The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1844-02-01

ing .hc full vial Of ,heir wrath upon Weller, lager
so and others, for the part they took in the recent
scene which have SO palpaoy dsgraced the capt.
tai of the nation, and particularly the House Of
Representatives. PROFESSIONALLY the conduct Of
Mr.. Weller was entirely disrcpurable, but we cam
not see by what process Of reasoning, the counter
conduct Of Shrivcr, the correspondent OF the Bahi-
more Patriot either before or after the in the
house, can be excused. We will not permit any
Of the culprits to escape. Blackguardism must not
be allowed rag to cover it from merited castiga-
ton-no, not even the poor dirty rag of an unscru-
pulous party journal.
1t is very we'll known that during the last few
years, many Of the vilest party papers, both wing
and lccofoco, but particularly the wing journals,
have maintained, or rather retained at Washington
corps of mere "etter writer's" whose vocation
is not to report with fidelity and accuracy, but to
misrepresent, abuse and calumniate the opponents
of the party in whose service their BIllingsgate and
backguardism are enlisted. The falsty, maligni,y
and impertinence Of the statements furnished by
these creatures, have indeed become quite proven
bI In this business of wholesale SANDER, and ca
lumny the Baltimore Patriot, the United States
Gazette, the Courier and Enquirer, the Boston At-
las, the Rirhmond Whig and the louisville Journal
have always succeeded in gaining the highest point
in profligacy and RIGHTEOUSNESS The grossness and
indecepcy manifested by some of these letter writers
have been of the most glaring and outrageous cha.
racter and if the recent outbreak in the House is
to- be exposed and censured as it ought TO be. JUS
tice requiirs that the whole extent and nature OF
the calumnies poured out upon the locofoco party
by these papers, for series of years past, should
be taken into consideration
The locofoco party has also kept set of 'letter
writers" but somehow or other there does appear
to be more decency in that class than in the others,
who it is amusing TO remark, are continually call
ing out, in the midst Of all their filth that to them
belongs ''all the decency" The sympathy and
expressed by these miserable party
journals, with merely one of the offending parties al
Washington, therefore utterly preposterous and
absurd. And the remedy which the "letter writer
and his friends adopted, asking to shoot, or kill
main Mr.. Weller, because he took his singular
mode OF satisfaction, is just a par with the
rest of their conduct. 1t is perfectly in keeping
with the malignant, assassin-likc manner in which
these letter writers are accustomed to treat the
character of the members of the House of Repre-
sentatives. There is, therefore, some shadow Of
excuse for Mr.. Cave Johnson's proposition to ex-
except those connected with the Washington pa
pers. Yet such wholesale way OF getting rid Of
very obnoxious evil, would be altogether unjust,
and we have no doubt that the " sober second
thought will lead Mr. Cave Johnson to make the
proper distinction between these miserable party
hacks the letter WRITER'S" and the regular report
ers for journals either at Washington in any Of
the large cities.
For our own part, we can, in spite OF all the ca
umny thrown out against us, point with the ut
most confidence to the manner in which our re-
porers have uniformly conducted their business.
The reports published in the Herald have been
more free from errors of all kind, more faithful,
more generally satisfactory than those even which
have appeared in the Washington papers This
has been admitted, even in the Capitol, by dlslln
guished members Of both parties. We take oui
ground, then, on this acknowledged excellence and
fidelity of reports of Congressional proceedings,
and we never shall yield iota of that liberty OF
the press, guaranteed by the Constitution ITSELF but
which would be rudely and violently broken by
the adoption of any such proposition as that pre-
scented by Mr.. Cave Johnson. We enlkey COM
eide with that gentleman in his just Indignation al
the outrageous conduct OF the Acknowledgement
as destitute of talent Of principle, being generally
miserable, broken down party hacks, who are too
lazy and too stupid to earn their bread by honest
and independent labor; and who. under the pre-
tence of connexion with some obscure or some
filthy party print, get into the House of Represen
tatives, and endeavor by bullying blackguardism,
or trucking toad-eatng. and lying as they bid
to pick up living at Washington. Mr.. Johnson
wishes very properly to get rid of these vermin
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attempt Of deprving the country of the benefit OF
the important and aborious services of the respect
able reporters. However, if he do go to the full
extent of his proposition, and even If the House
sustain him, reporters will go TO the gallery, and
continue give in the same style OF superiority as
at present. full comprehensive, faithful and graphic
reports Of all the proceedings in the House of Re-
representatives..
1t is singular enough-and whilst we are speak
ing of this matter, we may well notice it-not
asinge paper in Washington ever attempted to give
full and authentic daily reports of congressional pro-
ceedings until driven into it by our enterprise and
activity. And uniformly we have maintained a
superiority in our reports in point of accuracy, de-
tail and graphic interest. 1t has very frequently
been remarked by competent judges that the re-
ports in the Washington papers, are often sovenIy
and inaccurate. But we believe we can point to
our reports as being quite unexceptionabe. In a
few instances-a very fcw-there may have been
trining verbal inaccuracy, but their general cha
racier for fidelity and excellence has been always
maintained. And SO it will continue
LATEST FROM New ORLEANs.-Owng to the
most extraordinary delay of the mails from the
extreme south, eleven now being due, we are con-
strained to give news from New Orleans as if that
place was foreign city or nation.
We received yesterday afternoon by the way of
Louisville, advces from New Orleans to the 18th
inst. inclusive, six days later than we have direct
They give us, however, very little news. The
markets we give in another column.
Ole Bull and Veux Temps were both in New
Orleans. Ole Bull appeared at the ST. Charles, and
Vieux Temps at the Orleans Theatre, on the 18th,