Year: 1862

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republic of Mexico" But it seaiiy u WIG as'


blow against the independence OF Mexico -
first step towards her complete subjugas..on. Ane
Spanish armies will advance upon the ci,S !"
Mexico and take military possession of the whole
country. 1t does not appear that any French
or English troops were present during the land
doubt that Spain is backed by England and
France, and that they will sustain her with their
arms, if necessary, though, for obvi-
GUS reasons, they wish to have it
appear that the expedition is purely Spanish.
The real design of the whole proceeding is a
death blow to the Monroe doctrine, and the
opportunity Of our domestic troubles is taken
advantage of to initiate schemes of European en-
croachment upon the American continent, which
it is fondly hoped will at last be consummated
by the partition of the republic among the royal
robbers after the model of Poland. All that
our government can do at present is to protest
against the aggression. But the day will come
when that protest will be made good with
something sterner than mere words.


WHOLESALE ABOLITION JoBDING--GREELEY's
ENDORSEMENT OF T.-A few days ago the chief
organ Of abolition and of Fremont in this city
had long editorial article, in which 1t de-
nounced, in the most unmeasured terms, the


official corruption connected with the army,
and recommended the shooting Of the contrac-
tors and the hanging of the officials so high that
they might be exhibited as a spectacle and an
example to the nation. In reply to this virtu-
GUS indignation against army corruption in
general, but against no individual in particular,
we called the attention of our cotemporary to
the report of the Van Wyck Committee and
made some extensive extracts from it, giving
names, dates and facts, as sworn to in the testi-
mony. We proved that the most wholesale
fragrant and barefaced jobs were those for
which the chieftain of the abolition faction.
General Fremont, was directly, officially and
personally responsible. We called upon the
Tribune to publish the report, in order that its
leaders might see who wore the actors in the
drama. Instead Of publishing it, the Tribune
comes out in long article defending Fremont
and endorsing his acts in general terms, with
out replying to the specific charges which are
on official record, and from beginning to end Of
this article there is no mention whatever OF the
report of the Investigating Committee OF Con-
gress. 1t is as completely ignored as if it did
not exist. Will the Joseph Surface Of Spruce
street spread the report before his readers, or
will he continue to suppress it and at the same
time play the part of the hypocrite by publish
ing vague, aimless denunciation against fraud
and swindlng? We venture to predict that the
Tribune will never dare to show its readers the
Van Wyck report.


A Day WITHOUT NEwsPAPER.-What an
outcry is continually heard about lying news
Every one reads them, and every one
abuses them. The public treats them as GER
tain pagans did their gods, alternating between
worship, and infction of the rod Look, how
ever, at the effect upon the community of
single twenty-four hours, without the informa-
ton which the daily press conveys. On the I'd
Of January no paper was issued. and during
the day that interviewed between the LIST and the
Sd the most mischicvous and absurd reports
were promulgated with no authority to con-
tradict them General Mcclellan was positively
asserted to be dead, and the news ran like wild
fire from grog shop to grog shop that General
Buell. had been routed in great battle in Ken
lucky. The few who disbelieved had no power
of reflting these pernicious stories. Had there
been even one of the two hundred and
thirty editions of the Express, they might
have been put a stop to. AS it was they con-
tinued until extras were cried through the
streets yesterday morning, and created, in GER
tain circles, quite panic. So, after all the
railing and abuse with which newspapers are
assailed, they are very useful things indeed
They may occasionally be deceived themselves,
or fall into errors, but then they are the very


first to correct them, and their absence would
leave the community at the mercy Of every ly-


ing quidnunc. The loss of them for single
day was sufficient, on Wednesday, to involve
the public in total darkness.


ANOTHER WoRD About NEWSPAPER CmcULA-
rroN.--A correspondent of the Jo,unca Of Com
merce, from Washington, tells the readers of
that paper, that, having felt interested in the
controversy respecting the circulation of New
York journals, be had taken the trouble to in
quirc Of the newspaper agent at the national
capital, what the relative proportion was of
papers of this city distributed there. He found
he says, that there were four Of the HERALD sold
for one of the Tribune or Times, and that the


World had no circulation at all. The affiliations
between the latter paper and Treasury nibbers,
make up, we presume, for anything it may suf
fer from the insignificant fact Of its having no
readers. Every one who visits Washington
knows that there is . perfect scramble every
night for the HERALD, while numbers Of the
other dailies of this city are sought for at CON-
paratively rare intervals. And so il is every
where else.