The New York herald., 1845-07-03


VII be seen from these comparative Statements that
me New York Herald has an aggregate circuiation
Il nearly ten thousand over any other daily and
weekly paper in this city, with the exception, as we
ave said, of some Of the religious papers. This
act can be established to the perfect satisfaction OF
my one by reference TO our books, to which access
or this purpose can always be had, and also to our
| foreman and clerks.
Yet in the face of these papabe facts, various and
gross attempts have been made from time to time to
underrate the crculation-the infiuence-and the
comprehensiveness of the He,uld establishment,
in order TO subserve some paltry political,
financial or personal ends We are happy,
however, to have it in our power, under
ihe new law OF Congress regulating the bus-
iess OF the Post Office Department, to set at de-
lance all the falsehoods circulated on that point;
md we invite the commercial community to reflect
on the facts now placed before them, and perceive
low utterly deceived, cheated and humbugged they
lave been, In paying such enormous sums for adver-
using IN papers OF such limited circulation as COM
jared with the great establishment of the Ne,o York
Herald. We know it to be fact, that some of the
mercantile houses of this city pay from $500 $500
! year for the publication of their advertisements in
some OF the down town papers-papers which have
circulation Of from four or five thousand daily to
i0out as many weekly, while the same advertise
nents would obtain publicity, for much less mo-
ley, IN the Herald, circulating to five or six times
hat extent As to the advertising of the post office,
We don't care pin for it, We ask it not, and will
not advertise the letters unless the government give
rs our own terms, which are, we conceive, reason
.ble and accommodating.
How Ionp Will tho ,raroLant. t.oJ.~, Jaolora
shoakeepers, professional men, servants and all 9TH
r classes of society who advertise in the daily
ournals be the dupes OF papers Of limited circula
Llon, throwing away their money without suffi-
cent, or any thing like adequate, return9
THE OREGON QUEsTIoN-RuMoRED COMPROMISE
in the Jon,1lal Of Commerce of yesterday, publ
city is given to rumor, which has been floating
in the political circles Washington to the effect
that government are going to make settle
ment of the Oregon question, by agreeing to the
forty-ninth degree, as the boundary line between
the British and American possessions. 1t is ru-
mored in another quarter that this proposition is to
be taken out by Mr. McLane to England. If such
an idea is entertained by Mr.. Buchanan and Mr.
Polk, II will raise stoIm of indignation through
out the masses in this country, particularly in
the great West mot only astonishing then but the
world
1t IS idle for any government or any party to at
tempt TO compromise this question: in any shape or
form, with the British government. The only alter
native in the settlement of the Oregon question which
is at all probable accordance with the policy of the
United States and the spirit Of the age, is to allow
the question to remain open-to adopt the principle
OF mastery inactivity adopted by Mr.. Calhoun
leave 1t TO tlme-but never compromise an inch of
the national boundary-the fifty-fourth degree, or
the Russian line. There is no other alternative
besides this but collision, immediate and at once,
between this country and England The West
ern States, and indeed the mass of the people
out of the influence of the great commercial cities,
bound by certain ties with English interests, will
never compromise that question in any other shape
than by the possession of the whole territory =
They may postpone it-they may delay it-they may
wait until the emigrants into Oregon and California
are strong enough TO play the same species Of dipo-
macy as the Texans have played. But no admlnis-
tration-no Presldent-no Secretary of State, dare
compromise that question, without the destruction
Of its or his popularity and power, and immediate
consignment to utter and eternal oblivion by the
popular voice of the country.
In the meantime, the government ought at once to
construct two of the most powerful steamers, ac-
companed with several sailing vessels, as fleet of
observation, and send it out to the Pacific, to watch
the mouth Of the Columbia, and protect the settlers
in Oregon, laying the foundation of great western
empire, and of great trade, which must, in the
course OF very few years, spring up between this
country and the great empire of China. In less
than twenty years, we expect to see a steam COM
muncation, partly by railroad and partly by canal,
by the way of st. Louis, between New York and
the Oregon, and from the mouth of the Columbia a
communication TO Canton and other ports in China
By this means commercial intrcoursee would be
opened between the youngest republic and the odes
nation Of the world, which would not only
astonish England, but all Europe and the old world
The prospects are opening up in every direction
wide, extensive, eternal prospects of the future and
vastly extended exercise of the energy, enterprise
genius and power of the Anglo-Saxon race on this
continent and nothing in the shape of diplomacy at
Washington or elsewhere, can mar those prospects
This country must fulfil Its career, and that career
embraces the subugation Of Texas, California, Ore
gon, and ultimately Canada, under the sway of one
people, one law, one Constitution, and one public
opinion.
The SACRED TRrAL.-This trial before one OF the
religious tribunals Of New York is still going on,
under lock and key, in the vesry of one of the
most pious churches in this city. We understand
that the young woman who has been the subject Of
the Onderdonking in this case, was a chambermaid
in the family of the holy pretty, engaging,
innocent, orphan girl But she did not at all like
the attentions OF her pous master, who is man OF
good deal of talent-has written poetry and prose
in the service of the church, and has enjoyed grea,
popularity for his peculiarly powerful and affecting IN
vocations addressed to the Most High. The clergy.
men who sit in judgment all popular preachers in
this city, highly distinguished in all the duties Of their
calling, and doubt will deal out justice to the acc
ser and the accused, between the man Of God, and
the poor orphan girl who has been the subject of the
new system introduced into the Episcopal church.
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