New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-08-10
preserved. Here 10 a touching description OF
,unget view Of Boston:


Other specimens equally Homeric in their
sublimity are proudly exhibited by the bog
rainier. but we must forbear the gratihcaton
Of quotation.
The lodgings Of the rspturous bard in Boston
were of the most uDpoetcal character OpPo-
ate "eloomy old jail Of whitewashed brick
and stone. in the rear Of which was the play
ground Of school Of roy steriDg boys, they could
not have inspired any very rose 'colored visions,
and thus perhaps a wet blanket was thrown
over his glowing poetic rage" His poverty at
this time was so great, as to be unfriencly to
moral expansion. "ToO poor to crafty hiswish-
et at will lie was obliged to creep;" bat when
this habit vas discontinued, we are not informed
by his biog'spher. Is possible relief he
betakes himself to New YOTk-lOOks TO the
press a. the "lsst refuge but his experiments
are in yain-and be brings up at Charleston, D.
C., where be translates Spanish for likelihood,
and studies Southern Institutions for recreation.
Coming back to New-York lie again tries bis
hand az q pedsgogue, but with 70 better luck
than at Halifax. He also delivers lectures on po-
litical economy, but "DO reports of them are IN
existence" at is to be presumed, Gays our
author, "ttat they were not altogether value
less" "He had not then become politician"
and had comparatively little temptation "to
dwarf the truth" as is the case, his friend naive
" remarks, "when party undertakes to deal
with principles" Ia 1895, he made his fret at
tempt to become the proprietor of public
journal This was called The Mr. York Courier
1t proved q dead failure. He then became iden-
tilted more closely with THE National Adrocaie, TO
the cOlGmns Of which he had previously been a
contributor. His management ofthat journal was
such that it might easily have led to the remark
ole is sn Infamous editor" But as our author
profoundly suggests, such an opinion might have
been merely "Piece Of personal malice"
Toward tie close Of 1876 Mr. Bennett became
"so wsR known 10 the journalists of New-YJrk
that they sele cted him as target" During the
same year he "improyes bis style Of compost
ton" and begins to ms4e himself equal to his
task" as journalist. Previously to that period,
be "dd not choose his subjects with much
taste" and wrote to "gratify public appe-
ti,e," which has since "happiIy abated." 1t
might have been well il the habit bad diminished
with the appetite for which it catered Ia 1929
be became an associate editor OF The Courier
and Enquirer, in which he wrote many " in
genious, amusing, and bold articles" among
which was cone Of bis best efforts" in de-
scIiption of the experiments of NJ Chabert the
great Fire King. His connection with this jour
nal lasted till 1882, and on the ooh Of October
of that year, he issued the first number of The
Globe. This lived just one month, when it
breathed its last. lie then goes to Philadel-
phia, and becomes partner in The Penzsyt-
cdniGn. Here he excited so much disgust by
his editorial course, that when he needed loan
Of twenty. five hundred dollars it could not be
obtained for him in the whole circle of his
political allies. Vibrating again to New-York,
he establishes The Herald in 1885. At this
time, after his intimate connection with politics
and public men, "he has scarcely friend TO
cheer him" Not man in the City appears TO
have reposed any confidence in him. His own
opipion of his ass( ciates was little better.
q" No more will he trust politicians and parti-
sans" He undertakes, accordingly, to be the
censor of society,"" in mode which, as DELI
cstely ntimated by the biogrspher, "wll not
be sanctioned by the improved taste of the
present hour" Among the means used to
attract attention to his journal "were some
curious ones" No doubt. Bat Why not specify
few of them, beside mock special messages
from Andrew Jackson and Gov. w. l. Marcy"
In this portion of the biography the writer
suspends the flow of his narrative to favor the
coLtempative student of analOgies with some
suggt stiye remarks on profound spiritual coin
cidence, which he doub .less claims as his own
discovery. The parallel so aptly illustrated is
between "LocO FOcO Matches and the penny
press. We will not defraud our readers of this
unetuous moroccan of philosophical imaginative
ness. "'Loco FocO Matches, says our mod
ern Bishop Butler, "came into use with the
penny newspapers, and, in fact, the progress ol
matches and newspapers has been somewhat al
ogous. The improvement of one has been at
tended by corresponding Improvement and use
of the other. The tin ierbox went out of fash
ion in 1926; small red boxes, containing bottle
filed with acid and cotton, and surrounded by
phosphoIized pine sticks, superseded the tin box,
flint and steel The sale Of these, throughout
the United States, for several years, was ualver-
sal The invention was French in its origin.
Finally, these gave place to something similar
TO the article now in use, made Of pine, brim-
stone and the chlorste of potash, by the manu-
facture of which several mAtch.mlkers in this
country are reaping rs great pecuniary harvest
as the most success ful newspaper proprietors.
The cheap matches aud the cheap newspapers
we're sold in every street. Families before this