The New York Herald Newspaper, September 8, 1871, Page 6

8 NEW YORK ! HEKALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBEK 8, 187L—TRIPLE SHEET, NE W YORK HERALD BUOADWAY A AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, FROPRIATOR. all bastiees or news letter aud telegraphic deepatches must be addressed New York Uerarp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- turned. THE DAILY NERALD, published every day tn the wer. Four cents per copy. Annua! subscription Brice $12. THE WEERLY HERALD, every Saturtay, at Five Cewxs per copy. Annual subscription price:— 3OB PRINTING of every description, aiso Stereo- fyptng and Engraving, neatty and promptty exe- «uted at (he lowest rater, Volume (XXXVI AMUSEMENTS 'S THIS EVEN. { FIFTA AVENUS THEATRE, Twenty-fourch strest.— fur New Daawa or Divozon, OMe me WALLACK’S THZATRE. Broadway sad 13h street. Bux Bianv. GLOBE THEATRE, 72s Broadway.--Nraso0 Ecornrar O1TIES, BURLYSgurs, &o. OLYMPIC THEATRE, Broadway.—Tas BAtLer Pax Tomime OF Hurry DuMeTY. 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Pass, Eterm ja Ad vertis ne Essex Slatesmin on the Enective Speech tu His acdquarters—The Caladonian urcer jo Jones’ Woou— Murderous assault on Third Avenie—Yacht pe H News from Wasbingion—Ailse zraphic News, embers; Her Sons and Daughters morate & Meloncholy Anniversay; the Selavic Kopiec re chist fang Story of the Troa Inte 0 — A Sommambuils he Tammany raw; Tarty and imiarontnr Press)'— Amusement Announcements, F—Coulerence «f Kinperors—Germany and Aus- tra—Poilinger's Triumpu—The Latest irom the Vatican—The Situniion tn Fi ve from isnj Pagers Belgiu Hollaud, and Juunatoa Miscelia- Personal lute! ligence— usiness Notices. Opeatng of the Fortieth tday; Interesing Exercises— nee—The Recent Accident to Horse Notes—Tue National Game—Tie Clinton Street Crime: A Nignt Witu Mes. Burns? “Patieuts"—aiice A. Bowis- by's Funerai To-Day—Brooklyn Afaire—Mur- der at sea—The Saw Assault—Two Divorce Cases Against One Woman—Department of Bulldings—Mailgnant McNulty—isali Playing Among the indians, @—Roseazweig in Court: Judge Cardozo Refases to Admit Hin to Bail—Proceedings in the Couris—The Last of the Richmond and Liver- 7001 Line of Packet Ships—Fiuancial and Com. Amor tl ee Marketg— Mar Tiages ar | Deaths. sips ge ttre to Ofice tn the v' Lomcivit service: Prime Uniied States—“Black- meting’—The Fruity Growers—New England Firemen— Shipping {mtelligence—Advertise- 11—Advertisements, tT d— Advertisement! Tar Latest Murper Case in the city is *@hat of an orderly young man stabbed by aa embryo rough only fourteen years old. The victim is in such a critical condition that his death is almost certain, and the ambitious young villuin is as yet uncaught. Application Was Mapz Ygsrerpay, before Sudge Cardozo, at the Court of Oyer and Ter- miner, to admit Dr. Rosenzweig to boil. The prisoner's counsel made a long and able argu- ment, evidently expecting a like opposing rejoinder from the District Attorney. The Judge, however, settled the matter promptly. He said there was 00 necessity for the District Attorney to say anything, and at once denied the application. So far so good. Caxirors1s Has Goxs Rervstican by from three to five thousand majority. The returns at present are too meagre to enable us to analyse the vote and show cause for this up- expected result, There ate a number of side issues at stake, but there are really only two controlling questions in California upon which the election is apt to have hinged—the Heathen Chince and Mrs. Fair, and while the Gret of these was neutralized—both parties beving anfeclingly repudiated the almond- eyed John—the Istter is not of significance enough, except in the opinion of Mrs. Fair herself, to have influenced the election in the Rtate. peat Tae Decision oy tas Court oy APPBAls Gat the Legislature bas no power to extend the terms of local officers is an important one, as it affects the tenure of our Aldermen and Assistant Aldermen. These boards, as at present conatiiuted, it will be remembered, bad their terms extended to 1872 by the Legis- lature of 1870. The Mayor's term was simi- larly extended at the same time, but notwith- standing the extension in bis case he became & candidate for Mayor at the election last year, and was again chosen, 80 tbat hie case docs not come ander the present decision. The consequence of the decision will be that a new election for Aldermen and Assistant Aldermen will Lave to be held in November, The ‘Tammany Srauds=The Party and’ Posh forl Lt cependeut Press. The purty seal-of the news- papers of New York has ontstripped discretion the past. two or three Regard for their political party, as well as for their own honor and reputation, should induce them to take this step. They in the indiscriminate attacks made on the city ; owe it to themselves, as well as to the city, authorities and Tammany. It is apparent to every sensible person or unprejudiced poli- tician that the assaults are made chiefly for political effect, and with a view to promote the business of these newspapers, This fact stands ont so prominently that few in the end will be deceived by their pretended virtaous | indignation at the frands charged to the oity officials and Tammany chiefs. Then there appears to be a well-founded suapicion that personal spite and disappointment, as well as party and businoss motives, have ledsome of the managers of the republican press, at least, to make and reiterate, in the most violent manner, charges against the city authorities, We have only to look at the flaring advertis:ments in large type and in the most conspicuous col- umns of the Zémes and other republican papers, side by side with the large flzures of frauds, which represent that these papers are the best sort of political campaign documents, to understand the object in view. The fuss they are making smells strongly of tho shop, at the same time that it is intended to manu- facture political capital for the radical party. We blame none of our contemporaries for exposing frauds wherever they exist, or for raising the question when there is reason for snspicioa. We ara too well aware of the corruption of all parties when in power, and of the necessity of vigilance on the part of the press, to censure any news- paper for watching the public interests and the conduct of public officials, Indeed, the HeERatp has always been foremost in probing frands and in condemning those guilty of them. Even in the matter of the extravagant expen- diture and frauds connected with the new Court House, as well'as in some of the depart- ments of the city government, the imes and other radical party papers are now only following the Hzrarp in the exposures it made long ago and has continued to condemn elslong, This is well known to the peo) le of New York and of the country gsaer This is our réls in conducting an jadependaat journal. We belong to no party, want noth- ing from any, and are io a position to attack one as well as another whenever guilty of doing wrong. Party papers only assail those opposed to them politically and ccver up the frauds and misdoingas of their owi portisans, Nor have any politicians or political cliqnes any influence over the course of ti2 Heratp, and the inslouations tirown out by the Jimes that they have are simply ridicu- lous. We have not ceased to call for a full investigation of the alleged frauds in the city government; bat as that has been promised, aad is to be made by @ body of our most re- spectable citizens, we are not disposed to damage tho city credit or to unjustly attack individuals. When the facts are known we shall not spare the guilty, If we go back a few years we shall see that the different parties who have had successively the control of the city government have all been tarred with the same brush, All the chiefs, with rare exceptions, have used office toesrich themselves at the expense of the pub- lie. Lonz before Fernando Wood was Mayor the city ofi-als usea the offices and Treasury for purpose; but when he got into 0 he refused to divide tho spoils. He was the Great Mogul, and absorbed all the honovs and profits, Finally he lost his power, because he would not divide the spoils with others, through a combination of the republi- cans with Tammany. Tae republicans, really, restored Tammany to power. There was still the same old story of corruption and increased taxation, After that the Citizens’ Associatioa began to act, and by their action and certain political combinations the city was placed un- der the government of commissions. These proved to be the most expensive luxury of all, and the most inefficient means of governing the city. Again the power of Tammany was restored, after the fight it had with the Young Democracy, and the present city charter. was passed by the Legislature. All throngh thee have beéa the 6ame complaints, generally too well founded, of extravagance and corruption, whether the democrats or the republicans have been in power, or when there has been a sort of political combination. There is liitle difference between one party or the other. Let us not, therefore, be carried away by pariisan clamor merely at the pres- ent time, nor unjustly accuse those who are blameless; but let ns bave the facts, so that we may know whom to condemn. The formidable array of figures with regard to the city expenditure has a damaging look. Our contemporaries, which have paraded them so mach for partisan purposes, have only fol- lowed us, a3 was said before, in making such exposures. If the public money has been appropriated by any of the Tammany mag- nates who control the city, it can hardly have been done by those who are compara- tively poor and who have nothing to show for it. If William M. Tweed and Richard B. Connolly have made enormous fortunes within two or three years the same cannot be sald of Mayor Hall. It is generally understood, we believe, that Mayor Hall is nota rich man, thongh he derives a handsome income from his legitimate business asa lawyer. Had he robbed the city treasury, as Lis enemies allege, there would be something to show for it, for the Mayor is not # spendthrift nor a gambler. Nor is it reasonable to suppose he would knowingly allow others to use the public money to their own advantage without sharing with them. The presumption is, without proof to the contrary, that Mayor Hall hes neither improperly appropriated the money of the city nor been « party to others doing so. The many years he was District Attorney and otherwise before the public of New York as an honorable man should be regarded as evi- dence of bis integrity. But this is not enough. Two heads of important departments rest under grave sus- picions of reckless if not fraudulent expendi- ture of the public moneys placed under their control, The large amount of funds drawn by them from the public treasury seems to warrant the general distrust expressed against them, Under these circumstances we feel bound to call upon Messrs, Connolly and Tweed to resign their positions and to leave their offices open to successors who will be best able, when in actaal possession, to inves- 1 tigate the management of the departments to refuse to continue to discharge a trust when their integrity is questioned. If inno- cent they will only gain more credit, when their innocence ia established, by declining to retain their positions while the cloud of suspi- cion hangs over thom, Should they refuse to resign many people will regard their refusal as an evidence of guilt, and thelr political enemies will use it as @ damaging weapou against the democracy in the approaching elections. Should they (urn a deaf ear to the dictates of honor and of party fidelity, it will then become the duty of Mayor Hall to inquire whether the power of suspen- sion or removal from office, which is vested in him, should not be ex- ercised in their case. We feel confident that the Mayor will perform his duty fearlessly, whatever it may be; and, as the chief guardian of the city treasury, we believe that duty to be to at once remove the opportunity of de- frauding the people from any person who may be suspected of dishonest practices. Nelther the Mayor nor the press has the right to con- demn any man unheard or untried; but sus- pension from office is not condemnation, and is due to the taxpayers whose ixterests aro in Mayor Hall’s hands. A crisis has come in our city affairs and in the history of Tammaty which cannot be bridged over by expedients, and which the influence of the Americus Club and all the black and tan erganizations in the city cannot avert. A reorganization of the political elements is necessary, Will Mayor Hall and the demo- cratic party of this city understand the signs of the times? The Salzburg Conferonce. The two Emperors of Germany, Wilhelm of Prussia, and Francis Joseph of Austria, have met, and though there were, doubtless, differences to be settled between the two monarehs, representing the divine right and absolutism, they have acted toward each other almost as two of the most ordinary individuals in the world. Moeting at Salz- burg on Wednesday, they cordially shook hands, spent a considerable time together in secret conclave, trying, as it seems, which of the two could ba most agree- able, Yesterday, according to our special despatches, all the populace of the town came out in holiday attire to do honor to the chiefs, Bells from the antique steeple of a still older church rang ont their merry peals upon the autuma morning air, martiat music sounded in the streets, banners of war changed, Moephistopheles- like, into emblems of peace, waved in rich profusion from flagstaffs and public buildivgs. The old castle at Salzburg, con- taining, among other trophies of the ‘ron heel” upon the necks of neighbors, the por- traits of Napoleon and Eugénie, was pressed into service; guns boomed from its towers and the Austrian and German standards waved gracefully from its turrets, while within its spacious dining halls was spread a noble, a magnificent banquet, gotten up to regale the appetites of tha sovereigns, their Premiers, courtiers and retains, In the evening the town was ablaze with fireworks, and the lovely hills surround- ing the regal residence were gorgeously illu- minated with every device the brain of the German pyrotechnists could devise, and the two men upon whom the world has the eye of curiosity walked out on the ram- parts and viewed the lovely scenery, the wild, crashing, splurting rockeis and the diversity of colors, This must have been pleasing to at least one of these crowned heads. King Wilhelm in 1866 treated his host to fireworks and illumination of a totally different character over the Schleswig-Hol- stein question, and it must therefore have been specially gratifying to him to find good for evil so singularly and promptly returned, But while the two Kings, like estranged lovers, were making matters up we are in- formed in a later despatch that Bismarck and Beust were closeted for an hour together, and hence, while their royal masters were appa- rently determined on peace, who can say that the two most astute minds in Europe were not casting @ horoscope for the future such as all the monarchs on that continent will not be able to gainsay? A Remarkable Celebration in Poland. If any evidence were needed to verify the assertion that the Poles are a very queer people, the letter of the Hzratp's special cor- respondent at Lemberg would be ample testi- mony on that point. A more remarkable cen- tenary is not recorded in the annals of history, nor is it often that we hear of an occasion which reveals so many and such excellent peculiarities, Though their country is divided between the three great empires of Central Europe the people of Poland bave not for- gotten the national spirit which once ani- mated them. Though a century has rolled away since the dismemberment of the king- dom, the desire for nationality and freedom has not lost in intensity. The Poles are as much Poles to-day as when Freder'ck the Grent concerted the international robbery with the two women who were his confede- rates, Their hatred of their conquerors has not decreased, and the patriotism of Kosciasko still burns in their bosoms. Other nations have their centenaries of joy, but Poland remembers its centeuary of sorrow, and shows to the world avew that every dark cloud has a silver lining. The greeting of the delogations from every part of Poland on their arrival at Lemberg, the ancient capital of the country, was some- thing s0 sincere and unaffected that it is little short of marvellous. Rank was forgotten, and all were welcomed by all simply os countrymen. It was such a complete out- burst of joy, such a thorough manifestation of hospitality as seldom happens among any people, But it is not so wonderful when we recall the history of Poland; it then appears, as our correspondent observes, the affection and love of @ hundred years’ companionship in slavery and suffering. But more remarkable than even the joy of this people was the solemn procession which went out of Lemberg to the mound near the city, where is being raised the kopieo of national humiliation, Never was « more Gt- ting time than now ‘for ® revival of te ola Slavic custom of mound raising, and of the thousands who marched out to the kopiec of Lemberg on this féte day, of the other thousands who have assisted or who will assist io the pious work by even a handful of dirt, nearly all will fiod their patriotism burn brighter on this account. Who sball say that this homely memorial may hot become the monument of Polish freedom ? | warope is unsettled and Poland may again become a nation by the operations of the same ambition which blotted out a kingdom from the map of Europe. In every respect this celebration was a striking one, and it may work out great re- sults, Itis hardly less significant than the con- ferences of the Emperors at Gastein and Salzburg. A people determined to be free cannot always be held in slavery, and Poland will some day avenge the crime of her con- querors, While we cannot forget the many failures of the century we must regard this as astep toward success. It is the evidence that another Koscinsko may bave better fortune and that the day of deliverance is not far distant, Bohemian Slandere—The City Printing and the City Press. An English magasine, in a recent article on the press of this country, says ‘‘a great deal has been written in coademnation of the per- sonalities of the American preas, but the cen- sure does not attach to the better class of American journals, The truth is, there are too many newspapers in America, and the ma- jority of them are in neody circumstances and are compelled to struggle on as best they may. The plan they pursue is ingenious though not commendable, Uader the thin veil of public spirit. they search out and denounce real or alleged abuses in public offices and other di- rections only for the purpose of extorting money and patronage from the persons whose interests are thus assailed. Tho party for the moment in power can always reckon upon being branded as profligate and carrupt by the organs of the party out of power, unless tucy are ready to propitiate their political opponents by allowing them to share in the spoils which, according to the American code of political morality, belong to the victors. But there are American journals, such as the HERALD, in New York, whose business success places them above the reach of political or pecuoiary influence, and it is unfair to class them with the irresponsible publications—unfortunately too numerous on the other side of the Atlantic—which seek to eke oat an unhealth- ful existence by a system of personal villifica- tion and ‘blackmail.’” It is needless to com- ment upon these remarks. Their trathfulness will be at once recognised and acknowledged by every American reader, As the leading journal of the United States the Hegatp has beon for years the special mark for the envious shafts of the Bohemians of the country. When a President, a Gover- nor or any other prominent official is fortunate enough to receive its support, his success is sure to be attributed to the influence of the Heeaxp, and fabulous sums are annonnced as the exact amount paid to the paper as a con- sideration for its services, “Irresponsible publications” cannot conceive the idea of a journal entirely independent of all parties and Influences, conducted solely with a view t> the public interests and free from political jobbery. If they support a party or a public officer it is be- cause they hope to reczive payment in the shape of advertising, sinecures or direct bribes, and they cannot believe that journal- ism can have any higher object in view. Let friend or enemy pay them their price, and they are ready to beslaver him with praise. Let friend or enemy withhold from them their full share of the spoils, and they caanot too libe- rally cover him with their venom. Their jealousy is naturally excited by legitimate success in journalism, and they are always anxious to attribute to their more prosperous neighbors the same corrupt motives for action which influence themselves, The New York Zimes, a paper of English cockney proclivities, which might as well bo published in some wild district in Wales for any interest it possesses in the eyes of Ameri- cans, is a type of this needy Bohemian journal- ism, Although the newspaper genius of its original editor, the late Henry J. Reymond, bid fair at one time to make it a real success as a journal, it has borde from its birth the stamp of the political guerilla, and it bas grown up and will die in the faith of the news- paper “‘striker.” It was founded as a republican organ; not to help the great principles of re- publicanism, but to extort power, patronage and pap for its owners by means of a factional war within its own — party. Since it first saw the light it has been ready to join hands with politictans of any stamp who possessed the ability and the will to forward its selfish ends, and it has probably during its career received more pecuniary emolument from demoeratic than from republican sources. It has been by turns in the pry of all parties and of ‘all cliques, and ff found to-day denouncing the corruptions of Tammany it is simply because Tammany has failed to rate its friendship at the smount at which it values itself, Indeed, the Times unwittingly lets out the secret of its present hostility to the men it has time and again helped to power by treachery to its own party. It complains that it doce not get a large enough share of the city patronage, and io an outburst of envious rage asserts that the Heaatp receives eighty thousand dollars a year for city and county advertising. This statement has been copied into Western newspapers and ¢irculated with jealous industry throughout the country. Although the Hxnatp seldom finds {t necessary to notice these Bohemian slanders, we deem it proper to brand this Times story as 4 wilfal falsehood ; and {n order to set the misrepresentation finally at rest we subjoia amounts paid to each New York paper for city and county advertis- ing for tho last two years and a half, from January, 1869 to July, 1871. We find the whole amount received from the city and county during that time to have reaoved the larg2 sum of $2,584,786, of which tho New York Heraup has received only the total sum of $31,887, or about $12,000 o year, Within the ame time seventeen or eightecn New York daily and weekly papers of ingig- nificant circulation, Including the New York Times itself, received enoh a targor amount | The New Werk Herida and Our Jonruals than that received by the Herat, The following are the sums pald by, New York city and county for advertising for two years and o half, from January, 1869, to July, 1871, to the following city nowspa- pers:— Transcript (a political jobbing paper for only private circulation) News (circulgtion 40,000)... Star (circulation 9,000)... Democrat (circulation 5,000). Meroury (weekly paper, plecislation of whole week 50,000). Express (circulation 8,600 World (circulation 26,000).. Journal (circulation nominal Commercial Advertiser (circulation Atlas (weekly circulation nominal. Citizen (circulation insignificant)...... Metropolitan Record (circulation DOMINAL).....0.c0eescecrecsseenressserseens Irish American (circulation unknown) 69,177 Real Estate Record (circulation DOMINA]).....0seererecererseerarsesseersees 44,688 Sun (ciroulation large pater on to its own account, 43,326 Leader (weekly) 41,001 Times (circulation 25,000). 83,400 Herald (circulation over 100,000 daily, or combined circulation of over 700,000 weekly)... sves 81,887 It will thus bs seen that the Hzrarp has received less city patronage than any of the above papers, and that instead of eighty thousand dollars a year—aa falsely stated by the Times—its bills for advertising for the city and county of New York have been less than those of the Zimes, and but little over twelve thousand dollarsa year. At the same time, if the city authorities performed their duties solely in the interest of the citizens, and not of politicians and rings, they would advertise all matters of public concern in the HzRatp alone, which reaches all classes of poople, and has a circulation larger than any half dogan of the “striking” journals which live upon political jobbery and- official pickings and atealings. But we neither seek cr desire such pa‘ronage. Our colamns are filled every day with busi- ness advertisements, which are paid for over | the counter at the same rates charged by us to the city; for, unlike the Zimes and other jour- nals, we adopt uniform prices, and do not in- crease them because the public treasury is the psymaster. On the other hand, onr bills against the city remain unpaid for months, and are seldom collected without deductions and. loss. We have been induced to set at rest this im- pertinent falsehood of the Zimes mainly for the sake of showing our credulous country contemporaries who have swallowed tho canard that a great and powerful journal like the Hzgatp depends only upon legitimate business for success, and neither desires nor receives the unclean political drippings in which the soiled hands of such Bohemian concerns as the Zimes are constantly dabbling and grabbing. President Thicrs and the Assembly. The municipality of Versailles yesterday tendered their expressions of regard to the veteran politician of France, congratulating him upon bis good fortune in receiving an ex- tension of his term of office. In replying to these sentiments President Thiers said “he was not unconscious of the honor conferred upon him, and he was proud to remain at the head of the republic; that if they would only hold fast to the principles of republicanism France would not only specdily recuperate herself, but there was in store for hera hopeful and glorious future, It must be a continual struggle for the old man to stand up and do _ battle with the strong opposition forces contained in the Assembly. An animated discussion arose on a bill with reference to the removal of the Assembly back again to Paris, but the bill was debated with all the excitement known only to French legislative bodies, and it was opposed on the ground that Paria, the glory of the civilized world, was no longer the capital of France. Aldermen and Arithmetio-The City Ac- counts. There isan old saying that if figures will not Hie it is easy enough to lie with figures; and we are afraid that the joint committee of Aldermen and citizens who are about to en- gage in an eximination of the intricate ac-' counts of our city officials for the past three years will find some difficulty in unravelling the truth from the tangled web of numerals that will be placed before them. It is possi- ble that Alderman Jerome may be as saga- cious at bookkeeping as he is known. to be at bookmaking, and that his associates may be as good at figuring on paper as they are at elections; but they must bear in mind that a thorough knowledge of subtraction, ag wellas of addition, may be requisite to a proper elucidation of onr city ledgers. Pro- bably Messrs. Claflin, Phelps, Spofford and others of the Citizens’ Committee may be willing to return to the occupation of book- keeping by single and double entry, which for many years they have confided to the hands of their clerks; but do they feel quite compe- tent to encounter the modern intricacies of quadruple entry and no entries at all? At all events, it would be interesting to know about what month in 1875 the joint committee will be likely to finish its laburs, provided always that the examination ig to be a thorough one, and about what amount will bo expended in pens, ink and paper. Tox Inrerxationat Diryiounry that has been looming up for so longa time between the United States and Mexico now threatens to come to # crisis, The depredations of piratical Mexicans on American shipping in the Gulf has induced our authorities to direct the American Minister in Mexico City to de- mand immediate reparation and the sur- render of the guilty parties. A man-of-war will probably be at once ordered to the scone of the outrages, Tax Crrizens’ Commirren ov SeVENTY havo made o groat mistake in exclading re- porters from its meetings, Engaged as it is in investigating what is claimed to bo secret frauds, that committees, more than any other conclave that has recently assembled in this city, should consent to « steady stream of light upon {ts own proceedings, fetlo Country Couslas. What would, what could, our country cousing of the newspaper press do without the Nuw, York Herato? It Isto them a mine of in- exhauslible mystery, curiosity, amazqment and conjecture.. They find it y problem as perplexing as that of perpetual ootion or the squaring of the circle. Iu looking over our, newspaper exchanges we perceive that “the mysterions influence of the Heap” as an organ of public opinion, regardless of parties or party leaders, in Churcli or State, and its universal popularity, are: “fixed facts” as puz- aling to our country contemporaries to-day as they were thirty years ago, while every page of every copy of this journal has supplied aad atill furnishes the needful explanation. But this evidence, complete in itself, dees not satisfy our provincial contemporaries, and, de- termined to know all the ins and outs of this extraordinary establishment, they continue to push their investigations with the seal of » band of savans creeping about in the intri. cacies of an Egyptian pyramid. In one of bur provincial exchanges lying bes fore us, in the off-hand fashion of an expert who knows all about it, we bave this ‘short, sharp” and incisive statemont :—*‘This ia the way the New Yor Heratp is now managed. The elder Bennett leaves it to young Jim, young Jim leaves it to subordinates and subor- dinates let the old thing work out its own sal- vation,” Thereis nothing new in this; for we have heard the opinion frequently expressed,/ from an iuspection of the Heratp establish- ment, that it ‘‘is a machine s0 complete andi systematic in its organization that it seoms to! run itself.” Again, a New York correspond~ ent of a Cincinnati paper, writing on “Sours nalism in New York,” which is the Cheshire; cheese of our Western Bohemians visitin; this city, says of the Hrrarp that ‘its veteram proprietor and founder, James Gordon Ban, nett, is still its animating spirit ;” that he “‘aow: writes very little for it, seldom goes to the office, but still directs its editorial manages: ment,” and so on. Another Now Yorit corres. spondent of Western journal says that the Herarp “is now in the exclusive manage-, ment of the son;” thut “‘its editorial tone is. pational and choering;” that ‘4t ts purged of old persoaalities and eschews the fraternal” bickeringa which used to mark me the New York dailies.” "4 We have here a conflict of oteing calou- lated to embarrass the searcher after the truth in reference to the directing genius of the Heratp, but perhaps the New York core respondent of a Chicago journal settles the question in lodging the great moral power. the HeRAxp and its success as a newspapor in; its ten-cylinder presses, This philosopher, , after an inspection of our establishment fronx top to bottom, says of thoss ten-cylinder, presses :—‘‘When J computed the power of: every cylinder upon public opinion ; the glow and wonderful growth of a mercantile euter-* prise like this, so deeply rooted in tha interzats" of the first city in the world that no associa- tion of moneys supplants it, nothing, whether better or more daring, makes it afraid; whea I feel that this isa great part of America,”, and finally, ‘‘when I stagger before the vision of every one of these fifiy odd cylinders revolv- ing at once, carrying their ubiquitous messages’ to the credulous, the acvepting, the voting multitude, a deeper sense of reverence creeps over me than Mr. Parton’s essays can dispel.” This is a hastily drawn sketch of what the, country press is thinking and saying about the Heratp, It shows that the Bobemians wha emasculate this nonsense for the papers out- side of New York do not understand us, and that the editors and managing editors of coun- try newspapers fail to comprehend the Bo. hemians whom they employ. We are anxious to enlighten all who are anxiously looking for light, and’ we, therefore, take the (rouble te let them know how a great newspaper is made. The Hxeratp is, for all. «Practical purposes, @. great corporation. It employs from five te six bundred men. The mechanical depart- ment is filled with skilful and intelligent work- men, In the intellectual department it has a force of from thirty to forty city reporters and an editorial staf of twelve to fifteen men, besides its correspondents in every part of the world and its ‘many paid con- tributors in all parts of the country. Nothing that is necessary to the instruc. tion and enlightenment of the public ie thrown away, and we pay large sums of money daily for whatever is new or valuable or inter- estiag. But large as is the list of philosophers, statesmen and thinkers-who take pleasure ia contributing to this journal, the Herirp depends mostly on its own trained and ample corps. Its force is composed aimoet entirely of American citizens, who vote as they please once at each election. Of these, probably, ‘two- thirds were born in this country, while the others are among the best of the intelleotual Europeans who have made America their home. We havea versatility of talent that is surprising, and all work together in harmony. No better illustration of the Hzratp'’s man- agement can be adduced than that of a well filled, well drilled: and well officered regi- ment, To @ certain extent the operations of the command. devolve upon the colonel; but, after all, its effectiveness depends upom the evolutions of the whole. Every map not only knows his place and keeps it, bat also fills it like « trne soldier, The seme things are true of the Hrratp. If ous country cousins were more intent on their duties as journalists all thie would be plain to them. It matters not who commands ot who obeys ' so long as the great: end of making ® great newspaper Is attained... This is the nin. of the Hewatp and of all those who aasist in making ita great newspapers: and though every member of our force. is proud of his achievements, and cherishes hie successes ag soldier cherishes the standards captured by his own hand from the enemy, not one of them cares to be talked about in the tittle-tattle of weak and gosslpping journals, We alm at impersonal journalism, and when country editors learn the lesson of courtesy implied in It they will have advance® to a knowledge of the famous Eleven Commandment—'Mind your own business," Having, through a long war, vanquished its enemies and conquered ao peaco, tha New Yore& Henratp can afford to aay, and it does say, to our contemporaries of the press, as General Grant, tried in the furnace of war, saysto the American people, “Lot us hare peace,”