The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-11-16

make clean sweep, including especially those
active Tammany sympathisers with Douglas,
Forney, Clark and Haskin. very little inquiry
will disclose who these double-faced and treach.
erous officials are, and they ought to be weeded
out big and little, if there is any wedding to be
done.
Ocean aud Land Postal Serviee-vhat the
Country Wants and VIVA: II Has Not.
On Saturday last Captain Comstock left here
for Europe for the purpose Of endcavoring to
consummate the sale 10 the French government
of the three ships belonging to the Collins line
now lying idle at our wharves-the Adriatic,
Baltic and Atlantic.
This simple fact is a pregnant commentary
upon the illiberality and want Of wisdom ex-
hibited in the action taken by Congress last win
ter on our ocean steam postal service. We are,
above all the other nations of the EARTH an indus
trial and commercial people. Without aristo-
cratic or privileged classes in our social organi-
cation, with more equal distribution of wealth,
and much smaller number of colossal fortunes,
every class Of society is more or less intimately
connected with trade, and dependent on il for
success in their pursuits. Commerce is the hand
maiden of agriculture and the mechanic arts,
without whom neither can in any great degree
extend its labors. But commerce is dependent
upon the regular and rapid transmission
of intelligence, and in this way its de-
vice. Without it trade languishcs, for the
changes Of markets pass by unperceivcd, and
their advantages do not enter into the calcutta
tons Of the merchant nor stimulate the industry
of the producer. With it, trade becomes active,
and brings to its combinations and Development
every favorable occurrence that exhibits itself in
any part of the world
IT is knowledge of this principle that has led
England to the great Development which her
postal service exhibits all over the world. Hay-
ing no vast extent Of territory to open to COM
merce, she has sought it upon the ocean. Her
mail steamers now traverse every sea. Running
down the coasts of the Spanish Peninsula, she.
crosses the Mediterranean, trsvcrscs the Red Sea
and the Indian Ocean, penetrating far into the
| waters Of China. From this line branches run
| Off to Australia and the islands of Mauritus and
| Bourbon in the Southern Ocean On the Allan
tic, one line connects her with her North Ameri-
can possessions and the United States; another
| threads the West India islands, extending its
ramifcations to Mexico, Central America, the
Isthmus transit routes New Granada, Venezuela
and Guiana; third runs along The west coast of
Africa; fourth line embraces the several ports
| of Brazil; while fifth runs to the Cape Of
Good Hope. Crossing the Isthmus of
| Panama, the smoke Of her scmulonthly mail
steamers vexes the blue air of the South Pacific,
where they touch at every important port as far
as Valparaiso. BY this system Of regular postal
communication her merchants command the
markets of all these countries aud give vast
| field to her manufacturing industry.
| We too, have not ignored the value of postal
| service but we have confined Our cxertons to
\ our own territory. The nascent States of the
| West and the new communities Of our empire on
| the Pacific have absorbed all our care. Like
the ocean service Of Great Britain, our own
| Western and Southwestern pest routes have not
repaid the sums lavished upon them by direct
revenue, but they have paid IL over and over
| again in the development Of trade Yet the
representatives Of these very States. forgetting
| that there is hardly post route west OF the
Alleghanies that pays its own expenses, come
into Congress insisting that no subsidy shall be
granted to ocean mail steamers, and giving TO
| them only the postage on the letters they may
carry. II the same principle were applied to
the post routes on land, thrce-tourths Of those
now established would cease tomorrow. But
they should not cease. They are the great feed
ers Of our material prosperity. Without them
our trade would dwindle, our manufacturing in
dustry would diminish, and our agriculture
would suffer
But the same argument applies to our
ocean postal service tina. applies to our
land service. We want regular postal CON-
munication with Mexico, with the West
Indies and the Spanish Main. with Brazil
with the West coast Of South America, with the
Sandwich Islands, Japan and China, with the
Russian possessions Of the AMOR and the resorts
Of our whaling feet In the North Pacific. These
are the compliments Of our postal intercourse
with the valley Of the Mississippi and the plains
Of Nebraska Kansas and Western Texas Their
establishment will be beneficial 70 all those re-
gions a. well as to our own, for It win feed the
trade Of all We hope, therefore, that the govern
ment will take an extended and enlightened view
Of this subject and that the Postmaster General
viii bring IL forward forcibly in his coming
report We want no puerile dwelling upon the
hundreds Of thousands that postal transportation
costs, while We are spending millions in building
vast Custom Houses and Post Offices for lazy
officers to cock up their legs in. II were better
tina, such steamships as those Of the Collins line
were employed in carrying the letters Of our
merchants and our thousands OF travellers to new
scenes Of American Commerce, than that we
should sell them and save a paltry pi,tance in
In our Post Olice account.
REcErTloS TO Mn DOugras.-It Is suggested
in various quarters that arrangements should be