The New York herald., 1876-12-13
Our Roll or Honor.

The reader who with equal appetite for
news and breakfast takes mp the HERALD in
the morning, and by his comfortable fire.
side feeds at once both mind and body, takes
as little thought of the manner in which his
information is obtained as Of the pedigree of
his bacon or eggs. He reads a cable
despatch from Africa or Asia, at
trac.ive stories from all parts of the
globe, strange ventures Mapped by land
or sen, and : accepts them as mere
matters of course Yet how few know by
what toll, through what energy and expert
ence, Mt what personal risks, these facts are
collected. The correspondents Of = great
paper are like tho best soldiers of an army
they are ordered to tho front They lead
the 'forlorn hope" of journalism and, as
Thackeray said, the couriers os the press
march with every army, and its am
bassadors are in every Cabinet. They an
ticipatc the action Of governments, MS has
been thousand times shown, and even
Disraeli waits upon the London newspapers
for facts about the Turkish complications
Diplomacy, which once ran in advance of
tho knowledge Of mankind. nov follows it.
and governments now simply register whe.
tho newspapers have announced. Onco the
government instructed the press. ss in tic
time of George ILL.,. but now the press in
structs the government.
Examples Of this kind are frequent in
tho record Of the HERALD. Our roll Of
honor is too long to repeat but among tho
men who have braved danger and some
of whom hare suffered death for tho
sake of duty few may DC men-
dared mora than somo OF them, who, like
Marco Polo or Sir John franklin, went
forward as the pioneers OF discov-
cry and civilization. The other day
we published letter from Mr.. j.
J. Roche, descriptive Of the battle
tnined only at personal risk and by sur
prising industry. DR.. Hayes in the service
of the HERALD studied the glaciers and vol
canoes of Iceland and graphically told the
story of her celebration of thousand years
of self-government. From Central Africa
DR.. Livingstone, on apostle of religion and
enlightenment, sent us letters rich in in
terest and value, and Stanley, follow
ing in his steps and penetrating fur
ther into the mysteries Of the continent,
has solved the problems of the Niyanza
In this expedition Mr. Stanley gives all
his energy and ability to the service of
the public and journalism. Then there was
Mr. MacGahan, who marched with the Rus
sian army to Khiva, who was with the Car
lists during the civil war in Spain and who
went in search OF the passage to the Pole with
Captain Allen Young in the Pandora, in each
event as the correspondent of the HERALD.
Mr.. Edwin Fox, in the famous Modoc
war, traversed the Indian country
aione and bravely interviewed Cap
tain Jack in his rocky Businesses.
Mr.. james J. O'Kelly, as the representa-
tive of this newspaper, visited Cuba in
the most stormy period of the war, was ar-
rested, condemned to be shot, transported
to Spain, and only was saved with diff
Guilty. He, too, served the HERALD in the
Indian war. Another of our correspondents,
Mark Kellogg. was killed with Custer, and
did his duty to journalism exactly as the sol
diers did to the government. Mr. Reuben
II. Davenport. who went to the frontier with
our troops, after Clusters death, endured
hardships not imagined by those who calmly
read his letters to this journal. Then
there was Mr.. George Alfred Townsend, who
placed his life in danger to find the truth of
the Swamp Angel troubles in South Caro-.
lima, and Gerald McKenny, who penetrated
the frozen Northern Ocean when the Juni-
ata sailed for the relief of the Tigris. Many
others might be included in our roll Of
honor, yet we need not prolong the list It
is enough to give these illustrations of tho
great responsibilities Of our modern jour
nalism, which "point the moral and adorn
the tale.