The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-06-30


Three Very Black Crows
A secesh editor at Richmond, who has not
vet forgotten the infamous lessons be learned
during the rebellion, recently put forth. the
ridiculous statement that Mr.. James Gordon
Bennett, the editor of this Journal wrote a letter
to JEFF. Davis at the commencement Of the war
Offering to support the Southern confederaey in
these columns for the sum Of fifty thousand
pounds sterling. Ben Wood, Of the Daily Ne,os,
at once adopted this statement as sort of off.
set to the twenty-five thousand dollars which
he is said to have received from the assassina-
ton fund in Canada. The Bohemians of Bel
mont and Barlow's organ, the World, dished up
the same story, adding little stale lettuce and
onion Of their own in the form of hint about
cOrroborating evidence. An evening paper,
which is now conducted by the drunken Bohe-
milan who disgraced the Times by an essay on
the elbows of the Mincio, swallowed these three
black crows-feet, feathers and gizzards-and
contributed his mite to the calumny. Now we
pronounce the whole statement, with and with
out the embellishments it has received, an inn
pudent lie and q scandalous fabrication.
We have been an editor in this city for forty
years, and have edited the HERALD for over
thirty years. and during all this period we have
never correspondent with any of the politicians,
North or South. They have nearly all written
to US, but we have not replied, knowing them
TO be set Of charatans and Anticipated
nusances. AS for JEFF. Davis, we never wrote
10 I,afo tho
The ISLANDERS with which we have been assailed
for the past thirty years originated with our old
associates on the deflnot Courier and Enquirer,
Major Noah and the Chevalier Webb. Before
Noah died he repented of the course which he
had pursued towards us, and the Cbevalier
Webb must also repent if he desires peaceful
death bed and an easy hereafter. These two
men concocted their falsehoods in order to in
H.re our business. We started tho HERALD to
break up all such old fogy papers as those
which they edited and they started their slam
ders to break us down. We succeeded, and
they did not We have seen their papers die
out before the blaze of the HERALD's success,
as the dim candle dies at noon. BY our own
efforts, assisted by Providence and the people,
we have made this journal the greatest in the
country and the best and cheapest in the world.
No politicians, North or South, have aided us
by single cent On the contrary, they have
done everything possible to interfere with US
and to circulate falsehoods to our. prejudice.
| And now, when we trace Ben Woods check to
| the rebel assassination fund, and when we up
| set some Of the political schemes Of Belmont
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Bohemian Of the Mincio, We find the old lies
revamped and new Islander tacked'on'to them,
as il the fools of tho present day hoped to COM
| plete the dirty work undertaken in vain by the
| fools Of the past. At such q sorry. exhibition
| we cannot suppress smile:
Whenever anything goes. wrong with the
politicians they blame the Herald, and some
| of them always dip their hands in miro TO
throw mud at us. Poor fellows! They do moi
see that they only blacken their own palms
We were told that somebody paid FIVE thousand
| dollars for the influence OF the HERALD during
the Harrison campaign, ten thousand during
the Polk campaign, twenty thousand during the
Taylor campaign, one hundred thousand dur
ing the Scott campaign, and two hundred and
| fifty thousand during poor Fremont's campaign
| There is Just as much truth in one of these
stories as in the others, and they are all false
| At the very time that Fremont was reported 'a'
paving us two hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars the General had not money enough to pay
his hotel bill. He had not yet come into hi
Marposa property, and the politicians hat
bled him pretty freely. The notion which
some people appear to entertain that tn
HERALD can BIO purchased-except fer fou
cents copy at the news stands--is be
meath contempt. Those who have n
principle themselves cannot appreciate II
existence in others But any ono can appre
ciatc the absurdity Of buying the HERALD for
few thousand dollars when we state that durin
the war we have expended half million {
dollars for war correspondence alonc-a SUI
more than sufficient TO buy up the politician
and other fellows who assail us, and that 81
whole Of the money which We have been falsel
reported at variouB times as having receive
would not begin 10 cover tho annual expense
of this journal. The falsehoods about OF
obtaining ftnds4sfrom this man or from tn
man-blackmsilf here and whitehall there
ere, once for ALL, entirely untrue. We ca
nothing about them, because the Americs
people have shown us, by adopting the HEnA1
as the nations al journal, by giving 1t an uni
/ vailed cirvllation and by bestowing upon it {
advertising patronage larger than that of
Q the Other dailies put together, that they do n
o believe the fabrications of our envious al
4 unsv tcesshul rivals This being so, why shou
70 wa'troublo ourselves about tho size OF the thr