The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-02-10
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ter ii new light. BENNETT the Senior

has never been renowned for his personal
courage. But, quite the reverse. He has
endured public foggings the sacred number
of seven times, and exhibited thereat q
Christian patience which would warrant
the belief that he would suffer in like
spirit their repetition even to seventy
times seven: But, it appears that BENNETT
Junior is made of more chivalric stuff.
Indeed, it seems that this young BENNETT is
no despicable character. A correspondent
of the Mobile Register states that young
BENNETT is now the principal assistant
editor of his father. That, he conducts the
editorial department when his father is not
in town, and writes well. That, he has more
talent than his father, though lacking the
experience. That, there is no person in
the United States who has received such an
education as young BENNETT. That, he
has spent years in France, Germany, Italy,
and Spain. That, he speaks and writes the
languages of all those countries with the
correctness of native. That, when he gets
to be twenty one, the heading of the Herald
is to read GAMES G. BENNETT & Son, Edi.
tors and Proprietors." And that, finally
when the old gentleman dies, the heading
will be changed back to plain J. e. B.
the son having the same name as the father.
Now, if in addition to all the above, the
young BENNETT shows himself to be pos
sessed of pluck, and in the exercise thereof
wings PRYOR, coolly and aristically, the
fame of the house of BENNETT will rise, and
with that, the profit of the Herald. In this
view, little judicious shooting would prove
very good thing.
There is, however, formidable obstacle
in the way of this desirable denoument.
PRYOR is one of the most accomplished duel
lists of the day. As principal and second,
he counts his affairs of honor by the score.
He is an unappealable authority in all mat
tiers connected with the code; and young
BENNETT may not care to risk his life, his
fortune and his sacred honor" at the mercy
of such an antagonist. What else Mr..
Pryor is, and how he looks, may be
gathered from the following description,
given by the Washington correspondent Of
the New York Times:
Pryor stands about six feet high, sparely and
actively built, with large head of the Elmer.
sonian type, in which the forehead shows ex.
ternally the two lObes into which the brain is
divided. He wears a mass of long brown
hair, very soft and silky, combed back behind
his ears and reaching to his coat collar. Just
above the eyes, which are dark-hue, large, and
rather prominent, he has two bullying compart-
%ents wherein the pp e1roePtive faculties may
analytical purposes. His nose is decisive
Grecian. with contracting and dilating nostrils;
his mouth is we'll arched and sinewy, furnished
with two fine, firm rows of teeth-the upper
row not lying quite close together, AID little
inclined to prelude. His chin is square, but
retreating, with pleasant dimple in its heart;
and his complexion is as fair, clear, beardless,
delicate and sensitive as that of any literary
young lady of studious habits and romantic
turn of mind. Add to the foregoing q scrupu.
lous neatness and nicely of person, encased in
full dress suit of black, and with abundance of
SpOtleSS linen around the tnrOaC, DreaSC, ana
wrists-and you have the external man of this
editor and congressman, as nearly as your cor
respondent can give it. As a speaker, Mr..
Pryor has a tenor voice, little wiry, and not
yet quite trained to the size of the congress
sional chamber; but his management of lam
guage is admirable, and his gest ures, though
very moderate and restrained, possess most
suggestive force. His utterance of invective
IS cool, slow, and bitter-giving every arrow
time to rankle before the next shaft is lodged
beside it. He talks like one who has expert
enced the difficulty of reporting hurried
speech, and with precision of statement and
illustration only to be derived from the habit
of thinking pen in hand, and seeing hot words
in cold type next morning. Regarded as one
of the most rising young men in Congress, he
has troops of friends, in all sections of the
House. and is esteemed for the possession of
many generous and amiable qualities.