The New York Herald begins publication May 6 under the direction of Scots-born journalist James Gordon Bennett, 40, as a rival to the Morning Sun. Bennett has started the 1¢ newspaper with $500, two wooden chairs, and an old dry goods box in a cellar office; he announces in his first issue that the Herald will be a "saucy" paper with "good taste, brevity, variety, point, and piquancy" intended for "the great masses of the community." His four-column pages include the first financial page (Bennett covers Wall Street himself) but will also be the first to give full coverage to murder trials, including questions and answers from court proceedings. Pandering to the lowest tastes, giving emphasis to crime, scandal, and sex, the Herald quickly gains a wide circulation.
The Toledo Blade begins publication December 19 at the northwestern Ohio city that will be incorporated in 1837, taking its name from the Spanish city famous in medieval times for its steel-bladed swords. The four-page weekly will become a family-owned daily with readers in 14 counties in Ohio and southeast Michigan (see Nonfiction [Petroleum V. Nasby], 1864).
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