Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1881-09-03
The EYer.prcsenl Ncwsraner.


In the course OF his address before
the New York State Press association,
at Utica, Hon. George William Curtis
said
Not public event can occur, not
new loan be proposed, nor plan of
refunding not a measure for sweeping
the streets of the great city be intro
duced in the State Legislature not an
important nomination can be made by
the President, but the newspaper is at
once whispering gallery, murmuring
from sea to sea with the views of emil
nent men everywhere upon the subject.
Even politicians find themselves COM
pelled to have about them the most in
convenient commodity, an opinion, and
to give it up at the demand of the
newspaper. An impulsive man, an
gered at the invasion of his privacy,
may kick the newspaper downstairs |;
but the nimble paper has its revenge.
Dickens has left behind him many q
keen disciple upon the daily press and
if the information sought is not to be
found, the fury and wrath with which
it is refused, made ridiculous with pun
gent humor, are equally served to q
laughing continent, with the coffee and
the rolls. The victim may retaliate
with the horsewhip, but the newspaper,
soundly thrashed in the person OF its
representative, has been known in.
stantly to issue an extra with graphic
and elaborate details of the thrashing.
In quarrel with newspaper the
laugh is against the private citizen.
The press asserts for the public the
right of eminent domain over individual
affairs. Ii your daughter is to be mar
ried the newspaper calls to count the
towels, and see the pattern of the spoons.
If the emperor OF Grim Tartary, or the
king of the Cannibal islands arrives, the
newspaper takes an inventory of his
bedchamber, and informs us that he
likes his beef rare. 1t reports it's con-
versation with the statesmen of Europe
at the congress of Berlin upon the COM
plications of continental politics, and
with the servants of statesmen about
their masters coats and boots. Like
the air and the light, the press is a
chartered libertine, and such is the uni
versal and jealous pubic regard fol its
liberty, because of The instructive con-
viction that no abuse OF free press can
be so great as the evil of its suppress
sion, that cuit against newspaper for
defamation is almost hopeless
iic;ni:s,:f it,i,; Ealfa fear.
4 recent issl" q il,a san F,atei.cn
IHla.i}e eass: The steamship Ciiy Il
pcking, seventeen days rom yokohama,
arrived in this port yesterday. The fol-
owing particulars o. the fortunate res.
cue of party of sailors who were lost
on the ocean are relsted by one of the
passengers: The second day out from
Iokohoma it was our good fortune to
rescue nine men from dimasted, help
less Japanese vessel which had been
blown off the coast of Japan from the
entrance to the Bay of Yeddo during a
typhoon. Their account of the disaster
is that the storm occurred on the ninth
of December last. They lost their
masts and rudder and had been drifting
at the mercy of the winds. they knew
not where. After their own provisions
we're exhausted they subsisted on their
cargo, mostly beans and dried fish, and
such rainwater as they could catch
during the six months which had
elapsed since the typhoon occurred.
They had burned most of the small
woodwork, doors, berths, windows, ETC.,
of their vessel for fuel, and were on
short rations, forty beans per day for
egch man being the allowance. Their
fire, when put out from time to time,
they had rekindled by rubbing two
pieces of wood together. They had
given up all hope of ever seeing land or
anything human again, when, on Satur-
day, the twenty-eighth of May, about
800 miles from the Bay of Yeddo and
Yokohama, they sighted the Peking on
the wide waste of water. Captain Perry,
in answer to their signals of distress,
bore down and sent one of the boats of
with an officer and the doctor to exam
inc into their sanitary condition, and
the poor souls were soon landed ON our
deck. One of their number had died
the day previous from exposure, hunger
and anxiety. The passengers, aided by
Captain Berry, gave concert on board
for the benefit of the destitute ones,
which netted purse of $l43.
A Washington telegraph company is
making the experiment of placing the
wires in the sewers, the use of which
for that purpose has been granted by
the authorities. The wires, fifteen or
twenty in number, are properly iusu-