The New York herald., 1845-08-26

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has of late grown up into some importance cor.
respondence from this metropolis with the numer
Gus provincial or country papers scattered over the
Union. Some of these letter writers communicate
in rather agreeable manner variety of interest
Ing information, but many of them are mere retail
ers of twaddle, puffs, and i'll nature One of the
readable accurate and interesting letters from
New York. which we have seen in the country pa
pers, is the following published in the Norfolk He
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From the Norfolk Heraldl
A Tar TO NEw YoRK.-The printing art has at
tanned to great perfection in New York. as every
othc laboratories in which the conglomeraon of diver
odd materials malaxed with elbow grease and spices
with the essence Of brains is made to produce daily
dish OF food suited to the palaes of
class of humanity from the monarch Of the money mar
ket to the lowest laborer. And before we leave ou
present location in the mile square below the Park sup
pose get friend in the city to introduce us to the
grand printing establishment of the Harpers from
which literature is SO copousy showered upon the
try in every shape; from the tiny primer the
iolo There are some twenty presses. all of American
invention and manufacture, employed in this establish
engine. What an agent Of all works II has finger
IN every pie" 1t helps to provide for the wants both OF
body aud mind ltprepares our food and ramen prints
our books and newspapers, speeds with unearthly
rapidty over land and water when travel saws the
timber for our dwellings, and lends sturdy hand to
protect them from invading foes The senior Harper
ae Mayor of the city, is first rate specimen OF work
ing man. He laid the stone of the vast edihce
(over which he pre- sides with benev voence and dignity
worthy to be admired when he ourneyman prln
ter pulling in his shirt sleeves at the bar OF an old a
mage press Let others who desire to get up in the
world, follow his example apply themselves assduous
ly to their occupations, whatever they may be eschew
dram drinking and idle and loose company and elevate
their minds above the humility of their condition that is
to say fix in their minds eye elevated mark and
solve TO hit it and they do not find themselves at the
Chief Magistrate Of its greatest city, they will attain an
elevation commensurate with the reach OF moderate
ambition, and an enviable independence to boot
The next of the disciples of Faust distinguished for the
noise he has made in the world is Bennett need not
add editor of the Ner York Herald the combination
would be The one is inseparable from the
other in the public mind His printing house is at the
intersection of Nassau and Fulton steetsa tall build
iDg-five stories above, and for aught the writer
kens many under ground But his stories (no matter
for the number) not dull gloomy they enli
vened by brilliant gas lights the click oftypes the clack
OF presses and the hustle OF newsboys accompani
men ofhe miscellaneous manufacture of brain material
which necessarily going for the general lnfoma-
shape and form The of the master spirit of this
establishment has been marked by genius and indus
try which has rarely be N paralleed Among the morn.
ing papers which are hawked about the streets by news
boys the Herald appears to take the lead with strangers
from the south.
The commercial newspaper press in New York is alto
gether subject worthy of the study of the curious in
the printing How the newspapers gather
up the multifarious incidents and the po
fanatieal and nfdel meetings and the allsortof
from all quarters OF the globe, which they daily serve
up to the reading public is stery to the unnitiaed,
which they should find out
In New York the press is wont to speak freely and
earessy and to assert its right to be the cOnservaor of
the public morals 1t holds in check the natural dispo
ston il large and wealthy communities to vice and
morality and whenever it detects delinquent, mat
ter what his standing be in the community chases
him into the pound of Justice, where he is compelled
face the public drives him forth to receive his
measure of retributon in exile.
The leading presses in New York, with which the
writer is conversant are with the Tribune and Herald
already named) the Express, Commercial .adrerser,
Journal Of Commerce, Courier Enquirer, Erening Post
Sum- and True Sun. These alone have the intellectual
and moral power to set the town rights and keep
in order-with the aid OF good police. But there are
many others though of minor note-potcal literary,
and religious.
There are few papers in New York which date back
very far The writer recolecs the Erening Post almost
as early as he recoects himself; and although he has
ambition to be thought old he reckons the age Of that
journal to be somewhere in the latitude of AS II was
for many years fiery federal paper and then chopped
round and became as hot the opposite side 1t has,
still later however, assumed more elevated and nde
before though ultra democratic in its principles (as
was ultra federal)t comedies nothing to party
all alterations from the principles maintains whether
percepble in the acts Of the President the proceed
ings Of Tammany meeting This honesty Of the Post
denim the principles which it advocates.
The Commercial next in seniority and has maintain
ed the high reputation with which commenced without
diminuton. 1t held in deserved for its advo-
cacy Of sound principles, and a vehicle OF news and
general information stands among the foremost the
New York journals. 1t is decidedly whig in its politics.
though moderate and liberal in its discussions Of party
questions The younger branches ofthe editorial family
however have evidently taken the lead of these old
stagers the Tribune the Herald and the Express being
considerably in the foreground. The Journal Of Com
ces of advertising and also of though they
not to be quite popular with the million the three
wei we have before Is;. named The f. however is edited
mass of newspaper editors in New York though CON-
paratively bat little of higher order That the New
York editors gentlemen OF character and standing is
unquestonable fact but to believe what they
times say about another would be apt to
cude that they scamps any in chrisen
dom vitiaed taste in the public seems to call for and
delight IN these Bngsgate exhibitions OF the editorial
corps and to their shame be it spoken the taste of the
latters depraved enough to indulge it.
The statements of this writer are in the main
correct and characterized by liberal and unpreu-
diced spirit In his concluding paragraph, he refers
to subject which has often been the subject OF re-
mark and inquiry. 1t has often been asked why
the New York editors should be so given to envy,
jealousy and backbiting. The only reason that can
be found for the habtual exhibition of these amable
qualities is the excessive rivalry and competition
which exist amongst them. Any one of the daily
journals that happens, by superior tact, enterprise
and industry, to attain wide and extended crcula-
ton, Immediately communicates a spirit of envy
and dislike amongst the other journals and they at
once combine in order, if possible, to put down the
successful competitor for public favor
and patronage Thus originated the famous "mo-
raj war" against the Herald some years ago, which
was waged with such unexampled bitterness and
remarkable failure. II was nstigated, encouraged,
and backed by one M. NJ Noah, who had been con-
nected with the New York press for many years,
and who like the rest of the old regime supposed
that any new genius engaging successfully in that
business might interfere with their proscriptive
rights. That war, however, only served to en-
tighten the public-to spread still farther the reputa-
ton Of the Herald and make it what it is at this
day, one of the greatest and most extraordinary
journals probably ever attempted in tree country
On Wednesday, the 9th of May, 1895, we com.
menced this journal, by issuing the first copy, with
the following prospectus