Thomas Fitzgerald, for many years connected with the New York _Commercial Advertiser_, and the _Item_, of Philadelphia, which he founded, was in his day one of the leaders in American journalism. He died in 1891, after turning his paper over to his son. He was a noted dramatist, and during the War of the Rebellion was an intense patriot. He was a noted public speaker. Charles Sumner said of a speech of his delivered in Boston, that it was one of the best extemporaneous addresses he had ever listened to. At the head of the _Scranton_ (Pa.) _Truth_ is James Joseph Jordan, born of Irish parents, while the Farrells of Albany, N. Y., are also well-known and influential in the newspaper world. The late Joseph Medill, of Chicago, the son of Irish parents, made the _Chicago Tribune_ a great newspaper. He ranked with Charles A. Dana of the _N. Y. Sun_. Thomas O’Conor, the father of New York’s greatest jurist, Charles O’Conor, was among the best known and gifted newspaper men in the early ’40’s. Theodore O’Hara, the gifted poet of the South, was a newspaper man of wide experience. Himself a Kentucky soldier, he wrote the beautiful poem entitled “The Bivouac of the Dead,” when the remains of the Kentucky soldiers who fell at Buena Vista in the Mexican War were brought home to their native state. Lines from his poems are inscribed over the entrances of several of the national cemeteries. By a resolution of the Kentucky legislature, his remains were conveyed from Georgia, where he died, to his native state and they now lie beside those whom he had commemorated in his beautiful lines, and beside whom he had fought the battles of his country. Daniel Kane O’Donnell as an all round newspaper man and a war correspondent, had few equals. He represented the _Philadelphia Press_ on Sherman’s march to the sea. After the war he became connected with the _New York Tribune_, and was made correspondent of the paper in Mexico, and later in Cuba, his interesting letters attracting world-wide attention. Subsequently, he returned to the home office and was given charge of the foreign affairs of the paper. At the head of the war correspondents of the Orient and Europe stands Januarius Aloysius McGahan, an Irish-American journalist. His first notable newspaper connection was as the Paris correspondent of the _New York Herald_. McGahan was about to return from Europe after a course in international law, when he was retained by Mr. Bennett as the _Herald_ correspondent.