New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-10-09

$3.50 ,.rns,.,, chiefs OF religious chars',er;
For q nuaiber Of years, and rnui W. o IT,. 100 or
read every day, a least one cnsp.e al ssy exercise
imme dateIy after dinner, when The goa o,o 1St n
down TO smoke their pipe. Lney prooa'Y S.,sys II
,helr Say 10 demand thb oil me- ou' O -.
was Measure 10 them 10 hear me no AN su,e
% me 10 &c permitted 10 read. have no oouo'
read the Bible through Ia course az iesa oo<e
before wa sixteen years old, with no o'neI QUIZ T
,baD The breaking cbapseis OF tae the Incl
historical parts had read much onener sna .no
deuu and the language became almost az isminsf @
srsce hlch the old gentleman ssid before soa MSe.
nesl,-r,hher Of which ever v,Iled wore sU'"s'-'
zine year, sad half that lived with him
At The period Of which | am writing, tne u'n .n.s
schools IN Conncc;lcut were kept no more 'aHh ~
months In a csr-swo In she wioter oy msh' SUI
In the hummer by q woman Ihsi woi'n !" - "ses
nv th female was for sirls ard for shidren OF oosn
,exes no were jest learning the alphabet ana 'ae
Lessons in speIiug had ougrorn tois scaoo, uon ~
age and requirement. aud never went 70 Ss
or tea cher sfter left my mother Inc sea ,o' noas.
IN our district was than mile nom our uou'o
and during The winter term tae weather vas o's eo
and bolstcrous l went 10 school Only IN P, 81,
vcs,hor md never more than half day ~ eume .1i
Tho winter when attained my foufteenul yeai' ~
hitting that wen, bali day on every slte'nse usy
for he two months which 10 calculation thH knp"
exceeds tn truth w4yo sT0a. e sour esa bssan
20 cisLy and during that and the next ~in'er my AZ
tendance Il the school Was MOI eonsiant-snouhahs
n the aggregate perhaps, 10 couple OF moasns' aa
theie ended my education as isr - s'p s-a go fsm
ilv vherc reading and writing were NOT ceemed uniu''
portsnt ,no where learned nearly ~ muce ss ooyso
nv ase who were more CONSTANTLY AZ scnoo,; NNLs s
but reading wriing and arithmetic wee tlei tusu'
a.. branches of common school educsfcu- vi seos'e
phy knew bat tule and OF Engiisn grammar xSi
iii After began my apprenticeship IWAS ,I
that had a disposition foe reading ana mse usa
r,irt,.t OF induleus H. though the mesns were scsny
The family was a religious one. No LABOR exsep'
works of absolute necessity, wss ever Pis on
Saturday evening, ster sunset, ny s,ss.,s Ma the
,snea,;ng Of the Westminster Cstechsm sne seon
Psalms or HYMNS ss mshI have co nmHea 70 ue s
~ in the cOurs Of ,he wees dHs ,be Psalm from b.
s,rning 10 end together with many OF ME ny sno
lyric Poems Among these the ~ tds rH%g,"p sS.'
Fec Happy Maicaes, Tue 6'e"ts, sho h"RPy R'"N'"
were my favorite rccitafions.
In the beginning of 1893, printing once was
established in Windhsm, and for several weeks
the youpgster was greatly exercised with desire
10 see the operation of printing. AT length .ne
time came for il to be gratihed. hsvIng stood Ill
one POSITION for an hour, to sea composltor
xo,k A. his case. and for another hour wat 'hins
tho ope,atjon Of the press, he went home deter
mined IN be a % inter. la Dec. 1875, his term OF
service with the tanner expir d. True to his res
olutiop, he obtained placeIn pnne'ng once, ao
Walpole, y. H., where he was initiated INTO ths
mystery of type. setting. He remained here only
about six months. During that time ne never
,pept happy day. The steady habits wh'ch no
had brought with him from Connecticut wero
constantly outraged. lie had hardly been in tue
office two hours, before he was called on 10 treat
lie resisted the cali for Ieyerd DAYS, Dut aI
lsnstb. overcome by the perpetual annoyance,
WIS induced To spend more than half oil the small
amount he had ia his pocket for brandy, wine,
sugar. esgs. crackers, cheese, and ether materials
for piiuser's frohc. This was che inst time ne
had ever tasted strong liz iOrF. lie was compete
10 swallow them, nau'eatDg and osgustIog as
they were to his unsccgstomes palate Leaving
WapoIe, he found himself in The office oil rooms
hickman, publisher Of The Greenseid Gd'eftt, ae
Greenfield Massl. In the spring OF l'9S' HIS mo-
tber was rapidly declining ia a consumption, ana
died in the course of the summer Soon alter tn's
event. he wss ADVISED 20 seek place IN boston,
snd leaving Greenfield with his wardrobe tied up
in a handkerchief aad about forty cents IN hrs
poctet. ne walked 10 Northampton. Obtaining
tmpl, yrpent there for a few months, and thus i'm
creasing MS scanty exchequer, ne started for Bos
slsish hy some Of the wayiirers, completed the
Quincy in three days and half. tic songhs en-
ployment on the day his arrival, aod before one
O'Clock found place in tine Office Of Manning ~
Loripg, who were then the principal book PRINT
eTs in the town.
After taking his various degrees in the printing
Office, and always with high honors, our foiend em-
barks in the publishing line, and having made one
or two unsuccessful ventures in periodicals, az
length establishes The Galdry, a weekly paper,
which first made his name known to the public as
a bold and caustc censor Of moral. aud writer
Of sncommonly vigorous and rscy English. This
Journal vas established in 1917. 1t was not with
out great misgiyiDgs that the editor proceeded
with the undertaking. A wife and six children
depended on bis efforts for their daily bread. He
had not dollar in money at his command. With
out the means of procuring printing apparatus,
no was obliged to depend on credlt--and OF that
he had none--except what few friends gave him
for industry and perseverance. A font Of second .
hand type was bought OF brother printer, and an
old press from some other person, who took for it
one hundred dollsrs, with mortgage on the press
as security. The PRESS was almost worthless,
and after usog il for year or two, he sold it Tor
fifteen dollars. Although not meeting With inme-
diato pecuniary success, The GALAXY soon pro-
duced sensation, and became marked feature
in Boston so.i-ty. IL was plain, out-spoken
journal-seyere and bitter in its comments on
passing evsnts-merclessly applying the lash to
the shoulders of pretention and pedantry--ifee
from every trace Of aristocratic stiffness -indIl
gipg in merry laugh at many of the conventional
idols ofthe eay-though avoiding the vulgar error
Of installing lang for strength, and oddly for
originaity-often inserting articles of high lite
rary character from the pens Of accomplished
contributorl-whle it's leading editorials we're
almost without exception characterized by force