The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-12-01

FERROUS influence OF the HERALD.
Spurious News o. = Peddling News Associs-
ti0n.
A former agent Of the New York Associated
Press dismissed its service for general in
efficiency, combining with one or two Western
papers, has been endeavoring to establish
concern for collecting news as cheaply as
possible and peddling it out at the highest
prices to be had, but willing to take anything
offered. Not content with stealing cable
kilograms from the HERALD, in which he
showed taste in selection, if not enterprise in
collection, he has gone to manufacturing
them out OF whole cloth. Yesterday the single
New York paper which receives his telegrams
announced in long despatch that Thanks
giving had been celebrated In London by the
American residents there that patriotic
speeches were made and toasts drunk but
what was said, by whom spoken or at what
place in London the banquet was held, is care
fully omitted, as the person forging the
despatch could not "guess" more than gen.
eralities. 1t is very probable that Thanks
giving was celebrated in London by American
citizens, as Of yore but 1t requires no cable
from the sea nor ghost from the grave to tell
us that much The same cnterprising agent,
sitting in his fourth story, back, with stylus in
hand, "guesses," too, that s'Carlotta is worse :"
that "Maximilian will be home early in Deem
her," and various other like matters as easily
conjectured here as In London aud written
out much cheaper than by the cable.
On the 26th ultimo the same enterprising
agent furnished the startling information that
Macmillan had abdicated, and himself and
and White, went about quoting the telegram
as an instance Of the superior energy of the
new association. The telegram bore the fact
of its manufacture ON its face; for it was
dated at New Orleans on November "a, and
stated that Macmillan had left Vera Cruz on
the 22d Of the same month. Now, it is utterly
impossible to transmit intelligence by any
means in existence from Vera Cruz to New
Orleans in forty-eight hours, and the despatch
was necessarily bogus as regards dates. That
it was bogus as regards the fact stated is now
apparent for we have news direct from Vera
Cruz to November Is. Macmillan had not
only not left Vera Cruz on November ~, but
had never been there, and up to the 18th
three days later--was residing at Orizaba.
It is with news like this that the Western
editors who give in their adherence to the
spurious association will have to content them
selves until they--not the agent-can establish
for him---not at his expense, but their own-a
system like that Of the New York Associated
Press for obtaining foreign news They will
doubtless hesitate and think again whom they
come carefully to calculate the cost Of main
tanning, as the HERALD does, correspondents In
London, Paris, Rome Venice, Berlin, Vienna
ST. Petersburg, Hamburg, Lisbon, Madrid, Con.
stantinople, Shanghae, Melbourne, Valparaiso
Panama, Lima. San Francisco, Rio Janeiro
Buenos Ayres, Havana, 81. Thomas, st. Do
mingo, Aspinwall, Vera Cruz, Mexico, Mata-
moros, Chihuahua and III Paso, besides still
more expensive travelling correspondents
with every important enterprise, like that Of
the Collins Telegraph line, the Sherman
Campbell mission, the European squadron, the
allied armies OF Brazil, Uruguay and the
Argentine Confederation, the fleets Of Peru
and Chile, ocean yacht races and dozens o.
! other matters important to the public There
are news yachts to be built and manned of
| Halifax, in Panama Gulf, at Rio Janeiro, in
San Francisco bay, in the Mersey and OF
| Queenstown, and daily messengers are to Be
run from London TO Queenstown, and from
Paris TO London. These expenses have never
been felt by the Western paper', as we main
tanned these at our own e. Ms and without
any intention Of sharing it with others, though
subsequently giving II TO the association free
of cost. These arrangements require moi
merely heavy outlay of money, but large
amount Of peculiar talent not at all times 10
be obtained. A more perfect system can.