New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-09-28

II tcboock, Hobross, Had, DeKv, Mitchell, Nor
ton, hpttsJl Oluste5, Pi-ree Pickering torsy 70
10y toihIg OF those We are - p-oud TO "afo't .nt
/" develop' iced | name Gdvot ent AgtsrI'-
,bsfrsl'O say oh'ns .lso If oshrr cosaib1t"r' to
such works a. thA New York Safe N.ural Httory,
IN twenty ensrns; the Exploring Expeditions nnf
Re, GoVsuns ut IN veNs filing MT l@.s man o'e
tUIr I'd voiuD.s, city Quar'os ard toliss, un-y-
c, led by ROYAL preees -iyle Of eIecuon; and n.
publ CT iorr Of Scs't f. Iosu ons s"ceie,, ana OF
~ STATE Cove rnuent- IN all rot ~ nan oOO v'um
&C Orig'l al research 10 &C euce and Ntu'H hwy.
H. MetsI,h, scs II would s1iice claim joss han T.
rcs-in bnsflf hcst-zuo susa thinkers "a Henry,
HiCt OK Jsu "a Tappan, Usbs and Wayiand knos
bow 10 seek II tt-rn-eves on the " Srsn; OF NJ a.
The pin cpls Of educa ion have been dl.cu'eed oy
writer BIKE Henry Barnard, Hraoesdann Bsnoo Pot-
ter lob-eTve aIn not reading catalogue but nam@
sIm6s' ~ rsDdoml. As 10 'he winters OF textb"oKs
:, cir psme ia le. ION aud too numerous to nendjs
here even a. renoom; but We may remember that even
Yonnp England receives essons IN ne own lao maze
from LiIdley Moray an American CaeersI' AM tnat
our 10 colleges and 100 600 schools are taught from
hcol aim. g. entirely prepared by cDuntry-
mtn. Phiology AID L h ology nave Don iIlustraei
BY the res arches of DupOucssu, Ga lao, Pickering,
ADdTtws, Hale RoblnsOn, Stuart, Leyerett " orces
ter Sou.r, Bartlett from oar own fraternity aud
last not least Noah Webster, whose great work, with
all liz sins ~he giving law in ortnosraphy to tFeoty
millions Of bis cOuDtrymen Is rapl lly becoming al
tboity to mother EogsDd herselt Loud cheersI In
FiAto1 the nsmtt OF John Adams, and indeed many
Of our tsuen who made ni-tOry; end WI hrop,
Prescott Bancroft Cooper, ilidreb, Irving ScGo)l-
craft Sparks, IngersOn, and hundred others TO-
gebtr with the issues of the Historical Societies Con-
RES and Il Legislatures, have produced ~ aggre-
Gaze of nearly four thousand volumes, to shOF Mr..
AtoD how "wholly regsIdleee" we are " OF historical
"recOfds." From the section of Geography end
Travels, you will at once tbi0k of 30 ne scores; and
not forget the adventurous explorers OF our western
wilderness empire and the lsthmus, from Lewis aud
Clarke Gown 10 Fremont, ochOolcraf, Cauin, Gunni-
sos, Bartlett, Squer and Stephens the hundred ploa'
ters of s ht and knowledge III the Isles OF the fhchc
end The old kingdoms Of the East who have brought
back light apd noeledge in their books; Wilkes,
who glvee US NeE Continent az the South
Pole and Kane, who we hOoe has ere this written
bIs OVID name and Henry Grnneils on the sa9re OF
that open which circles the other Pole at The North
In the useful arts of engineering, sbip-bu1iDg, nayt
alton architecture agriculture gardening, the WORKS
OF our Mahans BOwoi'c o., Grti hs Ogerm4us NJ lat
ties aDt DOwDings are admitted to be unsurp ssed IN
th.ir kind in the world AS 10 Bellies Lcttres and
general literature | must be content 10 sIude to per.
haps one in twenty of names we cherish, such az
Claiming and Cooper, and BrOcs0en Brown, faul'
ding, irving, Kennedy; Fay, H4leck, Hawthorne,
Hohmsn; Longfellow, Lowell, Mitchell Gurus Whit
tier Bs,ard Taylor, Willis; and from the brilliant
citle of our fem 4e wr ers where else is 1t equaed
If quote the names of Caroline Kirkland, Nara
Mackibtosb Alice Cary, IL dla Sgourney, Catherine
Seog,w,ck Elizabeth Warner or Harriet stowe;
should exhaus, the list Fart ON it. Tnese names,
Mr.. President lighted upon almost at random IL do
rot presume upon invidIols dstGcti )nslt you seek
for other monuments look around you )-theee ames
are merely representatives. OF American authors, Jnsty
entitled 10 be called original in their works who have
ma positive and in many cases very important si-
6ons to thu stock Of human Sno Tefse, or Who have
extended and adorned The realms o fancy an lnagin-
alton. II is Pn 10 estimate, 'om The das before US,
If the original produced III this cOdutry up TO
this time, a more or less tDiiled 10 credit as ad-
a ces upon what had boa done before, amount TO
not less than 0C0 different volumes of which al least
breefourths have been ssued within the last twenty
a tbp afl mr.
ie,s to be saoy srvtd because we have or have not
shall We TOY y done more 10 increase AM dlnuse
h Nv e'ige among meo 10 our bnef Nauoua,
existence ofegh'y years than has been acconphsned
h, .oue Of TIE OLD Sja'es of Europe III thousand!
The ri,.rsop by historians of the present day o. the
stiri, az as of the queries Of Sidney Smith, In The
ECn burph, Of 1890 who asked where Is their Fox or
Burke, T. cir Scott or Byron or Sod0n5-that we
must protest az ans; If have not Done enough AL
Ieacy 10 earn better estimate than they ,ve given
US G re are those here tonight that viii red aen the
country yet Cheers AS 10 the query about Anerl-
can pictures and statues badly fair answer might
TIE made TO that also by come who know h)~ to ap-
precia G an Alston a Cole Vsnderlyn, aGreenough,
or Powers or Crawford; and the re5pecet President
of our Academy could think give good account OF
biz academciaDs though be is too modest TO mention
himself. But thin Is not our pro glnce now what
have done in sct nee has already been alluie1
TO in the lanes of some of those VINO have UTfHea
science-sid has not our own Morse improved upon
the achievements of our own Franshn, ami gwen 10
yoJ dtrful al picaon Of nstural laws, which literally
aprihsi, time ana space and promises o realize 10
sober earnest the fairy dOngs OF Puck, ana ENABLE u
o put grde round about tho a'th IN orty mlaues
And has not Maury conferred booa on humanity
and essened both dagger aud distance for the n4rl1e
the world over by mapping SHORTCUTS aud turnpiSe3
on the broad ocean One word about the mechsn
zeal aspects Of our progress la book making. We
ave Yet mueo 10 achieve ELcetst1r Is or motto.
But Sir even now nav point with pride to spec
mebs If the black art not A whit behind the best
scross the sea- II erery specimen Is not perfect let
il be remembered that the aggregate OF the sew BOOKS
first manufactured in a single year If not lees than
two miilions four hundred thousand. Putt1s aside
,chooLboots Bibles and society publications, the
nmbpr OF volumes printed and reprinted will reach
90 hi milions The school books alone will swell the
number twelve millions more. The number OF Volu mes
,s.ued YEARLY from the gigantic establishment OF
AIessrs UAruer alone has been estimated a. more than
a million of vOlumee; and the Philadelphia house OF
Iippipcott sends forth books at an average oil hty
cases per day the year round. Specimens, these,
though large ones. And then CONSIDER, beside, tne
enormous bulk of reading matter issued by our two
Inn dred periodicals aud two thousand Newspapers
Thick of Eighteen thousand double, or thirysx thou
sand single of paper, required yearly for STU
gle MAJ szine which courses over the county, unPre
ceoeued In cheapDess and attracnDn al the rate OF
one hundred aud hfry thousand per month. he Wild
est imsgpings at home or abroad twenty years ago,
ould Lot have stretched so far a. this. why SIR
the sheets from our boOk-pr alone IN single
ear would reach nearly twice round The globe; snd
If we add the periodicals and newspapers the issues OF
our prt sses in about eighteen months would make
belt two feet vide printed on both sidfs; which would
stretch from New-Yors 10 the Moon Laughter and
che.rl In the machinery for this great manufacture
our artisans, will venture to say, not yet e1ceed,
If equaed, elsewhere. The prntug-presses OF Hoe
and of Adss said to sur any used III Europe
The important art of stere,typing, waich there
is reason TO believe originated 10 this country has GER
snIv been brought TO greater perfection here than 1t
has reach d abroed-and naturally SO; for our VIDE
REQUIRES this permanent form, for nearly all We
print And BY a recent beautiful invention OF ano'her