The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1844-12-26
Daily Express between New York and New
Orleans.
From One to Four Days
IN ADVANCE OF THE MAIL.


We beg leave to announce to the public, that we
have completed our arrangemenisfo for the establish
ment Of daily cypress bet,ceen Ne,c York and Ne,o
Orleans, which will furnish this journal with all
the important intelligence from the great Southern
city, from one to four days in advance of the u s.
mail. This express will go into operation very
after the LIST of January. In its operation it will
not interfere at all with the Post Office laws or
the business of the Post Office Department. 1t is
altogether Of different character from that OF the
private expresses recently established between New
York and the various cities Of the Atlantic sea.
board. Our express will be used merely for the
purpose of bring public and private news from New
Orleans, TO this city, for the use Of the Herald estab-
hshment alone, and which will be commune
Gated Immediately to the public, and be for public
advantage, thus interfering in no respect with
the revenues Of the Post Office Department,
the Post Office laws, In reference TO the trans
mission OF newspapers and letters.
In connection with this express at New Orleans,
we are making arrangements for correspondents
and agents at Natchez, Mobile, and all the other
cotton points points in the United States not for
getting Havana, Galveston, i'm Texas and Vera Cruz,
in Mexico, further South. All the intelligence,
both commercial and poliical, from all these points
in the South, concentrating at New Orleans. will be
received at the Office of the Nec York Herald-im-
mediately on the express going into operation
from to four days, according to the state OF the
weather and the roads, in advance of any other
paper in the Northern States. IL is well known
that during the winter season the United States
mails, from their great weight, frequently fail for
days together on the Southern route on this side
of Georgia, and sometimes beyond. The Herald
express, established for the exclusive purpose Of
bringing intelligence for us,wl seldom or never be
liable to such accidental detention, because it will
be run altogether on different principle, and car
ry only light weight 1t will be perceived there
tore, that the Nep York Herald, during the ensuing
winter month, swill alone be enabled to give all the
New Orleans, Mexico, and Texas news, both poll.
teal and commercial, ahead Of its contemporaries
in the Northern States.
Another point OF Importance. The advantage
of early intelligence by thismethod OF conveyance,
will also enable US to communicate to our cor.
respondents in Liverpool, London, and Paris, i'm
portant intelligence OF the state of the Southern
markets, and OF the affairs of Mexico and Texas,
frequently days in anticipation of any other news
paper establishment at the North. We are,
therefore, in connection with leading newspaper
establishments in Europe, situated in Liverpool,
London and Paris, making arrangements of a
mutual character and for mutual benefit in con-
nexion with our great New Orleans daily express
The reasons which have induced us to attempt
such magnificent enterprise in the newspaper bu-
siness are numerous and cogent The recent
movements of the government with respect to
Mexico and Texas in reference to the annexation,
have given such prominence to events maturing
and taking place in those southern regions that the
public mind is interested in the highest degree in
The early publication of such intelligence and the
governmental OF the old world have been awakened
to new perception OF the Importance OF the same
movements, and the new developments and direc-
ton OF the principles which formerly regulated the
balance OF power. The extraordinary sensation
which has been produced in France and England
and all over Europe by the election Of Mr.. Polk
and the success of the measures identified with
him, will be succeeded by still greater intensity
Of excitement when the accounts OF the recent d.
plomatic intercourse Of this government with
Mexico shall have reached their shores new
era in the political and commercial connections of
Europe and America has broken upon US, and this
Texas questien-this annexation question-will
hereafter create deeper interest in the govern
ments Of Europe-in their public journals, and in
the public mind generally, than all the other ques-
tions that have agtated the old world for the past
quarter of century. In order to satisfy the great
avdity for intelligence thus create j, we have
found means to organize the daily express between
New York and New Orleans, IN connexion with
newspapers in the latter city, and also when our
arrangements are fully completed, with leading
newspaper establishments in Europ,.
NJ he al mhtch
have induced US to attempt such piece Of enter
pr:ze But there are other reasons more OF COM
mercial nature. The present position Of the cotton
market, both in Europe and in this country, is such
10 give The greatest degree Of interest to COM
mercial intelligence from the south. The agita-
ton Of the cotton question is beginning to show
itself in the southern States. The extremely low
price in Europe Of that great staple-the immense
produce Of the two last years-are elements of this
great commercial movement, which add to its in
terest and give edge TO everything connected with
It.
Such are the reasons that have induced Us to en-
ter into this original andimportant project 1t will
obviously be an expensive experiment.; but, in
connection with other newspapers, al other points,
the expense will be portioned out in such manner
as to be within our ability Indeed, the patronage
of the American public has been so literally ex-
tended to the New York Herald. that we are per.
fectly justified in attempting to carry newspaper
enterprise to its highest points Of perfection. From
a circulation of few hundreds with which the
Herald commenced its existence, in 1885, we have
now reached circulation Of $500 daily papers,
and circulation Of 1880 weekly papers making
an aggregate Of nearly 4O,O0O-probably number
beyond that Of ANY other newspaper establishment
the globe. II is this liberal, generous, and mag
unanimous patronage and approbation-substantial
patronage-of the public which has enabled us to
overcome SO many difficulties, and SO much bitter
and vulgar opposition, and which now, with ener-
gies unmpaired, and means greater than ever, will
enable us to surpass any newspaper that ever at
tempted to enlighten the public mind in this hemis-
phere.
These few words present brief view Of the en-.
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