New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-09-04
NEW-YORK IN SLICES.
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Having made our WI and got our life insured for a
sufficient to keep wife and family In comfort
able circumstances after our departure. we are deter
mined to have dash at the Press. Right or wrong
young or old handsome ugly they shall all traverse
the hed of our penand ink daguerreotype-r'deiicd,
fooscap But soft-here comes the magnificent nose Of
our friend Major NOAH round the corner Doubtless
his Jolly face will shortly follow and when H. and the
burly Santa Claus like body which it crowns shall have
presented themselves to full view you will selfish
good nature and jolly Indifference personihed The
Major was younger than at present-athough his
reputation In the good old sleepy days when he
acquired comfortable fame by his brsgpe sallies in
the Ncr Ygrk Inquirer and his neat twinklings in the
EceHing Sdr journalism in America not the absorb
ing remorscless camorous thing has become, and 4
mans brain spread respectfully sized sheet OF
paper 10 dry received somewhat Of respect than
a green hide summing in the swamp Then expresses
were unhoard Of and ielegraphs were unchrysalized
from the ligh'ning's blue and fiery hlm-then happy
thought happy face things cherished and re-
cognzed by sedate and unhurred world But now
all this is changed. The little peaceful brook along
whose murmuring banks our friend NOAH used to 90
idng-now stealing shining pebble and now puckng
pretty wild-hower-has become roaring and raging
river while the bewildercd Major leapng from knoll
to knoll as the waters encompass sed him, has barely
escaped with life, and sits out Of sight upon woody
bank hopelessy waiting for the rude stream to run by
that he may resume his old occupations
Step softly hither and look gingerly through this
gassdoor-whom do you see small, exquisiely
built man. with head swelling out at the temples like
an oriental dome-a glorious place to dream Inland an
eye restless with the flashing and unameable light OF
genius yet apparently subdued to temperate beamns
by the sheer power of an oyermastering will That Is
WILLIAM CULLEN BRyANT-the best lyric poet OF his
land and age the superior of Cowper in grace and fer
vor Of Thompson in naturalness and simplicity oil
Wordsworth in music and dignity. Yet with the guer-
don of an immortality bright as the stars within
the sweep OF his penam he sits there at one corner OF
a deal table literally heaped into mountain OF newspa-
pers, uncut books, unread communications and all the
accumulated rubbish Of an Editors table writing no
Hymn the North star but an appeal to Northern vo-
tiers no Thanatopsis, but political thumper for the
Ecenmg Post. Awake man, awake The Philistines
are upon thee Let see once the fash Of thy
pen and hear the musical thunders which follow -
While there are good ten who beat thee all to
pieces at political lying ii thou wilt but assume thine
own immortal Tyre the world shall be mute to listen
| Let Us climb these dark and tortuous stsirs-amost
as twisted as the course OF the journal below-snd look
IN upon tulllf viu
figuring up election returns table furnished with
case OF little drawers each labeled with the name OF
state In these drawers neatly scissored lie the poi
cal statistics OF each state for many years back What
ever may be thought OF the Observation-Disclosures Of the
editorial department OF the Journal Of Commerce, Mr.
HNLocxs figures are almost as accurate and reliable
a. Mr.. GREELEYs
In wonder elegant mansion where Beauty and Wit and
Fashion have made their home sits in his elegant study
the surviving spirit OF Lang Turner's Gase'tewho,
wisely perceivng that it ebb tide with the fortunes
of the Ga.e and that the respectable old craft would
inevitably be left high and dry while all the world went
out to sea had the courage to leap back at once INTO
his old profession in which he has become the pioneer
to what he considers vast and momentous discoveries
The Representative of an old and exploded phase OF
journalism has now become the active and enthusiSs
tic exponent OF Young Physic. Few remember when
they meet his benevolent face that he was once nothing
but an Editor and hope to be psrdoned for thus
calling himself to his remembrance
Another upstairs journey-having found way
down to the level of Wallst-will conduct TO the
- iitors' Room of the Courier & Enquirer one
Colonel is Of course out OF town. snother-a bland,
benevolent.looking gentleman Of the old schools
seated on one side Of long dingy table, hsmmering
out Money Article Opposite sits frai, pale student
ike man boring into the organ of Causality with the
forefncer of his left hand and scratching away fear.
fully at political leader which is to abolish al blow
Mr. Van Buren, The Tribune and Free soil, and send
General TAYLOR into the White House by telegraph
noticeable young man is this-who by the power Of 4
bitter unrelen,.ne unrelaxng industry has made him
self against nature and his inclination, Politician
and Journalist in the space Of time usually occupied
he vounc men in getting ready 10 learn.
But we must leave dsguerreotyping to another day.
md saw something in the general about most interest
ng and Misunderstood class of the COMMUNICATIVE re-
cular journeymen Dsiy Journalists In any other city
of the United States the newspapers pretty much
all alise-apparenty in the same mold printed On
the same paper with the same type, and having sort
OF homogeneous physiocnomy, which beirsys their orr
sn the instant they pesed. In New York however
the Press has as many diosyncrases as journals and
each sheet possesses individual and weldehned ex
stcnce scarcely resembling in il general features any
OF its neghbors One Of the most striking pecuiarires
of the New journalist is that he IS able TO appre-
cste and assinste himself with these pecuartes, and
to write in turn for all tie papers without once forget
ting himself compromising the character Of the col
umns TO which he happens to be contributing Talk OF
the power of abstraction aad indiyiduaza in shak
spcare-what Is IT, compared with the same power as
manifested by the accomplished New.iork journalist
Il was comparayey easy TO put appropriate words into
the mouths of Miranda and Prospcro, and Hamlet, and
Cleopatra but suppose your Shakespeare had been called
upon to hammer out leader for the C9Ari" and In
qEircr Monday condense an almanac Tor The JoFrHa
Of Commerce on Tuesday reyoutonize Cuba Tor the
sHn on Wednesday prove in the True Sun oil Inurs
day that Martin Van Buren, no Democrat conduct
the country through tremendous crisis IN the Her
aid Friday and al the blunders Of the Express
for The Tribune on Ssturdsy-to say nothing OF spin
ming out half dozen yards Of gutts perchs for the