to fly coDectures
as to that purport and our correspondents have
to take their chance with the rest in making
out what it it, What they send as facts may
be pretty safely relied on: but there is so much
aiectation of mystery and reserve at Washing
ton that much il left to inference aud specula-
ton. Our own notion is that, whenever there
shall be more Of real Importance to shrOud in
secresy at that focus there will not be half 50
much effort required to keep it from the public.
''Tbe old iogy mode of waiting till the great
/" incidents Of the War are officially announced
may be a good way; but we note these two
little objections TO it, !. 1t is not BY any
means the way of The Eoening Journal, aud ,.
The Journals addicted TO it have habit OF dying
very rapidly. Indeed, those who really believe
in that way are apt to be more consistent than
The Journal, for they usually detest newspapers,
aud pref, nd to utterly refuse to read them. But
to.morrow's Journal will glow with accounts of
the late conflicts in Western Missouri, though
thoy are not only unofficial but maniiestly con-
Trajectory and unreliable. Clearly, it is not
the e" sensation dispatches but the popers
which procure aud FIRST publish them, Which
have incurred the i-will of The journal.