[Homer_J_Simpson]

The Historian Prescott – 1-4
Editorials – 4-5
The Lounger – 5-7
Skating – 8-9
A Frazer River Love Story – 9-11
The Reception at the Tuileries on New-Year’s Day – 12-13
Poudre Rose – 13-18
Winter Night – 18
Our Special Paris Correspondence – 18-19
The Bell-Ringers of Seville – 19-20
The Weekly Farmer – 19-20
The New Court Fashions at Paris – 21
The Mortara Story Outdone – 22
Chess Chronicle – 22-23
Things Wise and Otherwise – 23
Financial and Commercial – 23
Weekly Market Summary – 23
Served Him Right – 24
Scene at Central Park - 25

[MarchonDC09122009]

Judging by that period’s “Journal of Civilization”, we sure have come a long way baby...
Thx for the highbrow historical post!

[BroJoeK]

The editorial on page 4 titled, "The Wolf at the Door", discussing shortfalls in Federal tariff revenues after the 1857 Panic, includes these most interesting and apropos observations:

"New York, as a rule, has two great markets for her imports -- the South and the West.
The one depends on cotton, the other on corn.
Experience teaches that the Western or corn country is, at least twice as valuable a market as the Southern or cotton country.
Of these two sections the latter only can now be relied on as a market for New York imports.
The South is rich, and can afford to buy.
To the extent of the necessities of the Southern country, a demand for foreign merchandise may reasonably be anticipated.
But with regard to the West no such expectation can be entertained.
The West is at present moment largely indebted to the East..."

So historically the West held twice the value to New York merchants as the South, but the 1857 Panic reversed that in early 1859.
We might also notice the obvious -- in this editorial there's no breath of a hint that New Yorkers wanted to go to war against recalcitrant Westerners in order to extract their usual "money flows from Europe".