The New York herald., 1845-01-24

relation to the fabricated foreign news purportpa
10 have been received by the Oxford, and publish
ed IN that print on Saturday last with such swell
flourish OF trumpets. For several days the Tribune
mas been very querulous and testy, on account Of
our repeated calls for its explanation 1t has be.
come abusive and angry, as philosophers of the
Fourier school generally are when they ale caught
in ridiculous attitude; but at last il comes up to
the mark and gives the following exquisitely rich
and amusing explanation:-
THE News Br IHE OxroRp.-S Some ten or twelve days
ago, person long engsgsd in collecting Ship News and
Off and inquired II willing to pay hands
for the first news from the expected Liverpool Packets
We replied that would and that we wished
to be able to announce the State Of the Cot
ton Market.
The Collector then informed us that he had been for
some time aiming Pigeors to aid him in despatching
news from vesses in the Ofng and thought he shou be
able to succeed with one Of the Packets then expected
On Friday afternoon last, he returned in haste with
Carrier Pigeon and slip OF paper attached bv string
Soar s .ora om nan 'na @
the east end Of Long Island. That letter contained
substantially the details of Foreign News which
gave next morning from the Oxford II purportsd
10 be synopsis Of the intelligence con aimed in
Liverpool paper OF Dec 10Th, and though rudely drawn
had an air OF authenticny, which would have
dis,rused In regard the Cotton Market rather
confused Gas forged statement would hardly be
important point, but showed that the market was buoy
ant stated that 5000 bales had been sold
tall prices on the 4h and i6b We published the whole
without suspicion that its authenticity would be
questioned.
The nonarrval Of the Oxford on Saturday and Sunday
did not in view of the winds and weather, materially
the He, sid She arrived Monday night and her news
was given by favoriteism exclusively to the Courier and
ats mot obtained p any suGeTo. enterprise or energy
up overland ahead OF her appearance denied that she had
been boarded. Yet her news Tailed remarkably with
ours in regard to the Cotton Market and did not disagree
In any essential particular On Tuesday the person who
furnished US the called with his brother who
said that II was he who went alongside of the Oxford in
fishing smack at before daylight the morning of
Fday last that he asked for papers, and thrown
s Ss ssn tina,
by the pigeon He said he had just arrived in the smack
which had proceeded the East River Both these with
gentleman connected with Office, proceeded to the
Oxford (which had not when they fst called)
after her arrival but found the all discharged
ashs nna gone 'h Here were compelled to ds''t for the
Yesterday we made enquiry at the Office Of Mr. Mar
inerrogated as to the alleged visit the News
Collector on Friday morning. but denied all knowledge
oi It, we are thence mPelisd to conclude that we>
porting to come from the Oxord-housh seems nnac
countable that the who brought to should per-
He at our Office several times yesterday, and
left insisting that he would yet bring testimony from
ments throughout We forbear further comment for the
present And now if body believes the base calum
nies q the Herald In regard to our connection with the
matter, he Is welcome.
This may be called confession of the who'll,
trick Admitting this statement to be true in all
its particulars, every one sees that the philosophers
Of the Tribune must have been completely cpl
geoned," according to their own account. Yet
they still seem to cherish faint hope Of finding the
man who communicated the intelligence to their
"news collector" as they call him-the chap who
was in too great hurry to fetch any papers. We
suspect they will find him in some Of the small
cotton brokers' concerns down town, and not
amongst the crew Of the packet ship Oxford, who
have been, unfortunately, paid of and discharged.
1t is fact, for have it from the best authority,
that at the time when this "pigeon express" as he
represents himself, boarded the Oxford that vessel
was between three and four hundred miles of the
East end Of Long Island.
1t must, then, now be conceded that the whole
of the publication in the Tribune gross fabri-
cation, as the -editor Of that print virtually con-
fesses; although, like drowning man, he family
catches at straw. Some suppose that this ''news
collector" is an old hand at the pigeon express
business, having served under the celebrated inan-
cisr. Moses Y Beach, of the Lehgh County
Bank, and that on this occasion he was used for
a special purpose by certain parties. All this,
however, only gives additional proof that the con-
ductors of the Tribune are utterly unfit for the
work of managing a newspaper. Any one pos
sessed of moderate experience and judgment mus,
have, at once, discovered that this news was all
fabrication. But the philosophers Of the Tribune
never doubted its genuineness, and are hardly sa
tis6ed yet of its true character, The truth is
they are unable to comprehend any of the ordina
ny affairs of this world Look at them during the
last Presidential canvass-swaggering about their
estimates Of ten, fifteen and twenty thousand ma.
jorty for Clay in this State-estmates in which,
ridiculous and false as they were, many put their
trust, and lost their money to most extraordin-
ry extent.
Look at their views of society-their philoso-
phcal notions and even their religious notions as
promulgated in the Tribune Was there ever
another journal stepped in absurdity, nonsense,
pretension, ignorance, and folly as this Tribune,
which affects to be of the decent. respectable, in.
fuentidl and talented prints of New York? The
fabricated foreign news was only an item in its
general character, which is beginnin to be gene-
rally understood.
BENEFITS AND BLACK MAIL.-We perceive that
one Of The editors of the Journal of Commerce has
been presented with pair Of silver pitchers, on
silver salver-he didn't tell us what was In them
oy d punper ci nlgniy respectable gentlemen oil
this city, as testimonial Of their sense of his in
dustry, talent and impartiality during the presiden-
tial election. his present has been much praised,
and is considered highly honorable TO all the parties
concerned. Much about the same time another
editor, and something Of poet-a lyric poet-was
presented with "beneht' of $1,000, with which
he is about to re-acquIre his chateau, called Under
cliff, on the Hudson, which had been mortgaged
during the recent times OF pecuniary distress. This
complimentary benefit has also been very much
praised
Well, be it so. Ia relation to public affairs-to
all the great progress ssve movements Of socieiy-in
politics. religion finance, morals, poetry, and every
thing, we will venture to say that we have done
as much in the time an half a dozen editors in this