The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-03-28

system, upon the whole, is . bad one, and is ore
Of the evils Of our primary elections and grog-
shop nomination. from which spring sll the
political decentralization Of the day. The best
way to reconstruct the Almshouse government
would be to embody some new plan in the
amended charter, giving the appointment of one
commissioner to the Mayor or to tho three heads
ofthe executive departments Mayor, Comp
troller and Corporation Counsel concentrating
all the duties and all the responsibility Of 60
verniDg this department to some one man COM
petent for the office, and get rid Of the Board of
Ten Governors entirely--a Board which is
composed Of men many Of whom are entirely
unfit for the onerous and important duties en-
trusted to them, either by education or social
position, and some Of whom, we believe, have
been walters in taverns and heretofore filling
other conditions in life not calculated to fit
them for so responsible position as the guar
dams of the poor, the sick and the orphan.
New YORK JOURNALISM New SPECIALITY
Owing to the very active competition and quick
public recognition of the leading journals Of
the metropolis, the business of publishing them
has been reduced to an exact science, and in
some cases it rises to the dignity Of fiue art.
The New York dailies have great offices, filled
with active brains and busy hands, and mon
ster presses which know no such word as rest.
Distinguished foreigners, and remarkable men
from the rural or provincial districts, visit the
great newspaper Office as one Of the lions of
the city, like the Central Park or the Worth
Monument, and are much edited thereby. But
there are some Of the secrets Of these intellec-
tual prison houses which are not unveiled to
vulgar eyes. That wonderful parsonage, the
able editor, is like the Yelled Prophet of Kho-
rsssan, the Sphynx, or the Delphian Oracie-not
intended for public exhibition. He appears
only in his articles, which are sometimes feat
fully and wonderfully written, For our own
part, we profess to be able to see as
far into milestone as most people, and
even to have gimmering occasionally
as to the meaning of some of the writers of
the incomprehensible school; but our con-
temporaries occasionally throw ont a master
piece in the way of rigmarole, the purport
of which even the seventh son of seventh son
could not make out The famous Quadrilateral
essay, with its affecting account of the Adde'S
cent sympathies of the Mincio's elbows, is a
chef d'euure of this school, Venus de Medcis
compared to plaster cast. Another of our
contemporaries published several articles upon
the late Mr.. Choate, headed "Choste,"
"Choate," "Choate," and far more incompre-
hensible than any of the oratorical eccentrici-
ties with which that distinguished advocate was
wont to puzzle simple minded jurors. Since
Mr.. Choate's death, the came pen has been de-
voted to Gushing" Gushing" Gushing"
Mr.. Gushing is a clever man, and has Cenlucius
at his fingers ends, but we are sure cannot
ascertain the meaning of his journalistic OPP
ponent. Yesterday, " the streets" were taken
up and ventilated (not cleaned) in the ultra
incomprehensible style. The streets have been
muddy before, but never In such q condition
as that to which the article we refer to has re-
duced them.
The frequent development of this speci-
atty has interested us not little, and as q
novelty we determined to Investigate as to
its cause. We believed that we had some little
journalistic knowledge, but have to acknow-
ledge ourselves beaten in the speciality alluded
to. The journals referred to have systems of
their own, and agree only in this speciality
the incomprehensible article. That is part of
each Of their systems. They have political
editor, philosophical editor, war editor,
religious editor-in fact, an editor for every
thing-and, in addition, drunken editor, who
tumbles about, breaking his shins between the
big dictionaries, and knocking his head against
the Kings English, and finally goes off into
gentle snooze while pursuing the slippery logi-
cal sequence, which eludes his grasp with
the agility of Mr.. Toodles' hat. The drunken
editor is the latest speciality in journalism, and
is what the lobby would call q big thing"
Let US have more of him.
The LOBBY ALLIANCE AT ALBANY AGAINST THE
CITr OF NEW YoRK.-We understand that an al
lance has been entered into in the Albany
lobby between the parties who got up the
mammoth GriSiron Po;lrood l,iYl urh;oh ,auzad