The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-04-21
NEW YORK HERALD SUNDAY APRIL 81 se7-TRIPLE SHEET

future will be considered wild and extrava-
yantf When we say that in q few years we
expect to receive daily dispatches from Lon
Ion, Paris, St Petersburg, Berlin. &C.. and
daily quotations Of tea from Hong Kong by
The wires running into our own Office; and
whom we anticipate being able before we are
much older to deliver the HERALD daily to sub
scribers in Washington, Richmond, Cincinnati
and ST. Louis a few minutes after publication,
by pneumatic express, are we to be regarded
> dreamer and visionary Let US walt and
see.
CFrom the MORNING HERALD, May 5, 1851
James Gordon Bennett commences this morn
Ing the publication Of the MORNING HERALD,
new daily paper, price $sa year, or six cents
per week, advertising ct the ordinary rates
It is issued from the publishing Office No. 20
Wall street, and also from the printing ONCE
No. "a Ann street. third story, ct both Of which
places orders will be thankfully received.
The next number will be issued on Monday
brief suspension necessarily
taking place In order to give the publisher
time and opportunity to arrange the routes Of
carriers organize . general system Of dis
tribution for the city, and allow subscribers
and patrons to furnish correctly their names
and residences. It will then be resumed and
regularly continued.
In the commencement Of an enterprise Of
the present kind it is not necessary to say
much-"we know" says the fair Ophelia,
"what we are, but know not what we may be-"
Pledges and promises in these enlightened
times are not exactly so current IN the world
as safety fund notes or even the United States
Bank bills. We have had an experience OF
nearly fifteen years in conducting newsp apers.
On that score we cannot surely fail in know
ing at least how to build up reputation and
establishment of our own In d<bsds OF this
kind many talk Of principle political prin-
ciple-party principle-as sort Of steel trap
to catch the public. We mean to be perfectly
understood on this point, and therefore openly
disclaim all steel traps-all principle, as 1t Is
called-all party-al politics. Our only
guide shall be good, sound, practical common
sense, applicable to the business and bosoms
Of men engaged in everyday life. We shall
support no party-be the organ Of no faction
or coterie, and care nothing for any election
or any candidate, from President down to q
constable. We shall endeavor to record facts,
on every public and proper subject, stripped
of verbiage and coloring, with comments when
suitable, just, independent fearless and good
tempered. If the HERALD wants the mere ex-
pansion which many journals possess we shall
try to make 1t up in industry, good taste,
brevity, variety, point, piquancy and cheap
meas. II is equally intended for the great
masses Of the community Tho merchant me
chanic working people-the private family -
well as the public hotel-the journeyman and
his employer-the clerk and his principal
There are in this city at least ONE hundred and
fifty thousand persons who glance over one or
more newspapers every day. Only forty-two
thousand daily sheets are issued to supply
them. We have plenty Of room, therefore,
without jostling neighbors, rivals or friends, to
pick up at least twenty or thirty thousand for
the HERALD, and leave something for others
who come after ua By furnishing daily
morning ps1sf ct low price, and making It
at the same time equal to any Of the high priced
papers for intelligence, good taste, sagacity
and industry, there Is not person Ia this city,
male or female, that may not be able to say
"Well. have got paper Of my own,
which will tell me all about what's doing in the
world; Pm busy now, but I'll put II into my
pocket and read 1t at my leisure"
With these few words as "grace before
meat" we commit ourselves and our cause to
the public, with perfect confidence in our own
capacity to publish paper that will seldom
pail on the appetite, provided we receive
moderate encouragement to unfold our re-
sources and purposes in the columns Of the
MORNING HERALD.
From the HERALD, Aug. 81, 10 35.l
We are again in the field, larger, ivslisr,
better, prettier, saucier and more independent
than ever, The Aun street conhagration con-
sumsd types, presses, manuscript paper, some
bad poetry, subscription boQks-all the out
ward material appearance Of the HERALD; but
Its soul was ssved-its spirit as exuberant as
ever. From the past we augur well for the
future In the first six weeks Of its existence
the HERALD reached nearly The extraordinary
circulation Of seven thousand per day and cor
responding amount of advertising patronage. We
started then to reach daily issue Of twenty
thousand in period Of six or nine months
zoe restart noo to rise to toety5lue thousand daily
circulation before zoe stop. This Is no astronomi-
cal dream-no Herschel discovery In the moon.
II can be done and II industry, attention,
resolution and perseverance, can accomplish
the feat under the encouraging smiles Of kind
public, the HERALD shall do II We are organ
lied on better footing than formerly-have Il
entirely under our own control, and have ar
ranOod our carriers and r0utea In such a wav