The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-12-27
Bridgeport.
correspondence ofthe Herald

BRIDGEPORT, Dec. I3, lS42
AeTdia IN Br'dgport-Housatomic Railroad p;.,.~
Trapa
the " New York Herald" is conducted, is certainly
peculiar and unexamped in newspaper history.
None other than Benneu-James Gordon Bennett
could have given birth to such powerful engine.
1t having no pattern and can have no imitation-a
vehicle through which the most valuable Informs
ton, foreign and domestic, is transmitted to the
four quarters OF the globe with prompttude and
energy hitherto unrivaed, and il very gratifying
to perceive that it is still to be conducted under its
present very able and efficient management, though
fears have been entertained by some of Its readers
in consequence of a notice publicly Issued, that a
sale and transfer OF the same would take place. pro-
vided sufficient amount OF cash down should be
offered, which, fortunately for the diffusion Of use
full knowledge, and tor the rapid advancement of
literature, as yet has been able to raise the
requisite sum. There is probably no paper issued
from the press which contains so much value BILE
information, and which confers such important be-
nefits on the community, as does the Herald, and
it would seem most concluslvely from Its immense
sale, and the supply ever being inadequate to meet
the demand, in all places through which the writer
has travelled, that its circulation must far exceed
that OF any other paper, and this furnishes evidence
conclusive OF what may be accomplished by perse-
verance, industry, and talent.
From this you will gather some netion of the
very high estimation in which the Herald is here
nelu anu III OelnS 80 very ulIfcut 10 procure enc on
the arrival Of the boat they snatched of like
corn by flock OF ducks in December ! would sug-
gest the notion, if practicable, of adding another
degree of steam, giving to the machinery an in.
creased velocity, sufficient TO throw of few thou
sand impressions in addition to what it now does in
the same lapse of time, thus to render the tree of
knowledge more generally accessible TO all who
prefer knowledge to ignorance.
II il astonishing that you never paid visit to the
CITY of Bridgeport. We have here splendid churches
preaching OF high order, fine steamboats,, hotels
of The very first water, and regular built railroad
stretching through the Housatonic valley, over
which travellers pass from the tar west, from Albany
AMI from Boston, the PRESENT winter to New York,
and vice rersa; and the ladies and to myself ALSO
should do great injustice were / not to mention
that the dear creatures here, taken Individually and
collectively, furnish item Of the very first impor-
lance, and are universally acknowledged by all
competent TO Judge, to be the most beautiful, the
most enchanting and accomplished, and to stand in
the front rank of the whole feminine gender Of New
England, and think if you were to come up here
and spend few days at the Sterling or City Hotel,
and take general survey Of matters and things in
general, you would meet with most favorable re-
ceplion, and consider yourself amply rewarded for
so doing.
Be very particular TO send more Heralds.
OK.