Year: 1861

'H0 "il'NiHb dhNNSl.


In our paper issued the day previous to the
reception of the news of the attack on Fort
Sumter, we informed the renders Of the JOURNAL
that should the rebels attack that Fort before
our next publication day, we should notify them
of the fact in an Extra. On Friday night, at
about eleven o'clock, word was sent us by Mr..
BRowN, the Telegrapbic Operator here, that he
had received dispatches giving an account that
The attack OF Fort Sumter had commenced, and
that they were at our disposal. Of course we
very gladly availed Ourself of the offer, and at
4o'cluck ON Saturday morning had our Extras
printed, and circulated through town, and to
several parts of the county, before our aimable
traducer got down to his Office. For these de-
spatches theOperator refused to make any charge
but this did not prevent us from paying him
sum sufficient to regale the boys with lunch
who had remained up all night to get the de-
spatches.


On Saturday we informed the Operator that
we should like to have the dispatches until the
termination of the Sumter matter and that we
would pay for them any reasonable sum the
Telegraph company might charge. He said that
he would endeavor to get them for us; but when
we called on him again in the evening TO get
them, he informed us that the Associated Press
had objected to his furnishing the Printers here
with the dispatches, and said that neither Mr..
Bean nor we could have them at any price


Although we felt greatly disappointed in not
getting the reports, we had no fault to find with
Mr.. Brown. He could not do otherwise He
simply performed his duty; and if we have not
ments as has the Messenger, it is because we
thought the constant dosing given him by that
sheet had already given him disagreeablc sem
sation in the gastric region.


Supposing that we could accomplish nothing
further that night towards getting the reports,
and were up the night previous, we went home
and to bed. On going down to our Office the
next day, we learned that Mr.. BEAN had be-
come a member of the Associated Press and
had received all the reports of the night previ-
Gus, aquantity sufficient to make an Extra as
large as the one we publish this morning, and
had actually issusd an extra, of which the fol-
lowing is a copy:


Charleston, April I3.


Fort Sumter has surrendered. The COnfed-
crate Flag floats over the walls None of the
Confederate troops are hurt.


Here was energy and perseverance displayed
in remarkable degree. But this was not all.
We noticed that his dispatches were posted up
in front of the building in which is our Print
ing Office, with this endorsement written on
them: ave aim to give the latest news?


OF course we were considered out of the ring
done for-used up! If we printed any more
extras it would be after every one in town had
read the news-and magnaimously furnished by
Mr.. Bean at thati


Learning, during the day, that it was the in
tentiOn of the above enterprising individual not
to publish any more extras, and that he merely
joined the Associated Press to keep us from get
ting out any, on Sunday evening, we through our
Foreman, made proposition to the Telegraph
Company to become a member of the AssOcia-
ted Press on an equal footing with our neighbor.


At o'clock on Monday morning we repaired
to the Telegraph Office to see if our proposal
had been accepted, but found it closed Seeing
light in an upper room we went in, found Mr..
Bean, E. F. Dickenson, Esq, and others there.
We authorized Mr.. Dickinson to say to Mr..
Bean, that we understood he had Sunday Nights
Report and did not intend to print it, and if he
would let us take it we would print it in an
Extra by daylight, and give him the credit OF
having received it Mr.. D. did So and Bean
then came to where we were, aud handed us the
dispatches, saying at the same time that we
could read them, but could not have them to
publish; that he did not intend to print any ex-
tras himself because he could not afford to, and
that we could not afford to do 50 either. We re-
fused to read the dispatches, having already
learned their contents. We then went to our
Office and printed full abstract of the Reports,
and circulated them early in the morning to
l,4OO people. In the morning we were accept
ed into the Associated Press, and have publish
ed the Reports every morning since except
Sundays.


Thus, the attempt of Mr.. Bean to m onOpolize
the Telegraphic Reports and to che at the peo-
pie out of the news, was foiled. If he could