The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-08-30
Gle Aortolk 2ost.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 80, 1865.
AN EvENrrUL EDITORIAL CAREER.

eventful experiences as a newspaper
publisher. He was born in York
county, Pa, and at the time of his death,
was well advanced in years. His debut
in the profession was made as the editor
Of the old Nashville Union, at the time
that paper was looked upon as the special
organ of Andrew Jackson. I'm the cam
paign of forty-four, after Henry Clay
had written his Texas letter, it will be
remembered that Van Buren,, who was
The most prominent candidate before the
Democratic party, also came out i'm oppo-
siti0n to the annexation of Texas, and
manifested decided free-sol aflinities
| The Democracy Were nevertheless anX-
ious thatlit Van should he their stand
| ard bearer, as the most available candi-
date at the North-and the Nashville |
Union being the m0uth-piece of the Old |
Man of the Hermitage, who was the
leader of the Democracy--an article was |
written forthe Union, " whitewashing |
Mr.. Van Buren,, which young Heiss, as
editor of the paper, refused to publish |
but instead had a scathing article pre-
pared, which he published, denouncing |
Martin Van Buren, and advocating the
claims of James K. Polk. Even jack
son was not pleased; but the sequel
sustained the editor, for Polk was nom-
mated and Henry Clay was again defeat
| ed. Texas was annexed, and we had
| the Mexican war. HESS was rewarded
| for his services to Polk by being called
to Washington to assist old Father
Richie in conducting the Union, the
organ of the Administration which he
continued in, and enjoyed the friendship
of Ritchie, till the Inauguration of Cen
erai Taylor, when Alexander Bullitt, OF
the New Orleans press, superseded the
Union as government organ by the Re-
| public, and distinguished himself in
giving to literature the phrase all the
world and the rest Of mankind.n Heiss
had made money in various ways, and
was accounted wealthy. His father had
been ship builder, and the son inherit
ed strong prediction for his fathers
calling; and, in making him an editor,
we can safely say good shipwright was
lost to the world. He was very fond o.
drawing models of steamers, and, now
that he had MONEY to spare, he deter
mined to build vessel after one of his
own ideas. He carried his plan into
effect, and the celebrated Pampero was
the result She was considered the fast
est vessel upon the seas ip those times,
and was very perfect and stylish craft.
Her first voyage was made to the Gull
of Mexico, where she cruised around the
! Mexican and Texas coast during the
spring of 1851, finally bringing up AT
| New Orleans. She arrived in the Ores
cent city during the height of the Cuban
excitement, and as the Lopez expedition
was about being concluded upon. The
expedition wanted n good steamer, and
the Pampero was Just the vessel to suit
their purposes. Laurent j. Sigur, an
enthusiastic Creole of Louisiana, who
was the chief of the expedition, and
| had furnished most of the supplies, was
editor and three-fourths proprietor of the
New Orleans Delta. Heiss was anxious
to return to the paths of journalism, and
| Sigur offered him the DeHd for the Pam
pero. The exchange was agreed to, and
the Pampero became the flagship of the
celebrated, but unfortunate, tillibuster,
| Narcisso Lopez she subsequently
fully sustained her reputation for speed
| when, chased into the harbor of Key
! West, she sought shelter from the Span
ish frigate Pizarro under the guns o
| Fort Taylor, after the execution of Lopez
and fifty of his followers, and the uttel
! failure of the Cuban expedition. Heis:
went euergetically to work, and made
the Data a paying and leading paper
and continued to publish il up to $780,
when he sold il out to the original pro-
prietor, Laurent j. Sizur for $4,000 in
cash, to advocate Davis and Dallas foI
President and Vice President--Joln
Perkins furnishing the purchase money
He subsequently, went TO Washington,
+: where he established paper called the
4 SfUteS > Wnlcn OPposeu DucuaHau az
, ADMINISTRATION, and espoused the cause OF
the South, rather warmly. All of Heiss's
sympathies were Southern and pro-
slavery. The States failed to be remune-
rative, and he sold out, going then to
Nicaragua, where he purchased farm,
and went into the cotton raising bust
ness. The next we hear of him he dies
in New York, only a few days since,
and so his restless and eVentful career Is
broughtto a close. He never wrote any
thing himself, hut had most excellent
Judgment, and knew how to conduct n
70 paper-what to publish, and what to dis
Garland was possessed of nice dis
| elimination in the choice of writers fol-
his several papers. He was quick to dis
cover ability, and was willing to retain
it, at any cost and was liberal towards
contributors-alw paying the highes
isalaries to obtain the best writer's bu
rejecting everything thatdid not suit hi
taste or opinions, remorselesslyand with
out regard to the feelings of the author
id This is the true secret of successful ioui