How Lincoln's message "Took" in New York.
--The New York Herald, in a lengthy article on the subject of sensations, remarks:‘ Out of pure love for President Lincoln we tried to make a sensation about his message the other day; but we tried in vain. Before this war we used to print an extra edition of from ten to thirty thousand copies of the Herald containing the President's message, and all these copies were bought up like hot cakes by the eager public. On Wednesday we obtained the first copy of Mr. Lincoln's message by telegraph. We printed it first, and had our extra ready before our sleepy contemporaries knew what they were about. The newsboys were notified by the bulletins that the message was in town. Well, we printed four hundred and eighty copies of the message. Of these we sold one hundred and eighty copies to the newsboys. Undoubtedly we should have been "stuck" (as the newsboys classically phrase it) with the remaining three hundred, had not a countryman come along in the nick of time and bought the whole batch, on a venture, to dispose of on his way home. We have every reason to believe that our country customer sincerely repented of his bargain. This little incident is the strongest proof we could produce of the complete indifference of the public.
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