New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-10-05
THE HERALD As A NEWSPAPER.

| The consistent inconsistency which marks
the course of The Herald upon the vital ques-
tons of the day, is riyaed only by the I'M
Trustworthy character of its news. Processing
to enjoy the amplest facilities, Boosting Of its
lavish expenditures, and utterly INSCRIPTIONS
as to means and methods, its standard brag is
that it not only gives the earliest and most ae-
curate intelligence, but that no other paper
can be relied upon, and that The Herald ia ALSO
lutely the only real newspaper in this or any
other world The public long since fixed the
value of these boasts by dstrusting The Heraid's
exclusive news, and never predicating any i'm
portant action thereon until the concurrent
testimony of newspapers of honorable character
had Endorsed that very Unacceptable paper.
Any one who has read the special dispatches
of The Herald concerning war matters, will
readily agree with this view Of its news.
| Among its earliest fctiOns ahead of any
" other newspaper" was the announcement, in
gigantic type, OF the glorious success of Gen.
Butler at Big Bethel, the utter annihilation OF
the Rebel troops, and the extinction OF their
power in the Yorktown peninsula. This was
pure invention, for the purpose of Boosting
over respectable papers, and giving color to its
staggering parade of enterprise. Being early in
the contest, when the Union cause seemed to
be invulnerable, and just after The Heraids
miraculous conversion, this effort at lying was
on the Union side.
Just as Congress was about to adjourn,
when reporters wits are most acute and bust
ness most important, the War Tax bill was
passed. 1t was duly paraded in The Herald as
leyying tax upon watches and carriages, with
specific details as to the rates. and also as mpos-
ing an excise upon malt and distilled liquors.
Editorial articles full of big words and imposing
figures set forth Tie Heratd's enterprise, and
were the foundation for the earnings Of The
London Times and kindred prints that do not
know better than TO depend upon the New-York
Humbug. The truth was, there were no taxes
laid on watches, carriages, or liquors, as every
respectable newspaper in the city knew and
said; and The Herald itself, some time after
ward, made one Of its heterogeneous corrections
to that effect.
Early in August The Herald announced, BY
special telegraph, that Baltimore had been Sc
lected as the rendezvous Of the great Union
army of the East. Then the Rebels, as early
as August IL, had abandoned their advance,
and fallen back 10 Fairfax Court House. All
through that month this veracious print set
down almost every coming day for an attack
upon Washington-nOt alone by rumor, but by
the peculiar, positive, and indisputable knowl.
edge Of its special correspondents. 1t did not
matter that, like Father Miller's end Of the
world, the lapsing periods proved it false
prophet; it as regularly procured On extension
Of time, and kept its false paper aaoat, until
the absolute security in which Mcclellan had
placed the Capital could no longer be con.
cealed, when The Herald was ready to trim
With the eeze, and make its solemn affidavit