Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-11-15
The Associated Press.

We have declined to cucumber our col
umns with the details of the quarrel between
the President and Directors of the Associa-
ted Press and their General Agent, Mr.. d.
Fl. Craig. We certainly care very little of
the merits of the difficulty, and we are sat
isfied that our readers are even less interes-
ted All we want is correct and full tele-
graphic reports from all parts of the world,
and it makes but little difference with us
whose name is attached to the dispatches
or what Association is benefited by the
money we pay for this news.
We are compelled to acknowledge that
we are not satisfied with the past manage
ment of the Press Association, be the blame
where it may. The Journal has for many
years been regular subscriber to the Press
Association dispatches, and we were prom
ised the news from all quarters, for which we
pay literally, but after many fruitless
exertions have found it impossible to get
any telegraphic news emanating from points
South of Washington City, except few
barren items from New Orleans and Mobile.
While the Association is very careful to in
form us of the names and the color of the
members of the Legislature from Boston,
we cannot gather from the same source who
is the successful candidate for Governor in
the neighboring State of South Carolina, or
who has been elected to the United States
Senate from Georgia, or even our own State.
And by the Ocean Telegraph we are kept
- IL,
fate of the Chief of the Pirates in the Chi
nese Sea, of the terrible purposes of the
Cretans and Epirots towards their Turkish
oppressors, and the most minute particu-
lars of the revolt in Gambia and the sad fate
of the Sphakiot Chief but for the life of
us we cannot learn, except through our ex-
changes, published in those cities, or from
the Geographic columns Of Northern papers,
of any important event or transaction hap
pening in Richmond, Charleston, Savan-
nah or Raleigh. Acting ourselves as the
agents of the Association for this city, we
send off, daily, an abstract of the markets
and any matter of interest happening here,
but they find their way only to papers North
of Washington, where most frequently the
news is of little or no interest A regular
subscriber to, and the agento the Associa-
ton, we were compelled to pay for tele
graphic dispatch from Goldsboro', giving
the result of the elections in few of the
counties of the State at the recent elections,
which we were compelled to have sent, as
the Press Association failed to furnish any
We know not where the fault lies for this
great failure to make the Association of the
highest practical benefit to the press of the
United States, and we will hail any i'm
provement with delight, either bya change
of officers or by new association. So far
as Mr.. Craig is concerned, we have regarded
him as an efficient and reliable agent, and
the summary of news telegraphed from
New York, where he has had immediate
charge, is as complete as possible, but
whether he is responsible for the failure of
the Association at other points. especially
in the South, we are not advised.
We have thus far transgressed upon the
patience of our readers with these CON-
plants against the Press Association, but
hope by thus calling this matter to the at
tention of the papers of the country and
to the officers of the Association, we may
cause an improvement, the benefit of which,
our readers, as well as those of all the daily
papers subscribing to the Association, may
reap the benefit.