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are of solid black walnut, ornamented with plate glass. Every thing is scrupulously clean, and the room presents the appearance of some wealthy banking office. On the third floor are the editorial rooms. The principal apartment is the "Council Room," which overlooks Broadway. Every other branch of the editorial department has its separate room, and all are furnished with every convenience necessary for doing their work with the utmost precision and dispatch. Each day, at noon, the editors of the _Herald_, twelve in number, assemble in the "Council Room." Mr. Bennett, if he is in the City, takes his seat at the head of the table, and the others assume the places assigned. If Mr. Bennett is not present, his son, James Gordon Bennett, Jr., presides at the council, and, in the absence of both father and son, the managing editor takes the head of the table. The council is opened by Mr. Bennett, or his representative, who presents a list of subjects. These are taken up, seriatim, and discussed by all present. The topics to be presented, in the editorial columns of the _Herald_ the next day, are determined upon, and each editor is assigned the subject he is to "write up." All this is determined in a short while. Then Mr. Bennett asks the gentlemen present for suggestions. He listens attentively to each one, and decides quickly whether they shall be presented in the _Herald_, and at what time; and if he desires any subject to be written upon, he states his wish, and "sketches," in his peculiar and decisive manner, the various headings and the style of treatment. There are twelve editors and thirty-five reporters employed on the _Herald_. They are liberally paid for their services. Any one bringing in news is well rewarded for his trouble. The composing rooms are located on the top floor, and are spacious, airy, and excellently lighted. A "dumb waiter," or vertical railway, communicates with the press room; and speaking tubes, and a smaller "railway," afford the means of conversation and transmitting small parcels between this room and the various parts of the building. Five hundred men are employed in the various departments of the paper. THE OTHER JOURNALS. The _World, Tribune, Times_, and other journals, have fine establishments of their own, that of the _Times_ ranking next to the one just described. The advantages of the _Herald_ system are so manifest that the other City dailies are adopting it as rapidly as possible. THE EVENING PAPERS. The evening papers are a noticeable feature of the great city. They are the _Evening Post_, the _Evening Mail_, the _Express_, the _Telegram_, the _News_, and the _Star_. These issue their first editions at one o'clock in the afternoon, and their latest at five or six o'clock. On occasions of more than usual interest, extras are issued hourly as late into the night as eleven or twelve o'clock. The evening papers contain the latest news, gossip, and a variety of light and entertaining matter, and are bought chiefly by persons who wish to read them at home, after the cares and fatigues of the day are over. THE WEEKLIES. The weeklies are too numerous to mention. The principal are the _Round Table_, the _Nation_, the _Ledger_, the _Mercury_, the _New York Weekly_, the _Sunday Mercury_, the _News_, the _Dispatch_, the _Leader_, the _Examiner and Chronicle_, the _Courier_, the _Clipper_, _Wilkes' Spirit_, the _Turf, Field and Farm_, _Harper's Weekly_, _Frank Leslie's Newspaper_, the _Bazaar_, the _Albion_, the _Citizen_, the _Irish Citizen_, _Irish American_, etc., etc. All of these journals display more or less ability, and each one has its specialty. Some are devoted to politics, some to literature alone, some to sporting matters, some to police items, and some to general news. THE RELIGIOUS PAPERS. The principal religious papers are, the _Observer_, the _Independent_, the _Protestant Churchman_, the _Church Journal_, the _Methodist_, etc., etc. They are devoted principally to denominational and sectarian matters, but too frequently dabble in politics to an extent that renders them more partisan than laymen care to see religious sheets. PRINTING HOUSE SQUARE. Opposite the City Hall, at the juncti