The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-01-30

exposed In the matter oil Templeton, TO the rdicule
OF the city, have been put TO their wits end, and
accordingly sent out OF the concern connected
with the Mirror TO change the issue, by personal
attack the proprietor of this paper As the other
papers will probably endeavor TO fasy and misrep-
resent the affair, ! avail myself OF the following
tolerably fair account from the Evening Ledger
of yesterday aiternoon:-
ARRAY About ten o'clock. to day. James G. Bennett
and Mr. Clason met in Nassau street, had small talk
which finally resulted in row. Neither party was in
jured Mr. Bennett kept his temper but the other gen.
through the Mirror. While Clason using a small
whip, Bennett kept erclaimng, None of your non-
hat and very cooly handed il over to the owner. We
believe Mr. b. had che best of it-Ledger
Clason is a weak and imbecile man, and nothing
but pity and contempt prevented me from doing
something very serious to him on the spot The
whole affair is so utterly contemplate and the causes
SO absurd and ludicrous, that shall give it to
correspondent, who writes as follows:-
Mr. BENNETT =
have been much amused by the absurd card is-
sued by Clason, who has come to the aid of the
Mirror black mail concern, and, in fact, writes for
II, who attempts TO justify the absurdtes which he
committed at the Clifton House on former occa-
sion IN 1874, by similar absurdities now Happen
ed TO have been present at that time, and know the
with the recent card.
AT the Clifton House remember well how GER
tam clique attempted to annoy you and your family
ana now you, IN the drawing rooms and in the
presence OF many others, called them out, and made
them eat their own words In the very room where
they eat their daily mutton. You did this quietly
and decisively, that il all in five minutes.
Immediately after this, Clason, without any reason
whatever, exhibited his ludicrous conduct in the
bar room on the other side of the house, and made
asplendld stump speech against you, of an extrava-
CANT KIND Not content with this, he used certain
improper remarks towards the gentlemen present,
who called HIM TO account on the spot, and made
MN apologize. They now in this city. The
Clique which made the attack was politely invited to
leave the house, II they chose and in short time
tanned your dignity and independence which formed
singular contrast to the violence and ludcrous
absufdlty OF Clason and the Clique which made
the attempt against you. A. b.
In addition to these developments on this absurd
and ludlcrous affair, we have received from DR..
Houston, one OF our former reporters, the following
decisive statement, proving the talsehood of the
Mirror, and of Cllrehugh if he authorised Its state
ment =
JAMES q. BENNETT, ESQ
LEAR SIR have Just seen from your paper OF
Tuesday last that Mr.. McLachIan has stated in the
Epening Mirror that ga person concerned with the
Herald had received $50 from Mr.. Tempeton."
you are quite right In declaring that if that insinu
atlon were meant to apply to me il "a gross false
hood IT Mr.. McLachlan means to insinuate that
ever directly or indirectly received $50 from Mr.
lempeton ne utters an unmitigoted Tie. Allow me
10 add that during my heightened connection with
the Herald | never received tarlhlng from any
quarter IN the way of 'back mail" for any theatre
cal or musical notice written by me. The other per.
sons IN your employment at the time in question
can also, presume, clear their skirts OF the inta.
nous lnslnuation. am NC
JAMES A. HoUsroN.
Office the Union, Washington, Jan. "a, 1876.
The whole flare up, ludicrous violence, or what
you please to call it, only more strongly settle the
conviction in the public mind, that we have fixed
the real Black Mail practices upon its real perpetra
tors Yet these are the pretty fellows who have
been tor years accusing us of practices that we
never thought of in the remotest degree We can
make out OF our regular business about $40 600 per
annum-much more than we ever can spend What
are paltry fifty or five hundred dollars of black
mail TO us! We despise it.
Black Observation-Disclosures Mirror Con-
cern-Cliqucs, sc.
Mr.. BENNETT
have been much amused fer the last few days,
by the exposure you have made in relation to the
interesting black mail system, organized and car
ried on by some of your contemporaries, who are
savage against you, and charge you with similar
practices, without the slightest foundation in fact
| think you have made out complete case, SO far
proving the truth Of the guilt Of your contempt
raries. But the Mirror people have got the weather
gage Of you in respect the reward; for on looking
at the terms Of >hsir offer, you will perceive that
there is a saving clause, by which you will not be
entitled to the reward; but the public will reward
you.
have reasons for knowing that this black mail
system has been organized, for many years past,
among the persons connected with the petty news
paper press OF New York, to an extent much greater
than the public aware Of. II we look back, we
shall find strong Indications for several years Of
this fact AS relates to Templeton, he Is partcu-
larry unfortunate that the persons who sought to
make this levy upon him, appear to be his own
countrymen. Clirehugh, who is a very good bar
Der in Broadway-though, perhaps, not a whit bet
ter than your man, Jim GRANTS friendly with that
concern, and made claim Of FIVE hundred dollars
against Templeton, to which he demurred. An
other individual, connected with the Je6ersonian,
succeeded in making small levy McLachlan, of
the Mirror, failed by acciden.; and as for the
attache Of another office, he may have received
something, and he may not; if he did, no doubt it
was mercenary and improper on his part, and he
deserves to be reprimanded for it.
The black mail confederacy connected with the
petty journals Of this city, because they have been
found out, threaten vengeance against Templeton,
and pretend that if he comes again to New York,
he will try in vain to succeed, and will be unsus-
tanned by the public. But if Templeton should
again come to New York, there is no doubt he
would be received with greater eciat, and would
acquire more popularity even than before from the
manliness he has exhibited in resisting these mise.
rable creatures, these wretched obscure journals,
which only live by such practices. These petty
papers, as well some Of the Sunday papers, have
no other means Of subsistence than what they de-
rive from this black mail system, and from contr
buttons made to them by all sorts of people, who
appear before the public in any capacity
| am possessed of bundle OF facts and testimon,
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