The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-01-03

TO the weekly pleasure in store Old and young
will gather to welcome the expected visitant. and
they will find a new charm around the hearth
stone, that is gladdened by its presence. And we
venture to predict, that when the period of Mr..
Eyeretts engagement expires, his classic pen will
have SO educated the tastes Of the magazine read
ing portion Of the community, that they will turn
with disgust from the highly wrought fctions of
the sensation school, and demand pure and whole
some intellectual food.
But this is not the only good which we believe
VIII be achieved by Mr.. Everett's new enterprise.
His example of sef-abnegating patriotism will tell
us tale to the rising and to the future generation.
Will fire youthful AMBITION and stimulate men, to
whom nigh gifts have been entrusted, to walk in
ms steps; to lay the offering of their talents upon
holy affairs, and to strive after peacefully won
laurels.
To Mr.. Bonner we think the thanks of the COM
munity instead OF the literally bestowed sarcasms
ment which he had the ingenuity to make, while it
benefits himself, will afford profit and pleasure to
the public. Mr. Bonner is a man Of high principle
and irrepr0achable character, who has amassod o
fortune by honest industry and great business tact
The LEDGER has always been remarkable for its
moral tone, and its columns are graced by contribu-
tons from pens Of undsputed celebrity. Mr.. Bonner
showed his fitness for the position he occupies, in
securing the sereces OF illustrious man. who has
been successful in every labor he ever undertook
distinguished in all-and who, no doubt, will be
equally prosperous in this.
From the Newark Advertiser
EVERETT AND BONNER.--What an ado some folks
are making about Everett and Bonner, because it is
susmised that the former has passion to be IA
nous perhaps even expects to make himself rre-
sident by speaking and writing about Mount YER
non. They cannot accuse him of avarcious mo-
tivcs-no, this money making Islander they reserve
for Bonner. Bonner is charged with meaning to
make good thing out of his bargain with Mr..
Everett. Really can this be the fact! Is the pub
Usher of the LEDGER such sharper as to be busy
good paper, but to make il profitable? The wretch
can he be so base as to try to support his family,
and lay up something for rainy Saturday or blue
Monday, as he sees others doing all around him in
New York, 10 the number OF some hundreds Of
thousands?
Why not, we ask? Shall Sparks and Irving get
handsome fortunes out of the revered Father of his
Country, and shall not Mr., Bonner do the same? To
be sure, Mr.. Everett earns tens of thousands and
yields them all up to grand, national and glorious
design. That does not screen him, however, from
imputations. All! he is ambitious, vain glorious or
something else. Well, Howard and Mrs. Fry had
their traducers, and we have heard several indi-
viduals launch small thunder bolts, very small in
deed, at the crazy head, as they termed Dorothy
Dix. What of thatl They have not and cannot
hnrt the hair of either of their noble heads. The
thing that these women and this man have done
shall be told Of them with honor to the latest gene
ration.
There is variety in vocations. Mr.. Bonner may
not be patriot phianthropst in this particular
thing. For aught we know he INDUCES his better
emotions in some other sphere. We dare say he
does. In the matter of the Mount Vernon Papers,
he is a man Of business. What to Mr.. Everett is
work Of patriotism, public spirit, philanthropy, eN-
allied and generous sentiment-call it what you will
except a work of personal gain---to Bonner is
mere matter of honorable business and fair dealing
We hear nothing further than what appears upon
the public record; but from that, we say we infer
this to be his object. And we assert it to be law
full and good one-as good as that of merchant, me-
cha nil man md thar p.ui, IfSIo
They are working in honorable vacations for an
honest living; so is he
But Mr.. Bonner does seem, though perhaps he
claims no merit for it-but cannot say how that
is; but he might if he wished, lay some small claim
to credit for Indirectly helping on laudable and
high plan dear to the Ladies' National Association,
and to the hearts of the better part of the whole
community-one which needs too all the aid that
any body can bestow, and we ardently hope they
will get it. We hope they will meet with many as
valuable assistants Mr. Bonner is, but don't be-
lieve they will; yet they will unquestionably sue
coed.
1t is a fortunate thing when mans business,
like that of Mr.. Bonner, happens to benefit the pub
lie at the some time that it helps himself. There
are Occupahone wo could nan,o which benefit only
those who conduct them, but damage the com,nu-
nifty even to vastly greater extent than they profit
those who carry them on. Inveigh, thunder, We
moraists and excellent critics. against those occu-
pations but let Mr.. Bonner alone He is not one
of them. In his arrangement with Mr. Everett he
is the author and promoter of much good, and
nothing but good, so far "a we know TO other
people. If anybody will be hurt, il is himself. He
is the man who has paid Mr.. Everett ten thousand
dOllars--sl0O column-for his work, before the
work was DONE aye, before il was begun. That Is
something more than paying in cash. Whether he
will be compensated for this large outlay is more
than we can tell, orhe either We suspect. We hope
he will.
Still more uncertain is it whether it will Weld
profit adequate to the risk This is his affair, he
has assumed the responsibility, and it looks "a If
he reasoned with himself thus ''If gain by the
adventure, it will be gained fairly, while nobody
will lose. On the contrary, if should lose, it will
be in good cause, and my loss will be the advan-
tage of a noble enterprise
And now we think, that nobody is entitled to
carp at the motives of either of thei gentlemen till
they have entitled themselves to the privilege by
the possession OF one of Mr.. Everott's handsome
certificates filed up with the sum Of fifty dollars
given to the Mount Vernon Association. There is
great inquiry for the beautiful papers of Mr.. Eve
rett, which, we augur from the two already pub
lshed, viii add to his present title of the Orator of
America, the equally honorable one of the Ameri-
can Essayist
From the North and south--Elihu Burrts Papcrl
BoNNER's RIrMrHANr ENrgEE.--What was the
pomp and glory of Roman warriors who made
their grand eaee under the trumphal arches Of the
Eternal City, What were the most splendid vic
tories Of barbarous warfare compared to Bonner's
last unparalleled conquest He enters the are de
Swans, poets and the great barons Of the pen
gracing his chariot. He opens the new year with
Edward Everetts first artice-the first Of a series
to be called the 4" Mount Vernon Papers" And
mark the show of intellectual wealth ut his com
mand. This article is not escorted TO its place by
platoon Of exclamation points. II is not mounted
on large and conspicuous type, but appears in the
even and dark-iaced democracy of unleaded bre-
vier. Under the heading Of the article the reader
is introduced to plain Edward Everett No Hon.
nor Mr.. is prefxed to that well known name If
Nehemiah Pickletick, of Squan Beach, had sent in
an essay on fresh water musses, it could not have
been inserted in less snowy form. There Is kind Of
sublmity in this modesty Of the publishers senti-
ment OF strength and inexbaustbe resource; an
act of good democratic equity, also toward his i'm
peria guard of contributors. :" Here is Edward
Everett t." he seems 10 say, and he is only one OF
us; there Is more Of the same sort coming" And
indeed. there are some waiTanfior this promise in
the rank Of writers ranged either side OF the dis
tinguishcd orator and statesman. Next on his
right we have John &. SAKE, followed by Mrs. l..
H. SigOnrney, Thomas Dunn English. Mr.. II. w.
Wadsworth, George ". Prentice, and Others of like
status. Sylvanus Cobb. Jr., leads the way on the