Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1865-10-09
CORRESPONDENCE.
Letter from New York.

correspondence oil the Baltimore Daily Commercial.
| NEW York, Oct s. 1865
Congratulations Of our Corespondcnt Upon he Prom
| ise Gicea by the First Issue Of the "Cona,e,ciar-
| Our Cram,0ed AdreHising Columns a Noticeable
fe6ture-Ihc Nation" Ne,cspopey.-Hs Prize Do,,-
| Jted-A Trick Of the Trode Erposed-TIe Nr,n
! Registry and Election La,o of Ne,o York-C5M
| Water rs. Run-Thc Grogshors Igaored-A .Jopt,,l
Promise Of Reto,n-A Piece Of Secret P1litic0I
Htstoy-The Late Appointment Of a Dca,ocro, as
! Aocol officer FulLv EcpIomedJo the First Time dc.
| L wish you much joy over the typographical an
pearance as well as the acceptable tone Of the "Con-
meIccP-for such it cannot fail prove to the great
body OF your readers Although have seen only the
rst issue, do not hesitate to predict for success
iul competition for that public favor by which only
Journalism lives and moves and has its being" [
say this in view of the crammcd state of your adyer
using columns, which certainly is very noticeable
| feature of your enterprise
From one journal to another my thought naturally
runs to say that the "Nation"-the weekly iournal
started not long since in this city, with such an unusual
nourlsh OF trumpets-has quite disappointed its
friends this week. with the announcement that its
price hereafter Is to be sic dollars per annum which
Is doubling of its original terms at n single bonndr
Inc pupsher ntimates that he led to this step bv
the success OF his experiment" What experiment
does the reader suppose? That of starting n new
journal in the ordinary sense of the word? No
But the experiment" of Submitting the paper ot
once to the judgment of large circle of readers rs
possible, in order to test thoroughly the popular
opinion of it!
Now, is not that cool? What does it mean if not =
confession that the publisher purposely plaved n
1ankee TRICK on the public, by putting the price NJ
hgure at which he knew he could not continuo It's
publication, in order to induce older journals, sub
scrloers-those OF his former paper the Hdepcndeat
among them-to drop them and take the Nation in
hot
the original cheap rate just as the tradesmen some
umes do with their underselling to catch custom,
Ne III quite probable that, by sending thousands
VI specimen numbers throughout the country to the
patrons OF publications which were published at a |
living price, and without any such false preences o
'hiS' accompanied by the most urgent appeals and |
promises the publisher has succeeded in drumming nm
so large list of sr months sJscribers that he will
be able to make money out of the proportion that he
may hoid on to- by reason Of the cxorbant increase
III his price am sorry to say that he is not the only
publisher who has successfully played this trick of the
trade IN Gotham. But the people as Bornum has |
SAID IN his autobiography and proved by his successes
ioVe 10 DC humbugged and so, | suppose it is all
right.
We have an improved Registry and election law in
thlS state whose strnsency promises most salutary
results. The principal change is the abolition Of tbe
aidaylt dodge, whereby the gate was opened wide o
an immense amount offraudulcnt voting under the |
lormer law. Hereafter, no body will he allowed to |
vote who is not on the Register and so there will bc
no chance to rush fraudulent votes in under oldo
WIS often issued without any oath by the conniyance
OF partisan NOtarics that ut was not convenient TO
get registered and the hurry and excitement of the
election But another capital change has been made
The registering and policing places are no longer to
DC the hlthy groggcres that they formerly were i'm the
MAN, their use being prohibited by the new law to |
thcJoy OF all descent orler-lovng men In selecting
proper places, the Commissioners of Police to whom |
the matter has been assigned in this city instead of |
the Supervisors as heretofore have curousy selected
Ill the different wards, nearly all the fire engine and
hose houses for this use as if to make the contrast of
association the more complete in the change from the
appliances OF rum TO those of cold water! The run
on the barbershops is another curious feature In the
first ward believe every registering and voting place
selected is barbcrshop! This looks as if somebody
were going to be shaved at the next election 1t is
to be hoped, in all seriousness, that the governing
classes are to be shorn of much of their strength by
the new law.
have noticed, in papers at a distance consider |
able speculation to President Johngon's motives in
the late appointment of Democrat to the important
and fat position of naval officer for this port As |
have nowhere seen the full explanation of the seem
ing mystery" | will give it reliable authority 1t
Is simply this: Mr.. Odell, by his highly important
while -heen-eXpected sustainment of
the Government during his first Congressional term,
Democrat though he was, had commended him to the
special regard of Mr.. Lincoln. This it was not the
nature OF the President to forget whenever suitable
opportunity for Its due acknowledgment might arrive
and when at the close of the session of 1861 Mr. Ode
had terminated his eave-taking interview with Mr. |
Lincoln, the latter heard to say to him. that he
hoped to see him back again at post in which he |
had done so great service to the Government at the
time of its most trying need" Accordingly when it
came to the knowledge of Mr.. Lincoln in 1862 that
Mr.. Ode was candidate for reelection to Congress
but that he was about to with certain defeat by
reason of the official influence of the Brooklyn navy
yard, which is in his district, being used against him
and IN favor of his worthy competitor who was n |
well-known Republican the President at once forbade
1t, The consequence was Mr.. 0dels re election and
the so-weused opportunities for further usefulness,
as Democratic sustaner of the war measures of his
administration, and an inrreascd sympathy between
him and the late President, which would no doubt,
have been further manifested had he lived. Being
aware OF these circumstances, while dcsirous as he
well understood to be- Of carrying out the wishes Of
his lamentcd predecessor far as compatible with the
public interests shaped, it betting as well
as consistent, that President johnson should have
embraced the first opportunity to make some such
suitable acknowledgment to Mr. Odell as this appoint
ment-especally, when, has been stated in ac- |
counting for the transaction in part only his own per-
sona knowledge Of the appointees important services
gathered his associate on the Committee on Con- |
duct of the War; in addition to his opportunc speech
i'll favor of the Antislavery Amendment to the Con
sttution and his pro-war votes, would very ma
turaily nave inclined hlm to do so. ORION.