The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-10-05

TIE CENTRAL RAILROAD PAfhhss
This wonderful corporation largely engaged IN the
country newspaper business II doss not take much capi
tai however, the editors are bought over oy the local
directors with yearly passes TO say nothing about the
road except 70 chant It's praises puff it's pets and applaud
IL measures In fact II put out OF the st Inc nunao
Post, Syracuse Courier and schenectady Neios neary a
the rural printers Albany TO Buffalo are the ran
roads obedient and humble servants, and VIII oady
any officers and directors, from Corning and kch'
mopd down 70 . Speaker or Paige
The railroad little by giving these passes for 1t Is
not 10 be supposed the rural editors would nave fanas
enough OF their own TO travel over oen but the dead
~ great injury !, toe printers themselves,
pasmuch having free passes they neglect their bust
ness the habit Of spending great deal Of their
city, they become perfect locusts TO the provincial
hotel keepers, whom they puff numerically a. conside.
ration for their board
FHE RURAL EDITORS N NEW YORK.
Once or twice year. by diDt Of hard dunnng, begging
and borrowing the rural editors punish city by
honoring II with visit OF mixed pleasure and business
Their busnees" 10 10 bore metropolitan merchants for
advertisemerts beg pap from the oHceholders, get
little new type 10 mix with their old FONTS and pos
sible. get scaaainted with some leading New York
journalist or course, they are shown any civites,
in their next ssue they WILL In their delicious "eotora
correspon describe your house. yoar dress your
wifo's attire and what your children had for dinner.
Their enjoy Of rather mixed order Failing
smusemept they pay twenty nve cents for seat in the
galleries. stuff themselves blue with ndigesoe 1000 at the
cheap restaurants paonized extensively by Peoria and
Aaapss drain the lower groggeries Of their Thousand
yard eye and retire TO some delectsble retreat In
Crosby Hosard street When they return home they
tell their readers what utter sink Of pollution New
York is and fancy they have the highly refined,
civilized upper strata Of metropolitan life
stated that the why some OF the rural prn-
ters are SO ssvag y abusive Mayor Wood that many
Of them having, in their peregrnatioas here, been
brought 70 the police stations for drunken aess or other
offences, he has oen In the kindness oil his hea let
them cf with small fine reprimand, at which they
are indignant, Of course
THE RURAL PRESS OF THE SOUTH.
It must be supposed, however, that the unhappy
sate Of things have chrcnicled Is confined to the
North alone. Although the Empire state is eminent for
the excessive provincissm aud stupid msmap agemcnt
OF its rural press and while the same statement holds
throughout the entire free States, the
rural press OF the extreme South is quite bad and
would be II II not tor the check imposed
upon 1T by conservative tone OF society, arising
out Of the pecur institution large proportion 9I, o.
who have been driven BY poverty or other Causes from
their native villages All these gentry are, Of course,
The North by black republican and in the South
by fre-eatirg agency. Poor In pocket ana oank-
recognition under the existing state OF things they hops
disorder de and cSy Fresh from New England they
Yancey Yan&y their invecives against Union and
conservatism pander TO the lowest preudices of the To-
cay where they have CHANGED TO aght and prostitute
10 the worst purposes any education they may possess
To ths Glars Of Individuals the HERALD is OF par
tcuarly obnoxious, because II Thoroughly comprehends
their selfish manauvres Very often they forward 70
make themselves heard outside Of their oos;ure
gape. AS Yankee cannot live anywhere without pro-
&C nn - aH Tho %
dozen provincial southernized Yankee editors these fell
lows very often prescribe born and raised in the
SOUTH and owning enough TO buy i've hundred OF them
their insane niger driving doctrines
COUNTRY PAPERS THEIR OWN ENEMIES.
Like com claimants against society your rural prin-
ter bis worst enemy. These email fry journalists
must have a very large opinion OF themselves 10
suppose that the metropolitan press is jeals OF petty
concerns aggregate capital lie not equal to the ex
pend lures class metropolitan paper for single
Day week. Their columns are frequently ned with
frantic appeals delinquent subscribers or abusive no
tces of well known travelling showmen, WHO pre- above
eang both from principle and self interest The TACT rs
the rural printer seldom cheaied-ihe asscverAt'ons Of
Maternity TO the contrary notwithstanding Like their
brethren rural inn keepers the charges OF the coun
try print very often Abom.nably cxtortionate 70
travelling amusement prcprietors, who, while -saiy 70
pay the regular rates for printing. unwllliog TO BIO
specially vctimzed 70 put money ito exhausted ex.
exhibitions that travelling, when imposed upon by
provincial presses to Bend copies Of these exoronate
accounts TO be ventilated in some metropolitan paper
THE MELANCHOLY SIDE OF THE PICTURE.
Occasionally one meets with some thorough scholar
and gepueman-rnen sometimes OF = Gne education
who by 20 ne reverse OF fortune, have been com
peled 10 exc out subsistence the office Of country
Journal such persons really 10 be commiserAed a.
The bockhead pibsher is careful both 10 starve aud
abuse them. Tom Marshall OF KENTUCKY, has well dc.
scribtd these gentlemen linen OF gsnius reduced TO
desperation To such their situations thing
but They bring to some miserable one horse
concern brairs ard industry, and are ccasrless-
iy feliered by the stupidity Of SONS block
head OF publisher, who considers news.
sal se IN and out Worthy Of
better thngs, and with faculty except the sdro
Jore the unhappy class Of literary hacks % whom ala
not the ess brilliant because transtoy, and the
II : time The class Of eentIsmes 70 whom We refer
small In numbers but composed Of the worlds BEST ma
men al and moral prostitution Of their lives bat struggle
with pecessys iron grasp a. Idly a. many fair woman,
with the blue and golden hair OF the Caucasian race
struggled the free North for FORK 70 shield her
from cshonor or starvation Those die OF diaap.
pointmen, ntempcrarce and bitter sense Of degrAda
lion dirty fellows who have crammcd all they know,
and are mere intellectual poll parrots, presume 70 write
their obituaries and kick lions that pros
trate and whom, living they dared not cope with.
WHAT rHE RURAL PRESS HAS TO DO.
evident a, the arst glance, that there quite too
many provincial papers, While some country papers
needed vehicles Of local and advertising, they
have another and higher mission. their BOBBY
ductos had but the sagacy TO nnd out They need 10
be conducted sound business principles, and mas be
independent OF parties and politicians 10 command respect
at home recognition abroad. They want, In nd.
dition, knowedsc Of the principles Of modern
insn acqua with type setting, which Is purely
a mechanical art The success OF some few country pa
pcrs that are mcasurAby SO managed proves tnat tne
no Ne speculstion
Country papers are too much governed by cliaues
Local preiudoes cloud and color their views 81 every
thing. II would be well II they gave more original
matter end devoted more space 70 literature emana
fre from home pens BY training young writer's In this
way, they might be useful auxiliarice In the work OF
American civilization The spurious local items sduls-
tory puts and frantic spleen in which the mass OF country
papers indulge. fatal alike 20 their reputation and
pockets 10 Journalism, than in any other profcs
sion, character Ia money.
Above ell tbings rural contemporaries should steer
clear Of their foes the politicians To pposc any
thing be made out OF country editors ~ the roiA
clans rss reTsa absurd, either Of them n boxed
up together for hour would pick each other pockets
and 10 Trshsm, both would De found empty.
Let the rural printers get over their insane ieaousy Of
metropolitan papers which reality their friends
because they borrow from them ad im and repay
them when tho people Of this country intsectu
ally advanced 70 be unable 70 do Without eador
daily Nes York journalwhich not only perfect mir.
OF the worlds daily history, bet Impartial com.
rtattor current eveos-ihey vii be awake " the
Importance 81 sustaining such inland papers deserve
for their ability, honesty and tact.
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