The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-02-09

/, Coon News TO OUR RKADERs.--We have the
pleasure to inform our readers that the improve
ments, new presses and fresh arrangements,
which we recently projected for the purpose OF
enabling us to print larger number of the Ne,c
York Herald in much less time than now occu-
pied, are going on with great prosperity and sue
cess. These Improvements will involve an ex-
pensc of thirty thousand dollars but they will
enable us to print in the same space Of time that
We now occupy, nearly three times as many pa
pers as the present circulation of the Herald
amounts to, by which we will be also enabled to
serve the public at an earlier hour in the morn
ing, and also to double our circulation through
out the world.
The new rotary presses, constructing at the
mandatory of Messrs. Hoe s. Co., are well I'M
der wey, and one of them is nearly finished.
There are also new steam engines and boilers,
with number Of other arrangements, all in a
very encouraging state Of forwardness. We have
| likewise made arrangements to build vault on
the Nassau street side of our building, for the
purpose of accommodating those engines, and of
enlarging the interior of our establishment, and
thus enable us to perfect our plans
Nothing but the want of the new and i'm.
proved machinery recently invented by the
Messrs Hoe, has prevented us from attaining
circulation double that which we now have
Our aggregate circulation throughout this city,
country, and the world, is over forty thousand,
and we have no doubt that when our arrange.
ments are completed, we can increase 1t to
eighty or hundred thousand copies.
| But one of the advantages of the proposed i'm
provements and machinery, and the most impor-
tant, is, that we can print double sheet Herald
| daily, if necessary, with the same ease and ra-
pidity that we can publish single sheet. With
these vast improvements, we expect to outstrip
all other newspaper establishments in the world,
including those of both Paris and London; and
we mean also to introduce system of publish
ing advertisements, that will revolutionize the
whole system in this city.
The SPRING ELECrIoN.-The wards are already
on the qui rire in relation to the approaching
spring election, and the elements of discord that
have nearly broken up the old parties, seem TO
fan the flame of dissension more and more every
day. In the selection of the ward committees
in fact, IN every movement connected with either
party, we learn that petty jealousies and personal
dislikes are likely to end in open rupture.
The citizens of New York have but too long
been gulled and insulted by the party politicians
whom they have voted into the Common Coun-
Gil Many we'll meaning, honest men, have been
often elected for either Board, but no sooner do
they get in, and after attending one or two eau
Gus meetings, than they become inoculated with
the same spirit of party that seems so completely
to blind their brothers ofthe corporation, and soon
the public interests are completely lost sight Of
On the eve of an election, or some weeks before
it, we find, however, some member Of this au-
gust body making display on the subject of re-
form; and proposing some Utopian project, for
Buncombe," as the politicians term It,
Thus we 60 on from year to year, and while
the public interests are completely lost sight of,
one half the time is spent in legislating on the
grave subject of dismissal from some patry Office,
| and filling up the vacancy by the appointment of
some less efficient, less honest, and less worthy
officer Hence, we hear of so many defalcatlons,
the incumbent imagining himself almost privi'
| legged to "feather his nest" whilst in; and, year
after year, this is the history of our Common
Council. The disappointed traffickers in poll
TICS belonging to either party, in their annoyance
at not being duly installed, like their more for
tunate brothers, are also sure to come down upon
their former candidates and nominees; and such
is now the actual state of the parties who have
been alternately invested with civic power, for
some years back in this city.
is there no remedy in the hands Of the indie
pendent citizens of this rising metropolis, to
insure us good and efficient body to guard the
interests of the city, and promote such local re-
| forms as have so long been required!
| We trust that an independent party will arise,
whose sole aim and object will be city re-
form" ANY party, hanging out such motto
upon their banners, will be sure to carry the city
in the spring. The citizens of New York, though
burdened with taxation, have long been duped
by the false promises OF corporation after corpo-
ration; and have, in vain cried out, time and
again, for some improved mode in the admins
tration Of the city government. Their eyes have
been blinded with mystlfed reports-with false
deductions in some items of expenditure, intro
duced under the head of ECONOMY" only for
the purpose of being transferred to swell some
other Item. This applies to most of the reports.
The call for some additional thousands of dol
lars by the street inspector, in late report, to
keep the streets IN order, is mockery in the pre-
sent and past condition Of our streets. The light
ing in some streets, but for few hours each night,
and then the prohlgate expenditure, for these
80 called 'comforts"-all these abuses demand
immediate reform; and never can we hope for
such reform so long as party influences are
permitted to operate in the administration of
our city government.
| A "reform party" therefore, having reform
for its specific object, if it came into the field
headed by men of moderate politics, or of no
politics at all-men of sense, of weight, OF cha
racter, whose motives would place them above
suspicion, whose acts above reproach, would
be sure to gain a foothold in the COM
munity Such a party could embrace both
wings and democrats, who could retain
their political principles, and not compromise
their political opinions, by the advocacy of
such reforms as the exigencies of the city may
] REQUIRE. There belong 10 either narty rnanu