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Show THE UNRELIABLE TELEGRAPH.! TELE-GRAPH.! To 'Tie like the telegraph" will soon pass into current literature tn an adage. During tho Franco-German war scarcely a dispatch could be relied on unless it was confirmed two or three times. Everybody must re.uember the remarkable manner in which Kazaine used tolling himself out of Meiz, crush two or three German army corps, turn one general's flank, annihilate tho forces of anolher.and the next d.iy be again in Mctz with his army demoralized and etirviug, surrounded by tho impassible Germau barrier. The same unreliability is found in everything of importance that is telegraphed. The men who furnish the news are bought., for a small price, by interested parties; or are themselves partisans, and they send to the world garble 1 ut'kI onesided one-sided statements, or downright falsehoods, false-hoods, as party or private intere.-t may demand; or they are ignorant of facts and often rely on imagination for tluir "news," sending their required number of words whether or not their statements have even a foundation in fact. And the public buy and pay for such unreliable unre-liable sturt", ignorant of the causes which combine to ba e d;spa:clu s furni.-ticd of a etrtain .at to mo!i Or intiuetivv public opinion. I: icy 1-e a stock-jobbing operation, an e!':"rt to have o rtain stocks "buiied" or 'beared;" it may be a deep-laid scheme to provoke war or ?na:e public district; or it in v.- be the result of political rrachinatior.s to reach a do-sired do-sired oVject. Hut through all and over all there are two governing motives mo-tives one, tJ "ru'e or ruin;"' the other the "almighty dollar." On Tuesday night a telegram wis received from London, iu the ordinary press dispatches, which alleged that the feelm; in EDgland was so strocg against the government, for it? denunciation denun-ciation of the American government, that it was expected the Gladstone ministry would have to resign. Yesterday Yes-terday another was received fro a the same point, declaring, in substance, and in emphatic term-, that the Gladstone Glad-stone rn i rib-try would have to rrvign if it proceeded fir! her with the Geneva negotiation-; atid that, so intense was pub ic feeling on the subj'-jt, a Tory mini-try cu!d not hoM o:iic twenty-fuur twenty-fuur hourrs if t!ie d'.-.nand-i of the I'm-tcd I'm-tcd .SlaS.-s for indirect dauia-.-iM W'.-re r:eugnin'.d. One of the?e two tele-: grams i.- pa! p.ibly an untruth, and it is more likely the one whi:h tb'-t can-e to lund. And so it runs through tl.e whvle range of pre-4 di-patch-. But w : hive no need to go far from ' home to find il'u-trati-tris. The di.i- patehe:- t'.iat have be. n furnish. -d the. press from Salt Lake city, for home time, have b-vn of thj nio-t artisan and unrcliibio cbaiucU-r. Many facts arc di.-tort'-d and cli-rol partisan! political purposes, other important facts are tuitres-.ed and statements aie telegraphed which arc without foundation founda-tion in fact. We have recently given some spJeimeiH of this kind of "news," and will give other-;; but wj would not undertake to clip and reply to all that reach u-i in our exchanges, for it would requ'tro a couple of columns d.uly to be devoted to that purpose alone. And this public grievance, we presume, mut be borne like other kinds of corruption, cor-ruption, until public indignation,plain-ly indignation,plain-ly expressed, shall compel a change of men who are intrusted with such a position which they use only to abu-c. |