The New York herald., 1862-10-04

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Perhaps no spectacle is more saddening thar
that of a man who has adopted . profession o.
business for which Providence has manifesny
unified him. He finds himself continually n
arrears, in spite of his most earnest and labori-
GUS efforts. His occupation, instead of yielding
him an assured income, becomes . clog and .
burden to him, weighing him down and wear
ing him out remorselessly. In vain he resorts
to every shift, device and expedient to make
both ends meet. In vain he dabbles In other
pursuits and outside speculations, and some
times, driven to desperation, even cheats, gam
bles and swindles, in order to bolster up his un-
lucky business, to which he clings with insane
tenacity, but which becomes worse and worse,
and threatens to ruin him at any moment He
is like patient who suffers from q tapsworm,
] and is compelled to eat and drink immoderately,
aad at an enormous expense, only to make the
worm larger and livelier, and his own death
more speedy and certain. The only difference
between the two cases is that the patient strives
to get rid of his tapeworm; but the deluded
man, having entered the wrong profession, can
not be induced to relinquish it until it has ac-
complished his destruction.
n Such sad and miserable example Of human
FOLLY is presented by poor Greeley Of the
Tribune He insists upon being an editor, when
really, as we have often assured him, he has not
the slightest qualification for the profession
When the people reject paper so unanimously
that it does not pay expenses, even with its size
| reduced and its staff cut down, it is very
| cdrtain that the editor of that paper has mis-
| taken his vocation. Tried by this test Greeley
sclearly not an editor; for the Tribune has
lanentably failed, and its stock has had to be
bought in by the Tribune Association to prevent
it selling at large discount on the street. 1t
| lost all the brains it ever had-and that was
| not much-when Dana retired, having for some
| time laboriously sustained concern always
disposed to 60 down like lead. o. Since that time
the Tribune has only been enabled to retain
| the small number of subscribers at present on
is books by copying the news from the
HERALD, as Mr.. Gay, the chief editor under
Greeley, candidly acknowledged in letter
Ealready published in these columns. Mr.
Dana, during his reign, used also to copy from
i the HERALD; but he was too shrewd to own it,
either openly or privately. Even during his
| time, therefore, the people preferred to read
the news in our paper, from one day to week
in advance of the Tribune, and consequently
I the Tribune did not pay. Greeley himself ad-
mitted, editorially, that his journal had made
no money the last year of Dana's manage
mcnt, and the truth-which Greeley never
tells-is that it had lost about twenty-five hum
dred dollars. This year it will assuredly lose
| still more, and the taxes will settle it COM
| pletely. Persisting in being journalist, in
| spite of the warning conveyed through such
losses, Greeley long ago began to try to support
himself and the Tribune by discredtable and
unprofessional enterprises. He entered the
lobby and dirtied his fingers with the Matteson
| $1,000 draft. He took charge of the Irish Re-
| lief Fund, which has never been accounted for
since it was foolishly entrusted to his guardian
ship. He begged for office, that he might fill his
pockets from the public treasury. He exhibited
bleeding Kansas as Snowman does puppet,
to draw pennies. All these means failing, and
the Tribune failing also, he concluded to 60
farther, and we are sorry to say, he Jared worse.
With our customary liberality, we had given
poor Greeley our advice through these trying
times, and had repeatedly offered him our old
clothes to replace his shabby apparel and our
cold victuals to exc out his vegetarian diet Of
vinegar and water Now we were called upon
and consented to advertise at half price his
grand scheme of a lottery for gold pens and
the Tribune, silver pencil cases and the Tribune,
and slate pencils and the Tribune This lottery
proved blank, and poor Greeley next engaged
in the gun contract business, through Snow and
Amy of the Tribune Association; but the con-
tract, like the guns, would not 60 off well, and
was, we believe, rather q loss to the concern
and the government. Then our services were
| again demanded to advertise gratuitously
new lottery for strawberry plants and the
Tribune; but the strawberry season was over,
and after a months trial Greeley complained
that he had not sold q single ticket; for he
wrote in the Tribune, "If any one sends us an
order for the strawberries he shall be number
one on the list, and SO on;" thus clearly show
ing that no one had yet subscribed. Now as
almost his last chance, and not yet convinced
that nature never intended him for an editor,
poor Greeley is trying to support the Tribune
by starting an opposition to Harper & Broth
ers. He is about to publish Victor Hugo's
novel, Lies Mserables," !" and will organize new
lottery with Lies Miserabes" and the Tribune,
instead of gold pens or strawberries and the
| Tribune. The novel is good one, and we hope
| Greeley will succeed Lies Miserables,n - or the
wretched people. is . title remarkably appro-
pirate to the members of the Tribune Associa-
ton. Besides this, one Of the leading charac-
ters in the novel is q Partisan gamin
named Gavroche, who is evidently q. fac simils
Of Greeley himself The ambition Of Cav
roche, according to Victor Hugo, was to upset
the government and get his breeches mended
/ Can ANYTHING doacriha moor Graolo,r boA4or