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Show A Blast for Simontun. I Tho following, which aprearcd in I tho Chicago Tune.t "hits the nail on the huad" so squarely that we republish repub-lish it. That San Francisco press ' agent certainly a remarkable specimen speci-men of a live newsgatherer : I Mr. J. W. Simonton, the general J aginl of the ftSH,Tiied pniA, has I wi men to tlir New York papers a wry aluiml letter in deteme ot the' dir-patclic-i sent cast ward from San KiiinciMV by hU agent there during :1ip excitement which accompanied ami loll wed tho snap-Minion of the Hank of Cali lorn: a. .Mr. Simon ton asserts that tho criticisms of thee ihr-patclies nave como from "certain joiimais, whose grievance in thai tliev aro e. 'Iiuled from the associated pivsM," whereas complaints have been made hy the leailmg papers of the usocialed pre&H throughout all the country east of the Rocky inoun- I tail's nolably from all the papers of1 Chicago, the St. Umis lu 'h.Vi.'hm, I Cincinnati Cmciym.', louisviilo G'u.-iiT-.nii; and New York ILiolt which have, us they believe, heen swindled into paying for partial and colored dt.ipatchcs. Mr. Simonton makes no secret of his ownership in tho San Francisco liulietin and Cull, tho two papers that pursued lulls ton so relentlessly before and since his death, ' and taktut occasion in his letter tit ! give thos.i journals a favor ihlo notice. the fa. t is that the partisanship ot the I'ai itie slope is so violent that no lone eng;ig.l in journalism there can i be luily trv..;eii with tho preparation ot news for the eastern papers; and these journals which have not sutti-eient sutti-eient enterprise to obtain special telegrams, tele-grams, as tho l'u:ic- lias done, must i lake their dispatches "colored" or not at all. An improvement, however, might ho made. The present agent ( at San Francisco has been valuable ! hitherto ehicily lor sending loug bulletins bul-letins of lapamse and Chinese news, lull and exliauttvo reviews of the state of the weather in New South Wales, chaiigis of ministers in New Zealand, etc., aud should he penuit-tl penuit-tl to enjoy a permanent vacation as a reward for his arduous services in that direction. As an Oriental and Australasian news-gatherr he has been an undonhtitl succe,bnt his pur-I pur-I ivy ing of l'acitic slope news has left I much to be desired. I |