The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-02-03

the highest callbre. The coarse tastes of thu
Presbyterians, or any other sect that banishef
the fne arts from their worship, will soon be
come unpopular in this country, and their mum
bers must diminish.
The progress of religion and Christianity
IN the United States, is decidedly onward. -
Some OF the various sects are diminishing
IN numbers and funds; others are increasing
but IN the aggregate, we believe there is an
increase of all Christian sects, and partcu.
larly the Catholics, their increase being, We
believe, greater than ever. 1t is very true,
the income and subscriptions to the Bible Socie-
ty have some what fallen off; the same may be
said of the Tract Society. There are not so
many fanatical exhibitions at the Tabernacle
and other places; but there can be no doubt tina
the number of quiet and sober relgionsts
is increasing-,hat the clergy are increas-
ing, and that the aggregate revenues of the
various churches are increasing. Probably,
however, the Catholics increase more than
any other sect of Christians. We do not
think, however, that this increase has grown
out of the efforts of some of the Bishops and
leaders of the Catholic church, but out of the
improved tone of the age-the liberslity of opin.
ION which prevails in all quarters, and the tole-
rance which is exhibited towards opinions of
all kinds even opinions ant.religious, land incon.
sistent with Christianity.
we are satisfied that, on the whole, religion
is prospecting and infi1elity going down. At this
day, there are probably ten thousand clergymen,
OF all kinds, in these United States, receiving an
aggregate salary of five millions of dollars In
the way ofcharity and religious contributions, of
w est afof hat %b
amount paid for religion and worship, and reli-
glous purposes, is equal to ten millions of dol
lars year-a pretty considerable sum to be paid
voluntarily by nation embracing twenty-five
millions of thorough going democrats, who are,
OF course, considered ignorant and irreligious
by the well fed, stag-hunting clergy Of Europe.
THE Posi- OFFICE ADvERrIsINe-TRIuMpH OF
THE HERALD.-We received, yesterday, from Mr.
Morris, Postmaster of this city, note commune
eating to the information, that after examining
the several afhdavits presented by the journals of
this city, the Ne,o York Herald had been select
ed by him as one of the papers which, under the
law of Congress, are entitled to receive the ad-
vertisng of letters not called for at the post Office
in New York
This is no more than what we expected The
Tribune never was entitled, from its circulation,
either in this city out of it, to any of that ad-
Nertising; and that paper has had it for nearly
three years, In constant vi lation of law, and
merely by the leniency and tolerance shown by us
towards its duplicity and deceit 1t is now estab-
lished officially that the Herald has one of the
largest crculations in this city, and we estab
lish to the satisfaction of any reasonable man,
that the Herald has the largest comprehensive cir
culation, taking the whole country and foreign
parts into consideration, of any journal now in
existence in the civilized world. One other pa
per in New York may have larger circulation
in some small localities among the poor, who
want cheap journal; but the circulation of the
Herald among all classes, and all parties, of the
highest intelligence and the greatest worth in
the community, is larger than that of any
other paper in the world.
In giving us this advertising patronage, the
Post Office Department could not help ITSELF We
are not indebted to Cave Johnson in the least,
and therefore we shall not relax an iota in our
efforts to get that Incompetent Individual out Of
the place which he so disgracefully mismanages
The very patronage which the Department, un-
der the law, has given us, will enable US the
more to put in, occasionally, a few rich ticks,
without any extra expense, against that incom-
petent functionary. Thus much on this point.
Now let us say word to the auctioneers, the
shippers, the merchants, the brokers and the
bankers of Wall street On every occasion, the
Herald is ahead Of every other paper, in giving
them intelligence most necessary for the ma
nagement of their business. In shipping intelli-
gence, financial intelligence, and every other
kind of intelligence, we furnish it earlier, bet
ter, and more completely, than any other journal
We have gone to every expense, and spared no
money, no matter how large an amount, in MAX
ing our paper what it is, and we can claim cre-
dit, that whenever steamship is expected to
arrive, operations Of all kinds are suspended un-
til her news is published in the Herald No later
than yesterday, we gave them shipping intelli-
gence and financial intelligence, obtained by
US by express, arranged at great cost, almost ex.
clusivey. Yet, in spite of all this enterprise,
and all the vast OUTLAWS of money which we are
continually making to carry that enterprise to
the very doors of these classes of men, these
brokers, and bankers, and shippers, and auction
GERS, and fnanclers, prefer giving their adver-
Using patronage TO a few lazy, indolent journals
downtown, which exhibit no enterprise, make
effort to place the latest before their pa
irons, and have but a very limited circulation
among the business classes of society. The
Post Office Department acted with equal mean
ness, until we compelled th.m to behave decent
ly; but the brokers, bankers, shippers, auction
GERS, and jobbers, and others, who receive the
principal intelligence on which they make th-ir
operations, from this paper, ahead of all other
sources, and yet give their advertising patronage
to papers of a limited circulation and no enter
prise, exhibit specimen of the meanest and
most contemplate conduct that any class Of
men, in any country, in any age of the world,
ever did, or we are sure ever will do.
GENERAL ScoTT AND THE ADMINISTRATION.
is now generally supposed that the cause for
ordering court of inquiry upon General Scott,
grew out of his disobedience to the orders of the
Secretary of War, who is constitutionally his