New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-12-30
Lake superior Copper Mines.

We COPY from the Boston Post and present on
our First Page an article from well informed and
mos, reliable source on the Copper Region of Lake
Superior and the operations already commenced
therein. The subject is of such substantial and
growing interest that we intend to publish so Tar as
possible every article which may meet our eye
which seems to throw additional light thereon.
When we say that the author of this article is
thoroughly informed and Trustworthy, we do MOI In
tend 10 warrant the absolute correctness OF his esi
mates of the richness of the mines cost OF raising
mineral, value of the product, &c. showing that
enormous profits may be realized at once IN this
mining district. We believe him oswell calculated
70 give nm accurate Judgment these points as any
other man but we presume there is much yet TO
learn before the productveness and profit OF this
Copper. Mining be deemed matter OF settled
and certain computation. So with regard TO the
stated value of shares in the several Companies re-
spectivey. The intention isony to give the current
market price as near as may be. though shares in
either Company may be sold at lower rate to-day
and higher tomorrow lower in New-York and
higher in Baltimore or Boston, and Uice cersa.
As opening new arena for Industry, and Tor that
benefcent and laudabe Enterprise which secures
employment and reward to Industry, we regard this
Copper business with deep interest and favor. Some
of the locations may prove unproductive and be
abandoned but we cannot doubt that the Mining
business will be largely and pro6tably prosecuted,
until las already with regard to Lead shall turn
the course of Trade, and export Copper instead OF
importing it, as we largely do present We believe
the Copper region affords scope for judicious and
careful investment, and for capacity, intelligence and
industry. We hope many thousands will ere long
and profitable employment in connection with Min
ing and that thrice many will be benefited by the
market thereby opened for Agricultural Produce
Merchandise, &c. The advantage to the Western
Farmer, the Merchant, &c. Of establishing new
ind extensive branch Of industry in their neighbor
hood cannot at any rate be doubtful.
We learn that spacious Hotel calculated to
accommodate two hundred boarders is TO be erect
cd at Copper Harbor next season.
~" THE MORNING TELEGRAPHis a new paper
Just issued from l64 Nassau ST. under the Editoria
care of s. DEWITT BLoopaoop, who has had much
experience in Newspapers, here and Albany, and
who will doubtless render the Telegraph respec
table Daily. He chooses to make it what is com
monty termed a neutral more correctly non-parti
paper, with which find fault, but he
chooses In doing to indulge in such filings these
ave have scarcely known what an Independent Press
was. until within atew years and public events and pub
he have hitherto been considered and chiefly ref
erence to party Ito be assaed or defended a.
MISUNDERSTANDING than candor required.
This enlisling Of the press under partisan coors hal
led tho array OF citizen against citizen, with at times
an extraordinary bitterness The decencies OF private
lie have been too Frequently overlooked IN these Discus
sions and of political ferocty has from this cause
too often marked the expression OF the public voice. w
have measures urged with great violence mere,
for party purposes and men blackened by every species
of cauDany, because they OF opposite potica
creed.
an short the American people have been arraycc
and kept enity with each other BY constant appeals
their preadices and their passions and the calm ano
dspassionate Judgment of educated and patriotic
community has been eu, 100 Hitle invoked"
Now VIC have tried our hand AZ both sorts Of pn
pers as well as Mr. Bloodgood has, and we give il
rs our most deliberate conviction, based some tie,
or twelve years experience that the neutral pres
is not and never be as general thing, so ,rul,
Independent, as the Political Press and tina, its scope
for FREQ discussion and the utterance of unpalatsb
truth 10 far the contracted of the two. We st
farther and say with entire confidence that the de
cencies of private life have been as generally re
specsed and men quite as rarely backened b!
every species of calumny' by the Political as the
neutral Press. The Telegraph has made most IN
wise beginning. Its denunciations lacking jost dis
elimination, Lack point and force. An honest and
high principlsd paper is deserving of respect
whether /, openly advocates those views of Ma.
nonai Policy its conductors deem Just and whole
some or not; but de,racting from the fair fame O.
one respectable class is not the way to build up
another.
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