The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-12-11

exactly what an onicial organ liz in Mexico. The
other Is little sheet published occasionally by some
private party. sonora has population OF 150 900.
The Territory OF Lower California has Its offlcia
newspaper, published at La Paz, the capital. Since
the detnroneTncnt OF Governor Gaan by order Of
citizen President Juarez this journal has been chiefly
filled with the brilliant legal military productions OF
the present military Governor OF the Territory. Occa
sionay IL contains curoses it, issue OF the i2th u
published and recommended TO its readers the demo
cratic platform on which Governor Seymour was
nominated. adding that ri Dr0grdnld |ue recib,do
CON g,d;ldfs dptrusos. Wells, Fargo a Co., aud the
California, Oregon and Mexico steamship Company
give IL two columns OF advertisements Ia h0Jd
california, as the journal In called IN published
weekly. Nothing said about the price, and no
cards The Territory has population OF 1000.
We fnd then, by the above figures that to q popu-
laion OF between 100000 and 900 only eleven
newspapers are published neither being daily and
i've insignificant sheets published by the brain and
Intelligence OF private parties Some authorities
assert tnat not more than one out OF every twenty.
nve OF the adult Mexcans can read or write But
this Is even too liberal an estimate. The eleven
papers mentioned will not average combined over
$500 Subscribers, or say 500 each Paying subscribe
ers could be reduced to half this nunber Well, the
editors and publishers have one consOlation-thcy
give Just the quality and quantity Of ,,, news 70 DC.
a. possible The fraternity have evidently never
heard OF that lightning Institution, the telegraph, or.
having heard Of IT, their papers are silent AZ TO It's
existence. Neither have they heard that long
ago AZ 1885 the NEW YORK HERALD inaugurated sys-
TEN OF procuring and buying news In all parts Of the
cviize, and uncivixed gloDe which has been so sue.
cessful M to astound the newspaper world. You
might 40 well ask Mexican editor 70 start revou-
ton In the internal regions against his Satanic Ma
jeety land Mexican could do this II anybody could
as to ask him buy news. And when he Is told that
the HERALD has fleet OF steam yachts for the col
lection OF marine news larger than The entire Mexi-
can navy he throws up his right shoulder and know
,pply smiles muscular movements only known to
Spaniards and their descendants), excaimIng "Que
pdis - or "pdtgdme Dios.u They have by the way
some funny ideas about the HERALD and its system
OF procuring news. For instance, when your pre-
sent correspondent for Northwestern Mexico arrived
here last year II was Immediately rumored that the
United states government had sent q writer to
Mazatlan and that the New YORK HERALD had given
Secretary seward permission to publish IN its col.
umns all said writer might indite regarding Mexican
affairs. The poor deluded people judged the press
OF the United states by their own newspapers, and
they could not see. for the life Of Them how an
American journal could afford the great expense OF
keeping correspondents In foreign countries when
they had their minds disabused OF the idea.hat the
American government had nothing whatevtr TO do
with the business that IL was simply individual