New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-01-24


be the introduction Of general comfort and securl-
", the moderation Of avarice, and the supply OF
definite knowledge of the limits OF rights and en-
croachments.
The iustrumentalites necessary for Fastening
the adoption Of these principles are likewise,
chiefly two these are, first. more intense long
ing for true and harmonic relations; and, second
H. a clear intellectual conception OF the principles
themselves and Of the consequences which would
flow from their adoption. The first Is highly re-
hsious aspiration, the second is process OF SCI
enti6c induction. One is the soul and the other
the sensible body, the spiritual substance, and the
corporesl form OF social harmony. The teachings
of Christianity have inspired the one, the illuml-
nation OF Science must provide the other. Intel
lectual resources brought to the aid OF Desire con
stitute the marriage of Wisdom with Love, whose
progeny is Happiness
When from the bps Of Truth one mighty breath
Shall, Ike a whirlwind, scatter In It's breeze
The whole dark pile Of human mockenes,
Then shall the race Of mind commence 1t on earn'
Man 10 The sunshine Of the worlds new spring,
Shall walk transparent, Ike some holy tAng
IL "THE CHRISTIAN REVIEW" Jan. edited
by SEwALL S. CUTTING is a number OF uncom'
mon interest, containing articles on The Last
Half Century," "Tennyson's Poems, The An
tigone of Sophoces," elements of Western
Character" University Of Education" 1.-THE
Idpdl
From the article on "The Last Fifty Years by
Rev. DR.. Adams Of this City, we take tue iolow-
ing brilliant passages on
THE INFLUENCE OF THE NEWSPAPER PRESS.
"Tbe times of which we are writing are re-
markAble for the extension of periodical htera'
ture, especially for the ubiquity OF the Newspaper
The authors of the Spectator, the Iatter, the
Rambler had no conception oil the modern news
paper 1t seems like putting the gravity OF our
IN he toe Cubp WI ia o
the most wonderful and powerful agents OF our
times. 1t is made of rags ropes. rushes aud
ampblsck. Great pains are taken In hitting up
the vsitant TO make respectable appearance IN
our mansions but in its best trim, its Pretenslons
are very humble 1t is dumb yet it tells as OF all
which is done upon the earth. 1t bears in ITS own
name the initials of the four points OF the COM
pass n. K. w. S.-news. Reeking, In hot haste,
as if out of breath it delivers its message, aud
then is crumpled up and thrown into the waste
paper basket to ignite the mornings fire. Yet IS
there nothing more worthy OF preservation Tor II
ia the great dialplate on the clock of time Go
10 the archives of an Historical Society, and con
suit an old newspaper let 1t be lille oil the Dos
tan NesoS Letter. commenced in April, 1904, the
frat ever published on this Western continent,
surprising il to be complete, and extended to the
present time. Read Of African Slaves in the
town of Boston,-perhaps a fresh cargo OF stout
limbed Guineamen have arrivedin Newport ship
in Virginia; turn rapidly over the leaves oil the
volume. u
names and events,-Beniami Franklin resist
ing the censorship of the press, and making the
lightning of the skies a pastlme for himself and
bis son-the STRIPPING surveyor George w ashlHg-
ton roaming over the spurs of the Alleghanles
and along the banks of the Shenandoah Tribute
money, unjust taxation, mutterings and rebellion,
Lexington, Bunker Hil Revolution, indePeDd-
ence, confederacies and constitutions, Fultons
humbug commerce, arts, peace, prosperity, enter
prise, expansion. May we not rightly call the
smutty chronicle the index finger of Providence
pointing to the hours on the chronometer OF his
tory 2 An artist expends great time and labor In
painting a panorama, and crowds find delight IN
gazing upon the canvas; yet is it of limited
space-a ruin, a river, a city,-Thebes or Jer1sa-
lem the Nile, the Hudson, or the Mississippi But
a newspaper is daguerreotype OF the whole
world-its warnings and dlPlomacles ITS ouylnSs
and settings it's governments and revolutions, It's
marryings parturitions and dyings A newspa-
per is q real mCrocOsm,-the world made smaller,
held in the hand, and brought under the eye. The
huge telescope of Sir John Herschel is SO swung
that it reflects all the distant wonders oil the sky
which sweep across its lenses, upon small horl-
zontal table under the eye of the observer aud
analogous to this, newspaper brings all the &C
currences of remote continents, incidents at the
North Pole and the antipodes, under the light oil
your reading lamp, and within the space oil your
narlor table, The evening has come the damp
sheet is spread out before you, and with an Ill
concealed impotence you sit down to see what
new spectacle Time the scene shltter has pre-
pared for your astonished aud delighted eye The
whole world is in motion before you. This is no
small gossip about what took place under your
own windows in Cock Lane bat as Isaiah, In the
visions of prophecy, beheld the concourse from all
quarters OF the earth, THE dromedaries from Mi
dian and Ephah, the ships Of Tarshish, and the
forces of the Gentiles Fastening to the rendez-
vous, SO, in sober fact, the most remote and i'm
probable agencies, from the four winds under
heaven, are hurrying through the air and over the
sea- to deliver their separate tldings In that small
sheet of paper which you now hold in your hand.
Camels, those "ships of the desert" are now
traversing the arid wastes of Egypt and Arabia
steamers are now entering or leaving the hsrbers
Of Bombay, Odessa, COastantinople, Suez, Naples,
Genoa, Hamburg, Cadiz, Southampton and Liv-
erpoo, -ponderOus engines Of speed and power
instinct with hie
Tramp tramp along the land they ride,
Splash, splash across the sea-
the Laplander with his deer, the Esquimaux with
his dogs the electric wires at Paris, Berlin and
| London, every instrument that can convey
thought, every agent that can communicate intel
ligence, in every land, every sea, in every city,
and in every Wilderness on every road and every
river all are IN motion, at the top OF their speed,
! to open their budget and entertain you, an num-
BILE looker-on at home, with the shifting panorama
of the whole earth Sometimes we weep, some
times We laugh We pity, We are indignant, we
! fear and we hope by turns, and are always won
dering what will come to pass next.
The newspaper, then is the peculiarly oil an
| age OF INSTRUMENTATION, an agent OF human
sympathy. What else hes at the bottom of this
conception but just idea OF mans fraternal rela
tionsl 1t is the cheap correspondence carried on
between all members Of the human family. What
man puts into newspaper on the other side OF
the globe, is the superstition that it will inter
est the rest Of the family on this continent. As
| we learn more of our fellow men, we feel kind
lier interest in them. Werejoice in their prosper
ity sympathise in their calsmities, and cheer on
their struggles for the right and the good There
are now too many newspapers abroad to allow
man TO live like snail. they enlarge the world
to our knowledge and our love. Why is anything