The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-08-30

JOURNALISM OF THE STEws-THE BoHaMAhs
AMMO At HIoH QuARRY.-In the Express of yes-
terday appears scandslous story, In which Al
elevated parsonage, the Captain General ofCuba,
rs made to play . prominent part. The cor
respondent who makes the statement asserts that
ne was an eye witness of the facts. There Is .
want OF enthusiastically in his narrative, how
ever which bellies this assertion, and proves it,
nearsay Character. But we are not left to specu-
iaton for an estimate Of the probabilities of tho
story. Our own correspondent, writing iron
Havana under date Of the 24th, Says
In social condition have very uttI. oy ,.r.+...s
70 communicates there have been no ansitious a.
yes 70 disturb our .uegsh rspose for which reason
Havana, Marianao and Guanbsooa dreextns ia rs.sS
the most eeyssd persenagss through 81 the miro * hss
degrading class q scandals which diaturb domssNs n
Same quantity Of foundation which u 70 be found in stAa
communities equally advanced In civilization. Malice e.
fss q the highest and he ovsies Tue moss remsrEa
stories and ne several versions each WITH which rumsr
has Stocked tho olubs cafes 'Cnange and pazs, more
particularly since the miy Of General Conoha moved ::
he reports involving the highest psronass On tho slaa1
are entirely without foundaaoa and that malice has
bAss supsrstIucturs q calunny upon thsm.
We're the story related by our contemporary
correct in all Its details, Its publication would
still be without an excuse. On moral as we'll
as on political grounds the circulation Of al
such scandals is indefensible. The good taste
and cultivated intelligence Of our times condemn
the qualification Of prurient curiosity through
the medium of the press, and no journal that has
the least pretensions to respectability ventures
out of its way to indulge it. But scandals Of
this sort, coupled with the names Of the chief
magistrates of foreign States, are something
more than an Infringement of conventional
decency-they are violations Of International
good feeling and courtesy. We may take ex-
ceptions to governmental systems, and wage war
against them when they prove obnoxious to our
interests, but we have no right to assail the
private lives of those who administer them.
Was such course to be pursued generally by
American Journalists, it would become impos-
sble for US to keep up any sort Of relations with
other governments. Our representatives. would
be visited with the odium and resentment which
such outrages would justly excite, and Ameri-
cans would soon come to be regarded as social
pariahs and outcssts with whom it would be
dangerous to hold communication.
If, as a general rule, then, these attacks upon
the private lives and habits Of foreign rulers aud
statesmen are impoltc, 1t is obvious that they
are doubly 30 in the case of man placed in
General Concha's position. The powers that he
Yields are 80 despotic, his motives for watohfal-
ness and suspicion of Americans so politically
well founded, and his responsibility 80 great,
that 1t is foolish in the extreme to exacerbate his
prejudices and to provoke against our country
men resident on the island those countless petty
vexations and annoyances which Cuban Gov
ernors 80 well know how to inflict. We do not
say that General Concha would be likely to re-
sort to such pitiful retaliatiens-we merely
point to them as being amongst the possible
consequences of the infamous personalities TO
which the Express has lent its columns.
There is not we believe, in the whole country,
with single exception, another journal besides
the Express that would have consented to become
the medium Of this shameful attack upon the
Captain General Of Cuba. That exception is our
quadrilateral contemporary, which has signalized
Itself as much by its systematic calumnies against
the personal character and habits of our own chief
magistrate as by Its accurate strategical dsscrp-
lions and definitions. It is but right that Gane-
raj Concha should be told that, although it may
number amongst it's ranks few Bohemians, the
American press, as general thing, does not
wage war against the sanctity of domestic Life
or the courtesies that should be observed be-
tween civilized communities.
The NEWS FROM VENEzUELA.-We learn by
way Of Havana that q new revolution has oc-
CURED in Venezuela, deposing General Castro.
whe recently oyerthIeW Monagas, General