The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-09-30


have become Bohemians. This b Q natural
transition. Indeed, the points Of resemblance
between the two fraternities are 90 obvious
that we might almost take II for granted that
he who IL hummer In war will be Bohemian
in peace. They have the same love for whis-
key, and the same Indifference % to how they
shall get it. They are alike in the eagerness
with which they pursue al the baser pleasures,
and in their disregard of all the ordinary obi
cations and decencies Of civilized life. These
camp followers, thus taking naturally to Bohe-
mianism, have many Of them found congenial
resting places on the Bohemian press. Here
they have lately been cutting remarkable ca
pers Drunken bummers Keeling and stealing
their way through Southern cities. telling their
stories opulent with les or riding at breakneck
pace on pack mule, mounted among the jung
ling pans and kettles, are the only things in
real life that resemble the figure these Bohemi-
ans present in print, and it is difficult to
say whether in their many antics they have ex-
cited more Of derision or disgust.
They have found their principal fields Of OPP
Grafton in the columns Of the Tribune, World
and Times. Their peculiar influence on jour
nalism may be seen in the manner in which
those papers have lately laid the current news
before their readers, or in the wild inventions
that they have given in the guise Of news.
When the American Museum burned down the
Bohemian Journalists gave rare accounts Of the
event. The only thing they did not describe
was the fire. The only thing that could not be
found in their accounts was that state
ment of the facts of the case that every
person who bought their papers had
a right to expect should be there. Instead of a
description of the confagration they had the
most crippled and crazy fictions. They had
stories of events that they pretended had taken
place at the HERALD Office, absurdly false of
course, and they had equally absurd stories Of
what happened elsewhere A New Yorker in
another city who should have read those Bo-
hemian accounts to get any real information of
what had in fact happened would have read in
vain.
They essayed also description of the German
Saengerfest at Jones' Wood. Here the Bohe-
milan was more than ever himself He found
on every hand abundance of beer, and with
this to assist his imagination he could revel in
the excess of sensual delights, wallowing like
a very swine, ecstatic in his intellectual filth.
Being intensely natural. he was Of course indie
cent and his description of that pleasant Ger
man merrymaking read like an extract from
Paul de Kock or the Chevalier de Faublas.
These same Bohemians have lately given as
news pretended account of an interruption of
labor on the Italian tunnel through Mount
Gents. They declare that blast disclosed to
the workmen very remarkable mineral de-
post, being no less than vast conglomerate
mass of precious metal and gems-gold, dia-
monds, rubies, emeralds, and 80 on; and that the
labor has been interrupted by the attempt to
hush up this wonderful discovery. This is, Of
course, all false, and made of the real B0he-
milan staple-trashy Imagination. All the Bo-
hemian papers also wrote up in their elaborate
sensational way the recent foundation of q
new religion" giving what gloze they could to
that blasphemous piece of folly and all pub
lished with very ready zest, as quite in their
style, that bogus proclamation which put its
author into Fort Lafayette.
The latest effort of this school Of writers Is
an attempt to write up the recent importation
Of cheap artists for the Academy of Music.
The manager having naturally no confidence
in the abilities of his artists hopes to attract
attention to one of them by sensation story,
which accordingly the Bohemian press does to
order. This story starts with the statement
that the singers on Monday night were inter-
rupted by scream in the auditorium. 1t
then goes on to explain that this scream
proceeded from strange being who has
followed one Of the singers from Siberia
which is perhaps the starting place of all great
artists; and it holds out the inducement that
the public may yet see more of this Siberian
lover. If the public will not come to see the
artist they will, perhaps, to see this monster;
hence the story. And this sort of cheap fiction
is put forth as news. There is this to be said
about it It is as true, no doubt, as anything
else printed In the Bohemian journals. The
public, however, should particularly notice
this perversion and prostitution Of the news
paper. By this means q paper relied upon for
the news and q distinct statement of current
events is enabled to abuse the faith that people
put in it, and to palm upon its readers as
reality that which the writers know to be false
The public, deceived once or twice in this way,
will not be slow to see that it cannot credit
any statement made by those who habitually
put forth elaborate falsehoods, and make at the
same time every possible assurance that they
are facts The sooner the public sees this the
sooner we will have done with the Bohemian
press.
THE MAYoRALrY.--It Is talked among the
democrats to nominate General Sickles for
Mayor. General Dix is also spoken Of as q
candidate; but in view of the reported changes
in the Cabinet, which are probable, General
Dir NAV have n postion there General