The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-06-14
Sour Grapes for the sew YORK News.
DaDerS.

papers.
The Cincinnati Commercial pays Its re-
spects to a portion of the New York press,
which affected to barate a Country news
paper" for being the first to publish the
suppressed testimony in the Conspiracy
Trial, in the following style: .sr
The New York papers affect to treat the
first appearance OF the suppressed testimo-
ny in the Conspiracy Trial in a newspaper
outside that city as an offsnse sgsinst their
prerogatives, which, though it lacks the
technical definition of a crime, should be
punished as such. This is particularly the
case with the Daily Times. Its irrita-
ton is the more manifest because it
eiGL, and was a day bshind its
more vigilant city contemporaries, in pub
fishing the most important testimony de-
veloped during the trial. Having st last
received an official copy of the evidence,
1t publishes it with a flourish, and talks
vigorously about the mulilsted and mac
curate form in which the testimony has
appeared in q country newspaper"
though its editor is well aware there is
omitted but the questions of counsel and
~ SOAAb nAu AOlL6L hkAOl6 Vi bLhEeLu6QL.
The Times must remember that it does
not occupy q central position in these
United SEstes. 1t is published on the
frontier, and derives its chief Importance
from the first handling of foreign hIes. By
q liberal use Of the London
and such stray exchanges as it has with
other European cities, and copious CLEAN
iDgs from the great metropolitan cities,
published in the centers Of intelligence
here in the West, 1t manages to keep I'D q
tolersble appearance, and supplies its lin
tied circle of subscribers with readable
matter. We are grsti6ed to be able, ow-
ing to our superior facilities TOR obtaining
reliable information from all parts of the
country, to furnish it with q daily fund of
matter without which it would appear as
stupid and uninteresting as last years al
manac OK an old file of the Congressional
Globe.
New York newspaper enterprise con-
sists almost exclusively in enormous and
hideo1s specials, telegrsphed from Wash
ington. Each New York journal has a
herd of reporters at Washington, and
about eleven o'clock at night they all get
drunk and go to work getting up sensa-
items for next morning. They write with
great violence for two or three hours, about
anything or nothing, and hurry it off by
telegraph q mass of indigesged, ingram
NAUTICAL incoherent gibberish, over which
the miserable night editors sweat and
grosn through the weary morning hours
trying by m~ultitudInous headlines TO
make people believe they have wonderful
news. Whole pages of special dispatches
are gotten up in this style, and no human
being can make head or tail of them This
is the sum of New York newspaper enter
prise. And these fellows talk OF the mutt
IAtion of documents. They are the very
destroyers Of official intelligence with their
abomlnable massacre, by telegraph, ofeve-
said and done at Washington. Il
We suppose the Times and its Eastern
cotemporsries will be slow in learning to
estimate the sOuTc and influence of the |
papers at their true value, and
will continue 10 talk about them as "coun-
try newspapers" till they are better in.
Why, there are Ut, least half q,
dozen newspapers out West whose daily
exceeds that of any Eastern
with possibly a couple of exceptions,
BY thousands and whose would
enable them to buy at least two or three
Iuch establishments as the New York
Times in the courseof 8 year. The Herald
s the only paper in New York that in
point Of circulation and revenue, can sp-
oroximste Us. The Times, the Tribune,
he World, the Post and the other small
ry, are more than matched by 8 dozen
Western papers in point of enterprise, abil-
ty, business and influence. They are use
III down East doubtless, but in the mag
lidcent hesrt Of the nation are not ofmuch
consequence, and are becoming OF less I'M
'Ortance than our country weeklies.