The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1843-08-17


adyices.
The Great Western sailed from Liverpool on the
9th, and has been at sea twelve DAYS She has a
full freight of foreign manufactures which will
impede her speed slightly. We shall look Tor her
tomorrow.
SYMPTOMS OF RETURNING NATIONAL PROSPERITY.
We hear less and less every succeeding day of the
melancholy cry" hard times" The country has
fairly reused itself from the stupor into which II
had been thrown by widespread disaster. Men
have ceased 10 complain and acting on the sound
advice administered TO the man IN the fable, they
have put their shoulders TO the wheel, and spend in
active and energetic exerton the time before vainly
wasted in cdiiny on Jupiter for aid, and looking
idly to every quarter for help The practical lessons
ofprudence. caution, patience, and honesty, which
were taught so iorcibly, are beginning TO bring
forth their good fruits Correct notions of the man
ner in which business of all kinds should be conduct
ed are more gesero lily prevalent, and what is er
more extensively acted upon. The mania OF making
fortunes in day has disappeared Men have learn
ed that ,he reward OF honorable Industry is SLOW
but certain, and they feel that long aud dilgen
preparation of the SOIL and careful casting lu oil the
seed, and watchful attention to the rising crop ~
all the stages OF its progress, necessary before
the golden sheaves GROVE the toll of the faithful
laborer.
This city-the great metropolis of the Union-hss
been the first to feel the influence of the returning
tide of commercial prosperity. We have been pre-
scented this season. on all hands with the most graft
flying evidences of the improved OF business and
enterprise in all departments The shipping trade
has manifested decided increase. Our wholesale
merchants have been making better sales than for
several years past, and on the cash principle TO an
Unprecedented extent In all our chief streets the
improved appearance of the stores gives very ia.
vorable impression of this growing prosperity
Within the last year we have had large number of
exceedingly handsome new stores erected in Broad
,ay,and the propretors OF many old ones have been
mus stimulated 10 improvements in theirs, so that
this beautiful street would now suffer little in
parson with the most fashionable business thorough
fares OF Paris or London.
in speaking OF the symptoms OF returning national
prosperity, we cannot omit mention of the remark
able increased prevalence of habits of domestic eco
nomy, and rerencbment of Individual expenses
The dishonest, corrupt, prohgate, unprnciped
classes who in the days of fictitious prosperity
squandered millions in call sorts of riotous liv-
Ing" beggaring thousands OF honest men, and pollu
ting society by the rottenness of their exam
pie, have all gone to the devil, repenting in
sackcloth and ashes; whilst their places are filled,
or filling up, with men who wish TO live sobery,
pay their debts, and leave the legacy of a decent
name 10 their posterity. Just let any contrast
the appearance of the dinner table at of our
principal hotels now with that which it would have
presented few years ago, and he will need other
proof OF the improvement in the habits of our citi-
zens Where there used to be dozen bottles of
wine, there is now not one 10 be seen. The whole
some discipline of the "hard times has done more
TO make men temperate, and reform them of profit
gate habits of personal expenditure, than all the
preaching of the whole race of Beechers and
Springs.
But one of the most encouraging tokens of the
approach of better times, and that which affords
the most cons olatory assurance of the speedy up
roofing of evils which had well nigh threatened the
stability of national institutions, is TO be found
in the marked and growing disposition amongst the
great mass OF the intelligence, PATRIOTISM AID NOR.
al worth Of the community, TO eschew the spirit of
fierce partizanshp, and get rid forever OF the mis-.
cradle race of unprncped, reckless, heartless, ira
ding politicians who have been ready at all times to
sell the best interests of their country for mess of
pottage. This is the true reforming spirit So long
as il lives and operates we need have no fears of
the safety OF glorious institutions. The recent
guidance of men OF acknowledged patriotism and
probity-whose main object is TO give TO the PEOPLE
the righttul dispensing power-addtional means of
securing the good behavior of their representatives.
is highly omnous of great good when viewed in
conpexion with the increasing dislike and dread of
party spirit. and mere party hacks. Many of the
old hacks will soon die natural death, and the re-
maiuder will struggle in vain, against the omnipo-
ecfn ppe md Mi a1
uucorupted and untramme led by party associations,
will then enter the field and the Affairs of the com
try will be managed, not for the benefit Of spar.
ry,' but for the benefit OF the country itself
We have, then, reason 10 fear for the future
As in Rome it the mark of good citizen
neverto despair Of the republic, so The good ci,i.
OF the world will never despair OF the fortunes
OF the human race; and are not those fortunes
bound up with those of free America! Is not Anne
rica the great harvest.fed of the word-the home
of outlawed liberty-the sanctuary of prosecuted
region-the great examplar to all the other nations
OF the earth, and through whose agency they are
destined one day to be united into one family? And
that man must be sadly untitled Tor the enjoyment
OF the privileges, the discharge OF the duties OF
American citizenship who cannot be aroused by
these considerations TO due sense of his deep and
solemn responsibility. Let this influence be fully
admitted and extended unto others, by all right
5earied men. Let honesty, and JUSTICE and fidelity
70 those principles of liberty on which our fore
iGthers laid the foundations of this great social and
political fabric, actuate all in public and in private
fc, and there will soon be peace and happiness In
~ our borders, and the voice of rejoicing through.
Odt the whole land
The DEPARTURE OF THE ScorcH MURDEREss.-
menced her return voyage TO Scotland, there TO
take her trial on the charge Of numbering her hus
band She sailed ia the packet ship Liverpool. IN
charge OF the officer Mckay who came in nnr-nit