Editorial Notes and Clippings [pp. 595-600]

EDITORIAL NOTES AND CLIPPINGS.
Take the London daily and weekly
press-take Manchester, Liverpool,
Glasgow, Dublin, Edinburg, and we
venture to say for one advertiser in
such cities as New York, Philadelphia,
Boston, Baltimore, and even Chicago,
(which is the beet advertised place on
the continent,) there are at least three
advertisers in the British cities named.
The Liverpool Post, the Manchester
,Examiner, the Edinburg Scots.nan, the
Manchester Guardian, the Glasgow
Herald, show even a greater difference
4lhan this, taking population into account. New York itself is far behind
St. Louis, Cincinnati, Chicago, Pittsburg, and Buffalo, in this respect."
THE CRISIS IN MEXICO. —A correspondent writing from Mexico under
date of the 16tlh ult., says:-" The
greatest crisis ever before seen by
Mexico is now upon her. Her people,
so long kept in turmoil and strife, have
emerged from the camps and battlefields wholly undone, as it were, and
without means of obtaining a livelilhood in any manner different from that
to which they have from infancy been
reared; those who have keen kept
penned within the walls of the cities
during the struggle just closed, now
fear to return on account of the immense number of robbers infesting the
country in every direction, and therefore the agricultural and mining inter ests of the republic each day suffer
more and more-tile land lies idle and
vacant, thle factories have ceased their
operations, and the mines are not
generally working; industry and com merce are paralyzed; the treasury is
empty, and nothing out of this night of
darkness and hopelessness looks prom ising. Therefore whoever takes the
reins of government has no easy task
to perform to bring order out of this
interminable chaos, to harmonize the
people, institute: reforms, and give security and stability to the republic."
OUR TERRITORIAL AcQuISITIONS.-The
Philadelphia Gazette, in alluding to the
purchase of the Danish West Indies by
the United States, says — "We are
not among the number of those who
begrudge the money spent in our territorial purchases, as the substantial
power we thus acquire has been of immense advantage to us as a nation. A
few years back the peopling of the vast
regions between the Mississippi river
and the Pacific would have seemed an
idle dream. Now it is in rapid process
of accomplishment. We trust never
again to see so foolish a thing done by
our national Senate as that which reduced the Gadsden purchase to half i's
original dimensions, and leaves beyond
our borders inexhaustible mineral
treasures. Partisan animosity did that.
We should be loth to see the Republicans of the present Senate guilty of any
such meanness. Whatever territorial
acquisitions can be made by Secretary
Seward at reasonable rates should be
indorsed, provided the land be in a position to become useful to our future
career, and we believe that to be the
sentiment of a majority of the people,
as was demonstrated by the general
favor with which the purchase of
Alaska was greeted. The magnitude
of our empire is the thing that renders
it most attractive to the swarming mil lions of Europe, who feed the mighty
current of emigration to which we owe
so much of our national greatness. If
England were to cede all British Amer ica to us, it would in our hands con tribute more to swell the trade and
wealth of Great Britain than it ever
could as her own colony."
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