The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-07-22


mixed do, At eo2c. a6l&c. Yellow and white South
ern was scarce and nominal. Pork was lower and
dull, with sales OF mess at $40 4sl $40 so. Lard
was firm, at lac. l2Ic. in bbls. Sugars were
steady and quiet. Coffee was in moderate demand,
at steady prices Freights were taken to q fair ex-
tent, without change of imp ortance in rates.
The Presidency and the Newspaper Press
Suggestive Statistics.
Since the consummation of the present extra
ordinary arrangement of parties and tickets for
the Presidency, nothing has transpired affording,
in any definite shape, an exposition Of the COM
psrative strength prospects Of these parties and
of the relative strength of Fremont, Buchanan
and Fillmore, and of the drift Of public opinion
throughout the country, is furnished in the sug
gestive statistics Of our newspaper exchange list,
which we publish today A fair index, we say,
because the New York HERALD exchange list
impartialy compromising newspapers of all
parties, and all sections, was excepting new ez-
changee) established in advance of the existing
reconstruction Of parties and wholly regardless
of party opinions or par izan influences.
We find, then, from careful examination of
our exchanges, and from an application to them
of the official returns Of the census Of the news
paper calculations of 1850, that at this time the
three parties foC the Presidency are represented
as follows
- Ns~,pspas cir'slq's ion
For Fremont. lee sl4,soo
For Buchanan. .......*........... ~ LS4i 90
For Fillmore ....,............ IS 1891
OF these aggregates, 1t win be seen that Mr..
n. n in tba N in
the South-that of the whole number, ITO are
old democratic journals, that have been whig
and one independent. 1t further appears that Col.
Fremont has Isl journals in the North and only
in the South-that of the whole number, 81 have
heretofore been whig, Is democratic, Is Know
Nothing and IL independent. As for Mr.. Fill
more, be is weak in both sections yet, in the
South, in the way of newspapers, we see that
he has twe-thirds Of the number supporting Mr..
Buchanan, and that his whole list consists of As
old whig papers, NEARLY all South,) papers
heretofore democratic, 10 Know Nothing and
independent.
These tire curious and suggestive fgures-they
show that while Buchanan's strength lies in the
rump of the old democratic party, (the head and
brains being all gomez and while Mr.. Fillmore is
limited 70 the remains of the old wing party of
the South and TO certain small fragments of the
exploded Know Nothing party, the youngest and
freshest horse upon the course has been cutting
right and left into the ranks of the wings, demo-
Gratis and Know Nothings, and has the bulk of the
independent press at his back. Our readers will
also observe that the aggregate circulation of the
Fremont newspapers, upon the basis OF the last
federal census is about double that of Buchanan,
and we dare say that the superior increase of the
independent papers alone, now supporting Fremont
over all the Buchanan journals, would give to FIRE.
| mont three times the newspaper circulation at
| this day. Of Mr.. Buchanan. We have endeavored
in our tables to give the average list of the sub
scribers to our various exchanges; if we were to
| take the readers the advantage Of Fremont over
both his competitors would, we suspect, appear
| in a still more striking light
Again. the NEw YORK HERALD is not embraced
in our Fremont list. Ii is not, in party sense,
Fremont paper-it is not the paper of any sandi-
date, any clique, or any party or party platform.
Our platform Is the Constitution and the Union
our party, the independent American people, Of
al sects sections and parties, and our policy is
to sustain, a. an Independent press, the move
ments Of the independent public opinion Of the
country. Satisfied, however, that this indepen-
dent public opinion il working az the bottom and
at the top of this Fremont movement, and that
il win eventually work out wholesome political
revolution we, while it goes in this direction, are
with il. Put the HERnD's list Of subscribers.
therefore Of its various editions, to the Fremont
list, and We have hundred and forty or fifty
thousand added TO his newspaper circulation, in
GLIDING daily issue Of from sixty TO seventy
thousand, compromising perhaps three hundred
thousand daily readers Our circulation TO diff
ferent individuals, it thus appears, IL about equal
to one-half the circulation OF all the democra-
tic presses of the United States Of our exchange
list and those not on our exchange list are Of the
smallest calibre and few and far between.
We say, then, that these newspaper statistics
furnish striking illustration Of the drift Of pub
lie opinion. There is something so unusual and
remarkable in the popularity Of Fremont that
there can be nothing less than a spontaneous
popular revolutionary movement at the bottom
Of ii. Mr.. Buchanan IL an old outstanding Presi-
dental candidate-Mr. Fillmore is an old s,agcr,
and has been regularly before the people a. a
candidate for the succession since February
But new man, outside Of all the machinery Of
the old party scene shifters Of the day-a man
not dreamed Of by the old housing politicians of
any party three months ago-is brought forward
by sort Of popular spontaneous combustion, and
in single month he astonishes his enemies and
surprises even his friends, with biz wonderful
speed wind and bottom. II is not Fremont-it
IL a popular revolution that il thus stirring up
the foundations Of the great deep Of public
sentiment like ground swell.
1t il idle for the democratic journals to preach
disunion-it IL nonsense and humbug for Mr..
Fillmore to recommend secession in The event of