The New York herald., 1876-01-03
The Herald's Cable Letters.

When Dumas, wishing to illustrate the po-
tentiality of money, wrote Monte Cristo, he
made the escaping prisoner, who had the
secret of the wondrous treasures, cry ex-
ultingly: Tile world is mine" Placing a
subtle mind and an agile body behind
illimtable wealth the novelist creates an
entity which the reader feels nothing
can thwart or prevent from working
its will. Such a creation is the
perfect newspaper of to-day. In a fuller
sense than implied in the sway of king or
prelate the world belongs to it. 1t can make
a new land tributary to it in half an hour.
We need not explain the process it is too
well known. A glance at the HERALD of yes
terday will show how smoothly ii works, how
astonishing its results. Our cable letters
represented the instantaneous subjugation of
o continent At a word all Europe poured
her riches in our lap. No royal potentate
that ever lived could have demanded and
received tribute as we did yester-
day from Paris, London, Rome, Vienna,
Berlin, Athens and st. Petersburg. Yester-
day it was our task to tell how the first day
of the centennial year passed in America;
but what could better set off that intolli-
gence than to tell at the same time how the
gray old world beyond the Atlantic passed
its New Years festival. In contrast with the
plain republican celebration at the White
House we told how the Kaiscrs of Germany,
the King of Italy, the Pope OF Rome, the
Queen Of England and the Marshal President
of the French Republic passed the day.
What court splendors here, what vicarious
receptions there, what formal State visits,
what simple domestic pleasures elsewhere.
Then from the rulers to the people we
turned and gave our citizens, for contrast
with their New Years calls Of Saturday the
manner in which the European peoples made
much or little Of the day. Praying, watch
ing and prophesying or revelling in
London; showering avalanches of <rennes
and compliments upon each other in
Paris hailing the New Year with song
in Berlin; celebrating ST. Sylvestor's
Eve in the kindly warmth Of the family
circle in Vienna Then the merchants and
fnanciers had their word of cheer from
London. and the great London dailies were
shorn of their retrospects Of the year to tell
the thoughtful how those intelligent
judges weighed the good and i'll of the
twelve months that lay dead before them
Our athletic brethren were told the news
from the English University boat clubs
that we hope to see on the waters of the
Schuyllill, contending with our college
boys. The gossip of the theatres was re-
tailed to the world of art; the rather gloomy
political outlook in Europe was unfolded to
our statesmen. Diplomacy unlocked its
Spanish State secrets for us the latest vati-
cination of Dr. Cumming was given to the
believers in signs and portents and handed
over to the sceptics. But, if even the mil
lennium does not come when the Turks are
wiped out of Europe we are sure that the
centennial day of our Independence will
mark an epoch Of very great importance to
mankind. The Doctor places his date any
where this side of September; We place ours
on the Fourth of July. Thus did the
HERALD prove yesterday that all the world
belongs to il, and it to all the world.