New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-02-04
Tho Post Once Advertising -Newspaper I'm.
terprtse and Patronage.


The Herald announces that it has been selected,
in accordance with the law. as one Of the journals
entitled to the Advertising Of the Weekly Lists OF
Letters uncaled for at our City Pos! Office in place
Of The Tribune and adds
This 10 no more than whs; expected. The Tribune
never ws from lite circulation either Ia this City
Off, to any Of that sdyersng and thai paper has
and merely by he snisncy ard tolerance shown by
Sws g.. 3. az De- Ss s nav
lions in this City"
Established by rhat By atfdavits from the
Herald ITSELF made Tor the express object OF getting
this patronage. based on matters exclusively with
in ia own cognizance with the knowledge that no
one had power to scrutnze or refuie it, and after
weeks Of gasconade which would have disgraced
it beyond if it had failed OF achieving the
success il coveted We doubt not it would have
succeeded had it been necessary to swear to three
times its actual circulation. The Postmaster was
obliged to be governed by the Heralds affidavit
bot the public is under no such constraint and vii
Judge independently. IL will do our City the justice
to believe until better evidence Is furnished,
that the Herald is not the second IN circulation
among its journals. Although the brothels and low
groggeries Of which it is the oracle and the cham
pion are very numerous, the reputable and exern-
plary households in which 1t is loathed as pesti-
lence are still more numerous, and We are conf
dent its subscription in City, though large, il
press and True Sun also Whenever some means
shall be devised and adopted of ascertaining by
actual scrutiny the relative circulation of the City
journals the Herald will be Invested of this pa
tronage which it has now unfairly obtained
IL is utterly, inexcusably false that The Tribune
obtained this Advertising by tolerance or 'leni-
ency of any sort. We obtained it in fair and open
competition with all the other journals OF our City.
upon afdavits showing that it had the largest City
circulation of any, next to the toldl Sun The Her
aid, after weeks of swagger and bravado did not
venture to put in an affidavit stating the amount OF
its City circulation but in ostentstous defiance OF
the Postmssters express requirement, insisted ON
swearing to its total circulation and nothing else
So il was beaten, as it knew it in any case must
be. Since then, we have advertised the Lists Of
Letters weekly, subject always to a call for new
sfidsyits but no such call has been made till now
Meantime, our Circulation, in the City and out OF
il, has considerably increased, and we believe IL
sllll such az to entite to the Lists though the
Herald is by several years older than The Tribune,
and having great deal more room to devote to
aeflaudaton and braggadocio than We could posi-
bly, afford, II our tastes pointed that way, has
doubtless bulied some weak minded people into
taking IL by tricks which would disgrace any ven.
der Of Resurrection Pills or Matchless Backing.
"A word now jsince we are 10 the way of III on
the subject Of Newspaper Enterprise and the
energy displayed therein by rival journals. We
never yet neglected or misimproved one fair oppor
tunity TO place important intelligence atthe earliest
moment before our readers, and we have spent
thousands OF dollars annually in doing. But We
cannst oresta our cotemporariesby acts like those
to whichth Herald has habitually descended. We
cannot, for example, pretend to advocate the de-
mand Of the old Pilots Of this port for renewal of
the monopoly Of Plotting which they formerly enjoy
ed, because We believe it, though gainfu TO them,
contrary to sound principle, natural justice and the
public welbeing. We have no doubt that the
Herald regards this matter just we do yet it has
filled ts columns with absurd and abusive Editorials
parporsing to advocate the old Pilots claims though
oitener really calculated to prejudice and defeat
them. We. by pursuing like course. might have
shared in the lucrative advantage of these Pilots
vigilant and effective service in procuring early
news from on shipboard but we could not do that,
while we could bear the injury and mischief of the
Pilots mistaken snmity. So in othercases Happily,
the disadvantage under which we long labored is
nearly obviated by the establishment of lines o
Mail Steamships. and soon will be entirely.
Az to European News by way Of Boston, We
have spared no sxpense to secure its early re-
ceipt yet have sometimes been thwarted by the
circumstance that the Merchants Reading Room
at Boston has chosen to render itself a mere con-
venencs and tender to the Herald, even when
obliged to withhold intelligence from its own sub
scribers and the Boston journals to subserve that
end. Neither this nor any other New. York Journal
can afford to maintain news.bost establishment
in Massachusetts Bay but we have offered to pay
any charge which that concern should think tit to
impose on for the early transmission Of the
news-and offered in vain. The Telegraph has
very nearly delivered US from all future dssdvan
tsge Ia that quarter and very soon the perfected
and numerous lines of Steamships rsdatng from
our own port will obviate all difficulty on that
side. Meantime. we may once in year or so be
anticipated 10 news via Boston II the Telegraph
wires shall happen to be broken when q steamship
arrives late at night but we shall DO our best to
avoid It
we do not expect nor desire to make as much
NOISE about early news a. the Herald does-we
cannot taketne to ask the public to admire
our amazing enterprise. sagacity and energy--bst
we believe our columns viii show ths, we ara be-.
bind neither that nor any other of our oo:emporaes
in the publication ofimportant and authentic intel
ligencs. Thus we pablished on Taesdav er,n,us
the highly important intelligence that the lows
House Of Representatives had decided not to 20 in
to Joint Ballot with the Senate at this Session to
elect two U. 3 Senators. which keeps down the Ad.
minstrstiOn majority for the remainder Of this SEES
sion and may give Us two Wing Senators after the
choice of 4 new Legislature next August On
Wednesday morning we had added particulars of
this action the Herald has not yet given this i'm
postsnt news On Wednesday morning, we pub
lished, in advance Of the Herald and OF nearly all
our contemporaries, the election of q LocoFoco
u 8. Senator from Louisiana with full particulars
received the night previous BY Horse Express from