paper was more than authorized—­he was encouraged and commanded—­to incur any expense whatever that might be necessary either in getting or forwarding intelligence.  There were no rigid or grudging scrutiny of reporters’ drafts; no minute and insulting inquiries respecting the last moments of a horse ridden to death in the service; no grumbling about the precise terms of a steamboat charter, or a special locomotive.  A reporter returning from the army laden with information, procured at a lavish expense, was received in the office like a conqueror coming home from a victorious campaign, and he went forth again full of courage and zeal, knowing well that every man employed on the Herald was advancing himself when he served the paper well.  One great secret of success the proprietor of the Herald knows better than most;—­he knows how to get out of those who serve him all there is in them; he knows how to reward good service; he knows a man’s value to him.  There is no newspaper office in the world where real journalistic efficiency is more certain to meet prompt recognition and just reward than in this.  Not much may be said to a laborious reporter about the hits he is making; but, on some Saturday afternoon, when he draws his salary, he finds in his hands a larger amount than usual.  He hands it back to have the mistake corrected, and he is informed that his salary is raised.

The Herald, too, systematically prepares the way for its reporters.  Some of our readers may remember how lavishly this paper extolled General McClellan during the time of his glory, and indeed as long as he held the chief command.  One of the results of this policy was, that, while the reporters of other papers were out in the cold, writing in circumstances the most inconvenient, those of the Herald, besides being supplied with the best information, were often writing in a warm apartment or commodious tent, not far from head-quarters or at head-quarters.  As long as General Butler held a command which gave him control over one of the chief sources of news, the Herald hoarded its private grudge against him; but the instant he was removed from command, the Herald was after him in full cry.  If, to-morrow, the same General should be placed in a position which should render his office a source of important intelligence, we should probably read in the Herald the most glowing eulogiums of his career and character.

What are we to think of a man who is at once so able and so false?  It would be incorrect to call him a liar, because he is wanting in that sense of truth by violating which a man makes himself a liar.  We cannot call him a traitor, for his heart knows no country; nor an infidel, for all the serious and high concerns of man are to him a jest. Defective is the word to apply to such as he.  As far as he goes, he is good; and if the commodity in which he deals were cotton or sugar, we could commend his enterprise and tact.  He is like the steeple of