The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-04-28

have added this the daily labor Of diegng deep into hs
mysteries of Wall street. and sounding as with plum
shoals and quokRands Of those dangerous
p.pexed confused, but graspng every facs within
reach and deducng theories which always read with
aydly, not with pIont-srgues versatility OF talent
Of which few dare 20 boast the possession Yet this
the sempoeed task Of Mr. Bennett, when, with capital
BIZ adventurous bark upon the waters of public opinion
We repeat that he made his first great mark BY his Wall
street Articles and that he gave to this species report
ing Ill., Dash, holiness, that put the ali street
porters of other journals upon their mettle
PEELED hem, in the spirit OF competition to employ
higher order Of talent 10 this department until the daily
nlwspapers financial reports Of day compared WITH
those Of twenty years ago. as light 70 darkness For
tins Improvement, more Than 20 living the pub
lie owes It's acs no~ledgmenis 10 Jamea Gordon Bennett
| Ia the early period OF the establishment OF the
| HERALD, wteu was necessary to make bold effort
! 70 attract the attention Of tho public, Il may be
charged that many Of its articles, while they amused
| by their wit, we're cehsured for their Personality,
that his overdarng pen attacked rudey many habits
OF thought which the world ~ng dslrust that
be dwet with too giarng coors upon which should
be touched in an undertone and tnat many efforts
while 100 much directed 70 make tboughtiess spectators
laugh were calculated 10 make the udcions grieve nch
was the accusation, and the reply quickly il not
as satisfactorily as the charge He knew thing which
he bad learned by heart in his experience az al editor
that the reaopg public will pardon almost any fault in
writer but duness To succeed he must ufst catch the
pubic attention, for. right or wrong, bodness and
mined that his paper should be read, IL W read
TO condemn 1t. Around him the sleepy journals OF
the elder school, maintaining The popety Of their sys'e
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denounced, condemned but st read and with constantly
Increasing attention. SILL, in those DAYS though It's
ney articles gave wide circulation among commercial
men, they gave " no return IN the way OF advertise
ments. As TO his forty dollar subscribers" who for
that sum were entitled rnder the old rule advertise
to cunt about equal to the OF their compos0n
there such upon his st and in Ia eaa proved
to his advantage that he not encountered by any pa
uonage Of that description.
AS to the paper being commercial one 10 the in
which Lapes Cdfete commercial paper 10 belonged
10 no such restricted cAss But look at the
vert men n daV mid nd
at no starvelmg rates contributed not by the socsd
commercial classes alone, but By every Kind and degree
Of humanity that wishes to make known ITS mu.tarlons
wants Sober prose as seem these long announcements
her exempiacaon Of The vast aud varied winch
they represent-the restless, struggling active world
around u.s. with all the added wants which accompany tho
hl best sate OF onthey give ampest scope
The imagination while dwelling on toe rescurces eud tho
extraordinary prosperity OF our great metropolis They
are pictures On small scale each but with mighty az
gregae, Of The activity Of our city Let them be compared
with the number OF Ia the london Times aud
1t easy IN this way 20 judge how closely business
point of view, treadpg the heels of the great
commercial capital OF the 0io World. In other words,
The aEnALD is picture Of New York, picture OF It's
| prosperity, its life, its activity, its enormous
and caiy increasing wealth, and its daily accelerated
towards the highest point Of greatness And the
fecon that this vast reservoir of INTO, nation WHot alone
OF matters local TO our city, bus OF intelligence furnished
by IFS agents and correspondents from almost every quar-
| ter Of the world, and seat to every quarter OF
the globe where civilization reaches-is but an ex-
duplication OF the genius, industry and energy of
man, is unaded founder its sole owner, its director and
propetofcanBot fail 10 awaken feelings respect for
capacity WhlCh mas created aud directed
as we may FROM i.s views, opposed may be to its
conductor there it is, something which may affect
depecate but which, in spite OF ourselves
Eost have been compelled laugh over the wit OF
the late Major Noah, and deny his aptnes and
cleverness IN the days OF bis editorial supremacy.
But have all Of laughed over tbs
ice Miller jokes which Joe Miller wrote Ut
tered 20 have we chucked over scores of pleasantres
OF NJ ~ Noah which the offspring Of Mr. Benefits
brain. Associated with Noah contributor years prior
TO the establishment Of the HERALD, in the ulness Of
ctr aft Yhafp fu
pTesentng daily Offering Of good things 10 reading
public the peafapries Of Bennett were received by the
crcduops multitude as the jokes Of Noah. Had crcum-
sances compelled Mr. Bennett TO remain in the subord
nate position in which he then placed he might have
drudged through life ike cart horse in the traces with
compensation just apove the point OF respectable sarva
ton He might AL his life have the seeds OF plea
saDry and good humor of which others would have reap
60 the and happy for him were the circumstances
which forced him upon his own resources 70 VIM IL he
was worthy reputation for himself or TO lose If
worthy. 1t vas not until he was thrown entirety upon
himself with no encnm nering advisers about hi n
hamper him with their olcious eounsels, that ne really
med TO be of the energy that in him. In
his enterprise Of the establishment Of the HERALD every
probability of was, from the very nature Of the
undertaking. strongly against him, and though TO deserve
is always TO command il, in his instance de-
sert and linked together.
We will not here NEEDLE with his politics or his OPT
nions. They his own, and il enough 10 say that
whether right wrong, he expresses them with fear
less independence that no question AS TO the
atsurdy OF bis being hired support oppose any set
OF opinions 1t enoughto that The very strength
of his position before the public enables him support
10 willingly bind himself TO the shack!es OF party would
be Of self qualification for which there would
excuse, an exhibition which, at his time oil life, he
would hardly make; and have early expec.
ations seeing bin place himself this u3cs0us pre-
dicament We believe sincerely that from habit,
citation and conviction he democrat, but whether he
will support every or every measure that wraps
sef in the convenient cloak OF democracy, is a ques-
ton TO which he has already given answers easily
understood There is no party that Affects to despse
him; that would not, If it could, secure his good will,
and the support Of his press There is set Of men,
Of whatever party, that does net regard that press
fixed institution OF the country, rather moro
permanent than any city charter which liz at the
equally at the Of any band Of nkerng reormers
To almost everything this world there is allotted brief
period Of rest but there Ia rest TO the daily press aud
in regard the HERALD, the Sabbath OF rep0se
which ia enjoyed by its contemporaries, comes TO it.
II is actually and truv the only daily paper in the
try, every other press claiming that title falling short Of
u by fifty two omissions More than this, 1t the only
Sunday paper published which has the slightest preten
sions to the character OF newspaper With dispa-
rapemeni 10 the very clever Sunday preesaaother nst
tuition which habiibas almost made necessity among
and admitting as we do the amount OF talent exhibited 10
lite columns 1t has utterly failed TO Oil the demand for
knowledge Of the immediate dongs OF this busy world
which tenihs of the saints and all o. the sinners
desire to receive even on the Sabbath. But up the
last syllable of the Immediately recorded time
the transactions and the news Of The previous twenty
four hours spread in all their fulness It's Sunday
emissions, and the Monday emissions OF all the rest OF
The sooaed daies are but In part what hal appear
ed In the columns OF the HERALD. If the slow coach
nas OF the old and sleepy school Jagged behind their
adventurous modern rivals, do the rest Of their
energetic successors lag behind the HERALD in pausing
take their Sundays breathing umeibat paper realizing
in one sense that idea Of the 'perpctus motion, which
has so long puzzled the brains of projectors
We hear much now days OF representative mcn-gud
We ufe the phrase In it's sense applied 70
those who attend 10 public affairs Legislative halls
but the press be the organ Of public opinion surely ts
conductors are the true representative men of the times
The duties OF their representation lekis.
lston In s narrow sense but extend all that fayors
guides or reflects the general opinion OF the masses
Everything that concerns every department OF human ia.
dustry and every phase Of human lfe in within its
anAt ,n
live Of the hour passes away with the marty |
He Ia generally the leader Of one opinion tho echo
OF one idea, the mouhpece OF the dominant theory
winch brought his party into power. The strutting
nero OF The changing drama passes away with whistle
OF the scene sber and the audience only wonders what
farce will come next But the representative man OF the
pess-wboec constituents the whole reading world
he be true and equal to his duties will make himseIf
heard and felt beyond the limit Of the 1eetng
The voice Of the orator in another FORUM quickly hush.
ca and even his eloquence be printed and scattered far
and WIDE Is but one great effort. while each and every