Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-02-21

How 70 Get the News,
Il canuot have escaped the attention Of
the reader, that tie mest important news
received during the present war, hes slnost
uniformly been published frst In the Even
ing papers. Such was the case with the
battles oFSumteE, Carriok's Ford, Boil Run,
Mil Spring end POri Royal Aarshsll's de-
leat the capture Of Roanoke islandi Fort
Henry and Fort Donalsou, both the capture
and release Of Mason and Slidell, and many
other important events. OF course, there
ara exceptions, but tbs above shows that
nearly ell Of the leading events Of the war
have been Hrst received BY the readers Of
evenfnR papers With this important fact In
mind, aeWs seekers will lind little difficulty
in determining where to go for late intelli-
gence.
The above paragraph is copied from the
Toledo Blade into The Cleveland Herald, and
endorsed by the Herald to the fullest extent.
Heretofore the Herald has OutstElpped all its
contemporaries in cool, mendaclous ialsehoOd
end prevaricatiou, bat in this case its editor
eOnteats himself by witnessing falsehOod
too gigantic for even his marvellous owerI
Of Setion. The Rrst event mentioned in the
foregoing paragraph is athe battle Of Sum.
ter" the news Of which the writer aver
was published fret in the Evening papers.
The bombai dment Of Fort Sumter was begun
on Friday morning, april l2th, 1851. The
Evening papers Of that day contained no
dispatch from Charleston, or any other South.
srn city, Of a later date than April llth. A
dispatch, dated Washington, April l2th,
read:
''only one wire is working South, ant
that badly. There is not word from an!
point South, thus far"
This was the only allusiOn to Southern
matters in the Washington dispatches o
that day published IN the Evening papers
The dispatches of that night, however, to th,
Morning papers, announced the bombArdmen
as fellows:
"CHARLRsToS, April IL.
''The ball has opened. War is inaugursted
The batteries of Sulliyan's Island, MoFri
Island, and other points, were opened OF
Fort Sumter OF four o'clock this morning
Fort Sumter has returned the FIRE, and brisl
cannonading has been kept up
This dispstch, with many particulars o
the fight, first appeared in the Morning pa
psrs of Saturday, April 18th, and was cOpieC
in the Evening papers Of the same day, will
very little additional news from the scene o
action. On that ever memorable Ssturds,
night, as many of our citizens viii recOllect
the MoRENo LEADTR office was thronge,
until late hour to hear the latest dispstche
from Charleston read. Most persons retire
before the dispatch announcing the surrende
arrived, and on Sunday morning the frs
news Of Major Anderson's evacuation o
Fort Sumter was given to the public in sx
trAs issued from the MoRHNs LEADER ant
Review, which dispatches again appeared il
the Morning papers of Monday. No pspe
is published Sunday evening in Cleveland o
Toledo-nor any where else that we ar
aware 'oE-and consequently the Evening ps
pers first published this startling news Ol
Monday evening, forty hours after its re
eaptiOR in this city.
Having proven the first assertion in tn
foregoing statement of the Blade and Heral'
false, we do not propose to follow the sui
ject further. he who starts ont with Iii
cannot be presumed to close with the truth.