Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-04-11

Our cotsmporaries are still sore about our
especial Dispatches" They no longer charge
w with manufacturing them; tha' sort OF
thing was played out long ago. But when
ever they think occasion offers, they endeaV-
or 10 disoredit them for no earthly reason
only that they are special. 1t is impossible
for their muddled brains to understand how
an industrious reporter, who is exclusively
employed IN getting information for two or
three papers, can be as reliable as an Asso-
ciated Press reporter, who can be in only one
plaes at oncs, and who must therefore SEND
OF Whst faots and rumors are brought 70
him for the use Of the entire press OF the
country. True, those who look at the man
mar IN q common sense way, can easily
understand It but the isundiced eyes Of bus
ines rivals can see nothing but ''humbug
invhstsver exceeds them In enterprise And
% We ere not surprised to hnd in the Her
aid, Of Wednesday evening, the following;
,sFhe dispatch of this morning purporting
% Be the two days history Of the battle BE-
tween PittBburg Landing and Corinth should
Be taken with great allowance. In the nrst
place il is q special dispatch"
Aword upon this matter; We receive, daily
dispatches from two and sometimes three OF
the most industrious and reliable correspond
ents IN all the Western Department who,
making their headquarters at Cairo 50 di-
vide and systematise their labors that We are
in constant recoipt Of the very latest news
from Cairo, New Madrid, Island No. 10, and
the Tennessee river. They are gentlemen
Euu-sveryt tls ReaFa- -af- the army and navy,
approved BY the Government agent These
dispatches are, therefore, Of q semi-ohieia
character and may be implicitly relied upon.
Occasional mistakes will occur, as In the re-
ported capture Of Island No. 10 four weeks
ago, when Gen. Halleok himself was deceived
snd made q premature announcement that
the Island was in our hands. But in nine
ty-nine cases out of hundred, the reports
furnished are perfectly reliable. We fire.
Quenty give q column or a column and a
half Of special dispatches from Cairo and the
Western Department, while the readers Of
the Herald snd Plain Dealer must be con-
tsnt with perhaps 3 single paragraph. In
yesterday mornings LRADHR, besides giving
al the dispatches which were furnished to our
eotsmpcsarias, We gave nearly column Of
additional details of the Pittsburg Landing
battle, which presented 10 a few words the
Soarest idea of the whole affair that we
have anywhere seen. And so we shau con-
tinue to do. day after day.
Our tslegraphic correspondent at Wash
ington Is one of the most reliable of the
whole bohemian brigade" in that city
He has access to many oficisl documents be-
fore they are seen By the Associated Press
rsaorter, a was illustrated on Thursday last,
when in the BVIHIEs LEADER, we gave
Commodore Foote's official report Of the
capture Of Island No. 10, our contemporaries
having but brief annouI cement Of the fact
Of the capture, without details.
But we viii not press the matter further.
The high position and steadily increasing
cIrculation Of the LEADER throughout the
State are the best evidences that the peo-
pie appreciate our efforts to present them
with 9 paper in advance of any other in
Northern Ohio. Against that assurance the
whining Of jealous rivals weighs as nothing.