The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-11-24
New York Herald-is35.

From the Detroi. Free Press, Nov. II
We have before us a copy Of THE HERALD printed
December 81, 1855. 1t is tribe over onethird as
large as tho Free Press has sixteen columns seven
OF which are devoted to reading matter, aud nine
TO acknowledgements l. purports to have been pub
lisheo at "No liS Nassau street, between Beehman
and Spruce streets, opposite DR. Sorings Church,
basement story" by james Gordoa Bennett
Il is curious relic Of the present day; aud it
readsW lesson Of American enterprise, worthy Of
serious study. just row tho telegraph informs US
that General Scott attributes his defeat to the NEW
YORK HERALD. We say nothing Of the influence
which that paper may have exered in the recent
election; it was unquestioDably very great; but,
OF course, it WAS not sufficient to turn tho tide Of
popular sentiment into channel, and to thus
swell the current to overflow it's banks, and sweep
of the States Of the wing party from the face Of
the political field.
The number before US is ninety seven OF the frst
volume. 1t contains map Of the burnt district
and Of the ruins Of the old Merchants Exchange;
with somev lat heightened description of the great
fire III December, 1885 In describing the fire the
HsRALD says
On going Wall street found it difficult to get
through the ovid The hose the engines was run
along the street nd frozen.n
Individual losses must have been immense
osbourne Young lost the passs cargo Of teas just
imported from Canton 100000 On consignment and in
store ~ much more, probably 100000.
Moses raslor South street lost in coffee, 100000
Rowland Asp,n gau. SS0tcO
Tappan & Co, szo0to0. The Pearl street jobbars
In good spirits and paying their nstes without trouble
Inc french houses Pearl srset heavy suffer
crs-Lyon- IN France especisy-probaty five millions
equal 10 the amount o. inc Indemnity 7
Then there 10 the announcement Of "Pizsrro," a.
the Park Theatre: With Mr., Wala,k % R,a And
the Franklin, too, invites people to amusement but
no other thearlcals. But the best thing in the co
lumn Of amusements is the advertisement Of Joyce
Heth, which we give entire -
JocE HETHTis lively and interesting relic of aDtioui.
" who has attained the wonderful age Of 1871 years and
Is in the full possession OF ell her faculties has returned
TO her old quarters No ~ Bowory where che will remsn
during the holidays No money will be receired from any
person who is not perfectly satisfied with the exhibition
md convinced be ond doubt that she the Of
General Washington and is old as represented Ad.
mitsance 70 cents children half price
BE- Joice Heth is not slave and tho proceeds of her
exhibition arc appropriated solely to the benefit Of her
postetity. now residing in Kentucky.
The now and then Of the HERALD Is certainly no
tceabie but scarcely more than the now aud then
Of New York, and of the great West indeed oe the
whole country. Seventeen years have been enough
to enlarge the HERALD, and it has safced to ca.
large the Of freedom and 10 give tenfold ener-
gy, power, and glory, to our country We live in
the present-we have no past. Ours is new career,
finding precedents only in the works Of the day.
What occurred last year is out Of fashion; what oc
CURED a quarter of q century ago has been buried
in the revolutions Of business, politics, philosophy
and above all, in that present activity which tinds
time to look backward, and no necessity for les
soss out Of the range Of the affairs Of tie hour.