Year: 1864




It is very well known wherever newspapers
are taken that the HERALD is the best newspaper
published in this country. II is also a better
newspaper than any published in Europe. We
entirely surpass our contemporaries in enter
prise, and as the natural consequence we have
larger circulation than any other paper in the
world. We accumulate through our countless
correspondents everywhere the staple of news
that the larger part of the papers in this coun-
try live on The evening papers in our own
city Rll one-tenth part of their columns with
abuse OF US, and the other nine-tenths with
news taken at large from our paper The worst
of these is the Erpress which is always boast
ing Of its enterprise. It has enterprise; for it
steals more extensively than all the others.
We are 50 constantly ahead Of all our contem-
poraries with war news that we have ceased to
notice the fact, save when some piece Of I'm
strongly Than usual. Such an occasion has just
been furnished by the sheet Of dirty aboli-
tion vagabond published in Wheeling, Va,
whose malicious lies against US are copied into
the congenial columns Of the New York Tribune.


Our readers may remember that on the 18th
Of June we gave from our correspondent in
Western Virginia an account Of General Hun
ter's recent victory. Our account was accom-
panied by an accurate map Of the country,
showing the locality Of the fight and the posi-
tions held by the enemy. Though an account
OF battle fought in wild mountain region,
remote even from telegraphic communication.
it was published in our paper in seven days
after the battle was fought. We were not only
ahead OF all other newspapers with this news,
but We were even ahead Of Secretary Stanton.
The Secretary gave General Hunters report to
the public on the day after we had published Q
particular account Of the march to Piedmont
and the battle. II wss distinct triumph in
the matter Of news over all other papers. As
usual, it was republished by papers~in other
cities and by the country papers-among the
rest by the Wheeling Daily Mtellgencer. Some
few days after its republication Of our account
the Wheeling paper gave place 10 an article in
which it denounced our account as bogus:
called it "a fragrant abuse Of public
confidence" in which there was 'pefhdps
y
account:-"You find the probabilities, and even
the possibilities, Of the result Of the action Of
the 5th inst represented here as actual occur
rences witnessed by this same Mr.. Wilson. He
even enters into a few details connected with
the magnitude Of the victory and the importan.
pieces Of cannon, &C. He also asserts that
Colonel Thoburn's brigade lost the heaviest in
killed and wounded" Here it is asserted by
an ignorant boor that our correspondent had
invented an account Of the battle, though his
account was known and proven TO be true by
the official dispatches at the time this boor
wrote. We are denounced for an assertion OF
the heavy loss Of Thoburn's brigade, when that
was the very brigade which made the decisive
move ment across the field that decided the
fight in our favor.


But the most remarkable part OF the matter
is to come. Our account was published on
the 18th inst. On the 18th inst, six days later,
the 1ri5tae published On account Of the same
battle. This is about the period that the 7ri-
bsne is usually behind us with news but,
though lamentably late, We may pay the Tri.
Lune account the compliment to say that in all
essential points IL agrees with the account Of
our correspondent. And yet the Tribune, in
the same paper, rcpublisbes the villanous ut.
teranoss Of the Wheeling paper. II publishes
. statement that We. had invented aews in the
newspaper In which it publishes the same
news--but six days later than we had pub.
lished IL.





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