Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1839-09-04
MORNING HERALD.
WEDNksDAY. sRPFEMBRR 4, 1850.


Business Begiasing.
We can always tell when the fall or spring BUSH
.sss 10 beginning 10 move from the sympathy in oar
swn Business connected with newspaper
In spite Of the great pressure for money which
pervades w all Street and affects the large whole
sale or speculative dealers, we know from the re-
ceipts at our counter that there is vast quantity Of
healthy retail aud other business moving IN this city
Our circulation was so large as it is at this
moment-nor did our advertising business at this
season of the year, ever before reach its present
magnitude sor can there be any better test Of the
great bulk Of trade and business than that furnished
BY newspaper establishment.
But this is not all We know that the hotels were
never erowded-the shops in Broadway and
Maiden Lane more frequented-nor greater com
petition in all healthy kinds Of business throughout
the city than exists at this moment How could il be
otherwise In spite the failure Of the large spe-
culators in the southern and northern staples the
middle classes have been all doing snug business,
besides lessenng their expenses by the gradual re-
Suction in -four and other provisions
The policy Of the great bulk Of society ought to
be to keep down prices. Cheapness, economy, and
good spirits are the symptoms Of public happiness.
Biue Laws Of New York-New Case in
Morals.
very extraordinary case-nst only in law but in
morss-not only in morals but in religion-not only
religion bat in liberty, mp to-day in the Court
Of Common Pleas, in the shape Of action against
Parker the Sunday police officer, fo- illegally scixing
the property Of a citizen, under the color Of in
fringement OF some blue law Of the corporation made
TO protect and provide for the better observance Of
the Sabbath
The paper seized was the Z" Sunday News" and
the plundered of his property under this plea
was the agent of that paper.
In this singular case, the ablest counsel of New
York is engaged against the liberty Of the citizen.
Hugh Maxwell and l. W. Girard, are retained
for the fanatical doctrine-aud will probably make
the best which the facts will admit
We call this extraordinary case, and it is SO.
Around US, on every Sunday the grog shops
asopen the gates of hell itself Every hotel where
liquor is sold is open also. Not place in New York
where wiekednsss can be perpetrated, but the way
Isl plain, and the road is smooth. Why is there
distinction made between these places and Sun
day newspaper OF all amusements in this world
newspaper is the least acknowledgement a Sunday
newspaper must always have at least a certain pro-
portion of morality and intelligence. Is it come to
this, that in this enlightened age, the brandy bottle
Is more accessible than the elementary organ of
knowledge! Are we to taunt any longer the folly
Of the fifteen gallon law Of Massachusetts,, with a
worse law herei Have we not a deplorabls in
stance here before OF an insolent attempt, made
BY miserable set Of politicians, 10 restrict the cir
culation Of thought and Of mind?
IL is lamentsble and melancholy to see men, pre-
tending to such moral and intellectual eminence as
Maxwell and Girard, actually framing arguments in
favor Of restricting the liberty Of the press under the
plea Of morals, while the grog shop and the assigna-
tion house are protected by the police. We will
venture To say, that since the establishment Of the
cheap daily and Sunday press, the morals Of the
middle and lower classes have been improved while
the gross RIGHTEOUSNESS OF Il higher classes, who
would like monopoly Of vice, have been barred and
exposed to the everlasting contempt Of the world
So far we have been gamers.
Let us see how jury Of New York will decide
IN this case.