The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-04-28

The Evening Post and the Arabaa's News
TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW yoRK HERALD.
The Evening Pos Of to-day contains an article which
though full Of absurdities and contradictions and con-
tanning two gross and papabe fasehoods nevertheless
Of character emitting II to notice. inasmuch it
gives opportunity Of explaining matters Of
which the public not quite cognizant the
editors of the Post its telegraph reporters and
two of its contemporaries in this city Here the story
in q nutshell
The Associated Press pays large sum for the tee-
graph report of the brought by the to
Halifax. This news, though much property my.
thing within the range of valuation has by means
been stolen the arrival Of almost every steamer
some months past and has made its appearance in the
columns of the Evening Post and some of its evening
temporaries sometimes simultaneously with its appear
ance in the columns of the Associated" papers. The
has also been used by the operators In the streets
is well known to every frequenter OF Wall street.
Consequently il became object with the undersigned
were the parties concerned in the theft Of property
hded to his custody The receivers, of course, were
well known for they could not make Of their plum
der without exposing themseves) After series OF in
vesgations, the theft of the was traced to my
entire satisfaction at least to certain party employed
of the papers of the Association acting in CON
cert with the news reporers-the Gown Halifax Cores
pondent" of the Evening Post The scoundre who stole
this of the Associated Press and the confederate
the Evening Post and sold il to the brokers and specu
tors Change, not satisfied with the simple gains
o. the Operation they went further and in order to
stories to the effect that the agent Of the Association
himself the party who sold the to spectators
that he was reaping fortune from the operation I'm
der these circumstances, and having full knowledge
of the guilty parties laid plan to entrap them and
expose them to the public The Evening Post itself tells
the remainder of the story, though, have already
hned not without telling half monstrous false
hoods which would put it entirely out Of court but that
will notice few of these fasehoods and then leave
the public to judge how much confidence ought to be
statements upon its readers The Post commences its
article thus About two o'clock yesterday, despatch
press Office and from which that the Post by its
- correspondent stolen, did not leave my
hands until tele minutes past two O'Clock, and proba
badly did not reach the Express Office until fifteen mi
mites past 1t must have taken time for the con-
fcderaes to have copy TAKEN that the could
not have reached the Office of the Post until about half
past two That also was about the time that the
correspondent of the Post sent the stolen news over
the wires, South and East and to the Astor House in
this city.
The moment we put eyes upon the despatch, VIC
pronounced an imposition, and threw it aside" This
is falsehood No. So far from pronouncing impo
stion and throwing it asde the Post put it into type
with unusal speed hoping to foresta those they sup
posed the rghtfu owners in the matter of getting be-
fore the pubcand am told that they actually had it
on the press, when they informed by their news
puryeyors that the news false.
"The Express published the whole story at O'Clock /"
This is fasehood No B. If by it the Post that the
Express published the humbug story in its columns at
O'Clock. No such thing occurred. At fifteen minutes
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the simultaneous publication Of the news the Express
was in Wall street with the genuine in its columns
1t is true that later in the afternoon copies of the
Express containing the humbug despatch sent to
certain parties in the city but these copies had every
appearance of having come fresh from the press The
object Of that is well understood by those inter-
ested.
The Post makes Of great deal of indignation to
very little purpose 1t is well known to those who know
anything at all of the matter that for the last three
years that journal has published syllable of the
Halifax except the announcement of the steamers
arrival either before simultaneously with the Associ
aed Press without full knowledge that 1t the pao
pery OF the Associated Press and that their agents
could not have obtained II honestly. Yesterday was not
the first time that they have narrowly escaped burn
ing their fingers and yet with temerity that would be
nexcusabe even in very small children the Post has
continued to run the risk of imposing upon its readers
and the commercial public rather than to obtain foreign
intelligence in a legitimate way.
The indignation Of the Post in this matter does not
disturb me. 1t is not an uncommon thing for receiver
found with stolen goods in his possession to turn round
and abuse the despoled owner for the detec
ton which he saw iii to adopt.
Its threaned appeal to the courts is If possible st
less appalling. l should like to meet them and their
agents before legal tribunal and putting the parties
under OATH ask them where and how they have hereto
fore obtained their Halifax But they do not in
tend to give me any such opportunity
ID. II. CRAIG.
No. 3 HANOVER STREET, April 26, 1854.