New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-01-31
FROM PHILADELPHIA.
DEMAND FOR TRIBUNEs-TUE NON-INrERCoURsE
LIE-rMPoRTANT LAW CAsE-PROTEsTED
PAPER--sTREET RAILROADS AND MARKET


From Our Own Correspondent.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 30, 1860
Almost az punctualy as the morning clock st,ikes
IL, even when our river hiss been chosed With thick
ice the new ferry boat of tho Anboy Railroad Cou
pany touches our wharf with passengers aDd-THE
TRIBUNE The st3l~art boy bavog charge of the
latter staggers ashore VI der the weight of 40
nous bundle, which 10 my eye has been steadily in
creasing in dimensions for a year past lie hurries
from the wharf TO his great distribution office, ten
stopped by the way by customers WOO will not be
put aside. On reaching it he is met by congrsga.
lion, not waiting patiently for the document which
is ms important to most Of them as dinner itself.
These supplied and gone, another set drop in by
tucs and ihrees, until those who leave it until two
o'clock will discover that they must go home empty
handed. BY that hour every newsvender, and their
name is legion, is sold out THE TRIBUNE has dis
appeared on its glorious mission of lifting
up the public mind and conscience from
the thick darkness in which corrupt
party organization has too successfully plunged
il. On the train from AmbOy to Camden is another
ycrder, n smart, intelligent boy, whom watched
with interest the other day. when coming
through Beside the transient sales to passengers,
he has crowds of customers at every station. When
The train stops he steps on the platform at one par
ticular spot, lis customers crowd round him, most
Of them, rs | noticed having the exact change
ready which they fork over with one hand while
taking the paper in the other, pause of few min
utes thus enabling him to distribute large number
Of sheets. This business evidently pays, as the
newSlOy in the train has become us much fixture
as tie conductor II would be q dull blank with
out him. These little incidents serve to show how
keen is the appetite not only created but requiring
Ia be fed by InE TRIBUNE, They would lead me
to conjecture that your circulation must be rapidly
increasing, even without the astonishing results IN
that department. !Os have already announced as
accom- any ing the new year. While such evidences
OF progress TO be seen and heard there is hope
for tie Republic.
The "Non-intercoursc Lie" as you aptly call II,
il a lie made out of the whole cloth as regards the
irade aud commerce of this city. Non-intercourSe
received its largest development when the young
Sawboncs quilted us for the moment | did hear
of a military company in South Carolina whose
members resolved thst their uniforms should be
made AT home. They b lught Kentucky made jeans
10 begin with, but stuck iast on the batons, which
they c0ndescended TO buy here. They suffered the
slme humiliation when they came to the article OF
caIs. But as TO any extensive NOn-intercourse il Is
"A sham. / have talked with fifty men who make
for and EEL the bulk of their wares TO the south
and they neither feel nor |, ar dimnuion OF their
taIes. Some OF them say that the newspapers APP
pear TO know more about their business than they
do themselves Southern dealers in this market
neither write nor talk Non-intercourse. Our people
nre satisfied that they viii continue to buy as usual
wherever they eau be- best SUITED. The cry of Nsu-
intercourse does not originate with the southern
Jcople, but with the fre.eaters of the Southern
Pres, who do not represent the public sentiment,
while il is echod and grossly magniiied by the great
lying incendiary OF your own city. Everything we