Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-09-17
Progress and Improvement Of Journalism
IN Cincinnati.


The growth and progress of Cincinnati
have been steady and substantial though
less rapid than formerly, in the last ten
wears; giving promise of the future rather
than assurance of the present. In every
department of science, education ana ar'
has she shown marked improvements; but
in nothing has she so materially advanced as
in the character of her press by wnicn VIC
chiefly mean the daily papers oil the CITY
Seven OF eight years ago, we were douoV-
less behind many similar cities in the enter
nrise tact and talent requisite for journalism;
hut now. we think, we can not only compete
with. but surpass, most of the newspapers
publshed in the Atlantic cities-New York,
Of course, excepted-in the particulars we
have mentioned. Every month we are ad-
yancing, while the press of most other cities
stands still, and has done so for years.
The papers that had an extended rep
utation years ago. such as the National In
feUiosnser, Baltimore Patriot and New
Orleans Crescent for instance, long since
reached their climacteric, and are now LETT
so far behind in the race, that no one pauses
TO ask where they are. They are buried in
their own stability, if we may say so; they
have ceased to interest the people OF this
time, because they are associated with, and
appealing to, past.
The leading newspapers of Boston, Phil
adelphia, Baltimore and New Orleans,
though now and then a convulsive effort is
made to push some one of them up to the
time and into the light, are really no better
than they were a decade since; while thosC
ofCincinnati, it must be admitted, have be
come entirely revolutionized in almost every
particular. The journalist who would entel
an Office to-day, and seek to do as he woult
have done then, should be regarded as al
animated occupant of the tombs Of the
PtoIemies, or a galvanized corpse from the
battle-plains of Phillippi.
The press Of Cincinnati is making as rapid
strides in the West as that of New York is
in the East. You find our dailies all the
way from here to Kansas; to Lake Superio
and the Gulf of Mexico; they occupy tn
place of the minor dailies of the variou
towns and cities of the other contiguou
States, and actually strangle the soporifi
weeklies published for the sole purpose 0
keeping themselves dead and their proprie
tors alive.
A degree of liberality and enterprise
shown in the conduct of the papers here, t
which many in the older cities of the Ea'
are strangers, and likely to remain so. Th
number of writers and attaches in differer
capacities here is often greater than it
there, and the amount of money expende
in various ways greater than with our Eas
ern brethern.
The fact is, Cincinnati is the newspaperi'
focus of the West and South, and must
future increase in the power and excellenC
of its jouInals--very far, as yet we confes
from what they should be-and extend the
influence to more remote regions than the
yet have reached.
The growth of the past ten years prove
what the advancement of the next ten wi
become, and itrequiresno prophetic declaI
that ere long we shall have but one con
petitor for journalistic prosperity, and th'
in the acknowledged commercial metropol
ofAmerica.