The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-07-04
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third party make their drst greet move on the po-
litca chess board, to checkmate other Of tue
two great parties-the wings and democrats
are row 20 earnestly centendng for supremacy
in the cuupciis of the nation This move is to take
place Worcester, where the anti slavery delegates
OF the State Convention Of Massachusetts, are to
assemble to construct a platform and nominate
candidate Tor the Presidency. Meetings are being
held all over the State, to send delegates to this
Convention In Boston they havc selected their
delegates and instructed them to vote for John =.
Hslo and Cassius NJ. Clay The Central Committee,
however, ut " ash ngton, have been in coa,munica.
ton with Other candidates, and among them Ben
jawin +. Butler of this city: and the probability
Is that there will be great contest for the
nomination there was in either Of the Two
great party conventions held at Baltimore. The
Massachusetts convention is State convention;
but it is important one. from the fact Of its
taking the lead in the anti-slsvery movernent,
and because it is preliminary to and viii merge into
the great national convention, to DO held at Pitts
burg, on the 18th Of August. The national con-
vention may, TO very great extent, he Influenced
oeedings will be watched with the greatest iutersst
by the whole nation.
Uron the action of the Anti. Slavery National
Convention at Pittsburg. depends the success of the
whig or democratic party in the ensuing Press icn-
tia election; aud the complexion Of both these par
ties, after thai great event. is decided fhe great
question is which Of the two parties will lose most
votes by the organization Of the third party, for so
nearly balanced the wings and democrats that
the anti-slavery party overthrow either ono OF
the other, and al calculations Of the chances OF the
election in November arc therefore vague and inds-
tinct-clouds and darkness rest upon them-ti after
the convention at Pittsburg By the result of the
18th Of August, the result of the I'd Of November
may be completely controlled, and 10 man at
present say. with Any degree Of probability who is
to be the next occupant of the White Hou Sc.
MAGAZINE PUTTING Society seems predestined
from all time TO labor under some incubus which
could be easily shaken off by the exercise of
moderate degree of common sense. barbarous and
refined communities are alike subjected to tho OPP
erations aS this destiny. One development OF it
which stris us in those days With peculiar distinct
ness, is ths ~ in which magazines, crammed fall Of
unuitigatetS fresh. and destitute of the smallest
scintillation of'genas pasmed on the public of
this cny, by the urprnoirled putting which they
receive frola many of the Journals. Hunts Mtga.
sire, the Knickrboeksr the Democratic Rsuit,c,
Ho,prs' MdgGe lie, and all of this kidney, are be-
pulled ard be praised if they the bril-
liant reperories Of poetry, genius, imagination, and
erudition, that ever smanated from the brains Of
the greatest scholars and philosophers, while ia st,
they contain absolutely nothing Of original matter
worth the time intellect Of the youngest novel
reader in the community, and while their eay
Claims to patronage lie in their esicctiop from
the English magazines and daily papcrs. Iaese
Iuffs frem the newspaper press, which help
to make the circulation Of our nagazue lte
Failure, procured in the usual way, and by the
solicitation Of their publishers They al i'll the
mere way OF business got up foc confederation,
ard ought to be regarded solely in that light. Thus,
caIdor, love of science, and the encouragement of
taste for pure literature, arr base.y and meally
sacrificed to mere pecunjary aud commercial inter-
ests: and therefore, the rufls in this line are
more to be relied upon yertable criticisms, thsn
the grandiloquont stuff which is manufactured and
always hand, by the great oyster house critics Of
ths city, in matters OF music, drama, and the ballet
We have already voted, exposed, and held up to
public scorn ard contempt this barterng Of honest
and independent criticism for mere sordid motives.
But it would seem that magazine putting is bust
exactly suited to the vapid and conter1ptible
literary nincompoops who provide themselves with
oysters and segars by writing these ste-eotyped
prsisos for the newspapers.
What appetite these magazines have Cor paIfs
They gormardize them and swallow them up in
their cspacious NAV, as greeGy and with as great
voracity as the oyster house critics go-mandizc
'rhc natives" Why are they not content 20 rely
upon their own ntcrnal excellence for support-if
they have apy-as well as the newspaper press is!
IN point OF genius talent, enterprise. Skill litera-
ture, philosophy, and industry qualities which
beneficial TO the country and the age-tho whole OF
the magazine literature Of this city does not exhibit
one. half the amount of that which s requisite for
the production Of such daily journal as the New
YcIR HERALD. for the same space Of time. We
have to seize. and ana and present to The public,
day after day all matters of interest-passiag not
only through our own country bat through the
worldto consider their relative bearing and impor
tence-to scrutinize their and coaseq nences
to discuss The characters and motives of oil prom-
nent characters, in all countries and to present
each morning eptome Of the information received
at our Office from all quarters Of the globe. But
the magazines have no such demand on intellc,t
capacity, and diligence. The most inactive Of ill
slow vehicles, they arrive at their destination
month behind time, and have then nothing to
deliver TO their patrons but old musty intelligence
already buried in the dust Of the past. The maya
zines Of this city are as aatiquated and useless
when placed side by side with the daily journals
as the old numbering coaches OF former times are,
when compared to the steam-cars and telegraph
lines OF the present epoch and the putting which
they procure s despicable to all concerned.
Theatrical.
TuE BALLET New YoRK-severa a7trses Of the first
eminence in their profeson appear nightly before the