, 1865-08-18
IEADfNG NRWsPAPERs.

The various newspapers throughout the
couEtry cannot but have attracted the at
tention Of every newspaper reader, chiefly
veal between the circulation Of the leading
papers and the Others. ~
In ChIcsgo The receipts for sAlfs of the
Chicago TRIBUNE for the year ending May l,
1865, amount to $35s, ,Go0--wh1lea all the other
English calliee, morning and evening, reach
only $4,000. Excess Of Chicago TR1-
nunE over all, $103, 600. In Chicago the
1Smes and Journal are cqual In circulation,
the receipts Of eacl from sales being $780,
00o, or nearly one-third those of the Chfcaso
TRIBUNE.
An equally marked excess Is shown In New
York city In favor Of the HtFutd. Il Is folly
to deny that these figures arc Representative.
Every American takes the paper he likes
best, and the paper which most Americans
take Is The most truly representative Of Its
locality. Tie New FORK Herald is, the:efore,
as truly the reprt sentative paper Of Its i'm.
BrEz Is Of the West, or as the London Times
Is Of England. It ayaIs nothing to say that
the Herald is as light, slashing, Inconsistent,
superdcial, reckless and unprinclp1ed as It Is
enterprising. II 20. then the people OF the
great city Of New York, In the ma.s, are Just
as Light. slashlng, Inconsistent, superficial,
reckless and unpranelpled a. the Htr-
ald-Rt least 1hrte to one OF
them art. So the Chicago TRIBUNE may be
as radical, ultra. combatiye, imperious, san.
guine and hcadlorg as its enemies may al1ege,
but lis popularity proves that to the s1me
extent the people Of the West are as radical,
ultra, combattye, impctlous tanother term for
"resclute,') tangusne and headlong (anothe.
term for energetic, y As tho TRIBUNE.
Il Is true that between communities so
vastly unlike as to be represented, the one
by the New York Herald and the other BY the
Chicago TRIBUNE, there must be as great IN.
likeness as that between the communities 1c-
don Ifmts-
New York and Chicago are the joci Of Amer
lean journaliam East and West, and the Her.
ald there, IS the TR1urSE here, arGthc rep
,escntatiye journals. Much Of this success Is
due 10 business eagae'ty and enterprise In
! obtaining the 1lteet, fullest and mast accurate
! news, but this enterprise always bears the
same relation to tue tact, accusacy, sEM and
| Judgment with which the editorial columns
| Of the paper are made to express the wants,
opnions, and demands Of the people within
| the range Of Its circulation aud influence
The Herald is not paper for whose edito.
rial course We can entertain any other respect
than that which attaches to success In busi
ness point of view. Its principles arc as
purely ornamental as Qne lady's fouuccs
and It drugs them in the dirt with Just as
graceful abandoa. On the other baud those d
the New York Tribune are as inlexlb1e as
dogs brass collar, but the people Of New
York prefer the founced lady to the bras:
co1la ed dog, BY four to one. We might wlst
itwe1e othe,wiee-We sincerely dc. The qua'
ity of firmnezs the Herald lacks, and therei1
the He7d2d Is more like, more thoroughly rep
re:en:ative OF, that chaugeablc, dckle entity
the aggregate people. the average Of humax
nature where 1t calculates. New York car
no more endure under vtr:ue 80 c1ac:ins a!
the 75i5un.'s, than q French dancing mas.el
can eEjoy camp meeting. A new-llst O.
rtinctptes, aud new set Of candidates, cv
csy morning, form really Ell essential part O
the Htralds news. We no more look for .
fact in Rtra editorial, than in mint ju1e{
ora sea-b:eeze, and Jet all three are refresh
ug. No. being responsible today for anything
It said yesterday, It shoots up It's eaitoraa
rockets 80 rapidly That nobody cares whet.
the sticks fall. Yet Hhfla 1t Is Satanic in IT.
ssrdonic Indifference to principle, 1t Is moi
like the Torld and Ktrs, malignant in IT.
las ~ easv can,c,ence and = xpscent,h1s w
tnc-so have the average Of men. Bat b
uhn cong,.tent,v. maI,rnantiv and bn'5i,
becomes f.ns,icai for eTil. In. nr less Az.
pro,sl Of the popular heart thsu he vi
rursa good point into fanatcIsm or foil,
; But one Of the elements to which the Htra7
owes its p.ouancy, interest and popularity. +,
The personality Of lis editorials. Beunet
he1,evrs tbat n13nc,n,es must bs incam.te
~ w. ma..f+nna ~ A.. nsn-,~ ~,
: 80 -. aeS. - a,,u e5H ros ..1. .u
a ,.naa Eh;ah 7' .sa ,sas;ma ' =, sss.s 81.
see .nnse, ~ roo,,a1 costnnt. ~,