The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-02-07

Success 81 ths Weekly Hssala-serika.s
sIle" NJ Last.
The increase in the circulation Of the
WEEKLY HEzAID has lately been almost withn,t
parallel 1t was thought when the Telegraph
was introduced and brought into general ass
by the daily newspapers, that the weekly news
papers would be seriously affected, and, per-
haps driven entirely out of circulation. II wss
thought that, from the immense circulation and
influence of the HERALD oil over the world,
people would hardly believe that WEEKLY
HERALD could contain anything in the shape Of
news more than the daily supplied 1t y
true we have made the WEEKLY more than
a mere newspaper We enrich its columns
with literature and art with music and
the drama, with agriculture and the useful
sciences. Being an independent paper, n
did not advance by means Of political clubs
or party machinery. which give to the partisaa
journals a spasmodic circulation; very large
during Presidential and other exciting political
campaigns, and falling to a miserable circula-
ton when the excitement is over. These jour
mails are mere campaign documents, and they
enjoy only q similar prosperity. We haze
done our best TO make the increase Of the
WEEKLY HERAID steady and substantial, but
the increase was slow.
About the time Of the last Presidential e1ec-
ton, and after it, the Albany Regency and the
World, with their affiliated organs, commenced
: series of terrible attacks on us for some
reason or other, we do not know what; whethsr
it was something concerning General McC lellan,
or some private griefs of their own. twas .
revival Of the old wal. upon us of twenty or
twenty-five years ago, which we have lived dowH
and outlived, and was conducted in the same
spirit and in the same language. The Word
and the Regency were vituperative, malicious,
frantic, but not original the style
was old and stale. They got all the
small papers in the country which
affiliate with the Regency to pitch into Us,
and people began at last to wonder what it was
all about, and they eagerly sought after tho
HERALD to see. All Of sudden we found tho
subscription to the WEEKLY going up immense
ly. We could not account for it at first, be-
cause of its suddenness but now we compre-
bend that we owe it to the attacks of the World
and the Albany Regency. We have, therefore,
struck sile" at last The probability is that
the WEEKLY HERALD will soon have the largest
circulation in the world, in return for which we
confess deep debt Of gratitude to the World
and the Albany Regency, which we will never
forget.
The people have learned that they might
expect good Independent WEEKLY, in which
they could find news, not mere partisanshiA
and hence it is now fast becoming the paper
Of the people. Nor are its columns, as we said,
confined entirely to the news Of the day and
editorial comment thereupon, but tits literary
and agricultural journal also, both Of these de-
partments receiving the utmost care to render
them amusing, instructive and useful to eur
country readers. 4r
It is the cheapest paper published La tho
world. According to our present rates Of
subscription-two dollars o year for single
copy, and greatly reduced price to clubs Of
three, five or ten, at the respective rates Of i've.
eight and fifteen dollars q year-there Is No
comparison between it and any other weekly
journal published on the score Of quality and
cheapness. While al the other ,oeelclies havs adj
danced their rates from t,oentyiue to tsoo hssdrsd
per cent, the price Of The WEEKLY HERALD rsmoins
unchanged. It is printed on elegant paper, manu-
featured expressly for It, and on clear type,
which can be distinctly read from the first page
to the last. Every topic Of the day, affecting tho
interests Of every class, is treated fully, In .
fair and impartial spirit
The Spring Campafgn-Peace Only
Through War.
The negotiations, If they are entitled to tho
name, recently carried on in Hampton Roads
have suddenly dropped down from the high
position they occupied In public thought Peace
once more becomes an insubstantial pageant
and fades out Of view, leaving on mems mem
tai retine 80 faint an impression that the very
finest Of all fine lenses cannot photograph its
features or even indicate their outline Some
Of the correspondents still seem to insist that
this conference has not been altogether vain,
and adhere 70 the opinion that It has "opened
the door" to . practical arrangement Of the
national troubles. But on the other hand, the
Secretary Of State declares that IL was total
failure; and in the mist and mystery Of the
whole business we see oil the time the offer Of
peace not taken, the very erect figure of Old
Abe holding the "door open," as he has held II
throughout the war, and inviting the enemy 10
enter on the simplest and easiest of all possible
tcyms-slay down your arms.n Those terms have
always been accessible, and the fact that the
enemy still wants TO negotiate b the evidence
that he wants better terms; and since the coun-
try cannot give better terms, that is the evil
dence that negotiation" does not mean peace.
We state, therefore, that the conference
vaa n failuro and we adhere To the opinion