The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-06-08
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character was in topography; and accordingly q
tremendous freshet was invented, by which it was
said that the Falls of Niagara had been swept
away, and this curious and magnificent natural
phenomenon had been reduced to simple insig-
niticent rapid. This hoax was considered silly
and absurd. The next hoax from this concern was
IN banking and finance. bank was bought in
Florida, and called the Jacksonville Bank loca-
ted somewhere among the wild everglades This,
however, broke very soon-as vas to be expected
and went to the dogs. This hoax, however,
turned out little more profitable than the moon
Niagara and, consequently, the same inventive ge-
MUS attempted another hoax, which was another
bank, situated in Plalnfeld. 1t is thought the
Plainfeld hoax yielded about fifty or sixty thou
sand dollars profit to the inventor-a little more
than the others had done.
In the midst of all these magnificent operations,
another great hoax was got up In Cuba and
Mexico, consisting of sundry speculaions in gold
mines, negroes, and coffee plantations embracing
the annexation of all those countries to the United
States. These hoaxes, however, turned out badly.
This genius, however, was not content with these
enterprises IN such line of hoaxing; but attempted
them in smaller things, such newspaper expresses,
steamboats,, specie mporatons--and, to crown all,
the hoaxing stories written upon bulletin boards
over his doors! In fact there is no end to the va
riety and multitude of these hoaxes, which are
daily palmed off upon the public as vertable facts
and truth, in the columns of this newspaper But
we think the public, which has been bit to the tune
offorty or fifty thousand dollars in the Jacksonville
and Plainfeld hoaxes, is beginning to get tired of
them, and will be careful how 1t gives credit to any
thing coming from such a quarter. The age Of
hoaxing, and its instruments, too, is nearly done.
ACCOMMODATION TO THE fREss-THE BARNBURN-
Frs MEETING -The conduct of the getters poi the
bamburners' meeting, which was held in the Park,
on Tuesday last, was, as far as their duty to the
press was concerned, in the highest degree dis
graceful and ought not to be passed over in silence
During the whole time of our connection with the
press, we never saw or heard of such an outra-
geous breach of propriety as was committed on that
occasion towards the reporters, and we trust that
we shall never be called upon to advert to similar
one. Here was a meeting, the proceedings of
which were anxiously looked for by the people of
a continent, and which, in the present condition of
parties in the United States, were of the greatest
consequence; and instead of facilities being az
forded to the representatives by which they could
fulfil their duty to the papers to which they respec
lively belonged, and to the public, there were no
seats-no chairs-no pens, paper or ink-nothlng,
in fact; but above all, they had to force their
way through dense crowd to the speakers plat
form, at the risk of their limbs and at the mercy of
pickpockets. When they succeeded in reaching
the stand, they were obliged to use the shoulders
of the crowd as resting places for their note
books, and were jostled and pushed about in
The most disgraceful manner. Where, we
would ask were the committee of arrange
ments! Why were not the ordinary facili
ties extended to the press Oh that occasion 2
Why was it that the carpenters had not finished
the construction of the temporary staging until five
or ten minutes after the time for which the meet
ing was convened If it had not been that that
meeting was looked upon as of great importance,
the representatives of the press ought IN justice
the dignity of their profession and of the public
press, to have left the ground and allow the affair
togo by default. How is it that people cannot
comprehend that, while their speakers are making
a demonstration, as they call it, before an au-
dience of four or five thousand the press, by re-
thousand into half million. If they did but I'M
derstand this, they would spare no pains to furnish
reporters with due facilities for fulfilling their
duties
We hope we shall not again be called upon to
notice such lack of courtesy-such disgraceful
proceeding.
THE PRESIDENTIAL ELEc ToN-THE GERMANS