The New York herald., 1871-03-03

IN measure Iully proportionate 10 the grown
Of the population. How it has done this can
be accounted for by the enterprise, energy
and LIBERAL expenditures which have governed
its management. Without egotism, but simply
a matter of fact, we might state, for instance,
that since the Atlantic cable was established
we have paid nearly million dol
lars in gold for dispatches; and for the first
three months, while the association for the
collection of news by cable was yet unorgan-
lied, we furnished them the news at our own
expense. Since the war in Europe began
we have expended not less than hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars on cable news
Again, we furnish the merchants and ship
owners and the whole mercantile community
throughout the country with the ship news
collected by our own steam yachts every day at
a coat of over four hundred dollars a week.
This important news thus obtained is exclu-
sively for our own columns, while the other
papers are united in an association to procure
the ship news which we gather for ourselves
and pay for. In this connection we may
state that our steam yachts convey, with
out charge, letters and messages from ship
owners and captains to and fro in the harbor,
thus establishing free express between the
city and Sandy Hook-a convenience which
these classes no doubt fully appreciate.
At the risk of being charged with indulging
in seli-praise, which they say is no praise, we
will recall to mind some of the important
results which the enterprise of the HERALD
has brought about. The history of the HERALD
is in truth the history of American journalism.
During the Mexican war we had our cor
respondents in the field and our couriers on the
road, 50 as to insure the earliest news for our
readers system not at that time adopted by
the press of England with the exception, per-
haps, of the London Times on one occasion,
and that was in the case of the battle of
Waterloo. Our enterprise in Mexico was,
therefore, almost incomprehensible to our
contemporaries here. From that day to this
we have continued to add to the value of our
paper by keeping up with all the events of the
day, regardless Of difficulty or cost. Hence
we were enabled to furnish the British govern-
ment, through our correspondent with Napier's
army, with intelligence of the fall of Magdala
in the Abyssinian war. More recently we have
seen that the statesmen of Europe, such
as Napoleon and Bismarck and An.onell
do not hesitate to make the HERALD
a medium to convey their thoughts to the
world When great enterprises of science and
discovery are on foot we have always repre-
sentative present to keep our readers en- rap
port with everything that is going on. Wit
ton which we published on Wednesday, with
map of the country showing the proposed line of
the water communication between the Atlantic
and Pacific Oceans, which. when completed,
may realize the golden dreams Of Columbus
Much credit is due to the New York press for
the way in which they supplied the news
during the Franco-P -Prussian war. The World,
the Tribune and the Times all did their share
with an amount Of energy that reflects favor
ably upon the enterprise of the American me-
tropoltan press.
With our modern experience of journalism
one can hardly fancy how the ancient world
got on without a newspaper press; how cir
cumscribed was the influence of its orators
how slow the movements of its statesmen;
how limited the popularity of its poets and au-
thors! If Demosthenes had had newspaper
to convey his burning words bey yond the limits
of the Council Chamber to all the departments
of Greece, how soon would their dissensons
have been stilled-how his glorious Philippics
would have thundered through ell Attica
until the names of Philip and of
Macedon would have been execrated and not
feared If Seneca had had public journal at
his command, to speak to its thousands of
readers, his philosophy, which ante-dates the
morality of Christian dogmas, might have
startled the paganism of his age by q great
moral revolution. Had Cicero had an organ like
the HERALD, with a corps of stenographers in
the Forum, public opinion would have hunted
Catalne out of Rome without the sentence of
the Patres Conscripti. Our public men,
therefore, enjoy vast advantage over the
mental lights Of antiquity in the possession Of
an independent press, and, as far as the
HERALD is concerned, they shall continue to
enjoy it. Our aim is to treat all things and
all men fairly; to exercise, when necessary,
severity with dignity and criticism without
scurrility. While we admit that a great
change for the better has come over the tone
of the press generally, we are sorry to see
that some of our contemporaries still love to
wallow in the mire of coarse personality. We
regret this for the honor of noble profession
as well as for the character Of the community
in which we live. We hope to see the habit
reformed altogether"
Compliments OF the Senson.