Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-03-28
Editorial Troubles.

aims at giving the news in q reliabl
form, has troubles which the dailie
seem to know nothing about. For in
stance: About ten or twelve days age
the daily papers announced, by tsle
graph, correspondents and otherwise
: that the celebrated rebel, YANcEY, wa
at HAVANA watching an opportunit,
to "run the blockade" This was I'm
subject for reflection aud comment, an.
forthwith We wrote splendid articl
on the subject. The next day the sam
3 papers, we mean all the dailies, an
nounced the fact confirmed, and adde,
that he had shaved of his whiskers Al
a disguise. Hereupon we got up an
other fne article, with very wise reflect
ions. The expsotant multitude almos
ssormed the Postofice for the next da v,
city papers, and found, among the dis
patches, . still further confirmation Of
she fact of Yanoey's presence in Havan
ma, with the design aforesaid, and the
shaving Of his wbiskers,s as aforesaid
and the additional fact was given that
he had colored bis hair. Thersupon
We indicted another paragraph upon Mr..
Yancey.
Another day brought US the further
fact that the vessel he was on, was so
we'll watched by our very vigilant feet
that is would be wholly impossible for
it to escape, and that Mr.. Yancsy would
certainly be captured. Upon this
good news we could do no less than
write another article. This brought the
re''dtte news down to Tuesday of last
week. On that day, as all who will TAX
the trouble to look, will see, the dsilies
snncunced "rumor" that the vessel
carrying the immortal Yancsy, had been
captured and would be sent to some
port for condemnation. No editor could
resist such an occasion, and we actually
sat up an extra hoar to get off superb
article on this important "rumor.
Wednesdays papers brought full and
complete confirmation of the capture of
Mr. fancey, and commented eloouently
upon the tremendous Importance of the
exploit. The capture of Mason and
slidell was nothing in comparison, and
some even predicted that the capture of
Yancey was the death blow to secession.
Of course We had to ipitch in" and
write another article. Fridays paper
was scrambled for as its predecessors
had been, and the eager crowds were
made glad with still fuller confirmation
of the capture Of Mr.. Yancsy. The tel
egraph operators, and the letter writers
We'd with each other in giving the par
tleulars, even to the minutest details.-I
The mode in which his hair was cut and
colored, was fully described every item
Of his sailors dress" was inventoried
the manner in, which he was de tected
in his disguise by reporter of the
press, who had long known him, was
given. What he said, and how he acted
when detected, was faithfully noted |
down, and he was sent off to Fort War.
rem to be kept as the greatest prize of
the War. This gave us an opportunity |
to write an article that really had some |
sensation in it. But At last the papers
Of Saturday arrived, and behold, the
whole thing was fully contradicted, and |
i was asserted that Yancey had not
shaved his whiskers, nor cut his hair
nor dressed in sailors clothes-that the
Fessel upon which he sailed was not CAP
'ured at all, but had successfully run
The blockade, and that Yancey was in
New Orleans making speeches, and a
certified copy" of his speech is given
p the same reliable dailies of Saturday.
: This is the last reliable news we have
# Mr.. Yaneey, as We have not, at this
line, (Monday night, any of the daily
'apers later than Saturday! Doubtless
his mornings papers will have some
lew sensation on the subject. But what
t may be is all uncertain.
Of course, our labor is all lost which
Ve expended in writing the various par
craps referred to, for if they were pub
ished our readers would be left in the
anne doubt and uncertainty they would
'e In if they had read all the dailies.-
)f course, we will give the truth of the
natter, if it has any truth in any of its
'hases, as soon as it is ascertained. In
he meantime, if you want everything
vt the facts, 60 to the Gailies. II
1t is our aim to 80 eift the mass of
dispatches, letters, guess assertions,
ruth, fiction, humbug and audacity
Vhieh make up the sensation dailes, as
o give our readers, in the shortest pos
ible space, whatever is true in our cur.
ent history. This task is not q light !
ne, and after we have done our best.
an item is admitted to our l
olumns on the positive assertion of
ome dispatch or letter which is af. !.
erwards proven to be erroneous. But it ;
our aim to exclude all false and i'm 8
robable rumors, that our readers need