Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-04-25
NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE.
NEW YORK, April %

NEW YORK, April %, 1854.
John W. Forney, if there is any truth in the
New York Herald, must be lucky fellow
especially for printer. s. Besides being clerl
of the House, and chairman of the kitchen
cabinet" we are told that % he owns one hall
the Washington Union and its profits of the
public printing-he owns one-half the Phila-
delphia Pennsylvania, and one-half the
1rsnsng Star, at Washington, and manages
them all. Considering that the aggregate
circulation of these three last named papers
must be at least three times that of the Herald
In Its best days, what newspaper publisher il
there in the United States, who will not envy
Mr.. Forney as their fortunate half owner And
then, again, 60 he manages them all ~ 1t takes
a smart man to do that, and to do it so well
too. The self-styled Napoleon of the Press
must resign his sceptre, knock under gin out
He is the s. Napoleon" no longer. His glory
has departed by his own admission Mister
Bennett was g some pumpkins in his peculiar
line, 80 long as he stuck to the quill. If there
had not been a petticoat in the case, don't
believe he ever would have thought of send
ing the man wot nominated Frank Pierce, -
and another Herald attache, up into New
Hampshire little while before the Inaugural
ton, to urge his (Bennett's) claims for the
French ministry.
The late " Napoleon is too good Judge of
human nature to have ventured on such a
piece of self assurance, petticoats, apron
strings, and threatened Caudle lectures being
out of the question. But then, you know, the
women sometimes play the very deuce with
the men. If General Scott hadn't remarked
to a certain lady, when she once offered to
loan him copy of the Herald at a hotel
breakfast-table, down in Newport, where the
fashiOnables 90 to salt themselves down in the
dog days. " never read that paper, Madam, u
who knows but what he might now have been
President, instead Of General Pierce? And
then again, if the latter had only transmog-
rlhed " the Napoleon Of the Press into q
French minister, and sent his Imam Wot NOM
mated Frank Pierce to Genoa or some where
else, VINO KNOWS but what the Cabinet would
now have been a unit, New HAMPSHIRE rea.
sonably Democratic, Rhode Island and Connec.
ticut free from spiritual rappers and Maine-lav
men? Who will pretend 10 say that, in such
an event, the Hards and Softs would not. ere
this, have embraced each other like turtle
doves; Russia have made up her quarrel with
Turkey by letting John Bull take possession
of Constantinople, instead of trying to senC
him into Egypt and Candis,*) the lion have
lain down with the lamb, the sucking child
played on the hole Of the asp, ct cetera, anc
so forth? Who knows But it is now to,
late to remedy the matter. "The Napoleon
will have to pass another summer at som,
German water-cure establishment (Cold wa
ter is good for nervous complaints) In thu
inean time, the Newport affair is forgotten
and the Herald has declared for Scott Whs
knows that justice will not yet be done him
SIMON
VIDE the Earl Of Clarendon late speech
In the British House Of Lords, exposing tn.
secret negotiations between England and Rus
sia relative to q partition of Turkey.