The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-04-07

and maritime Development that lies before her
With France and Italy in alliance with this
policy Of material development, these three
countries will command the resources of the
whole world in support of their policy; and a.
| time cements their alliances, and brings new
generations of men to the support of their
! ideas, old theories in social and physical sci
| ence, and old forms in practice, will melt away
before them.
Rapid Progress OF Metropolitan Jour
naltsm.
The increase in the business returns of the
HERALD within the last few weeks indicates
unusual commercial activity this spring. Judg.
ing both from our advertisements and circula-
ton, the trade Of the country is at present in a
most fourishing condition. Our cash receipts
from advertisements average daily from a
thousand to fifteen hundred dollars-a larger
pro rata increase than we have ever before
noticed at this time of the year. Our circula-
a corresponding augmentation, both North and
South.
The progress thus manifested in the growth
and influence of metropolitan journalism will
soon, however, be outstripped by its future
career. Arrangements are in train by which a
complete revolution will be effected in the
operations of the newspaper press Of this
country. The contract that we recently noticed
as having been entered into to convey the New
York papers by Especial newspaper express
train on the Hudson River railroad is but the
Inauguration of system which will soon reach
every part of the Union. The same enterprise
is intended to embrace all the lines that radi
ate from New York. By the Hudson River
and Central railroads the Western States and
Canada will be put in possession of the New
York daily papers many hours earlier than under
the present system. By the Pennsylvania Central
and the Baltimore and Ohio roads the Southern
States will be supplied in a similar manner,
and in Washington the members Of Congress
will receive the HERALD at breakfast, and will
be enabled to enter upon the duties of the day
with their ideas enlarged and fortified on the
legislative subjects with which they will have
to deal. By the New Haven railroad the whole
of the New England lines, which form com.
plete net work intersecting that region will be
enabled to distribute the New York dailies
with the same promptitude. The great lines
will, in fact, become mere combinations of the
streets of New York, along which, and their
branch feeders, the metropolitan papers will
be dropped with the same relative speed and
punctuality and with the same rela.
tive cheapness as within the city limits,
the price for which the HERALD can
most remote points comprehended in the ar
rangement, not exceeding five cents At Troy
and other cities within the same range of dis
lance it will be delivered to the retailer at two
cents, thus enabling him to sell it to the public
at slight advance upon the New York price.
The effect of these arrangements upon the
condition and prospects of country journalism
will be sensibly felt. They will reduce all the
provincial papers to mere organs of local ad.
vertising, and even in this respect they will
experience falling off, for wherever the New
York papers largely circulate, be the dis
lance greater or less from the metro
polls, the latter will of necessity absorb
large proportion of the country advertising.
The provincial journals will, therefore, soon find
themselves in the condition of the little, dirty
newspapers of Jersey, Hoboken, Brooklyn and
Washington, which, placed in immediate COM
petition with the press of New York, have
never been able to do more than barely keep
themselves above water. But to the rural
press alone will not be limited the effect of
the new arrangements The patronage re-
ceived by the New York weeklies is, as is we'll
known, mainly due to to the difficulty which
country people experience in getting our dailies'
Let the latter be delivered with promptitude,
certainty and at reasonable prices, and the de-
mand for the weeklies will almost entirely
cease. Important however, as are these re-
suits to those who will be Immediately affected
by them, they are as nothing compared to the
influence which they are destined to exercise
upon the political future of the country. With
the opinions Of the metropolis acting directly
upon every city, town and hamlet throughout
the Union, we shall soon find concurrence of
public sentiment with it which cannot fail to
act benefcially upon the national interests. AS
the great centre of the wealth, intelligence and
industry of the nation, New York has long
been entitled to take the lead in all questions
affecting its we'll being and prosperity. The
efforts of corrupt politicians and fanatics have
hitherto contrived to defeat the just influence
to which it was entitled. A train of natural
circumstances aud the result of its own enter
prise will shortly confirm to it the ascendency
that it should have long since enjoyed.
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