Year: 1862

The Business OF Some OF Our Newspa-


pers, and Their Useful Information to


the Enemy.


Our readers are aware that there is sort of
treaty existing between the government at
Washington and the newspaper press of the
loyal States. by which the government, relying
upon the good faith, honor and loyalty of the
press gang. has been giving, and is still a..ord-
ing them, many exclusive privileges and facii-
ties Of information concerning the movements
and plans of the army and navy. The Asso-
ciate Press Of this city Is particularly interested
in this agreement; and, while we Of the New
York HERALD can boast of having adhered to
it faithfully, we have the right, and it is our
duty, to denounce the baseness of some of our
contemporaries in this matter


A correspondent Of the New York Times was,
the other day, sent home in disgrace by Gen.
Sherman, from Port Royal. The Times and the
Tribune have been endeavoring, by various
cock and bull stories, to show that said CORES
pondent is an injured innocent, and that Gen.
Sherman, or some provost marshal or sutler, or
somebody, has been playing the despot in re-
utcssiifk sOluC pCtty PVisOnoA SpAtS VI oVAAV
bagatelle Of wounded vanity. But the truth is,
that this Times correspondent was sent home
because he had been making himself intolera-
bly, useful to the enemy in disclosing the plans,
movements, &c., of the land and naval forces
of the United States in South Carolina and
Georgia. We understand that the peculiar en-
terprise of said correspondent at Port Royal
had resulted, in several instances, in furnishing
to the rebels, through the Times newspaper, in
formation which defeated the designs of Gen.
Sherman. In this connection it is somewhat
remarkable that, since the issue of his con-
servative proclamation to the people Of South
Carolina, Gen. Sherman has been pronounced
and treated as military failure by all our abo-
lition organs, on every available occasion.


Nor do the "little villains" of the Times stand
alone in this disgraccful service of publishing
information for the benefit of the enemy. That
curious nondcscript Of paper, the World
that queer and stupid compound Of saint and
sinner, pcdagoguc and ignoramus, spokesman
and patriot, public sentinel and public plum
dcrcr-seems to defy public opinion and
the government in its impudent disclo-
sures concerning the Burnside expedition.
The details Of this expedition, as published
in the World, including the contemplated points
of attack in North Carolina, may, with the de-
tention of the squadron near Hatteras Inlet for
few days, enable the enemy so to time the ap-
proach Of our forces, aud to measure their
strength at every point of assault, as to enable
the rebels seriously to disappont the reasona-
BILE expectations Of the government. We can
assure our readers that there Is no merit Of en-
terprise in these premature disclosures of the
details of such important expeditions as that to
Cape Hatteras and that to Port Royal, and this
last one to the inland seas of North Carolina.
In common with our faithless associate contem-
porarics of the Times, the World, the Tribune
and Ere,sinJ Post, we OF the HERALD were pos
sessed of all the details of these expeditions in
season to break our faith with the government
to the advantage of the enemy; but having no
abolition animosities and no personal revenges
to settle with this or that officer Of the govern
ment or the army, and being cordially devoted
to the conservative war policy of the admins
tration and of General Mcclellan, we have
found it pleasing duty to keep our faith with
the government. We have experienced no diff
Guilty in awaiting patiently the proper time for
the publication of many important facts in our
possession touching the plans and movements Of
our army and navy. We are amply rewarded
in various ways, including an increase in our
daily circulation without precedent or paral-
lei in the history of the newspaper press.


We have only to say, in conclusion, that the
late Port Royal correspondent of the Times, in
being sent home with flea in his ear by Gene
raj Sherman, has been properly punished for
his folly, and that case or two Of exemplary
punishment to such offenders in the premises as
the responsible conductors of the Times, World
and Tribune would vastly contribute to the
success of our movements by land and sea
upon the strongholds Of this rebellion.