In Yonkers, in particular, this change was judged so necessary that, on the 7th of May, the editor of the Herald, of that town, formally resigned his place, and the Herald passed into the control of a stock company, known as the " Yonkers Democratic Publishing Association," under which the paper (which seems, from the farewell of the editor, to have been in a far from flourishing condition) was carried on to the close of the war. Its tone, under the new control, is no longer one of open hostility to the prosecution of the war, but deals chiefly in personal attacks on Mr. Lincoln, on account of his "frivolous nature " and "buffoonery." On the 21st of May, 1864, the celebrated forged pr )clamation of Joe Howard and the suppression of ihe copies of the World and Journal of Commerce, which contained them, are noticed, with much outcry for the " liberty of the press." The split in the Republican party, threatened by the nomination of Fremont, under the inspiration of Gratz Brown (who afterwards ran with Horace Greeley, in 1872, on the Democratic ticket), is noticed, with unconcealed hopes of a favorable issue for the Democracy.

The cry of " corruption" was thus raised in the same issue of the paper, --

" The stench of official corruption in Washington at this moment is ranker than tliat even arising from tlie tliuneanris of niiburied bodies of horsesand men, that strew tlie suil of Virginia. Tliere may have been