Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-10-12
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which, at this time, is making such rapid
progress in wealth and i'm portance as
New York. Improvement of every kind
Is going forward there at rate which has
never been paralleled in the history of any
similar metropolis. and which seems to
bid defiance to competition. We may
chafe as we please at the amazing pros
perity of our neighbors, and deprecate that
Capitalization of trade and influence which
it is alledged she is endevoring to effect
upon this continent, but it cannot be de-
MED that superior commercial energy.
enterprise and intelligence are the only
causes that are creating the difference be-
tween her and rival communities, and that
the result flows so legiLimately from fair
and generous exertlons to attain the po-
sition of the Empire City, of America
that none can Justly make it the subject
of Invidious remark or resistance. 1t is
obvious that every year is adding vastly
to the business activity and resources Of
New York. Merchants from all parts of
the old and new world are hocking there
rs to a great central mart, where capital
and skill, and industry may find the most
advantageous field of operation, and, aid
ed by the immense foreign means which
are thus brought into direct combination
with those Of her own citizens, New York
is now increasing with surprizing rapidity
her power and prosperity as an emporium.
She is expanding by far more mo-
ney than any or all other cities in this
country upon canals and roads designed
to concentrate, as far as possible, in hersel
the thousand streams of inland commerce
she is continually multiplying the number
of the steam lines which are uniting her
with the ports OF every sea, and making
tributary to her metropolitan growth and
Grandure-; and with a shrewed tact in
providing herself with those agencies
which not only attract, but constantly
keep up an immense transient population
within her limits, she is constructing ho-
tells which are palacial in character, in
creasing her places of popular amusement,
and doing whatever else she finds it is
necessary to do in order to promote her
welfare.
One great secret of her success, IN
doubtedly, is the effort to keep the world
advised of what her resources and attrac-
tons as a metropolis are. New York
business men. aware of the Importance
of the newspaper press as channel for
gaining wide and advantageous notoriety,
have used it with the same liberality with
which they avail themselves of every
means of ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, and are reap
ing the benefits of their wise economy in
this particular. In paragraph upon this
subject in the New FORK Tribune recently,
1t was stated that the estimated annual
expenditure of the business men of that
city, in advertising alone, is more than
two millions of dollars, Of which three
fourths are spent upon their own journals.
" umong the influences which are steadily
concentrating the wholesale trade Of the
country more aud more upon New York. "
The remark is certainly a just one and
we regret that fact SO thoroughly appre-
uiated and acted upon by the people of a
rival city is so little understood and taken
advantage ofhere. While New York Jour-
mails, crowded with the advertisements of
her merchants, mechanics, and manufac-
turers. are circulating thickly throughout
the United States, us well as abroad, those
of Philadelphia present, comparatively,
no adequate exposition of our commercial
character and advantages. This is a Sc
Eious drawback upon the business pros
perity of the city.-Phiia. U. S. Guzette
IIrGuLY IMPORTANT News FROM Com.
PERRY's ExPEDIT1oN.-By overland mail
received in England. we learn that the
United States expedition sailed from
Loochoo on 81 of July, for Japan the
Commodorc's feet, consisting of the