G
JAMES aOlWON BENNETT.
Journalism did not exint fifty yearn ago,' le
caufie it could not. The world woald have
welcomed it then as now, bnt there were no
means to create it. It then required months
to collect the facts of the world's history at
ny particular period. Henoe quarterlies were
the institution of that time. As nelt,l,od"
communication beoame more "PId r
world's picture was taken oftener. Monthlies
nd weeklies came into rogue. Between kw
and I860, the railroad system PgJ
Europe an America, ana - manloft
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cotnrnunica-
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narta of me wona
von crongut , .t it,. ..m. tim
ceneraUnteU tamo, and a popular appetite for
frSati. Where in the world has there
Ixten such a demand for reading as in the
United States. Railroads developed the
Western States with magical rapidity, and
filled them with a population eager to hear
from their old homes in the East, and whose
views, becoming expanded like their own
ioundless prairies, made them dissatisfied with
anything less than a metropolitan journal
could give them.
Jf railroads and free schools made journal
ism possible, the telegraph made it a neces
sity. The publio opinion which once took
months to form may now be developed in a
day. Daily papers are the electric photo
graphs which both the business and the curio
sity of the world require to see a3 often as
possible.
Moreover, this sudden and vast access of
matter by steamer, railroad, and telegraph has
necessitated a systematio organization of the
business of journalism. It has become a pro
fession. It demands capital and experience.
It is obvious that any man, gifted with apti
tude for the work, who found himself, thirty
years ago, paddling in the sluggish and rather
ioul waters of journalism, might have had an
instinct that he was nearing a tide which,
' 'taken 2 the flood," would lead him on to
fortune. Lie every other business of quick
.growth, journal'8111 required only that the
man who was to kP its profits should bo
Btabliahed at the righ that he should
le possessed of the most 'alaable of all capi
tal oxperience: and, in addiujn.fiho1(1 h
tmick perceptions, energy, and rtituae.
B Such a man for the occasion was 'ames uor
3on Bennett. When he started the in
1835, he had the ben.eflt of over ten yeJra
journalistic experience. lie had seen much ,nI
the world and of life in many of its phases.
Hard work had muscularized his nature, and
failure and disappointment had not weakened
his will, however much they may have har
dened his heart. Enthusiastic in hi3 profes
sion, and even then prophesying for it a er
enabled him to lee- "I.S
pace with the timeg.
3fewa was his goods, whatever it was, wher
ever found. Ilia policy was to keep a' fall
Btoek on hand, of every kind and quality, if
only it were salable. Nobody should find in
another shop what was not in his; and of what
others scrupled to sell he eagerly became the
monopolist.
T1 pecuniary success whioh such a course
TromiBed has been achieved. Where Manhat
tan Island becomes a comparatively narrow
trin between the Harlem and the Hudson, th
'fcronnd rises into & Commanding eminence and
then falls off rapidly on the north to Bpuyten
Duy vel creek. On thiB rocky summit of tho
island ifl the residence of James Gordon Ben
nett. Many years ago he scoured there about
forty acres, which he has transformed into a
epot where nature and art vie with each other
In the display of their charms. The visitor
may delight himself for hours among the
ahady winding walks, the summer-houses
and arbors, the flower-beda, the costly
conservatories, or he may wander into
the native wood, where in summer hours a tall
hut stooping, grey-haired man sometimes sits
in the shade of trees not older than himself,
and gazes down the precipitous banks of the
Hudson, whose rugged and gullied outlines
may possibly be reminding him of the rough
and thorny ways by which he climbed into this
luxurious Eden. Or, if you mount into the
belvedere of the comfortable looking and taste-
' ful house, you may compaBS with your vision
miles of lovely landscape in every direction,
including river views on either hand, the
Wlemn Palisades, the smiling plain, the shining
Bails, and afar off the busy city, half hid
den in the mist of its own exhalations.
"There," you may say to yourself, "is
the centre of commerce the future
capital of the world. Before me, in effect,
1 behold all the kingdoms of the earth spread
ut." And your mind reverts suddenly to an
' allegory which teaches that all, all this is
worthless compared 'with the integrity of a
spotless soul.
An air of loneliness pervades the residenoe
at Washington Heights; there are plenty of
domestics, but no lamlly. The wife, whom its
ewner married on the Gth of June, 1840, and
five days before advertised in the Herald as
"one of the most splendid women in intellect,
in heart, in soul, in property, in person, in
manner, that I have yet seen in the course of
my interesting pilgrimage through human
lile," prefers her gaudily furnished mansion
in the Fifth avenue in winter, and Europe or
watering-places in summer. The son, born
May 10, 1841, and about whom similar ex
travagant expectations were entertained and
published, is not the only son to whom pater
nal admonitions are irksome, and the company
of cronies more attractive. He professes, it
Is true, to relieve his sire of the detail manage
ment of the- magnificent marble office
on Broadway and Ann street; but such an un
steady, fickle, and impatient hand can never
Bnpply the place of the experienced "old man"
at the Herald's helm. The latter still retains
his hold upon the rudder, and, either by tele
graph from Washington - Heights, or by per
sonal visits two or three times a week, directs
the general course of the journal. Yet, neither
at home nor at the oflice is this prevailing soli
tariness of his life much relieved. .There is
undeniably something in his and the Herald's
history which makes them both shunned;
something which makes wealth fail of its pro
verbial power; something which has even
neutralized and made null the inlluence of a
journal, than which none i3 more thoroughly
organized or has greater nnancial resources.
Here, then, is a decided success, in ono re
tpect, and an equally decided failure in other
and more important ones. It is obvious that
pecuniary succeps is no test of virtue, even of
ability; fo those who gander to the vices and
pasBions of mankind easily make money, while
the gains of honebt, toil are scanty and accu
mulate but slowly. Yet even the dishonest
mufit be cunning, and those who minister to
the vices of others will prosper fastest if they
have no vloea of their own. It may, therefore,
farther explain the success of Mr. Uennett to
State that, by the aooount of others as well as
his own, his personal habits of life have always
been regular and temperate. His uniform
health aud advanced age prove that his vigo
rous constitution was never sapped by early
Tloes, nor broken by subsequent excesses.
As circumstances furnish sufficient explana-
of ,hh ;uccess, so will they supply ample
wans for judging charitably of hia faults, and
THE DAIL1 MVENI1SG TELEGHAriTrniLADELrniA; FKIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 16G7.
James Gordon Bennett born In i Banff.
Scotland, in the year 1706. At such a time of
political and social convulsions as that ac hi Id
might absorb revolutionary ideas with his
X'. milk. Brett's
own account, came from France with William
"he ConVror. "I have had," he says
"bishops prints, deacons, robbers, and all
sorts of rople " mT family" a heteroge
neous mixture adequate to account for con
siderable confusion of moral ideas. His own
family are said to have been honest, indus
trious, and virtuous. James Gordon was
namd alter a Protestant clergyman of that
name, although the l&nnett family were strict
Catholics. They eeem to have been servitors
or attathts of the Earl of Gordon,
with whom they came to Scotland;
and in their motley assortment of ances
tors they lay claim to an Earl of Tan
kerville. The family contained four children,
two brothers and two sisters. James Gordon
and his brother Cosmo were educated at Aber
deen for the Church. The former soon dis
covered a disinclination for his intended voca
tion. Cosmo entered the priesthood, and sub
sequently died from the effect of a too rigorous
discipline a circumstance which, it is said,
embittered James Gordon against the Church,
nnd determined him to revenge the brother he
loved. Both the revenge and the love illus
trated in this matter are characteristic of the
man. After the fire which destroyed the sub
terranean den of the Herald three months from
the time of its inception, he received from one
friend a hundred dollars, and from another
a ten dollar gold piece, coined in the year
171i5. He alluded to these gifts in his paper,
aud declared his intention to keep
the ten-dollar coin till his dying day, and then
enjoin upon his descendants to hand it down
as an heirloom and perpetual memorial of the
friendship which touched him so deeply. "I
can remember friendship keenly as I can for
get hostility," he added. "I have no objec
tion to forgive enemies, particularly after I
have trampled them under my feet; but to
love friends, to esteem them, to admire them,
to cherish them, and that passionately too, is
one of the principal elements of my life,
being, and existence." This was written at a
time when he might well feel that he had no
friends; and it has something of the exaggera
tion natural to a mind thus isolated. But
there is no doubt that, from his homo in the
Highlands, Mr. Bennett brought a heart capa
ble of strong love as well as bitter hate. He
has repeatedly exhibited that tenacity of affec
tion as well as of purpose characteristic of the
Scotch.
During his early years Napoleon taught the
;?rld what intellect and will, severed from
conscience, can accomplish. JJvron
that men and w- .,, , -..
literature, pe- 'm,en wlU read licentious
.uaps the more eagerly because
they uuonin it. Walter Scott furnished one
1. the brightest examples of what energy and
genius can accomplish when he set himself
about repairing his bankrupt fortunes with
his pen. He did much to elevate into the
dignity of a profession what had before been
reckoned dishonorable hack-work if done for
pay. These three men were the idols of Ben
nett's youth; and their good and bad nuence
are Been in his history and eh-' T 1017
rSKhSi001 -njamin Frankuiwls
published in ocotland, and was the means
.urning Bennett's thoughts to this
country. When, in 1819, an acquaint
ance spoke of going to America, a sud
den impulse carried him also "to Bee
the place where Franklin was born." He em
Tjarked, April 0, lor HalUax. There he taught
school awhile, scarcely making a living.
Then he wandered into Maine, and down the
coast to Boston, where he stayed two years,
and commenced his literary life as proof
reader. It may be noted that the most pro
fitable Of the UoBton newnpaperi tUat ilaj-
wnro of an exceptionable character. From
Boston Bennett came to JNew xorir, and there
engaged to assist Mr. Willington, of the
Charleston t,o. J.) courier, wnue upon mat,
ournal he learned a lesson in newspaper en
terprise, from its method of getting news in
advance of its rivals by boarding vessels out
side of the harbor, lie came back to ISew
York in 1824; made an unsuccessful effort .to
establish a commercial school (for teaching
"moral philosophy" among other things);
failed in an attempt to lecture on political
economy; and finally became a reporter and
miscellaneous writer wherever chance af
forded.
His habits must have been abstemious, for
in 1825 he essayed to buy the Sunday Courier
a weekly which had not prospered and was
near its end. Bennett gave his notes in part
payment, but took them back, and gave up
the enterprise in three months, lie suose-
quently became assistant editor and Washing
ton correspondent upon the national Advocate
and the Conner and Enquirer. In these jour
nals he illustrated his enterprise and energy
in the collection 01 news, in mating lull re
ports of exciting trials, in describing men and
events at Washington, and in catching hold of
every topio which promised to bo
"sensational." 'During this period he
was a devoted Tammany partisan. No man
ever gave himself more completely and
heartily than he to the service of a party and
of leading politicians. So deenlv wad he com.
mitted to the Anti-Bank party, that when the
Courier, in 1832, deserted Jackson and allied
itself with Nicholas Biddle, Bennett was
obliged to retire from the journal. His zeal
was nowise abated; but, with characteristic
persistence and energy, he started a campaign
paper, called the Globe, in the interest of
Jackson and Van Buren. This lived only
thirty days; and then he went to Philadelphia,
and in 1833 purchased the Pennsulvauian,
partly on credit. This journal he conducted
in the interest of Van Buren as a candidate for
the Presidency; but in vain he besought Jesse
Hoyt and other friends of Van Buren to help
him with a loan of $2500, without whioh he saw
that he could not sustain his enterprise. Help
was denied him, and the I'tnnsylvnnian
passed out of his hands, lie revenged him
self, in the year 1834, by some letters in the
Philadelphia Inquirer on "The Kitchen Cabi
net." Hut he was read out of the party to
which he had devoted himself so unreservedly,
and for whose ungrateful leaders he had toiled
so long, and bo hard, and so thanklessly. He
returned to New York the same year.
Here was the turning point in his life. He
had experienced ingratitude and contempt
where he had a right to expect appreciation
and reward. 1 ersonauy, his injuries were
galling enough, but this was not all. He had
been taught that his profession was a disgrace
ful one. in those days newspapers
were regarded as mere organs of poll
ticians; in fact, they were often such.
They showed too little enterprise and
ability in news gathering to make
themselves a daily necessity. A journalist
nominated for an office was contemptuously
rejected by the benaie ior no other reason
than blB profession. The tables are turned
now; the journalists own the politicians, and
demand what they want; but, as a rule, they
regard official ljfe as a degradation. This
change of relations between politicians and
journalists was then impending; but Bennett
did not see it. The events which were to
transform journalism into one of the powers
of the land were then developing; but he only
law ttc jytvieitt, sjid BOH I'd Ljj revenges.
After an undncccftsiul application to the
proprietors of the Sun, and another to Horace
Greeley, to join him in a penny paper enter
prlse? Bennett succeeded in inducing a couple
of printers to unite with him in the publica
tion of the Jerald. The first number was
issued May C, 1835. It was edited and
sold by Bennett alone, in a cellar in
Wall street, where his furniture consisted
of a single chair, and a plank upon two
barrels for a table. In five weeks
he began to publish a money article, which
was then a new feature in journalism. Par
ticular attention was also paid to ship news;
and, as means increased, every sort of intel
ligence was eagerly sought and' reported.
Correspondents in every part of America and
Europe were subsequently employed as a
means of securing the earliest and fullest In
formation of all interesting events. As rail
roads and telegraphs spread, the ltcril'
agents were instructed to use them with regard
only to the necesbity of being first and fullest
in their reports. Such have been the means
by which the Hirald has been made the excel
lent paper that it is. Could its projector have
foreseen the future, and comprehended the ele
ments which were at work in its behalf, it is not
probable that he would have founded his
structure upon so much, perilous rottenness.
But his mind was full of contempt and re
venge. He seemed to think that the world
was desirous only of vulgarity, and that the
only way to prosper, therefore, was to serve
Hs people with what it appeti.ed.
Bennett's state of mind at this time may be
gathered from an article in the lluuld of July
18, 183G:
"A successful ruffian is a hero; a defeated
ruffian only a villain. Murders, licentious
ness, crimes of every magnitude, have dis
graced this city during tho last few years
beyond former ages, or almost every other
country. In such a state of society, virtue is
a disgrace; innocence is called folly; purity of
character deemed poorness of spirit; honesty
put down with a 'ha!' and a man of in
tegrity called a 'd d fool.' " And then
he goes on irreverently to proclaim himself
"the voice of one crying in the wilderness."
Again, January 31, 1838, he writes:
"A grasping avarice, a rapacious selfishness,
the most hardened inhumanity, appear only
to reach and enjoy respectability."
Whereupon he comes to this horrible deci
sion: "I shall be selfish, niggard, avaricious,
keen, and only solicitous for my own advan
tage." Many hard-pressed battlers in the oonllict
of life have doubtless had the same dreadful
view of f fc . . 1
nece&any put upon a man to be
regardless of all save selfish gain. But no
one, not even Bennett, who became so reck
less as to publish this diabolical resolution,
has ever been able fully to carry it into prac
tice. He never forgot how to ,do jgencrous
things, and in dealings purely personal, or in
matters of business, few can say that he has
been unfair or unjust.
From lie becinnincr of the Herald's life,
tO'wever, thtre were signs that it was con
ducted by a man reckless 01 tne means oy
which notoriety should ue secured. roiorieiy
would bring circulation, circulation would
secure advertising, ana thus tne prosperity 01
the journal would be assured, liesiaes, 11
was begun as a penny paper, and must please
the crowd. The wealthier classes, who dis
dained to buy it, were victimized in its columns
to gratify the prejudices 01 the poor ana tne
From the" first, Tabooed and neglected, even by
his old political friends. Revenging himself
on these, and sparing no one who crossed his
path, he soon brought down o'n himself and
his journal unmeasured denunciation.
Tl,i only pgraTatea his moral
disease, and for years the columns of the
Herald reeked with the most outrageous vul
garity, obscenity, prolanity, and even blas
phemy, xsp subject was too sacrea to ue
brought into' this horrid muck; no reputation
bo pure as to save it irom assault, indeed,
to show that those believed to be virtuous
were vile, to instance cases where the minis
ters of religion were debauchees, was the very
acme of the Herald's ambition, it wouia now
banish from its own columns as indecent what
it published then day after day and gloried
in. liennett then detendea his course as tnat
of a moral reformer, and said: "Believing,
therefore, that the success of the Herald has
grown out of its character and peculiar adapta
tion to the publio interests and publio tastes,
1 shall continue in the same tearless, impar
tial line of conduct."
The morals of New York city at that time
were doubtless corrupt, as they still are. The
most charitable thing that can be said of the
Herald's treatment of the disease is, that it
was a nauseating dose which was ever after
wards associated with the giver. But the
motive of the revelation was obviously not to
make things better, but to reap profit out of
the vileness unveiled. The Herald waa as
shameless in its inconsistency as in its vul
garity. That it took bribes can hardly admit
of a doubt. It was for and against llobinson
in the Helen Jewett case; for and against
Res tell; the same with Harrison, Elssler, and
Bcores of others. Wikoff, who ought to know.
calls Bennett "this craving shark 01 the press.
It would appear, indeed, that during this
reckless period all character was lost so hope
lessly that even Bennett himself has never
hoped to regain it. In 1838, William II
Attree found congenial work in carrying out
mis aiasoncai programme or the Herald. From
that time for Beveral years he must share with
Bennett the odium of the vileness which filled
its columns.
The crazy licentiousness of the Herald during
its early history cannot be sufficiently ex
plained 6n the ground of deliberate design. It
was the blind striking back of a man trodden
under foot. In such a situation human nature
becomes fiendish, and emits venomous hisses
when it can no longer resist those who trample
it. Here waa a man forty years of age, still
poor and friendless by reason of the ingrati
tude of those he had served. He had known
intimately the corruption of political life
He had seen the unscrupulousness with
which speculators would sacrifice hundreds of
the innocent and helpless for their own gain.
And when these men struck at him in his
reckless mood, he resolved to let the truth be
known about them. He had the publio sym
pathy in thus exposing the guilty, and, had
he confined himself to this, his own good
habits would have brought out his character
untarnished when the victory had finally been
won by his indomitable energy. But his par
tisan life and associations had shown hiui so
much of the evil side of human nature, that he
had become incredulous of any good iu it.
When pressed to the wall in his struggle for
existence, when he saw hia profession de
graded and himself despised, he consented to
become the buffoon of the press, expecting
that Buch a character, like the clown in the
circus, would draw the crowd.' He claimed,
and perhaps honestly believed, that he was
making a paper suited to the tastes of the
community. Ilia success seemed to Justify his
Judgment, and foreigners Judged ua ac
cordingly. Such men as Charles Dickens and
Goldwin Smith told us frankly that there was
no hope of our winning the respect of the
t'14 World. whJJ such, iafawons jeui&Ili
and "monsters of , depravity" flourished
among ns.
r ut it was not the vulgarity of tho Herald
which made it successful. It would have died
within a year, suffocated in its own stench,
had it not received the timely aid of the ad
vertisement of Brandeth's Pills. Though it
continued tu be itself a bitter pill to the com
munity, and to gain circulation by being ad
vertised as such, it was, after all,
its enterprise and skill in obtaining news
which saved its life. It waa launched
and afloat at the right time and place,
and the tide was rising which in
sured pvopperity to whatever journal should
avail itself of its opportunities. As that tide
rose, the Htrald was necessarily lifted to a
higher level. As journalism became an hono
rable profession, and developed into an
orgati.ed power, abler and better men were
attracted to it. The rise of rivals obliged the
Hirald to curb its licentionsness, while its own
prosperity soothed the feelings of its proprie
tor, and encouraged him to aspire to higher
things. Nevertheless, the habits of the
li mld's youth have clung to it, slow to
change. Though it has gentlemen connected
with it who are both able and willing to make
its editorial columns more worthy of its circu
lation, a vicious inlluence pervades it, and
makes it as fickle as the wind. Mr. Bennett's
idea of the editor has been described by him
self: "We have neverbeen in a minority, and
never shall be." It may be safely affirmed
that a man who makes that his rule must very
often be in a minority, and almost always in
the wrong. A man who goes a certain way
only because others do, proclaims himself des
titute of judgment as well as of prinoiple. An
editor who makes it hia business to watch
weathercocks must, at best, be but super
ficial, since he takes account of but one of
the many and diverse currents in the atmo
sphere. . This 6hamelesa lack of moral independence
is the curee of the Herald. It destroys its in
fluence; its confessed weakness is all the more
glaring and guilty because of its absolute
freedom to take what course it pleases. There
is no other journal bo perfeotly independent
of parties, of men, and even of the publio
itself. It ia so firmly established as an adver
tising medium that it needs only to be a good
newspaper to sustain itself, at least for the pre
sent. It can snap its fingers in the face of ita
own readers. They must buy it even while
they despise it. What an opportunity presents
itself here to make it a genuine organ of publio
opinion, in whose columns the best minds of
the nation may discuss the questions of the
day with calmness and impartiality I Let it
im to represent the eternal right, instead of
h lemporarT majority. Such a course would
roUem its past. !V'rAiBfl Its circulation, cive
it influence, and ultimately make it the repre
sentative ruler of the continent.
Refusing to adopt such a course as this,
Buch journala aa the Herald must eventu
ally fall into decay. Metropolitan journals,
singular aa it may appear, must become
more local in their circulation if they rely
only upon news to extend their innuence.
Telegraphs have illustrated the adage that
extremes meet. Country journals in the
time of staees were a necessity, because people
could not get city journala in good aeason.
With railroads the latter coma compete whu
the former, and threatened to destroy them
everywhere within, two and even three, days'
travel. But telegraphs have enabled every
town of ten thousand inhabitants to have a
daily journal of its own, oontwning u uao-
stance of all news to be found in city papers.
Thus the old opportunities of local journals
have returned, with additional advantages.
The only way, therefore, in which metropoli
tan aaines can compete wuu lucai journals is
to excel them in the diBouaBion ol general
topics. This they can do by reason of their
larger capital. Let a journal, established in
New York city, organize an editorial system,
which Bhall collect within its columns, by tele
graph or otherwise, the views of men in all
parta of the country specially acquainted with
the several topics assigned them, and strictly
enjoined to be truthful, exact, and impartial.
Such a journal would daily represent the
wisdom and virtue of the nation, and would
be as much a necessity as the newspaper in
every household. The city journal which
fails to do this must eventually become
of a mere local or partisan character; and this
fate will arrive all the sooner if it persists in
being, like the Herald, a mere newspaper,
with no high principle of action, and no pro
fession of any.
Another fact must be noted in connection
with the future of the Herald. Its prosperity
depends solely on its advertisements, its ad
vertisements upon fta circulation. Already
these are mainly local. But even these are in
constant peril of being swept away. The pre
sent time is analogoua to that in which the
Herald itself first started. The established
dailies are high-priced. There is an opening
for penny papers oven more promis
ing than thirty years ago, because a penny is
reckoned much more lightly than then. And
there is a new ground to be occupied and
new enterprise to be displayed in editorial
journalism, in the way before desoribed. Ben
nett remembers well that every great journal
of New York, as well as his own, began aa a
cheap paper. Thua circulation was secured,
and then advertisements produced enlarge
ment. He, therefore, dreada these penny
papers. With characteristic energy and self
ishness, he has aimed to -crush the last one
started in New York by issuing one of his
own and giving it away. Every day may be
seen a wagon driving about the streets, and
carrying a banner on which is painted the
name of hia bantling. His rival is Benjamin
Wood, who ia possessed of like energy and
audacity. Since Bennett gives away his own
penny paper to the newsboys, Wood has
humored this liberality by exchanging one
copy of his own daily for four of Bennett's,
and then selling the latter to the paper-mlUs.
In this wav eight thousand of Bennett's
papers were disposed of in one day. But Still
the war goes on, Bennett's intention evidently
being to break down Wood's paper and then
retire his own. The streets of New York every
day and evening swarm with newsboys hawk
ing these rival sheets. They are more nume
rnna vn than during the war. Instead of
great battles, they contrive to announce every
day a new prize-fight. It is not impossible
that the rival proprietors may be inciting the
muscular fraternity to a perpetual punching
of noses, in order to furnish pabulum for these
interesting sheets. The contest is a prize-fight
in itself, and attracts the curiosity of the
public. Who Bhall win, and at what sacrifice,
remains yet to be Been. But Bennett's per
sistence shows that he fears a penny paper
which threatens to steal away his peculiar
local constituency, and professes already to
have a circulation of tens of thousands.
Personally Mr. Bennett is very correctly
represented by his photographs. His look is
not unkind, but is inquisitive, skeptical, and
suspicious, with ita Bomewhat sinister expres
sion increased by strabismus. His eye. are
bluifch grey, and of ordinary size. Hia features
are large and coarse, indicating strength rather
than delicacy. The body is large-bonod, and
graceful neither in form nor motion; the
bhoulders square and sharp, and the frame
generally angular, and somewhat loosely put
toother. His temperament ia e&nsaiue mi
neivons, making him enthusiastic as wrll a
excitable,. -His manner is usually quiet and con
siderate. His movements show something of
the age which his grey hair betokens; but his
mind is as dear, if not clearer, than in the
days when it was more active. Now and then
he thows the old disposition to make mischie
vous suggestions for the purpose of treating a
sensation; but either he has au inkling that
the time lor this trilling has gone by, or he
Bhares the liking of old men for quiet aud
freedom from excitement. When he gathers
his writers about him in the editorial rooms of
the Herald, his suggestions upon the questions
of the day have more of Beriousness than for
merly. If he has no private revenges to
gratify, or old scores to rake up, he seems
conscious that his interests, and those of his
journal and family, now depend upon the wel
fare of the nation and upon the common
interests of mankind. He readily listens
to those who have ideas to oiler ; aud
is willing that they should write what they
believe, provided always it be upon subjects
upon which he has no hobbies, or about indi
viduals against whom he has no spite.
Towards the latter he is incorrigibly aud bit
terly revengeful to the last. The most silly
and stupid instructions concerning such per
sons are given to the attache's of the office.
Their names are not to be mentioned in the
paper, not even in the news columns, if they
are publio characters, for fear of advertising
them. Then the editorial columns are made
to reek with unscrupulous abuse of them.
This small warfare is carried on by others than
Bennett himself. The Htrald has now, in
lact, like Ceiberus, a triple head, and barks at
any one Who dares to offend Bennett pire,
lieunett nitre, or Bennett iji. Neither can see,
apparently, that magnanimity becomes them;
and by putting it to such small uses, they
themselves deprive their journal either of
character or inlluence.
Bad repute is a shoal from which it ia diffi
cult to rescue a stranded character. Yet when
tides are up there ia hope in trying. The
course of the Herald during the latter part of
the war (though its support of "Mr. Lincoln is
said to have been purchased by the offerof the
French mission), and its recent energetic and
mainly consistent course regarding reconstruc
tion, show that it ia capable of better things
than it has ever achieved. Were its proprie
tor to measure himself by his opportunities,
instead of belittling himself by reverting so
often to his former style of personal and mali
cious bickering, the world would willingly
caBt the mantle of charity over the past, in
consideration of the good which might yet be
accomplished even by a septuagenarian.
Northern Monthly.
LEGAL NOTICES.
REGISTER'S NOTICE.-TO ALL CREDI
tora, LenatFea, and other persons Interested:
notice is Ijereoy (given luai me iuiiowing namna
peiHODS did, on the dates atllzed to their nuines, file
the accounts ot their Adioluistration to the estates of
those persons deceased, and Guardians' and Trustees'
accounts whose names are undermentioned, In the
ollice of the Register for the Probate ot Wills and
Granting Letters of Administration, In and for the
City aua County of Philadelphia: and that the same
will be presented 10 the Orphans' Court of said city
and county for confirmation aud allowance, on the
third KB1DAY In Ocioher next, at 10 o'clock la the
morning, at the County Court House in said city.
KeiA 4. Charles Hathaway, dmlntatratorof MARIA
1 HATHAWAY, deceased.
4, James l ories, Executor of CHARLES HEP-
" 4. Thomas f'iuley, Administrator of CHARLES
H KM M A N N , deceased.
" B. Henry W. Hpencer, Administrator d. b. n. c
L a., and Trustee or WILLIAM MoQLEN-
tiK Y, deceased,
' 6, Daniel M. l'oi. Trustee Of ELIZABETH
1'llAKER, deceased. . .
" 6. George T. KlBnbam, Administrator Of SAME.
S. TUCKER, deceased.
" 6, Edward M. fax son et al Executors of Dr.
7, George W. Dornan, Administrator Ot
THOMAS DOiiNAN, deceased.
" 11, Henry I'ratt McKeno et al., Trustees under
the will of HKNKY PRATT, deceased.
" 12, Franrlsca Kaiser, Administratrix of MAXA
MIL1AN KAIHEK, deceased.
" 12, John Clayton, Guardian of JOHN TODHTJN
TKR, a minor.
" 13, Henry Ritner.Kxecutorof CECELIA McCAF
i'KRY, deceased.
" 13, liyron woodward. Administrator d. b. n. c t'
a. or THOMAS MeCAiFKRY, deceased.
" 13, Rhosann Ishauads et al., Jixeculora Of WIL
LIAM RHOAL-S. deceased
" 14, John Clayton and Joseph B. Townsend, Exe
cutors or M. W. BALDWIN, deceased.
" 14, James Chambers, Executor of l'HILIP UAL
ZELL, deceased.
" 16, Anna A. Albright. Administratrix Of JACOB
ALliRlGHT, deceased.
" 16, Joseph JoDes and John Jordan, Jr., Adminis
trators of ANNA Id. ROLLER, deceased. .
" 16, Xllr.abeth G. Rutherford et al., Executors Of
JOHN RUTHERFORD, Jr., deceased,
" 18, John Jordan, Jr.. and Joseph Jones, Execu
tors ot HENRY J. BOLLER, deceased.
" 16, Henry Wright, Administrator of HARRIET
V. WATBON. deceased.
" 18, Samuel W. Black, Administrator of THOMAS
MOORE, deceased.
" 18, John Horton, Administrator (as filed by bis
Executors) of BENJAMIN E. VALEN
TINE, deceased.
" It, John F. Metz, Administrator of JOHN W.
WARWICK, deceased.
" 18, Peter Arnibruster and John C. Yeager. Exe
cutors of FRANCIS F. WOLUAMUTH,
deceased.
" 18, Edward Hergethelmer, Administrator da
bonis nonoIOEOROEHEROEbUEIMER,
deceased,
" HO, Penna. Co. for Ins. on Lives, eta, Guardians
of E. LEWIS ANDREWS, late a minor.
" 20, Penna. Co. for ins. on Lives, etc.. Executors
ol MIRIAM CRILLAND, deceased.
" 21. Ten na Co. (or Ins on Lives, etc.. Guardians
of HOWARD and JOSEPH DUBS, late
minors.
M 21, John H, Hammltt, Administrator of PUR
NELL J. HARRING'l ON. deceased.
' 21. Alfred Faasltt. Guardian of H. U SULKS, late
a minor.
21, Charles W. VerreBeld, Administrator of
, JOHN GUEST MERKEF1KLD, Deceased.
' 23, T. A. Budd. Jr., Aominlntralor of THOMAS
ALL' BONE, deceased.
" 24, John Craig Miller, Trustee (as filed by his ex
ecutor), under the first clause of the first
codicil to the will of MARY W. HALE, de
, ceased.
" 24, Spencer Roberto, Trustee of ELEANOR TY1
" 3S, GeorgeK. eigler. Executor ot WILLIAM H,
C. BOHLKN, deceased.
. " 28, Robert Oldden, Administrator of ESTHER
OLDDEN, deceased.
" 25, George Kemsen, Administrator of JOHN A.
REMSKN, deceased.
" 25, Charles D. Stnckhouse et al , Fx editors of
l'OWELT. STACK HOUSK, deceased.
" 25, 'William Houclc, acting Executor ol MARY
1 U'lT'ON, deceased.
" 26, Jonuthan It. Mitchell, Administrator Of
WILLIAM 11. CKAIOK, deceased.
" 20, Pennsylvania Company for Insurance on
Lives, etc., Administrators c, U a. ef WI I.
1.1AM BINGHAM, LORD AbUllUR-
1 ON, deceased.
" 26, Pennsylvania Company for Insurance on
Lives, etc., Guardiuus of CHARLES C.
lOiE, lute a minor,
" 26, William H. Coleman. Executor (as filed by
his Administrator d. b. a.) of JOHN T.
COLEMAN, deceased.
' 2C, fc'amuel K. Ashlon . Guardian of ISAAC L,
T VSON, late a minor.
" 20, James Madden, Administrator 0. t. a. of
JAMKS O'BRINE.ueceused.
" 2fi, John B. Jones, Executor of MARY JANE
. ROWAN, deceased.
" 26, Charles W. Trotter. Executor of SUSAN
TROTTEH, deceased.
9 7 I4t FREDERICK M. ADAMS. Register.
ESTATE OF CATHARINE P. ROLAND,
deceased. Letters Testamentary on the will ut
said decedent having beeu granted to the umlr
bl; ed, all persons indebted to said Estate will make
payment, and those having claims will present them
to bUSAN C. IIKKUKIWON, Executrix.
No. mm RACK Mirwjt;
THOMAS-II. POWERS,
9 27 ltil No. Ut SPRUCE Klrnet;
or to their Attorney, WILLIAM J. McELtU'V,
S. K cor. SIXTH and WALNUT sts Phllada.
IF ASTERN DISTRICT OP PENN9VLVANIA,
ll Ss. In Ilaukruiitcy At Philadelphia, the With
day ol September. A. D. Isii7. . ,
The undersigned hereby gives notice of his appoint
ment as Aihhjneeor JAMES MoCAM 1NKV. lu t he
City of Philadelphia, iu the County of Philadelphia,
and Slate of Pennsylvaula, wltiiiu taid District, who
has been adjudged a bankrupt upon his petltiou, by
the Difclilct Court olssid DisuiT . ,
JOHN ill.On"." niwiHiic,
JW No. 1" S SIXTH Street.
10 4 m
T7MTED STATES REVENUE STAiWS.
U Principal Depot. No. 4 I'll KMNUP Street.
Central Dentil No.!"1 South FIFTH Straet, one OOt
Utr' beli'w tlhesnuu Established lH6i
Revenue Msmps ol every description ouuatantlyot
baud In any amount.
iiUU u xi!r 9ieuV9 aiU&04 Ufc
INSURANCE COMPANIES,
BROOKLYN LIFE INSURANCE
OF SEW TOIIH, MUTUAL.
POLICJFB NCN-FORFFITABLE. Thirty day
grace given In payment ot Primlums. No extra.
charge for residence or tri.vel In any portion of the
world. Dividends declared annually, and paid ia
cash Dividend In 167, 40 ier cent.
' E. 13. COLTOW,
GENERAL AGENT,
N. K. OKNEK KF.VKSTII AD MIEMKIT.
Agents and Solicitors wanted In all the cities and
towns In Pennsylvania and eouthern New Jer
y a an
QIllAUD FIRE AND MARINE
INST711ANCK COMPANY.
(No. 039)
N. E. COR. CUESKDT AND SEVENTH TS.
PHILADELPHIA.
CAPITAL AKn Wrill'LUS OVER 0SOO.OO
IMtOMR FOB 18G4I, flOS.SSa.
Losses Paid and Accrued In 1866,
M7.O00
Of which amonnt net t30n0 rem aln nnpnld al this date
t Kki.ooo.Oiio of properly has been Succesaluily nstire4
by this Company lu ..thirteen years, and Eight Han.
dxed Losses by Fire promptly paid.
DIRKCTOR8.
furniun Rbeppard
Thomas MacKellar,
John Stipplee,
John W. lachoro,
Joseph K
Silas Yerkee, j
Alt red s. GUlelt,
K. B Lawrence,
Charles I. Dupont,
lienrv E L" ....
"n "A. j,
A. . GTLLETT. Vp'rid'enC "Ml1U,i
S22fmwl JAMEs B. ALVORD, Becretan;
FURS.
1867. VALL AND winteb. 1867
FUR HOUSE,
(Established In 1818.)
The undersigned Invite the special attention of the
Ladles to their large stock of FURS, consisting ot
Muffs, Tippets, Collars, Etc.,.
IN RUSSIAN BABLB,
HUDSON'S BAY SABLE,
MINK BABLB
ROYAL ERMINE, CHINCHILLA, FITCH, ETC.
All Of the LATEST STYLES, SUPERIOR FINISH;
and at reasonable prices.
Ladles In mourning will find handsome articles
PER8IANNE8 and SIM IAS; the lattei a most bean
tliuliur.
CARRIAGE ROBES, SLEIGH ROBES, and FOOT
MUFFS, In great variety,
A. K. & F. K. WOMRATH,
9114m WO. 4117 ABCH STBEETi
EXCURSIONS.
rofCZfS WILMINGTON-NO STEAMBOAT '
ah.Miirt l'iTri LINE. CHANGE OF HOUR, ETU
oji kuu alter TUESDAY. October lot th Kumm
H.M, FEI.TON and ARIEL will run as follows:
Leave CUEKNUT street wharf at 9 A. M. and 8 P. M
leave WILMINGTON at 7 A. M. and la w P. M.?
supping at CHESTER and HOOK each way. Fare
to W lluilngton 15 cents. Excurulon tickets, per 9 A.M.
boat. 26 centa. Fare to Chester or Hook, iq
ceuto. lo a lVa
"jnriN DAILY EXCURSIONS TO WIL
isiiart In' i h mington, Del. On and after TUEH
kA i , feepieniber 10, the Bteamer ELIZA KANOUX
win leave secoua wnarr ahove Arch Street dally ai
1U A. M. and 4 P. M. Returning, leav mauim
Street Wharf, Wilmington, al 7
M. and 1 P. Xf
r.ic lur .ue ruuoa uip
..so centa
..80 centa
rtiugie iicaet.
Chester and Marcus Hook- an centa
vi lurmer particulars, apply on board,
7.ir L.V. BURNS. Captaln.
SADDLERY, HARNESS, &.Q.
JIIE UNPRECEDENTED SUCCESS OF TUB
KEW CniMNVT STREET (JfO.
BADDLERT, HARNESS, A NO HOES&
. IFUBNlAlllNtt OOJS IIOCSB
OF
LACEY, MEEKER & CO.,
Is attributable to the following factt
They are very attentive to the wants oftheir cus
tomers. They are satisfied with a fair business profit.
They sell goods only on their own merit.
They guarantee every strap In all harness they sell
over $46. the fault of the purchaser only who doea not
get what be is guaranteed and paid for.
Their goods are 26 per cent, cheaper than can pa
bongbt elsewhere.
They have cheaper and finer gooda than oan ba
bought In the city.
They bave the 1 rgeet and most complete stock la
Philadelphia,
All Harness orer 28 are "band-made."
Harness from lit to (62b.
Gents' Baddies from 6 to 975.
Ladles' Saddles from ItO to 1125.
Tbey are the oldest and laxgest manufacturer in
the country.
LACEY, MEEKER & CO.,
9 14 Bra
HO. 1814 rilENNUT STBKET.
FURNISHING GOODS, SHIRTS.&C.
M
ERINO UNDERWEAR i IN GREAT VA-
riety, lor sale at
HOFMANN'S HOSIERY STORK,
Merino Underwear for Gents.
Merino Uuaerwear for Youths.
Merino Uuderwear fur InlauLs.
Merino Underweur lor Minxes.
' Merino Underwear for Ladies.
Merino Hue for Ladies,
Merino Hose for Mlssee.
Merino Hose lur Youths.
Merino Hone lor inlauta.
Merino Roee for Oeols.
All-wool Shirts, white, for Gents.
Ail-wool Shirts, scarlet, lor Uuula,
All-wool fchlrls, prey uilxsd.
All-wool Shirts, blue mixed.
AU the above, ot superior qualities, for sale at
MOFMAMN'S lIOKIEItT STOBK
SStutbsi
no. worth EIGHTH Street.
X. W. SCOTT Sc COi,
SHIBT MANUFACTUBEBS,
AMD CKALttua IN
MEWS niBMUuiKa OOI.
K. 814 CUEKNUT STBEET.
FOUR DOORS BELOW THE "CONTINENTAL,'
-t !E , fHIIDMUMlA.
PATENT SHOULDER - SEAM
SU1BT MANUFACTORY,
ANIUENTEt:aiEN'SFtTUMlltINilSTOBxl
PKRFKCT FITTING SHIRTS AND DRAWxUUJ
made Irom measurement at very short notice.
All other articles of UJUMTI,h.M ItlM'M BRStJS
GOUiXS 111 mil variety.
WINCUESTEB COH
III M U1AANVT, ftfcmU
M