The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-01-15

and quarrellipg together How bitterly the
managers Of the State and the United States
banks must have thought Of their suicidal strife
when both wele PROSTATE, and all was ruin
around!
ANOTHER LETTER FROM FLAGG-FNANcIER
ING AND ABoIITIoNIsM.-We give in to-day's
HERALD another extraordinary letter from
Comptroller Flagg to the Board of Aldermen
The document is so interesting that we purpose
to examine one or two Of its strong points.
The present statement Of the Comptroller
was called out by special resolution of the
Board of Aldermen directing him to report the
amount of money paid for advertising during
the past year, and particularly the sums paid
for extra advertising to his abolition organ, the
Evening Post. 1t seems that the special ad-
vertsing given to the Evening Post was ex-
elusive patronage to that journal, which has a
circulation of about fifteen hundred copies.
The rate paid was fifty cents per line for four
teen publications, and fifteen hundred extra
copies were furnished for distribution whether
gratuitously or not we are not informed This
extra issue increased the circulation to three
thousand COPIES equal to one-sixteenth of the
daily issue of the HERALD. The advertising
of these notices, says the Comptroller, was
given to the Euening Post, as the proprietors
of that paper offered to perform the work at
less price per line than [those Of any other
paper" Now this is not meeting the question
fairly. Taking the difference in the cir
culation OF the two journals, let us
see what the HERALD would have re-
ceived at Comptroller Flagg's economical rate.
Only about forty -four thousand dollars! And
yet Mr.. Flagg tells the Board Of Aldermen
that the Euening Post received the work be-
cause its proprietors offered to do it cheaper
than anybody else. According to its circula-
ton, the Evening Post received three times as
much as should have been paid for this work;
and the statement that it was the best offer is
: q misrepresentation Of fact. There was no
competition, because no one was informed that
there was anything to compete for. The
Erening Post received about four thousand
dollars worth of advertising, which, by extra
charges for printing extra copies, etc, might
be easily swelled to seven or eight thousand dol
lars. Comptroller Flagg's alleged reason for
giving this patronage to the Post will not hold
water.
In the course of further survey of the
Comptroller's letter, we fiud that the journals
which received one thousand dollars each for
advertising the city notices are those Of the
most limited circulation. Thus, journal cir
culating two thousand copies is paid one tho1-
sand dollars for doing work which journal
al lott
to do for six thousand dollars. This is
certainly most novel style of econo-
omy, and it seems to have been the settled
policy of Flagg to conceal the Corporation no.
tees in journals of the smallest circulation. 1t
will be seen at once that his statement that he
advertised in those journals which offered to
perform the work for the lowest price, is an
entire misrepresentation.
further instance of the Comptroller's poll
cy in the remarkable letter now under consde-
ration, is contained in the fact tia he prefers
as the organs of the city government the abol-
tion journals-those newspapers which have
always advocated doctrines subversve of the
progress and the prosperity of this country.
These facts prove the utter wor ihlessness of
ehS SoAphohSA pASeShSiOhS w CCpnuuy hc
has adopted it as principle that the Corpora
ton desires to hide its proceedings and its no.
tees from the public eye; and he has dstribut.
ed the advertising in the shape of spoils to
weak and lettering journals that could not live
without it. In this manner the sum of ten
thousand dollars has been expended by the
City Council to back up few obscure newspa-
pers, in order that Comptroller Flagg might
be duly glorifed.
The FRENCH Mission AGAIN VACANT.-We
may expect to hear in day or two tina. the
French mission has been vacated by the illness
or death Of Mr.. Mason, and that hosts Of old
candidates and new are urging their claims to
the place on the President There will be for
instance Mr. Dix, to whom it was promised by
the President, and who though free soiler of
1s4s is no worse in this respect than John Coch-
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