New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-07-19


never hurries, and preserves bis good nature i'm.
perturbable. German papers are made on much
The same plan az German men. They are incom-
parably Industrious steady, comfortable and mo-
Asa general thing they consider this
piece Of news as important az that and no compe
titon spurs one paper to get intelligence In ad-
vance Of its neiehbors. OF what use are telersphs
o. expresses when the mail will arrive duly in a
day or twoi The contrivsnces Of flaming captions,
exclamation points, double leads, and the other
means by which English and American papers the
latter especially, draw public attention and make
the utmost possible display Of their contents, the
German Editor ignores or despises. Even during
the excitement OF therevolution only the innovatng
radicals N ade any frequent use Of such inventions
the old school organs Il responsibility would an.
nounce June insurrection at Paris, or the down.
fall Of Austrian liberty at vienns, in the ordinary
type, and with no other heading than the usual
date Of their correspondents letters.
The leading article Of German as well as Of a
French journal always occupies the first columns Of
the first page, and thus strikes the eye at once on
unfolding the paper. This leader, also, has gene
rally prexed the sign Of its writer. In this import
ant department German Editors, as a body, must
be pronounced superior to all Others though there
are among them no single names which can m latch
the eminent journalists of other countries. But,
owing to tbecomparativey wide diffusion Of what's
called the higher learning and the greater number
Of scholars who everywhere write for the news.
papers, the German journals, taken together, are
we think n point Of the talent information and re-
spectabiity of their editorial articles superior to
the mass of either the French. English or Ameri-
can.
1t is true that they have no central city like Paris
or London, which serves as a focus for men OF
ability and trains the talent it requires till its bril-
hancy is developed to the utmost; they have also
hitherto lacked that freedom Of political discussion
without which high order of journalism is impossi
BILE. This absence Of political development has
been supplied by cloudy PHILOSOPHERS, in whose
labyriDtbs the mind is fed on thin and Initiative
gases, instead Of the real, manly nutriment Of
which it stands in need The consequence has
been that the German people, keptin state Of poll
teal infancy have never arrived at that distinct
ness Of ideas and that practical public talent which
are to be found in England and America. Their
journals have suffered from this cause though there
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variety and minuteness Of detail have been favored
thereby.
In respect to political education, the past two
years have done more for Germany than could well
be conceived Of NJ achieved in 10 brief space
The tone of the German mind has undergone
radical and, on the whole, most healthy change
1t has abjured metaphysical systems, no longer
seeks to fasbion everything according TO useless
and uninteligible formulas of absolute science
which hitherto may be set down as absolute nom
sense-but has begun to deal with the questions
which really concern the rights, happiness and
progress Of human beings. When the revolution
broke out, although q great intellectual reaction
was already accomplished, every German of Dem
ocratic or Socialist tendencies, and there were
many such, was q doctrinaiie or theorist, and
nothing else. The Frankfort Assembly which
should have reorganized the nation, was merely
body Of doctrinares, and 90 came to nothing
But of schooling the German Democrats have
since had enough to beat mere theorizing out of
them. At any rate, it has rid the people Of it, and
laid the foundation Of new and sounder ways Of
thinking, at the same time that it has cleared off
an indefinite amount Of perDicious rubbish in the
shape Of political prejudicss and supenttions.
In nothing is this improvement more evident than
in the journals, especially those belonging to the
Democratic side Instead Of being long -winded
vague desutory, they concise, clear and to the
point. They carry On their now difficult warfare
often with good degree of tact, instructing the
people while they steer clear Of the police The
more decided and combative of them have of course
been suppressed, especially in Prussia, but there
still exist great number of small local papers of
democratic tendency which do great deal in a
quiet way. AL these date from the revolution that
revolution. let the temporary appearances be what
they may. has regenerated Germany
The last Leipzig Catalogue gives the entire |
number Of daily and weekly political and mis-
cellaneous periodicals mot including scientif. |
ic and literary published in Europe in the |
German language at 1858. OF these 632 are
issued In Prussia, among a population of TO-.
ll2,s4s; 40 in Austria, to population Of 35,'
1926 lSs in ssxony, population 1886, 433; l27
in Bavaria, population 4,504,s74; e. in Wirtem
berg, population l,726,7l6; Sc in the two Hesses,
population l6o7,2es; IS in Baden, population 1885,,
zoo; 80 in Hanover, population l,75s,S47 90 in
Mecklenburg, population 623,477; &c. &c.-the
proportion Of journals TO the population not varying
essentially in the small States. There is also one
in London, the Deutsehe Loadoner Zeitung, the |
property of the exDuke Of Brunswick, but just |
now the vehicle Of some very able articles from toe
pens of prominent refugees who are residing 10
that city; in the Rhine departments of France
partly in French and IA in Russia The catalogue
also gives the number in Switzerland as H. bat this
is much too low figure there are 100 in that Re
public, If not more The number of German papers
begun since ls4s and snce stopped is 269.
From the nature Of German journalism as we