The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-02-09


There is no journal in the world which gives
fuller and more accurate shipping news than
the NEW York HERALD or expends larger
amount of money in procuring reliable intelli-
gence Of that character from all quarters of the
globe. Time was when Lloyd's List was the
sole oracle and authority upon shipping affairs,
and it was referred to in all cases with confidence
When ship was missing for any length of time,
every one looked at Lioyd's; but if she was not
reported there, they concluded that she was
lost to dead certainty. Owners and insurance
companies relied upon it implicitly. Now
Ltoyd's list is in measure supplanted in Eng
land by the London Shipping Gazette, monster
paper, nearly as large as the London Times,
which is entirely devoted to ship news, and is
published every day, at the price of. s35 year.
But the New YORK HERALD has taken the lead
of them both. 1t publishes daily in its two or
three columns of small type as much shipping
intelligence as the mammoth London Gazette
has spread over its face in large type, and
this only as one department out Of many. The
HERALD is consulted and relied upon with the
fullest confidence by ship owners and insurance
companies, and there is not now, perhaps, in
the whole world board of underwriters or an
insurance Office that does not keep the HERALD
on fle.
To the ordinary reader II may appear that
our shipping news department is only two or
three columns Of space thrown away; but let
them remember that it represents interests, in
the value of vessels and cargoes, of from fifty
to hundred millions every day, and every
day fresh interests are satisfied. tits medium
Of consolation and security to thousands of
people--to insurance companies, to sharehold-
ers in vessels, to exporters and importers, to
wives, fathers, mothers and relatives of crews
and passengers. The few words which do not
fill half q line, announcing the arrival at a
certain port of certain ship, are record of tie
deepest interest to numerous parties Whose
fortunes may be involved in her safety, and
the friends and relatives of from Fifty to five
hundred people. In like manner the simple
words spoken" in such latitude and longi-
tude, with reference to vessel about whose
safety the darkest doubts had gathered, are
messengers of hope to thousands Of aching
hearts, The numerous personal applications
made by ladies and others at our Office for in
formation about missing ships, and the letters
we receive from all quarters on the same sub
ject, are curious, and often full of romance;
mothers eagerly soliciting intelligence ofsome
bright-haired boy seeking his rugged fortune
before the mast; wives, whose hearths are
swept to welcome the expected sailor, tearfully
inquiring for news of the ship too long due;
and others anxiously earnest for the fate Of
those who have sought for pleasure or for
health beyond the sea.
To all these-and their name is legion-the I'M.
interesting looking crowded columns of our ship
news department are the most important part of
the paper. Thus vast commercial interests,
and the dearer interests of affection, are alike
subserved by the full reliable and accurate in
formation which our shipping intelligence con-
veys every morning from all parts of the
world.