Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1860-01-14
THE NEW YORK NEWSPAPERS.
From the Boston Courier's N. Y Correspondence.
THE JOURNAL OF COMMERCE.

lnE NEW lOnh NEWDI M EMO.
From the Boston Courier's N. Y Correspondence.
THE JOURNAL OF COMMERCE.
The Journal Of Commerce, which is an eve
ming and morning paper, is very highly valued
and confded in by all the great mercantile
houses; its integrity and veracity in monetary
news being, we believe, unquestioned, whatever
may be thought of its commercial views or pol
itics. Nobody, we suspect, would think it pos
sibe for its conductors to bear or bull on stock,
merely for its own profit which is more than
can be said of some other journals circulating
in Wall street. 1t is very firm in its opinions,
whatever they are, and is never in the least
frightened by the unpopularity of its views
especially upon the slavery question. Its edi-
torial comments upon events of the day are
usually brief but always manly and bold and
dignifed, and its digest of intelligence is always
comprehensive. In moral tone it stands in the
front of the journals of the country. Its adj
vertising profits must be very large-larger than
those of any other paper except the Herald.
THE COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER.
The Commercial advertiser, is an excellent
paper hardly ever seen out of its own respec-
table circle; but its character for moderation,
equabiliiy of temper, gentlemanly demeanor
and literary merit, is firmly established. 1t is
also a snug property-making outlays for liter
AIRY labor which are absolutely nothing when
compared with those of the Tribune and Times
THE EXPRESS.
The Erpress is a very odd newspaper sort
of hash of all its contemporaries, made upon
principles by no means scientific, in which there
is sometimes more pork than potatoes, and
sometimes there are more potatoes than pork
the whole huddled together without much pre-
tence of arrangement. 1t sticks pretty well to
its Know Nothingism but regards a republican
alliance with perfectly just feeling of self-pres-
ervatipn, as likely to be fatal to the Express,
however politically advantageous to its party.
Its editorial style is Of most astonishing char
acter. 1t jumbles words, sentences, colons,
commas, periods, and dashes together with such
remarkable infelcity that sometimes it is i'm
possible to tell what brother James or brother
Erastus is driving att and it is indeed doubtful
whether they know themselves If the circula-
ton of the Ecening Express can be estimated
by the immense noise made at the corner OF
Wall street and Broadway every evening in dis
posing of it, it must be-very small indeed. 1t
is useful paper, however, it being kind of
compendium highly convenient to the conduc-
tors of morning journals who dash their shears
into it with frghtfu ferocty, leaving it "al tat
tered and torn" very soon after it is brought i'll
by the porter. 1t issues great number of edl-
tons, bearing the most remarkable resemblance
/ to each other. We can imagine no particular
class over which it exercises any influence and
perhaps there is none.
THE EVENING POST.
| None of the ancient papers of New York have
improved more rapidly than the EUening Post
Mr.. Bryant, we believe, writes little, but the
paper has small staff of indefatgabe editors
headed by Mr.. Thayer the manager, (son Of
Mr.. A. w. Thayer of Northampton who shows
great deal of industry. Its contents are mis-
cellaneous, but they are highly entertaining also
While Mr. Marsh, formerly Of the (old) Bostor
Attds, was connected with it, its phonogrspit
reports were much esteemed. Its evening bu
letin is newspaper in itself, and always attracts
crowd of readers. Among its contributors il
Mr.. Parke Goodwin. 1t is understood to b'
very goou PIvPe-ty, ha~ins triumphantly sur
vived several critical periods OF depreciation il
value. When Mr.. Bryant was in Europe, som,
years ago, the course of the late Mr.. Legget
upon the currency and slavery questions, great
" injured the commercial value of the concern
but it was too well established to be killed by
few months of mismanagement, and is nov
more vigorous than ever before-utra in its fre,
trade notions, like most New York papers, ant
still Jacksonian in its views OF the currency.
THE COURIER & ENQUIRER.
In speaking of the New York morning news
papers, we naturally begin with the Courier d
Enquirer, one of the oldest, largest and mos
important as a commercial journal. This, lik,
the journal Of Commerce, is great advertising
medium, and the profits of this branch of it
business must be very large. 1t is patronized
in this department, by all classes of busines
men, from grocers down town to booksellers vi
town. 1t is taken in and read by thousands o
shippers, importers, iron-mongers, dry-salters
brokers, stock k-jobbers. These men do actuall
read and rely upon the advertisements of tn
Courier & Enquirer and the Journal Of Com
merce for the daily information absolutely ne
cessary in the transaction of their business
The editorial articles of the Courier & Enqui
rer are few in number, rarely covering NOR
than column-presenting great contrast t
the numerous and difusive ucubrations of man
of its contemporaries. They were formerly mark
ed by the old-fashioned bitterness-the use G
hard words and strong phrases-by coarse i'm
: putations and verjuice and invective; but the
: are now, compared with the productions of tn
gentlemen of Nassau street, quiet and moderate
: except when Gen. Webb who is of the ancien
school, is provoked into controversy, when the
are apt to assume something of the old fiavol
The literary articles, which are excellent thoug
not numerous or extensive, are written, we be
lieve, by "Shakspeare's Scholar'-Mr. Grar
/, White. The Courier & Enquirer is Republca
in politics, but maintains great independence {
parties, being upon anything but amiable term
with the Republican newspapers. Its circul'
ton, compared with that of some of its coten
poraries, is small; its sale to newsmen is lin
tied; and its subscription price (as well as thi
4 of advertising) has never been reduced to tn
J. modern standard. 1t has always commando
n its own terms; and as its expenditure for editc
Il rial labor is not large, it probably can show
: handsome balance upon the right side of Il
$ sheet annually, 1t is the largest daily new
o paper we believe in New York.
!, !, THE HERALD.
J, Those who have never had occasion to G!
d anime the early files of the New York Heral
= or whose memories are not exceedingly retel
a tive. can have no idea of the difference betwee
: the first volumes of that paper and those whic
J, are now accumulating. The Herald at first WI
/, little, pestferous sheet, but the Herald of t.
day is sanity compared with the Herald twen
years ago. AS it has waxed fat it has wake
respectable. Mr.. James Gordon Bennett keel
e his coach, his villa, and his yatch; and is talk
n of for the Embassy to France and for the Ma,
orality. The income of the Herald-net prof
q we mean-is not less than from $4,000 to $50
600 per annum. Unfriendly journals and v