The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-06-21

shall best do-not by following foreign exam
pie in the maintenance Outstanding armies-but
by fostering an institution which can supply us
at any moment with able, scientific leaders for
our volunteer regiments, and thus really rem
der US formidable to the foe.
The New YORK HERALD AND OUR CoTEN-
PoRARIEs-CAN'T STAND Ir-That noblest of
the Apostles, st. Paul, in speaking Of the car
dinal virtues of Faith, Hope, and Charity, says
that the greatest of these is Charity. But there
is point beyond which even the forbearance Of
charity ceases to be virtue. and to that point,
once in while, we find ourselves driven by our
uncharitable contemporaries. We are like the
old man who had splendid orchard of splendid
fruits. His neighbors might help themselves
ad H1itum for the asking; they might even
carry off moderate quantities from time to time,
without asking; but when they began to come
from day to day and take away whole hamper
baskets Of peaches and carloads of apples,
sans ceremonie, he frankly told them that he
didn't like it, and that in point of fact he
couldn't put up with it any longer
We have allowed the same margin to our
contemporaries. They have from time to time
appropriated the cream of our reports, our
letters, our documents, our compilations, and
our editorials in this city and out of this city,
and we have made no complaint. Very often an
interesting article, prepared or procured for this
journal exclusively, and costing us some con-
siderable labor or expense, and often the fruit
Of labor, expense. time and learning well be-
slowed, has been appropriated. with some
trifng notifications, by slow-paced cotem-
porary, and adopted as its own rightful pro-
perty. And thus raced, we have frequently
seen our articles "going the rounds credited.
for exemple, to the New York Wall street
Robert Macaire. We single out that paper,
from the notorious character it has acquired
as the Robert Macaire of our New York dailies.
It has been the fashion of this free and easy
neighbor, for some years. to give in his Third or
Fourth Edition." (Heaven save the mark y 'the
spirit Of the morning press" in column of
extracts, excepting the exclusive news Of the
HERALD, which is adopted as it's own, with all
the GOODNESS Of man appropriating his own
rightful property.
And thus it goes to our outside cotem-
poraries, who rightly considering, no doubt,
the Macaire less dangerous rival than the
HERALD, gives the former the credit due to the
superior enterprise and means Of information
possessed by the latter Thus much for our
Robert Macaire. We might cover broadside
with his pickings from our columns, were it not
waste Of time and space to do so. We can
only confess our regret for the gratuitous sup
port we thus bestow upon such an ungrateful
and Improbable custoYer
Our philosophers Of the Tribune betray some
thing more Of conscientious scruples in this i'm
portant matter of stealing neighbours thunder.
They do sometimes acknowledge, in very small
type, that such an article is from the HERALD"
but then sometimes they don't-an omission
which no philosophy can justify. For instance.
in yesterdays Tribune we have the credit Of
then there is the special correspondence Of the
.Ne,c York Tribune" on the Erie Railroad acct
dent, which is wrong, because it is not the Iri-
bune's correspondence We charge that most
of the details of that letter were taken from the
account. iona .tide, Of our special reporter. as
published in the HERALD. And here is the
proof The letter Of the Tribune is dated June
l6, and says that this evening, between seven
and eight o'clock. engine No. SO, &C.. exploded"
Then in the list of killed and wounded it says
that Gilbert Hill the fireman, was badly
scalded and was removed to
the house of the late Mr.. Arnold. where
he lay last evening, in a state Of de-
1irin fhn 1nff ic Iafa tho Il
of the accident, Mr.. Hill. according to the ac-
count in the Tribune, must have lain in "a
state Of delirium." from the results of the ex-
plosion the day before the explosion took place,
and so on with others Of the wounded. In steal
ing the matter from our report to fill up it's |
skeleton letter, our philosophers simply neg
lected the fitness Of the date, our correspon-
dents letter being written after the acct |
dent. We can overlook these petty larcenies. |
but to see our consistent and truthful reports |
thus changed into nonsense is insufferable. The |
Times manages the case with the same skill.
We have now general account to settle with
the National Democrat, (the real genuine
from day to day with the contents Of the HER
AID and OF the democrat. would be apt to sup
pose sometimes that the latter was but mod-
fed reprint of the former, published the next
day to meet the demands for the HERALD which
it's fast working presses were unable to supply all
the day before. Yesterdays Democrat, for
in its extracts, was made up largely
from our compilations. Gan indication of good
Laste) but it falls into several mistakes in
adapting our Heads of the World,' published
some while ago, as applicable to the present
time. Thus it puts down Baez as President of
The Dominican republic, while, as all the world
knows he has been succeeded by Santana,
he old liberator. Worse yet, Arista is regis
tered as President of Mexico, whereas Antonio
Lopez de Santa Anna is generally believed to
be at the head of Mexican affairs. And there