and the last as foreman of the composing-room.  In announcing their purchase, the firm, which was then and ever since has been styled R.M.  Pulsifer and Company, said in the editorial column:  “We shall use our best endeavors to make the Herald strictly a newspaper, with the freshest and most trustworthy intelligence of all that is going on in this busy age; and to this end we shall spare no expense in any department....  The Herald will be in the future, as it has been in the past, essentially a people’s paper, the organ of no clique or party, advocating at all proper times those measures which tend to promote the welfare of our country, and to secure the greatest good to the greatest number.  It will exert its influence in favor of simplicity and economy in the administration of the government, and toleration and liberality in our social institutions.  It will not hesitate to point out abuses or to commend good measures, from whatever source they come, and it will contain candid reports of all proceedings which go to make up the discussions of current topics.  It will give its readers all the news, condensed when necessary and in an intelligible and readable form, with a free use of the telegraph by reliable reporters and correspondents.”  That these promises have been sacredly fulfilled up to the present moment cannot be denied even by readers and contemporary sheets whose opinions have been in direct opposition to those expressed in the Herald’s editorial columns.  No pains or expense have been spared to obtain the news from all quarters of the globe, and the paper’s most violent opponent will find it impossible to substantiate a charge that the intelligence collected with such care and thoroughness has in a single instance been distorted or colored in the publication to suit the editorial policy pursued at the time.  The expression of opinions has always, under the present management, been confined to the editorial columns, and here a course of absolute independence has been followed.

The Herald, immediately upon coming under the control of the new proprietors, showed a marked accession of enterprise, and that this change for the better was appreciated by the reading public was proved by the fact that during the year 1869 the circulation rose from a daily average of fifty-three thousand four hundred and sixty-five in January to sixty thousand five hundred and thirty-five in December, the increase having been regular and permanent, and not caused by any “spurts” arising from extraordinary events.  On New Year’s day, 1870, the Herald was enlarged for the third time, to its present size, by the addition of another column and lengthening the pages to correspond.  On September 3, of that year, the circulation for the first time passed above one hundred thousand, the issue containing an account of the battle of Sedan reaching a sale of over one hundred and five thousand copies.  The average daily circulation for the year was more than seventy-three