The New York herald., 1867-04-03
the dead weight Of the Bridgeport Snowman.
- nomination not at TO be made" and the dead

the dead weight Of the Bridgeport Snowman,
"a nomination not at 70 be made" !" and the dead
weight Of Professor Northrop, an associate OF
Professor Icemis, the blundering astronomer,
that broke down General Hawley and his party
4, three of their four Congressional districts.
ProfA ssor Northrop had Barnum on one side
and Loo. mis- on the other to carry-a Snowman
with : ban' record, and professor Of astron-
omy who doe, not understand his business It
was the woolly t.orse and the shooting stars
that broke down the republicans in this battle.
On a square party dgh.t they are still intact.
and would doubtless pro,,e In such nghs' On
national issues, that they kole to-day the pop
ular majority Of the State. The issues whioh
are to determine the position os Connecticut in
the next Presidential election have yet TO come;
but If such scenes as those recently enacted in
Congress between Butler and Bingham are to
be the order Of the day hereafter in the house.
it will not be more than year before the rule
of morality and decency which has laid out
Barnum and his associates will be applied, at
least in Connecticut to the republican party a.
a national organization.
NIismanagemcnt OF tho Associated Press
Agency.
We have received the following note from
the General Agent Of the Associated Press
NEW YonK, March %, 1867.
To MEMBERS THs ASSOCIATED Pass
GEsrLExKS-Mr. Alexander Wilson. our agent at Lon.
DON writes that been pressed upon him in several
quarters that there is urgent need Of advertising
agency for American newspapers IN that CITY,
II SO disposed will you be kind enough to furnish me
fart m
ing the rates for each part OF each issue daiy ana
weekly semi weekly, and also the commission Wnicn
will be allowed on the business which may %
'''' j. W. sIMONTON, General Agent
Now, we are by no means disposed to COM
ply with this cool request to deviate from our
we'll known custom Of never employing drum
mers and never paying commissions for adver-
tisements Advertisers have long since learned
themselves Of the advantages which they So
cure by direct communication with us.
Nor is this all. We are, moreover, con-
strained to ask by what instructions of the
Associated Press Mr.. Alexander Wilson has
deemed himself authorized to set up in busi-
ness at London as an advertising sgenti We
must protest against any such misapprehen-
zion on his part of the functions to be exer-
cised by him as might tempt him to neglect
still more than hitherto his specified duties
while engaged in hunting up advertiseme.4s.
Perhaps his having been absorbed in this new
occupation may account for the meagreness OF
his recent dispatches. We have to thank him.
for instance, for no details Of the Reform bill
now before the British Parliament, and for not
a single word about the opening Of the great
Paris Exposition. He has surprised US by
similar plentiful lack Of news in several other
cases.
Mr.. Simonton, as General Agent, must bs
reminded that he might have been warned by
his predecessors example not to exceed his
appropriate functions, as he surely does BY
countenancing and aiding this new enterprise
Of Mr.. Wilson, and also, we must add, By
signing with his own name the circular en-
titled "The Commercial News" which should
have been signed by the members or BY ths
Secretary of the Associated Press.