The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1844-03-25


II is well known throughout this country, that in
the last two or three months we have beaten every
other newspaper establishment in this city, in the
acquisition of foreign news. We were so often in
advance of our contemporaries, that we became
tired of victory. We were surieited with success,
and we, therefore, early one beautiful morning
last week, made up our mind to stop running ex.
presses, In order to little from the effects
victory had upon physical SYSTEM and to let the
public see what the other newspapers in this city
could do when not opposed by We thereupon
retired from the field, and publicly announced the
fact that we would run no express with the news
by the Caledonia
This announcement threw the Wall street and
other city papers into bit of a flutler. and
they Immediately entered into an arrangement
with that unrivaled express package line, Harnden
& Co., to run an express to New York on the ar
rival of the Caledonia. This express, with steam.
boats, locomotive engines, fast horses, and, for all
we know, several cages of swift carrier pigeons
was to be managed by Mercury, senior, and Mer
curry, junior, and several other gods Of the same
sort; and it was confidently expected that they
would outstrip the pigeons, if nothing else. Such
were their arrangements, and such their determl.
| nation.
We had sent instructions to our interchangeable
agent in Boston not TO run, but to forward our
packages by Adams IL Co. through their regular
express, which leaves Boston at O'Clock every af-
ternoon We could easily have run the news to
New York in twelve hours, but we chose not to do
50 for reasons stated In the meantime Harnden
and Co. made an arrangement with the Postmaster
of Boston to connect the government express
with that of the newspapers This, we suppose,
was done in order to have no one to contend
against on the route So far all was right and sue
cess was sure. But
"There is sometimes slip
Between the cup and lip"
On Friday morning at 10 o'clock the Caledonia
made her appearance at Boston In half an hour
the news was in that city, and between the hours
Of IL and Ii o'clock the Express started with the
newspapers, government dispatches, &c. &c. in
charge Of the messengers of Harnden & Co. 1t
went to Worcester at rapid rate, and then to
Springfield with the same speed, for the locomo-
tves and engineers those roads have the ability
to go ahead. But at the latter place there was
stop Then horses were brought into requistlon,
and after quantity of blowing and putting, une-
qualed perhaps in the history of the world the Ex-
press reached New Haven at midnight There it
stuck" as the newsboys beautifully express it.,
and no more was heard of its movements till two
o'clock Saturday afternoon, when it reached New
York-foW hours after the regular erpress line OF
adams & Co. arrived Nth the ,chole nelcs.
This was unfortunate. It was deporable, because
we had without any effort on our part, obtained
the news, issued and circulated throughout the city
thousands of EXTRA HERALDs, before any other es-
Enlistment received theirs, Notwithstanding the
eyD Nyc
was, therefore, unfortunate-but not for us. And
1t exhibits to the public the broad fact-neary as
broad as the Atlantc-that the non-success of the
enterprise was not our fault This is all We cared for
1t appeared, however, after this express arrived
that we were to have enjoyed some of its benefits
withoutpaying single copper ofits expense. About
half AN hour after it reached the city received
package of foreign papers, nicely done up, with the
following written on.he cover-to save us the trou-
BILE, probably, of writing as many lines with bad
pen at midnight.
We are indebted Mtssrs Harnden Co and the Post.
master of Boston. for papers received by the Caledonia
they forwarded by express arranged in
with the special agent the post-odice department
This waslkind; it came all cut and dried-and one
would suppose that we were really indebted to
Harnden Il Co, for the parcel. We learned, how.
ever, that it was by the kindness of Mr.. Greene,
the popular postmaster Of Boston, and to him alone
that the papers were sent to us. 1t was, under
stand, part of the agreement between him and
Harnden a. Co., that if the express was run with the
government dispatches, every paper In New York
should share alike in the news. Hence the package
to us.
This special, laundering, extraordinary, swift
Express was arranged at the enormous EXPENSE
as Barnum would say, of six or seven hundred
dollars. 1t was gotten up by the combined news
paper press Of New York, in conjunction with
Harnden & Co. to beat the New York Herald.
We run no express. This fact was announced
three days before the Caledonia arrived We
abandoned the field out Of benevolence and be-
cause were tired of victory. Our oppone nts
had all the roads to themselves, and what is the
result' we beat epery one ofthem and after all re-
ceivcd the neWs by their express But this is nothing
We can get along well enough without expresses
They are costly and those who wish to run then
may if they please. We find that news will come
to us at any rate.
Now word or two in conclusion Harnden &
Co. who managed this last special and extraordi
nary express, are clever enough in their way
They can, as we have before said, put parcel in
their breeches pocket, carry it to Boston, and
sately deliver IL tnere. lney can 10 this, but
| when they step aside from their legitimate
business, and attempt to run an express-to be
special and extraordinary IN its resuts-they are
unfortunate, and are constrained to sleep one nigh
too many in New Haven, or some other place OF
the road. We advise them, therefore, as friends
to adopt the course of Adams Il Co. Let th
newspapers manage their own expresses, Will
| they attend to their own business and whateve
| they undertake in their proper line, let then
carry through faithfully and speedfully, as they d,
parcels of money. Adams Il Co. do not interior,
with the newspapers; they, therefore, get into n,
| difficulty with them They stick to their own con
Germs, and what is the result ! They are the mos
popular of the southern and eastern express lines
They have extended their business over nearly th
| whole country, and they must continue to exten,
and spread to every town and city in the Union