St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1859-01-06

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1858-59. ss
I(YTNHE successful lay ing Of the trans Atlantic
4 Telegraph Cable marks q new ern in the
I history Of Human Progress. Henceforth Eu-
rope, Western Asia, and Northern Africa lie
within an hours distance from our shores, and
the battle which decides the fate of 4 kingdom
4 the capture ofa Vienna or Gibralter, the fall
q of q dynasty, the triumph Of q usurpation, the
birth Of an heir to royality, the death Of Mic;
holas or Wellington, in any country which
touches the Mediterranean, the Euxine, the
Black Sea or the German Ocean, will be pub
lished in New York the next morning, if not
/ on the very day Of its occurrence ms m0-
ment, as it we're, we have been thrown into the
1 immediate intellectual sneighborhood Of the
whole civilized and q large portion Of the semi
barbarouss world. The rise and fall OF stocks
in London or Paris will henceforth be reported
I from day to day in the journals Of our seaboard
cities. The boldest operators in Wall Street
will refuse to buy Or sell until they have read
the quotations OF that days business in the
Royal Exchange and at the Boarse, whose
transactions will have closed an hour or so be-
fore ours can begin. A revolution in Paris, an
! impo rtant vote in Parliment, an insurrection
in Italy, a fire in Constantinople, will be dis
| cussea around the breakfast tables of New York
few hours after its occurrence. A mighty
| though, silent transformationin the conditions
of human existence has just been effected by
the little wire stretching across the oceans bed
| from tile coastof Ireland to that of British
America and one inevitable result of this must
be an .lnexampled community Of feeling and
interest among the nations Of Christendom, and
| a conse quent desire for a more intimate ac-
quainta nee with each others tdoings through
the medium Of the Newspaper Press. It seems
hardly possible that thousands should not
hence forth read their own journals. who have
hitherto been content with an occasional glance
at tho sc taken by their neighbors; while many
who have hitherto been content with Weekly
issue will now require a Semi Weekly or
Daily. In short, Intelligence, always q vital
element of growth in wisdom, success in busi-
ness, or enjoyment in life, has now become
indispensable to all. .5..r..
IT He NEW YORK: TRIBUNE, now
more til an seventeen years old, which was the
first jou rl1al in the world that appeared regu-
la-ly on an imperial eight sheet at SO low a
unparalleled aggregate Of more than 200, 600
subscriptions, respectfully solieits it's share Of
the new patronage which the Metropolitan
Press is henceforth constrained, at a heavy
weekly cost, to deserve It asks especially the
patronage and active favor the Republicans
those who hate all forms Of oppression, and
desire that every rational being shall be free to
employ his faculties in such innocent manner
as he shall deem best-of those who would ex-
tend Liberty and limit Slavery-but it further
appeals likewise to all who look and labor for
the return of National thrift, plenty, prosperi-
ty, through the Prosperity Of American Indus
try by wisely discriminating duties on Imports
all who favor National Progress through in
ternal Development and moderation rather
than by external aggression and extension-all
who would rather have the National resources
devoted to the construction of 3: railroad to
the Pacific than to tile purchase or conquest
| of Mexico, Nicaraugl1a or Cuba-all who would
retrench radically our present inordinate Fe-
deral expenditures by abolishing or immense
ly reducing the Army and Navy, and expend-
ing the money thus, saved on works Of benefi-
cence which will endure to bless our children-
all who profoundly realize that righteousness
exalteth a nation" and that no real advantage
can ever accrue to any person or community
from acquisitions or successes achieved by
means which contravene the laws OF Eternal
Right. The free allotment Of limited portions
Of the Public Lands to Actual Settlers thereon
and every hopeful plan intended to diminish
n1ovment or ;nadeonate rccomnensc -Ya =
lche,ne asnao;al1v that sooks - ho,n ~
unfortunate by enabling them, and tcach;no
cssnest svmnotbv on, cooncratio, 0>'N
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ba. n,ov;dad ;tself r;th :, now o,d f. stcr prass
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