Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-08-07

Union upon the fact that slight change in the
circumstances of the case, has thus served to i'm
press upon their minds sound doctrines in this
connection. The public will remember that
pending the1ate Washington city municipal
election, the Union essayed to hold the Star re-
sponsible for the tenor of Advertisements up.
pesring in its regular advertising columns; q
view of the responsibility of newspaper which
We as emphatically repudiated then, as now,
with a protest against its unfairness, and the
want of editorial comfy it embraced towards
journal that had long held the most intimate
friendly relations with it, having SO often gone
out of its way, as it were, to sustain it against
ungenerous and unjust aspersions of others.
We did not then realize that the Union would
so soon come to comprehend the sweeping injus-
tice and improperly of the rule of responsibility
it took occasion to lay down as against US. But
circumstances alter cases. 1t had not then ad-
mitted into its own columns a letter from the in
terminable pen Of General Duff Green, giving
his peculiar opinion of Andrew Jackson, about
on a par with the periodically appearing letters
from the quite as interminable pen Of Francis
p Blair, ST., giving his peculiar opinion of the
Democratic party of the day.
We sincerely believe that the day for the
publication Of newspapers upon the principle
of applauding all that all of either party may
do, and condomning all that all of other par
ties may do, has gone by. The Star is con-
Quoted upon no such principle; and though
expressing the Democratic party sentiments of
its conductor, it has never yet knowingly
sought to misrepresent the acts of any party or
man for the benefit of party. None rejoice
more than Ourself over the fact that the news
paper press of the United States is 50 rapidly
becoming independent of party, to which we
look as embracing afuture guarantees of the in
tegrity Of the conduct Of men, who, fancying
themselves shielded by the blindness of party to
the faults of those on whom it has devOlved
trusts-and there are many such everywhere-
seek to do wrong things, in Office for their indi-
vidual advancement or that of others. At the
same time, we have no faith whatever in the
plea of independence under which large
class Of journals-the prurient press of the
land-essay to shield their sinister SANDERS
and other attacks upon any and everybody who
stand in the way of the success of their schemes
of plumber or ambition, or Of those of the indi-
viduals who make up from their private purses
the lack of means for their support (for that of
such jOurnals) refused to them by an intelli-
gent public not disposed to accept loud pro-
fessions Of propriety embraced in sweeping ac-
cusatiOns against nearly every body and every
thing, for sound and patriotic public spirit.
In the course Of our long experience with news
papers, we have never seen such journals sue
seed in obtaining the confidence of the pu bile
and the fact of their invariable failure to do 30
embraces ample proof of the good judgment
and integrity of American public opinion,
however that may be warped at times under
the excitement of political campaigns or other
somewhat similar causes. .....-
The ACHIEVEMENT OF THE AGE All around
us, from the moment of the receipt of the dis
patch announcing the arrival of the Niagara,
after having successfully laid her share of the
telegraph cable, up to this moment, everybody
has seemed to be in condition of nervous ex-
element to hear Of the safe arrival of the Age
memnon on the other side. We never before
saw this community take more interest in aught
else. The Star office has been besieged by
men and women, allie deeply interested, appa.
rently, in the result, all eagerly inquripg after
later advices. Though the so ardently desired
news has not yet come to hand, we apprehend
that there can be no doubt, now, that the ex-
pertinent of bridging the Atlantic with the
means Of instantaneous intercommunication be-
tween the two countries is to be a fixed tact.
perhaps within twenty-four hours-an achieve
ment which, up to the moment of the announce
ment Of the arrival of the Niagara, had come to
be secuted by nearly all as a matter of utter
fmpossibility. We freely admit that we were
among the most skeptical, believing that the
rocks on which the cable is necessarily laid for
much of the distance would chafe and cut the
wire in twain, long ere the vessels laying it
down could reach their destination That thew
have not done So seems to us proof that the
pressure of the water is sufficient to keep it
from being swayed from side to side by what.
ever lateral forces there may be in operation at
the oceans bottom; and also that the abrasion
of the water has long since worn of the acute
points Of the rocks in the Oceans depths Such
is our theory accounting for the success Of the
experiment 50 far, which the reader may take
for what it is worth. ....i
If, as all now anticipate, the voyage Of the
Agamemnon shall prove as successful as that of
the Niagara, immense changes in business
methods and modes must soon come to pass,
and Europe and America will become more as
simulated. While We will adopt much from our
transatlantic cousins, they will not fail to
adopt equally as much, if not more, from US; our
methods and modes being generally better
adapted to the progressing stateof society than
theirs, which are tied down to routine, handed
down from father to son for centuries, under
the influence Of governmental institutions al
ways vigilantly jealous Of change. Railroads,
steamboats,, and the telegraph, have already
worked wonders in the way Of making us no.
mogeneOus people, wearing away provincalisms
In everything, and blending the individual in
terests of men, 50 that what Affects any one
section of our vast country, surely affects the
whole, more or less. steam on the ocean has
already had, 10 some degree, the same, effect