Year: 1863

AAo Ehc nOmcna OF fhe eHebetitOn-Nows~


paper Prosperity.


When the rebellion broke out our enemies
predicted that it would annihiate the trade of
the North. and some Of the faint hearted among
our contemporaries suicidally anticipated the
crash by putting an end to their own existence.
We are now in the third year OF the war, and
how has the prediction been VERIFIED By a
commercial and manufacturing activity without
parallel, and by a prosperity in the newspaper
business Of which there Is no previous example
During the whole Of this week, with the excep-
ton Of one number, we have been compelled
to publish triple sheets daily, and from the
present appearance of things it ia not likely
that for the next three months we shall be able
to return to the double sheet.


To see journal taking this extension during
a struggle unequalled for its magnitude and
sacrifices is, it must be owned, phenomenal.
And yet it is only in keeping with the other
remarkable facts of the war.


Where, in the history of similar contests, will
il be found that, in proportion to the de-
mands made on the financial resources,
the physical energies and the numbers
Of population, the capacity to meet them has
increased? And yet all this we have seen oc-
cur in our own case. The greater the need the
government has for money the more abundant
ly does it flow into the treasury, the greater
the difficulties our arms encounter the more
the national spirit rises with them and the
more we draw upon the military element in our
population the more rapidly Is the void filled
up by emigration. These phenomena have
exercised a relative influence upon our
personal interests Called upon to contribute
larger amount OF taxation to the support OF
the government than the remainder Of our city
contemporaries put together, and compelled to
incur enormously increased expenses in the
maintenance of large corps of war cores
pondents, our resources appear to multiply in
even greater ratio than the new claims ac-
cumulate. AS the condition Of our advertising
columns will show, our business patronage
this fall is considerably larger than it
has ever before been at the same
season Of the year. Our circulation
during which but little business is done, show
ing not only no falling of, but, on the contrary,
steady increase. If this continues we shall
again have to add to the number of our presses.
To work off an edition double that Of the London
Times, and greater than that of the remainder Of
the Now York press combined, taxes our present
mechanical facilities to the utmost. There is
suoh thing as the circulation Of journal be-
coming inconveniently large, and that is the
point at which ours threatens to arrive.


We congratulate the business community on
the prosperity which these facts indicate. There is
nothing speculative or uncertain about 1t. The
evidence Of it may easily be CLEANED in our
columns. But it is to be found also in tho
circumstance that the buyers from the Middle
aud Western States are arriving here in greater
numbers than usual, and that a few from New
Orleans, Memphis and Nashville have also made
their appearance. Let our arms be blessed
with the same good fortune that has attended
them for several months past, and by spring
next We may expect to have our eyes glad
dened with the presence Of commercial repre-
seutatives from every part Of the reyolted
States.