The New York Herald Newspaper, October 15, 1859, Page 6

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MOZART HALL, 663 Broadway.—Taropon’s Turatee or RTs, NIXON CIRCUS, corner of Thirteenth street and Brougway.—Bavestaian Pauronwaxcrs, &e.—Afernoon and venting. TRIPLE SHEET. Mew York, Saturday, October 15, 1859, —E THE PROGRESS OF JOURNALISM— THE HERALD AND ITS TRIPLE SHEETS. We issue another triple sheet of the Hena.p to- day, which makes the fourth this week. We are compelled to this by the immense pressure of our business, our rapidly extending advertising pa- tronage, and the large amount of news we find it necessary to compress into our columns in order to supply the requirements of the times. Judging from the present aspect of affairs, we should say that during the next business season we shall have to issue a triple sheet every day; very probably with the return of another business season, necessity will oblige us to issue a quadruple sheet two or three times a week; and it may be, when still ancther busy epoch comes about, we will publish a quadruple sheet every day. The Heratp, it may be remarked, is the only journal in this country, or anywhere else except in London, whose business demands the issue of a triple sheet; and London, compared with New York, is as a full grown, well matured man to a usty, growing youth. Ait the present time the Haratp has the largest circulation of any daily paper in the world. Our circulation has for years past been increasing with rapid strides, and as things look now it will soon reach a hundred thou sand a day, while our receipts will amount to a million of dollars a year. All this vast increase ‘we owe almost entirely to New York and its envi- rons, It is true that we receive support from the North and the South, the East and the West, but we care little for, and depead less upon that. Our in- fluence and circulation are based mainly upon this great commercial metropolis, and its immediate sur- roundings, which form a part of itself. Twenty years ago we promised that in our career we would one day reach the position we have now attained; yet we cannot say that even now we have gone beyond the mere infancy of the press. With the boundless resources at command in this coun- try, and which are destined to be developed by the all-conquering energy and industry of ita people, no limit can be placed to the growth and prosperity of the United States; and this city, as the past assures us, must grow and prosper apace with the entire Union. New Yorkis the centre and focus of the commerce and civiliza- tion of the continent; it is likewise, as a natural sequence, the only place where journalism can hope to reach its culminating point. The future of the press in this metropolis, then, is something grand to contemplate; the past career of this jour- nal foreshadows what that future may be with the aid of enterprise and good management. The News. The Africa, from Liverpool on the Ist inst., reached her dock at Jersey City yesterday after- noon, with European news two days later than that brought by the City of Washington. A Paris paper states positively that the United States Minister to China, with the members of his Legation, were in Pekin, having entered the city guarded by all the jealous formalities incident to diplomatic receptions of the Emperor. From the preparations making in England and France, there was littie doubt that the vast empire of the East would soon be effectually “opened.” On the London Stock Exchange the fands were generally steady. Consols closed on the 30th ult. at 954.4 95§ for money and 95f a 953 for the ac- count. The bullionin the Bank of England had increased by $1,748,570 in the week. Cotton was in fair demand in Liverpool on the 30th ult., with a downward tendency, but ne actual fall ia prices took place. Flour and wheat had improved both in demand and price. Sugars re- mained very inactive in London, but coffee was steady. There js not much political news. Napoleon had officially proclaimed his disavowal of any intention of aggrandizing a member of his family with an Italian throne. In the meantime, affairs in Italy were much complicated. Some rumors said that the Archdukes would certainly be restored, but other persons regarded the matter as entirely im- possible. A general European Congress would, it was hoped, settle the matter. Tn this body it would appear that England will support any ex- pression of the popular will given by general suffrage. ;: The democratic agitation in Germany fora re- formin the constitution of the confederation wus dinplessing to, Austria, ana particularly so since it wasesanctionedby the speech of the Grand Duke ‘of Gotha in reply to a deputation from the leaders cf the movement. Spain's war attitude against Morocco bad excited NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1859.-TRIPLE SHEET. some jealousy in Kngiand on account ef the security of Gibraltar, but Spain would have all the sympa- thy of France, Later news from Australia reports trade as very dull in Melbourne. The exports of gold were heavy aud the yield of the mines catiafactory. A steamer from Adelaide was lost off Cape Northum- berland, when eighty-aeven persons perished. The scsew steamship Bavaria; frem New York, reached Southampton on the 30th ultimo, after an exceedingly heavy voyage, a passenger and a sea- man having been washed overboard during 8 gale. We have advices from Hayti dated at Port au Prince 17th, Gonaives 23d, and Cape Haytien 26th ult. The country generally was quiet, but some sixty conspirators against the government had been arrested, among them the person who assas- sinated the President's daughter. Geffrard had issued a proclamation with regard to the conspira- cies. He declares that the conspirators shall be :} Tigorously dealt with. ‘The latest accounts from Minnesota state that there is but little doubt of the election of republican Congressmen and State officers throughout, and a republican majority in both branches of the Legis- latare. If this report prove true the republicans have gained two members of Congress. ‘The revenue cutter Harriet Lane, which was sent in search of the Quaker City, was signalled off Cape Henry (no date given), bound north. It is conjectured that she had seen: the Quaker City, and was on her way to New York. ‘ It is stated that the English cricketers have :chal- lenged the base ball clubs to play a game of ball for $5,000, and that representatives of the various claba, are to meet next Tuesday evening, to take the pro- position into consideration. ‘The tolls on all the canals in this State, from the opening of navigation to the Ist of October in 1847, amounted to $2,667,267. During the same period this year the tolls amount only to $1,140,- 621, which shows a falling off of $1,526,736. A few years more will finish the New York canals. The Fourth District Senatorial Convention met at Tammany Hall last evening, for the purpose of nominating a candidate for Senator at the coming election. There were seven candidates put in no- mination, but three of these were withdrawn by their friends during the course of balloting. Seven times the ballot was essayed, but in no instance was there a sufficient majority returned for any one candidate; and, as there was evidently no proapect of attaining the desired result, the Convention was adjourned till Monday next. Mr. J. R. Briggs was nominated at a convention of the Fourth district, held last night at Tammany Hall, for Supervisor at the forthcoming city elec- tion. John Seilkins died on Thursday afternoon at No. $22 West Forty-third street, from the effects of violence supposed to have been received during a drunken affray on Tuesday evening in the Twenty- second precinct. Wm. Maynard, the supposed guilty party, has been arrested and locked up for examination. In the General Sessions yesterday Dennis Camp- bell was convicted of stealing a dog, the property of A. Underhill, He will be disposed of this morn- ing. This was the indictment which Judge Russell founded his late decision upon, that dogs were the subject of larceny. E. Belcher Sackett, who is charged with perjury, was aurrendered by his bail and was committed to"the City prison. Sterling exchange closed with more firmness yes- terday afternoon, About $800,000 in specie was engaged to go out to-day by the steamer Teutonia, bound for Hamburg, to touch at Southampton. The Police Cemmissioners met yesterday in secret session, as usual. The following policemen were dismissed from the force:—Edward Black, Seventh precinct, for intoxication; J. D. Howell and Elijah J. Caldwell, of the Fourth, for allowing a prisoner to escape; and Benjamin Velusor, of the Fourth precinct, Brooklyn, for intoxication. The following members of the old force were rein- stated:—J.8. Downing and James Leary. of the Ninth ward; J. Murpny, or tne rirst; A. D, Brower, formerly Lieutenant of the Fourteenth; J. 0. Dean, of the Fourth; H. Spence, of the Third; H. McDer- mott, of the Sixth, and T. ©. Platt, of the Seven- teenth precinct. Officers Frederick Anderson, of the Sixth, and Henry M. Hyatt, of the Twenty-first precinct, resigned. The list of poll clerks was not appointed. It will be ready on Monday. ‘The tone of the cotton market yesterday exhibited no change, while the sales embraced about 400 bales, made before the news, at quotations given in another place. After the receipt of the mews no sales were reported, Flour was heayy, especially for common Western and State brands, which closed at 6c. to 10c. per barrel lower, while good to prime extra grades were sustained, and in some cages rather firmer. Wheat was heavy and irregu- Jar, with moderate sales. Corn was held at full prices, while sales were limited, at $1 for Jersey yellow; Western mixed was held at the same figure. Pork lower, and the sales embraced mess at $15 25 a $15 90, thin mess $17 25, and prime $10 624; a $10 75. Sugars were steady, with sales of 1,160 Lhds. Cubs muscovado and 350 do. melado, at prices given elsewhere. Coffee was firmly held, with moderate sales, including Rio at llc. a 11%c., with 150 bbis. and 800 bags Jamatcaatp. t. Freight engagements were moderate and rates firm. Among the shipments were 1,600 bbls. flour by steamer to Liverpool at 25. 1344., 600 boxes cheese by do., 40s., and-flour way also engaged for Glasgow and London at 23. 3d. The News by the Africa—Aspect of Affairs in China, Our advices from Europe by the steamship Africa are two days later than those previously received, and bring the details of the intelli- gence by the overland mail to the 10th of Au- gust from Hong Kong. The report received in St. Petersburg, that Mr. Ward had arrived at Pekin, and was kept there in a state of imprisonment, is confirmed. This, as well as the fact that the first news received in Europe of the celebration of the treaty with China last year was through this medium, proves that the Russians possess a short and reliable means of communication with Pekin. Mr. Ward had been conveyed to Pekin in a large box or room, about sixteen feet long by ten wide, without permission to see the country, and when there was kept strictly within the walls of the house assigned to him. This looks very much like o repetition of Lord Macartney’s fruitless em- bassy to that capital nearly a century ago, and it is not unlikely that it will result in the same way. It will be seen by our extracts from the fereign journals, that in the general opinion of the public men in Europe, China can be opened to intercourse with the civilized world only by gunpowder and iron. Both England and France are actively preparing to send troops and ships to the East, and the organs of Derby and Palmerston are alike loud in calling for active and energetic measures. The tory pa- pers are more savage against China than the administration organs, and see in the recent af- fair at the mouth of the Peiho the indications of agreat approaching struggle between Russia and England in the East. In this contest they claim that England must not permit France to take the lead, and some strong hits are aimed at the Napoleonic utterances about combatting for an idea, The only dissent from these views is on the part of the Manchester schoo! of poli- ticians, which the tory prints sneer at as “the sentimental pleadings of Mr. Milner Gibson.” The course of Chinese diplomacy seems to give warrant to these counsels. In the past fhlury, and in the present, it has always been the same, Ignorant of the principles which | we may possess the only safeguard egainst a guide and the motives which influence Buro-| sectional collision which may rend ths Union pean action and diplomatic intercourse, the | into fragments, 5 Chinese have ever attempted to keep the ‘“bar-] These October elections may contribute to barians”’ out of the Celestial Empire by a re-| make the Seward engineers of the republican sort to petty tricks and subterfuges, which | campsomewhat overbearing in the matter of have defeated the stipulations of treaties with- | the House organization; but a bold and frm out disguising the motive. Thus, the treaty front on the part of the Southern opposi- after the opium war was made in great part a] tion party will not only enable them to dead letter. A similar spirit seems to actuate | decide the House organization, but to divort the other Asiatic Courts, as is evident from our | the republican party in 1860 from a sectional own experience in Japan, Whether the Eng-| disanion conflict to a grand national jubilee, lish and French envoys were right or wrong in | like that of 1840. their attempt to force the entrance to the} political Movementsa—Thurlow Weed Peiho, it seems now certain that a deadly strug- with an Eye to the Eastward, gle has commenced between the Powers of| On the day before yesterday Governor Western Europe and the empire of China. Banks, of Massachusetts, arrived in this city en We do not believe that Russia has taken any | route for home, after delivering a non-political greater part in organizing Chinese resistance to | address at Detroit and paying a flying visit to the English and French.than we have. She has| Chicago. By some curious coincidence, Thur- played her part skilfullyin the troublous years | low Weed was in the city at the same time, and for the Emperor of China,‘and has found her ad- | had an interview with the Massachusetts Gov- vantage in it. When the “red devils” were at-| ernor. The conversation must have been of an tacking him on the side of Canton, the forces of | absorbing nature, as it continued over three the “White Czar” were pressing him on the | hours. north. Finding himself thus between two It requires no special cleverness to see that enemies, the Brother of the Sun and Moon readi-| two men like Governor Banks and Thurlow dy ceded to Russia the territory she claimed | Weed do not talk together for three hours with- on the north; glad, no doubt, by this sacrifice, | out a special motive, Weed is a busy man, to keep Mouravief out of the heart. of: hisem-| So is Banks. Weed has all sorts of Jatrigues pite, and perhaps the possession of his capital.| for all sorte of things constantly on hand. Should the English and French, in the coming | Banks is never idle. One week we hear. of his contest, force their. way to the walls of Pekin, |’ issuing Napoleonic bulletins: to the Massachu- the distracted central portion of the country | setts militia in muster assembled; the next he can be overrun by the Russian Calmuck and | is a thousand miles off, making speeches to the Tartar troops by easy marches. For such a| farmers of Michigan or Illinois. In his own course we are entitled to believe they are pre-} State he seems ubiquitous, and nothing can be pared, from the regularity with which intelli- | done, not even a country school house “dedi- gence from Pekin is received overland in St.} cated,” without the Governor is present. The Petersburg. quantity of clever specch-making he does is Our part in this contest isa plain one. We | something wonderful. want no Asiatic territory. We care nothing Of corse such a man as Banks does not for the Emperor of China, All we need is the | eacape the attention of Weed, and the sudden privilege of commercial exchange at the sea-| devotion of the high priest of the lobby to the ports of our cotton goods and hardware for the | Massachusetts favorite can only be explained tea and silk of the Chinese agriculturist.} by the circumstance that the great uprising For this we require no Minister at Pekin, and} against Weed’s Magnus Apollo, Seward, has particularly not one of the stamp of Mr. Ward, } suggested to the former the propriety of keep- who has so little comprehension of the true} ing one eye upon so strong a man as Banks position of his country and the rights and] is likely to be—as he is now, in point duties of neutrals. of fact, This is quite in accordance with Weed’s usual tactics. He is a political gambler, bound to have something, or every card that may possibly win, and would throw over Seward in a moment provided the chances of victory seemed to favor the claim of the opposition upon another man. It may be well enough to refresh ourselves with thé histone of Massachusetts politics during the last ten years, as thé readiest way to explain the political elevation of Banks and Wilson over obstacles which might well be deemed insurmountable by men less active and persevering than they. Massachusetts has been until lately the most aristocratic of the Northern States. Its aristooracy has been partly one of wealth and partly of letters. On the one side was the wealth in State street, and on the other letters, represented by Harvard College, which had always been a great political power in the commonwealth. Harvard furnished all the ideas for the old whig party; the Lowell corporations and the State street banks found the money. Robert C. Winthrop, the beau ideal of a State street whig, with a few others, managed Massachusetts politics in the quietest and must cyuiortable way. Setting in the shadow of their sure majority, there was no one to molest them or make them afraid. Once Massachusetts cast her electoral vote for a democratic President (Mr. Jefferson); but that was an error, caused, no doubt, by “the sym- pathies of youth,” deeply repented of, and never repeated. State street and the College and the Lowell corporations made the-Gover- nors, and Judges, and Senators, and representa- tives, and members of the Gengxal Court. The democratic party was managed by Hallett, Greene and Company—a political firm which had no desire to extend its business or take in new partners. Each year they put up a ticket for State street to knock down, and it was done in the quietest and most gentlemanly way. There were conservative democrats ready for the federal spoils, and there were equally conser- vative whigs, who always had the State spoils, and hoped for something better. Things were agreeable all around. It was the Golden Age, the Saturnian reign of whiggery, and it was expected to last forever. Why not? There was Mr. Webster, Mr. Everett, Mr. Choate, Mr. Winthrop, Mr. Davis, Mr. Sidney Bartlett, and many others—all brilliant men, all- learned men, ali duly certified, parchmented and rib- boned by Harvard College—no less than Doc- tors of Laws, every man of them. The Com- mon Councilmen quoted Demosthenes in the original Greek, the State House resounded with Virgil and Horace, no false quantities pained the classic ear, and sages, after the best Athenian patent, dispensed the law and the gospel for the Old Commonwealth. But while wandering in these pleasant val- leys and reposing by these green. meadows, the sages forgot the maxims of their illustrious Gre- cian and Roman predecessors, The aphorism, that as times change men change with them, passed out of their minds, Other people, how- ever, remembered it, and there had been grow- ing up in Massachusetts an unorganized oppo- sition, distinct from the democratic party, and known as the free soil party. There was a good deal of young whig and democratic blood in this party, which grew out of o disgust for the close borough system of the cliques that controlled both the old factions, more than from any particular devotion to the black man. Winthrop & Co. and Hallett & Co. ignored the new men at first. Some of their leaders had never been at Harvard or any other college. One was aman named Wilson, a shoemaker of Natick, who was known in State street as a hard working country politician, a good man in the ranks, but as a leader—nonsense! The idea was absurd. Then the whig town of Wal- tham had fallen from grace, and returned, not once, but twice and three times, a young man named Banks, a democrat, to the General Court. Waltham was almost under the drippings of Harvard, but chose as its representative aman who was guilty of two crimes: first, he was very young; and second, he had, never received Tho Late Northern Elections, and Their Significant Results. The late local elections in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and Minnesota, unimpor- tant and indecisive as they may be regarded touching the momentous question of the next Presidency, are pretty conclusive upon three points. At all events, we draw from them the following important conclusions:— First—That the democratic party of the Northern States is in that melancholy condition of a sick man which affords no symptoms of convalescence. Second—That the late great American, or third party of the North, has disappeared and ceased to exist ; and Third—That henceforward, to the close of the Presidential campaign of 1860, there will be only two parties in the North—the repub- lican and the democratic—and that into the one or the other of these two parties all the loose materials of the North, with some trifling ex- ceptions, will be absorbed. Upon the first point—the melancholy prostra- tion of the Northern democracy—very little is noodod ta ayplain tho vauses And character of the disease, It may be traced to that “death of cold” which the party contracted from that des- perate Southern Presidential experiment of Douglas and Pierce in 1854—the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. The instantaneous and overwhelming Northern revolution which fol- lowed that repeal will explain the whole mys- tery. The violent and impracticable move- ments of the Southern pro-slavery democracy in the way of retaliation have only contributed fresh fuel to the fire from that day to this. Under this terrible pressure from both sides, the democratic party in 1856 would have been crushed to atoms but for the saving interpo- sition of Mr. Buchanan. It was a rescue as from the very jaws of destruction, and a lesson which should have taught something of wisdom to the various factions and leaders of the party. But instead of this, they commenced the game of rule or ruin with the new administration from the day it came into power; and so, while on account of these faithless and rebellious leaders and cliques, the democracy of the North have been beaten and trampled under foot, from the lakes of Maine to the lakes of Minne- sota, the democracy of the South have been degraded to a mere sectional faction upon the “one idea” of slavery. Our second consideration—the disappearance of the late great third party of the North—only darkens still more this otherwise sufficiently gloomy prospect to the demoralized democracy. The materials of this late third party, upon the broad, general and practical issues of the fede- ral government, are the natural allies of the republicans. It is only upon Seward’s “irre- pressible conflict” with the South that they have hitherto stood aloof as a separate oppo- sition camp. But now, as the republican party appear to be disposed to repudiate the extreme anti-slavery platform of Seward, and as the American party has died a natural death, the bulk of the loose materials of the latter will be absorbed by the former; for such are the manifestations of these October elections. Thus, with the people of the North divided between two parties in 1860, instead of three, as in 1856,we may say, from the Northern elections of the last and present year, that in every Northern State this side of the Rocky Mountains the democracy will enter into the contest as a demoralized minority party. How they will emerge from the battle is another question; but, from the general drift of the tide of these October elections, the dull- est politician cannot fail to perceive that an op- position President may be elected in 1860 with- out the electoral vote of a solitary Southern State, To this complexion of our political affairs have we been brought by that desperate South- ern electioneering exporiment of Douglas and Pierce in 1854, the Kansas-Nebraska bill, and its appendages of sectional agitation. The democracy of the North are prostrated and broken up by one sectional party, while the democracy of the South are themselves re- duced to a mere sectional camp. Between these two sectional parties there yet remains, however, ® conservative opposition Southern party, and it will prove, we hope, a lucky acci- dent which at this crisis has given this conserv- ative party the balance of power in the new Congress, Here we recognise the nucleus of a great national opposition coalitien; aud in this school and his unaided studies had given bim. The new party waxed strong day by day. Then there were mysterious caucuses between dis- satisfied democrats, chiefly of the important county of Middlesex and the despised free soilers. State street hears of the wicked Wil- son speaking in every town in the State, or- ganizing the scattered forces, and finding that, could the opposition to State street and Har- vard College be combined, the Legislature any more education than what a commnion free | might be placed in the hands of the free aoiters and demosratd. The coalition was effected, and the Legislature, which was-to elect a Sena- tor of the United States in place of Mr. Wob- ster, was found to be in fhe hands of the op- position, Mr. Charles Sumner was chosen, and ata later period Mr. Henry Wilson succeeded Mr. Everett in the Senate. Mr. Banks was twice chosen Speaker of the House of Repre-" sentatives of the State, thrice chosen to Con- gress, and once elevated to the position of Speaker of the House. The coalition did not last long, but its duration was sufficient for its work. It gave the death blow to State atrect and Harvard College. The American party continued the work, and the old whigs have never recovered. They have wandered here and there, seeking for 9 place to lay their heads, which are decidedly dead-heads. They have run lately towards statuary, living on the souvenirs of their former power, canonizing the faces of their dead leaders, wrangling with Wendell Phillips as to the resemblance between Mr. Webster and Demosthenes, and gravely dis- cussing the political character of the Athenian orator ag compared with that of the Marshfield Defender. Opposed to people who go back for their ideas three hundred years before Christ, it is not so astonishing to us, as it undoubtedly was to them, that Banks, Wilson and their coadju- tors initiated and carried out a social and po- litical revolution; and mounted to the places of Webstor and Everett without the prestige, the money, the influence or the learning which were brought to bear for those statesmen. Mr. Banks is thoroughly an original man, with all the firmness and determination of the Puritan character, and with much more liberal views than those of the Seward wing of the op- position. To-day he stands more strongly with the people of New England than Mr. Webster ever did. In his activity, vigor, boldness, libe- rality and originality of thought, Mr. Banks is exactly the antithesis of Mr. Seward; and fail- ing the latter, Mr. Thurlow Weed undoubtedly thinks that the opposition might do much worse than to select the former to bear its banner in the canvass of 1860, Conresrs wira Exgtanp—It was stated, shortly after the arrival of the eleven cricket players from England in this city, that they would play a game of base ball with the picked men of the clubs in New York and its vicinity if they were in- vited or challenged to do so, but that they did not like to give a challenge themselves. It ap- pears, from a telegraphic despatch from Phila- delphia which appeared in yesterday’s Hrraty, that they were challenged in that city, but that they declined. We have been also in- formed thai they have been challenged here also on the part of the base ball clubs, by a gentleman who made them this liberal offer— to match nine base ball players against their eleven, on the ground of the St. George’s Club, charging a dollar for admission, and giving them the entire proceeds of the tickets, and offering to bet them a thousand dollars that the American players would beat them two to one. It was stated that this chal- lenge was algo declined, but with the same intimation given at Philadelphia, that they would play next year. It was also said that they would take a book of instruc- tions and a base ball bat with them for a model, and practice for 9 year, after which they calculate they will be ready to enter upon he contest. We now learn that one of their repre- sentatives has arrived in New York, and is prepared to arrange a base ball match between the cricketers and a picked nine from our base ball clubs. The Eng- lish cricketers will be welcomed here with the most friendly demonstrations, and if they beat their American competitors they will pro- bably receive a grand ovation, be feted at pub- lic dinners, and shown all the lions, and ele- phants, and bulls, and bears, by the Common Council of New York. It will be really worth their while to engage in this friendly trial of skill, They will suddenly find themselves far greater men than they ever were in their native land. Meantime, we are anxious to see whether there really is the great degeneracy in the Anglo-Saxon human race and in horseflesh in this country of which we hear so frequently. Our horses, it seems, have done pretty well of late on the English turf, and one of our pugilists is about to try muscles and pugilistic science with Tom Sayers, the champion of Eng- land. It now remains to have a trial of both muscles and skill in a game of base ball. If the Eleven of All England are not prompt in definitively accepting the invitation, they have received here, they may lose their opportunity, and find, perhaps, before long, that Nine of All America will pay visit to England to play the best Eighteen of that country 4 match of base ball on their own soil. Evantna Jounnatism In New Yorx—Cortous Revoxvrron.—Within the last few years even- ing journalism in this city has undergone very remarkable changes, and the causes which ope- rated these changes are still at work. We can- not now recall the number of evening journals that have been established within the last twenty years, and that have run their career of a few months or a few years, and then quietly died out. They would probably number up a score or more. There are still some four left; but these are all undergoing the same process of natural decay. Of these, one is of no consequence whatever. Its name would not be even recog- nized by our readers. Two of the others, the Commercial Advertiser and Evening Post, have quite a limited circulation—the one from two to three thousand, the other from three to four thousand. The fourth evening paper is the Express. This journal furnishes a curious illustration of the revolution that has been tak- ing place in papers of that sort. The Express ‘was started about twenty years ago as a morn- ing paper, but it has been gradually throwing off that character, and emerging in the charac- ter ofan evening paper. Its morning issue has no perceptible circulation, but its evening editions reach an aggregate circulation of some fifteen thousand. It is running the other evening journals completely into the ground; and the probability is that they will drop off, one by one, leaving the field entirely to the Hxpress, which will be well able to supply the limited demand. This demand is restricted chiefly to passengers by the afternoon cars and steam- boats, It would obviously be good policy for the Brookses to stop their morning issue alto- vether—whbich must be a considerable drag to hem—and confine themselves altogether to their evening Is8t It_is probable that the other evening papers wil) soon go out of existence. aD Wew Work Reform Movement—Southern and Western Views of It. We publiah elsewhere to-day two articles om the new reform agitation in this city, copied from journals in distant and’ widely distinct sections of the Union, as an indication of tho feeling excited everywhere by o movement and a political agitation having national objects and the great good of the whole country at heart. A few gentiemen, men of position and wealth in this city, who have long been accustomed to supply their party with the sinews of war im election times, disgusted with the practices of the rowdies who had obtained the control of the regular organization of Tammany Hall, have taken a stand and declared that the wishes of the respectable portion of the community shall be considered in the nominations for the coming city elections. Having no wish to ob- tain office themselves, they only proposed that the canvass in this city amd State should be conducted on a national basis, and in direct op- position to the brutal doctrines of an irrepres- sible conflict between different sections, as pro- mulgated by William H. Seward at Rochester Yet this single and patriotic wish has found aa echo in every State, and now, from the remote Southern and Western corners of the Union, it comes back to them in a shape which shows that the cord they. have touched is one that comes home to the hearts of the people every- where. All long for the same. unselfish and national action which the New York merchants thought to apply only to their own immediate interests in this State. The extracts we publish to-day prove to them how important will be the influence of their action, though they limit it to our own loeal affairs only. Begun by the meeting of a few gentlemen at the Everett House, who again met in larger numbers at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, for the purpose of taking our city nomi- nations out of the hands of the State prison in- fluence which prevails in Tammany, they have begun to restore to our metropolitan city that influence which belongs to her as the commer- cial heart of the nation, The honest working democracy, combining with the eficient portion of the city authorities, have followed in the same direction, and will no doubt co-operate with the men of wealth, though ranged in 4 different organization, Thass have only to hold on to the sinews of war, and the shoulder-bitters, roughs and rascals that have so long clustered around Tammany will desert it too, for they always leave when the money oes. 2 The necessity for such a movement to purify Tammany has long been evident. Something of the kind was undertaken when Mozart Hall set up ite wigwam; but Mozart Hall harbors the some clase of rapecallions with Tammany. The new reform movement does away with both of these, and scatters the hopes of their ragamuffing to feed on the spoils of the better portion of the community. Let the men of wealth hold on to the sinews of war, and declare firmly and con- stantly that they will not contribute except to support the nomination of good men, upon sound national principles, and their oeurse will awaken an emulation everywhere that will re- dound to the great good of the country. By doing this they can secure the city from the hungry grasp of the Seward and Weed dema- gogues, and help to redeem the State from their thrall. The Union Ferry Company and the Brooklyn Residents. Three or four years ago the Union Ferry Company raised the passenger fares on their boats from one to two cents, on the ground that the then high price of coal ne- cessitated the measure. But few gave credit to this allegation, for it was well known that the company were earning handsome profits under the old arrangement. Having, through their monopoly, the law in their own hands, they compelled the public to submit to the sur- charge. The following winter the price of coal fell to its present low rates, and at this, in con- sequence of the increase of railroad facilities, it has continued ever since. Notwithstanding this reduction of expenses, and the large addi- tion which has yearly been made to the trafile, the company have evinced no disposition to re- turn to the old prices. Atpresentabout 80,000 passengers daily cross the river in their boats, yielding a weekly return of $11,200, without counting the fares for vehicles, which, consider- ing the exorbitant rates charged, must yield an equal sum. Assuming the gross weekly re- ceipts to be $22,400, we have a yoarly revenue of $1,264,800, with which the company can play just as they please; the accommodation required by the public being, as is well known, meted out to suit their own greedy views of profit. Some idea may be formed of the extortionate character of those views from the parsimony which they display in emall matters, Without referring to the principal grievance against them—their insuf- ficient supply of boats—our readers will agree with us that it is impossible, as regards the other details of their management, for any large estab- lishment of the same character to be conducted: with greater meanness. Let us take as a sam- ple the condition of the waiting rooms at the South ferry, which are not only the filthiest, but foulest smelling receptacles into which hu- man beings can be packed. In the arrange- ments connected with them all considerations of delicacy and decency are disregarded, and but few ladies can venture into them even in the coldest weather. It is the same at all the other ferries, with the exception of Wall street, which, being considered the most aristocratic of the whole, is better constructed and ventilated, It is not merely, however, in the shabby condition of their passenger sta- tions, but in all the other branches of their administration, that this pinching, miserly spirit is observable. In the waiting rooms there is but one gas burner, of the small- est size, placed go high, and yielding such an infinitessimal amount of light, that those wish- ing to while away the tedium of delay by read ing find it impossible to do so. It is the sameg on the boats after a certain hour of the evem- ng, the greater part of the lights in the cabins being put out, leaving the passengers to the study of the only thing vistble, the clair ob- scure, At a time when, on all the great line.s of transportation and conveyance, every effort is being made to curtail the inconveniences and increase the comforts of passengers, there facts strike every one with wonder and disgust ‘They create the more surprise from the gene- ral conviction that prevails that the company ts extorting from the public just Ziouble the fares for which they might convey passengers and still make a reasonable profit. That these imposi- Ra Taree cee SIS a at oe Sere were A eee SE eed Sah Sos Bas Se ES SR et Baa