The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-07-19

Ernress NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 90548
On the above amounts tax Of fifty dollars paid for the
first fty thousand dollars and all above that amount Is
paid for at the rate Of dollar for every thousand
When the receipts fall below fifty thousand dollars, and
are above twenty-five thousand, license fee OF fifty
dollars is paid OF this class are the Daily Ne'os and
saat, zsing If the receipts do not exceed twenty
thousand dollars a retail Dealers or manufacturers
license of ten dollars has be paid The propreos OF
the following journals pay that rount:-Commer-
cial Advertiser NeO Yorker Denokraf and Transcript
Thus the receipts from sales only Of the
HERALD were in one year nearly one million
one hundred thousand dollars, while the re-
ceipts Of the Times were less than one
third that sum, those Of the Tribune less
than one-quarter, those Of the World one
tenth; and the receipts of the Neaos and Com
mercia, were 80 small that the publishers
of those papers are not required to state their
circulation as a basis of assessment but only
to take out retail dealers license. Our re-
ceipts were over million, but the excess is
such q scrap that we don't include it In our
round statement; yet the total receipts Of the
Express were not equal in amount to that
scrap. But the most striking fact shown by
these official figures remains to be noticed-it
Is that the sales of the HERALD are greater than
the sales of all the other papers together.
Thus our gross receipts from sales are
s1,os5, 900, while the gross receipts Of the five
other papers large enough to name are
altogether only $961,777, or $13O,0O0
less. This one hundred and thirty
thousand we will leave as margin to
cover the Ne0s and so on, whose receipts
are not given, and thus We fully justify
the broad declaration that our circulation is
now officially shown to be greater than that Of
all the other papers together.
Such is the opinion that the American people
entertain of the New York HERALD. We have
hitherto shown that it goes everywhere, that 1t
was the only paper taken in our immense
armies, and that every one who desired to be
informed in relation to current events read 1t.
The official returns now declare beyond oil
question the immense preference shown for 1t
by the grand, honest public that buys Its paper.
BY contrast, it ia worthy Of especial notice that
the Ne,os takes out license that acknowledges
It's receipts to be less than fifty thousand dollars
year, and that the Commercial Advertiser and
some others acknowledge to less than twenty
five thousand dollars. Ofcourse newspapers can
not live on that and this puts in strong relefthe
fact that all those journals of small circulation
the Express, Ne,cs, and so on-are merely kept
alive by the Corporation pap given to them in
the shape of advertisements. The people are
plundered that journals may be Kept alive to
oppose the peoples cause and to outrage and
insult the public decency in their attempts to
uphold the enemies of the country.
And these, also-these little, pitiful pauper
prints, kept alive by the public pap-are the
ones that have always charge to make against
the HERALD on the score of blackmail. They
are so feeble that they are hardly alive-there
is scarcely enough breath in them to furnish q
good yelp, and they use what little they have
to set up q shout of blackmail against the
chosen journal of the great American people,
= III A.
blackmail that the politicians can offer.
All advertisers should take particular notice
Of these returns. They afford business men an
efficient guide as to the means Of reaching the
public, and show them that one advertisement
in our columns IL better thana o, dozen any
where else.
RESTORATION or BARNUx's MUMUx.-Barnum's