The Portland daily press., 1866-11-09
TeIegrnphic News.
THE EDITOR OF THE Press:

LIZ IhE IDAIOlx OF The IRESS. .s....s.af. s.-sfr
1t seems to a constant reader of your paper
that your apology for the lack of telegraphic re-
ports yesterday morning was quite unnecessa-
ry, and most certainly SO, if you suppose for a
moment that your readers, or a large portion
of them at least would regret the omission.
For my own part 1 am glad of an opportunity
to say that the yerbidge which usually comes by
telegraph and fills several columns Of your val
luable paper, had given place to an equal amount
of interesting matter, and thus enabled YOU. 30
present to your patrons one of the most attrac-.
tive and readable papers they have had for a
long while. do not believe that if the same
kind OF matter which is called NEWS, given un-
der your telegraphic head, should come to you
in its original shape in the papers, that you
would take pains TO- clip it out, and NEST eer-,
talnly you would not incur the expense of put
ting it in type for your paper. Not only so, but
instead OF giving as you now do, only asynop-1
sis of some important matters when sent by
telegraph day in advance, you wonld give it
to US IN extenso, q day later, and thus we should
get what we now lose-a large amount of i'm
terestlng, and sometimes important reading lo
III we could only have reform in this mat
ter, publishers of newspapers would avoid much
unnecessary and expensive night work, and
their readers would be the gamers YJf intelli-S
gent news reporters would only send along J
what is really neaos, and only such as would lose
interest by delay, or what is required at the
earliest moment possible, suclra as markets elecl
tion returns, Sc, great Improvement would
al. = .
! ei ss,lgs GAN OLD FoGGy"-PERHAPs.
I p. S. For a brief illustration of the truth Of
what is said above, see Miscellaneous Neaos' re-
ported by Telegraph in yesterdays paper. ~ "a
-" Comments of the Press. ~ sai bHa
/ Our friend displays touch of uncertainty as
/ to whether he may not be called an .Oid Fog
gy,n and is perhaps entitled to the benefit of the
doubt. The miscellaneous dispatches to which
he refers announce the proclamation Of Thanks
giving day In Pennsylvania, the arrival Of the
ship Bertramin New York, and the appearance
Of Ristori in ,Providenceq These are notveryl
important matters certainly unless the arrival
of the Bertram should chance to interest," some-i
body here. We are far from believing that the
news furnished by the Associated Press has
been as readable as it should be. Yet lew read
eIs would have beenwilling to miss the full re-
ports from Baltimore, which we have publishedI
/ within a week, and the Michigan election news
published yesterday morning was worth the
cost of a column of Dispatches In our judg-
ment, an Improvement is to be sought, by etlu-l
eating the news gatherers, and not by discarding
their assistance. And this, ON looking again,
we seeis our correspondents meaning Agreed
The interruption in our dispatches, which oc-
CURED Wednesday night, is due to quarrel
between the Managers Of the New York Asso-
ciated Press and their general agent, Mr. ID. H.
Craig. 1t is charged on the part of the man
ayers that Mr. Craig has abused his position to
further his private advantage. This however,
does not. seem to be the cause of his removal,
as no sudden deyel0pement has occurred, and
it is well understood that his discharge, or per-
haps more correctly, the acceptance of his re-
signation, which has been for some time in the
hands of the Executive Committee, followed
the discovery that he was organizing new,
agency of his own. There has been for long.
time growing and mutual mistrust and dislike
between some members of the Association and
| their agent. OF the merits of that quarrel we
| do not now propose to speak, Mr. Craig was
| suddenly thrown out. His successor, Mr. Jas.
| w. Simonton, well known to newspaper men,
has not been able at once to get the machine
running because, among other reasons, Mr..
Craig has carried off with him large body of
agents and reporters, and the whole business
will have to be reorganized. ra a4iisi e.
| The New York News Association, which Mr.
Craig will manage, will begin operations next
Monday. If the Associated Press should con-
tinue its organization, competition will doubt
| less give us better and cheaper reports than
| heretofore. In any event the disturbance viii
! be but temporary, and is not likely to affect
any paper later than Mondays. rs .5fIs Ina