, 1864-11-11

TELEeRAPHIo FREAKs.-The Telegraph
is a queer institution. There is no account
ing for its quirks and freaks of late, upon
any other hypothesis than to throw the
blame of its frequent and spasmodic inaccu-
racies upon the operators who figure along
the line of its operations. We are among
those who regard the Telegraph as one of
the greatest improvements ever developed
by the genius of man. 1t is a medium
through which ideas can, and ought to be,
communicated accurately and intelligibly
across the continent in "less than no time"
But we are not going to call the Telegraph
"slow coach, )" for, to use a phrase adopted
on this coast, signifying rapidity of locomo-
tion among people of questionable charac-
ters and their more than questionable social
and moral habits, it is fast enough in all
conscience-e entirely too fast for the people
who move along slowly and soberly, and who
have an affection for the opposite motto of
'go slow" Usually, when persons use the
term ego Slow" it is addressed to some
"fast" or "would be fast" individual who is
about to over-step the ordinary rules of pro-
priety. So it turns out generally that the
ego slow" people are really the "last" ones
IN the "long run" The "fasts" get them
selves into trouble, sooner or later, and are
either locked up in some building with iron
bars about its windows and fed upon stale
bread, or they rush along furously for
while, insult everybody they come in con-
tact with, spend their last dollar, insult the
last man, and finally get beneath the con-
tempt of the world and sink obscurely into
the last ditch, ''unhonored, unwept and un-
sung" But the ego slows" act with mod
Grafton, and with evenly balanced tempera-
ments attain honorable positions and keep
the social world moving in its accustomed
channel Now, the Telegraph is all right
enough, and we are not going to liken it to
any of the human family; but it appears to
us as if the. continental machine has fallen
into the hands of fast, very fast men-ren-
dering its communications about half the
time "not worth continental =" A
week or two ago, for instance, it informed us
that all the counties in Pennsylvania, except
seven, had been heard from Gin the October
election) and that the returns showed a
a few thousand majority for the Republi-
cans, with the remaining counties, which
gave democratic majorities last year, to hear
from. And now, after the lapse of nearly a
fortnight from the time we received that
important Mountaineering ample oppor-
tunity for the returns to be got in-we are
that forty-one counties in Pennsyl-
vania, soldier vote and all, give the Repub-
licans $4,000 majority. We do not remem-
Der the number of counties that compose the
State of Pennsylvania; but to get near
enough for present purposes, will state the
number at 65-less than the full num-
Der; and then we can readily see Inaccuracies
of the Telegraphic statements in this in
stance-24 counties to hear from yet. The
operators are "phunny fellows"
and we may learn next, that no election was
held in Pennsylvania last October All we
desire is to get correct information, and if
the Telegraph don't give it, nor can't be
arranged so that it will, better kick the