The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-24

should be conducted by a commission
of experts fully competent TO pass up
on such subjects as the beariug Of the
transportation question upon the agri-
cultural, industrial and commercial
interests of the country, the economic
aud practical questions connected
with the actual conduct of the traffic
interests of railroads, and the legal
and constitutional questions involved
in the solution of this complex and
difficult problem"
Mr.. NimmO's report makes a closely
printed pamphlet of thirty-nine pages.
English and American Newspapers.
THERE is vast difference in the
character of the matter, and the gener-
al makeup, of the English and Amer
lean newspapers. There is also a
mighty step between the compensa-
ton of English journalists in the same
relative rank, and that which is ac-
corded to the American newspaper
writer. A writer in an able cotem-
porary, the Cincinnati Tjmes-Star,
has written a well considered article
touching the difference between the
English and the American newspa-
pers:
"For some reason the public are al
ways interested in what is published
concerning journalism, not only at
home but abroad, as is illustrated in
the pleasure manifested by the read
ers of Harper's Monthly in Mr.. Joseph
HattOn's articles in the October and
November numbers of that magazine,
OH Journalistic London" While
those articles were very comprehen-
sive, there were yet some things, not
referred TO, that are interesting.
In many respects, the English pa
pers are very unlike those in the Uni
ted States. While here, for instance,
the local matter is deemed of greatest
Importance, there, outside of court
proceedings, it is regarded as of COM
paratively little value. The English
papers are cosmopolitan, and the aver
age Euglishman is far more interested
iAA q SNA CCI LOW III LildAl
he would be in a similar occurrence,
but ofa more important character, in
the streets of London. With the ex-
ception of the United States, the En-
glish reader is generally as well, if, in
deed, not better, informed of what is
going on outside of England than
within its borders. The effect of this
cosmopolitan education upon the read
ers is most valuable, widening their
range of observation, and showing
that to compete with other nationali-
ties, both in business and diplomacy,
they must be wide awake.
The demand for this wide range OF
| news has a very marked effect upon
the members of the editorial staff OF
an EnglisL newspaper, and there may
be Seen Whitelaw Reid's ideal of a
newspaper writer-a chronicler c1
current events possessing the styl
and information of Macaulay.
On an English newspaper ''rc-
porter, occupies a most inferior posi-
ton, as might be inferred from tn,
| lack of interest in the local news. He
may be, and usually is, an accomplish
ed shorthand writer, but In general
intelligence he is said not 10 compar,
with his class in America, and Iii,
pay is cOrrespOndingly small. But
the position of an editorial writer or
a London daily is an enviable one
1t gives the writer the cntree of the
best society, and the remuneration i,
almost princely.
A peculiar feature of English jour.
nalism is that of ''retaining" leader
writer's, which we mentioned at some
leugth the other day.
The readers of the leading English
dailies know that the writers OF the
editorial articles are men of wide iu-
formation on the subject treated, and
this knowledge gives the articles q
force and influence, that the same class
of articles does IN American aewspa.
pers.
Equal care is taken by the English
press in securing correspondents al
important European news centres
and there is the same lavish expendi.
ture of money. The resident cores
pOndents of the Times at Paris, Berlin
Vienna, ConstantinOple and st. Pc
tersburg are paid from ten TO twenty
thousand dollars a year, besides
their expenses. They are mel
of ability and culture, have q
wide acquaintance, move in the best
circles ofsociety, and are thus ena-
bled to get items of news of great val.
tic and to gather hints, which enable
them to fsreshadow important public
events. The special correspondent i:
an even more important parsonage
| than the resident correspondent. Itil
said that more than one special cores
POndent has been paid for his services
III a military campai gn at the rate o.
$25, 600 a year, besides his expenses.
Among these were probably James a
! Mac(iahan, Archibald Forbes, anC
! William Howard Russell. Forbes ha:
been the most expensive of the wal
correspondents, his reports on severa
occasions costing the Daily Nelc.
over 5000 for single days work
! HemObjS Seminal