The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-10-26

coiumns-Just as county, Snowman cheat
you out of your quarter by vCubly describing
strange birds and beasts which exis: only in his
imagination, and not in his menagere; or
as a Peter Funk takes your money
for gold, and gives you a galvanized,
watch, warranted to go when it is carried.
The World people have dabbled with the
Ring until they are beneath hope. Cheated out
of contract jobs, they feel soured towards the
administration. Poor World! India rubber
saved it from destruction short time ago, but
now that it has fallen into the dirty hands of the
political Ring its doom is sealed.
The RAvNGs OF THE TRIBUNE AND Times
In our controversy with the exctable philo-
sophers of the Tribune and the little tricksters
OF the Times, the facts and the evidence being
against them. they have been driven from dia-
lectics to Billingsgate-yea from the breezy
heights of philosophy to the foul atmosphere of
the Five Points. They rave and fume, and
shower their vulgar personal epithets upon the
HERALD and its editor with the volublity of
drunken fishwomen; but in all this they are
only upsetting their pretensions to decency
and making themselves ridiculous. For o
quarter of century and more our enemies
great and small, far and near, have success
sively tried this foolish experiment at our de-
struction or injury, through the medium of I'M
measured and INSCRIPTIONS personal abuse
But all such calumnies, rehashed and enlarged
from time to time by impotent rivals, migrate
full adventarers, thankless beggars and I'M
princlpled politicians, have not only failed to
destroy or to injure the HERALD or its editor
but have through the operations of public
opinion largely contributed to our prosperity
The continuing and steadily increasing pros
perity of the HERALD through a quarter of
century and more, in the midst Of this intelli-
gent community, is of itself an unanswerable
vindication against all our calumniators.
But our enraged philosophers Of the Tribune,
not satisfied with calling hard names and making
ugly faces at u.s. persist in some Of their false
accusations. They will have it that in
April last "the secession flag was draped
over the door of the private room of the editor
| in-chief of the HERALD" and that whole set
| of secession flags were held ready in the HERALD
| office to be given to the breeze" and so on;
the old Munchausen story over again-gam-
| mon, Slievegammon--an invention, from be-
| ginning to end. And then we are told that it
was through the magnanimity Of the Tribune
| Office that our establishment was saved from de-
| struction; for that "the Tribune by a single
! word" could have had the work done. From
| this we are led to infer that there was in this
| city mob Of some Sort in April last, under the
direction Of the Tribune establishment; but this
is our first positive information on the subject
| AS to the visiter to our establishment Gust
after the battle Of Bull run) from the Tribune
office, desiring us to deal tenderly with Major
General Greeley, in view of an excited public
opinion, we have only to repeat that, if Greeley,
with clean face, clean shirt, a clean pair of
boots and an easy conscience, will call over at
the HERALD Office, or at Washingtc. Heights, he
can get the name of the humane gentleman in
question; and that, upon declaration of re-
pentance and good behavior for the future, said
Greeley will be let off, as our generals some
times let off crying rebel prisoner-upon
| giving his parole Of honor.