January 24, 1861, The New York Herald
The circulation of the HERALD is now greater than that of all the other New York daily two cent journals put together, and enjoys the largest circulation of any daily paper in the world. Within the past year it has increased over twenty thousand, and the demand is still greater than our present means of supply.
We have received applications from several newspaper agents and others, in New England especially, to publish a tri-weekly edition for the convenience of people in the country, and in small towns and villages. It is urged that the daily paper comes too often, and is too expensive, while our weekly and semi weekly editions do not come often enough to satisfy the popular demand for news. It is therefore suggested from various parts of the New England States that we should issue a paper every second day for country circulation in addition to the daily, weekly and semi-weekly HERALD now published. It appears from the communications we have received that the republican papers cannot get their tri-weeklies to go in New England since the reaction has taken place in the public mind; the people are evidently getting tired of their extreme opinions, and they want a fair, enterprising newspaper, that will give them the intelligence of the day without a nauseating dose of abolition physic accompanying it.
We have taken the matter into consideration, and will publish a tri-weekly HERALD in a short time. Let newspaper agents, then, send on their orders as soon as they can.