The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-04-16

nents were moderate and rates steady.
The Spirit OF tho Age-Progress Of tho
Country-Duties Develving ON the
Daily Press
The unprecedented prosperity of this Western
Republic, and the great increase in every branch
of commerce, manufacture and trade, have not
allied to exercise apotent and wonderful influence
on the newspaper press throughout the wide ex-
panse Of the American confederation. The intellec
tual growth of the nation has kept such even
pace with the increase in its material advance
ment that the literary necessities of the people
are among the most important to be supplied.
From the throbbiDg heart of our busy and thickly
populated cities, to the distant frontiers of the re
public, there comes-as it were in o single
breath-the united cry for more information
and extended knowledge. Never before in the
history of the human race have the means
for supplying and promuIgating intelligence
been SO abundant and so perfect as they
at this day. But though the lightning traverses
the land almost from one extremity to the other,
ministering to the wants of modern journalism;
and though the steam press, with its rapid evo-
lutions, is now made to cast of printed sheets
at the rate of twenty thousand an hour, the
demands of the public upon the daily journals
have increased in a more than corresponding
ratio. For several months past we have frequently
found it necessary to issue triple sheets of the
NEW YORK HERALD; and during the last two
weeks we were compelled to give them five days in
seven. So great has been the pressure upon our
columns of advertisements and foreign and domestic
intelligence, that we could accommodate the pub
lie in no other way. The HERALD again appears
on Implicated sheet to-day, and in all probability
we shall be compelled to issue triple sheets every
day this week. It is not improbable in fact, that
our triple sheets WILL in short time, altogether
supersede the ordinary double sheet We have
heretofore published. The necessity for this
enlargement is imperative. In proportion as
the prosperity and intelligence of the peo-
pie are expanded, the Newspaper press must
expand with them. The wide and increasing cir
culation of the HERALD has very naturally brought
us the lions share of the advertisements of COM
mercal houses; while all other classes in the COM
munity who desire to make their necessities known
recognise our paper as the only channel through
which they may successfully advertise.
But apart from the constantly extending business
of advertisers, there variety of circumstances
which absolutely call for the frequent, and, per.
haps, permanent enlargement of our paper. TWEEN
ty years ago communication with Europe was
slow and irregular; now the agency Of steam
and the great improvements in the science of
ocean navigation bring us into weekly and almost
daily communication. The submarine telegraphic
wires, now connecting nations, and indeed con-
tinents, will yet abbreviate this distance, as they
have already done, and, annihilating time and
space, bring China, Japan and Australia, as
well as Europe, to the doors of New York.
Steam lines are everywhere being extended,
and railway enterprise is being developed with
an activity never known before. Already we
see the distant slopes of the Pacific and the
auriferous regions of California in almost week
" communion with the cities of the noble Misss-
sippi. Energy, skill and determination are labor
ing with universal accord in the cause of human
grandeur and civilization; and on each success
sive triumph which they obtain the pillars
of the republic are strengthened, and the
brotherhood of man looms up in more glorious
maenjr cnce The exclusive nations Of the Eastern
world ere also bending before the spell Of Chris.
tan civil'e4':cn Our pacific diplomacy, more pow
erful than The sword, has opened the portals Of
the Celestial Empire to American commerce and
manufactures, and even the jealous Japanese
whose country has been 80 long locked up from
the world-have been 80 much enlightened and
instructed by the example which this country
has given to nations, that they have broken
the enchantment of customs hoary with
antiquity, and, to the astonishment Of
the liberal and absolute governments Of the
other hemisphere, there is at this moment an
embassy of Japanese dignitaries on their way to
the capital of the United States.
With all these changes in the relations of
nations and people, and with the surprising ad
yancement which our commercial relations have
necessarily obtained, it would be idle to suppose
that the NEW YORK HERALD could remain sta
tionary. Our business has increased in such an
extraordinary degree that the world does not
furnish any parallel in the history of the news
paper press. To meet and supply this
expansion of our business, we must neces-
sarily make new and more extensive arrange
ments As, in obedience to the impulsive spirit of
the age, the standing armies and nayies of Europe