The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-10-22

/ Lefly style, showing lHS Gum
knowledge Of the book and its supJectI
that characterized the reviewers oi
Macauey, The yigor, purity, ana
terseness of its expression MAKE y
wdrthya fuller comparison WIN tiie
British Essayist Nowhere but IN our
| America do we find such journalism
az This article shows. IL ID thorough
10 American in its energy, Its human
| ity and It's genlus' :, :,
" All the editors might be called
night editors. They perfectly under
stand the science Of turning night
into day. MIR. Greeley goes to the
office not till eighth the evening, and
often ID there till near morning. Mr..
Young arrives in the forenoon some
times, and remains late The only
man who seemed always there, early
and 'ate, is Mr.. Foley, private score
tary to Mr.. Young. A pleasanter
gentleman cannot be found in the
city. Patient at his labor-which il
as multifarious as such an Office can
make 1.-THE attends quietly and ener-
getically TO every demand. " Greeley
selects his men as Napoleon did his
Marshala, has often been said,
OF the Tribune itself | need hardly
speak, for surely no ope who will read
this needs information as 10 what the
Tribune ie Its cause is the cause Of
humanity, and a quarter Of century
Is bringing the reward of its earnest
labor. Its circulation increased fifty
thousand ia single month. The
Office now issues nearly half a million
4ribMnes every week-a number all
most beyond conception. Opened
out, cut and pasted together, the issue
of a week would make line seUen
hundred and sepenty miles Tong In
year it would belt the earth once
and a half What paper are you
the Tribune 1.-The greatest in the
world, was the proud reply. To this
il was. replied that the Times, of Lon
don, was the greater paper. La a few
days, by singular coincidence, a com
paris0n Of the two papers Of about
equal date appeared. The Times, for
nine cents, gave fortylone columns
of matter. The Tribune, for fonr
cents, gave forty two columns. In
every respect wherein q newspaper
differs from a book, the Tribune is
unquestionably the superior. In tele-
grams, for instance, London reads one
column, New York three, six times as
much if in equal type. American en-
terpriae presents news from all parts
OF Europe and the United States, by
land an ocean telegraph, and by cor
responsiveness English enterprise.
Ian unaccustomed phrase,) is content
with half as much.
Thus does the TribMe excel ia
every particular, making itself, as
| claimed by its correspondent. the
greatest newspaper in the world. 1t
has the fullest staff of editors, and
the largest corps of correspondents in
| every capital in Europe and America,
and in nearly every city in the world
beside. The expense Of such an es-
Enlistment is enormous. La single
week, for special telegaphing, 1t paid
$40, 1852, and that, in a summer month.
In the winter Il IL increased doubly or
trebly. Its liberality is testified 10 by
every one who labors ia any way for il.
g Though good men arc rejoicing at
the prosperity Of the Tribune, it is
not because certain faithful men are
being rewarded; il is not for this that
these workers themselves rejoice
This prosperity is most valuable be-
cause in il there is a triumph. of prin-
ciples long contended for. In the
wordsof the grand old German battle
prayer,
"Thia h h no strife for the goods of the
For freedom alone is the banner un-
| furled.
| Because of the substantial recogni-
ton of the Tribune's efforts in this
strife, do it's friends feel lifted up
and strengthened. - IL IL prosperous
over all its contemporaries, not be-
cause of any change in principle, or
mode of expression, 1.-THE Tribune
ismeralyI the same TribRneyit has al-
ways been and always will be-; il
says, il is as much surprised OF the
greeting of fifty thousand new sub
scr;bers given in few weeks, as was
the world.
| The Tribune is devoted to the cause
of truth; not alone of TRUTH as sy-
nonymous with Liberty, but to truth
in every matter. 1t viii publish no
figure, or nothing as fact, which il
does not believe TO be true. To its
correspondents il says: We retain
no one in our service who falsifes to
help what he might consider the cause
Of the Tribune, or who suppresses
truth when it happens to be injurious
TO its arguments Nh lL
But the Tribune is New York City
New York City is America; America
is the world-and the world is not de
scribed in single letter. Read this
great paper a little while, and you
will wish this long letter had been
longer. us MAX.
A Speculation In Hogs.
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