The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-08-29

Der race WILL be turned OF the stocks OF an Anne
rican ship yardf
The OCCUPATION OF THE NEWSPAPERS GONE
FUTURE DEsTNIEs OF THE CoUNrRY.-The new
epoch in political warfare which has been inaugu.
rated by Senator Douglas In the September
number of Harper bids fair to effect an entire
revolution In modern systems of Presidential
campaigning. It Is already intmated by some
OF our contemporaries that Bonner has determined
to bid largely for the copyright Of laundering
Wise reply, to appear in the columns. of the
Ledger, and this will, Of course, be succeeded by
hot shot again, in the new Douglas organ, which,
who knows, may elicit, II the price is paid with
Bonner's usual hberality, special, copyrighted
Presidential message, with the proceeds of which
Mr.. Buchanan will be able to new carpet the
White House and pay for his stock Of wood and
coal for the coming winter.
Alas for the poor newspapers! The "elbow
formed in the Mincio by the sympathies of
youth" will scarcely keep the buttons on the
shirts ofour "quadriateral" fugitive from Solferi
no; Cbevalier Webb will have to fall back for
bread and cheese upon the memory Of the fifty
two thousand dollars, and old Thurlow will be
compelled to confne himself exclusively
to free wool and to fitting out slavers in the
ports of Salem and New Bedford. Our fortunate
Fourierite friends of the Tribune have pha.
lsnsterisl monastery to retire to, until Seward
shall be President and Greeley Postmaster Gen.
eral, when each member Of that establishment
will, Of course, be literally provided for.
The exact amount paid by the Harpers to
Mr.. Douglas has not yet transpired; but, as his
piece has saved the enterprising publishers at
least thousand dollars In first rate advertising,
which has run the sale of their magazine nearly
up to the level Of the Ledger the literary Senator
ought to have got much more than was paid to
either JUDAS or the Regency. Twenty or thirty
pieces of silver would be but poor remuneration
for mode Of putting go original that, patented,
it would be cheap at any price He must have
got eeven hundred and fifty dollars at least-a
sum which will sound largely among the con-
tributiops to some founding hospital or to the
Washington monument. Who will then be able
to say that the country has derived no benefit
from Territorial sovereignty?
This new system of copyrighting political
documents will beautifully develope, before the
close of the coming winter, into full blown,
artistically arranged controversial tariff, by re-
ference to which the statesmanlike standing
Of any individual may be determined. Thus,
for the exclusive use of future Seward Ro-
chester speech, say, deductng expenses and insur-
ance against spontaneous combustion, $3.50. For
a fre.rocket manifesto by Senator Brown, Of
Mississippi, warranted to explode at precisely the
proper altitude, 5000. (This for dog day amuse-
ment) Speeches by Senators Slidell, Davis and
Benjamin will be paid for, like brandy, accord
ing as they may be below or above proof Sena-
tor Hale will arrange his matters with the Plea
yune. A labored Grafton, gotten up in the White
Mountains, by John Cochrane, will fetch good
round sum, and Stephens Of Georgia, Washburn,
Stevenson and others, will be properly averaged.
Let this new tariff for political wares be pro-
perly welcomed. It must recommend itself to
the plain common senee of every sound thinker.
Why, in fact, should the large or small amount
of brains which may be contributed to the press
by Everett, Sylvanus Cobb, or Mrs. Sigourney
be paid for, while poor United States Senators
Congressman and Tammany Hall spokesman are
left unremunerated Senator Douglas has made
a great bid for the next Presidency. He has
solved the problem Of making the poorest politi.
cal refuse useful to somebody.
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