Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-06-23
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
THE NEW YoRK EDITORIAL FRATERNITY.


|, Brilliant Array of Young Journalists.
From the New York Independent, June ~
1t is a striking fact that the number
of young men prominently connected
with the New York press as writers is
now than at any former period. |
Although the editors-in-chief of several
Of the leading metropolitan journals are
veterans. vet the chief editorial work in |
these journals is done by men between
the years of twenty-five and forty
William Cullen Bryant idles when he
pleases, leaving Charles Nordhotf
and Augustus Maverick to edit the
Evening Post. Horace Greeley is like
q father among sons in the Tribune Of
fee. 1t is true Sidney Howard Gay,
lately the managing editor OF that jour
nal. is on the shady side of life, yet he
has Just gone off to the White Noun
tains in search of the lost sunshine,
leaving John Russell Young to be his
brilliant successor. George Ripley, the
ripe literary critic, is on wedding-tour
in Europe, leaving his pen to Mr.. Has
sard. George w. Smalley, who few
years ago was rowing boat races for the
glory of Yale College, and who first
made his literary reputation by his
mastery report in the Tribune of the
battle of Antietam, is already one of
the ahlest writer's as he is one of the
noblest men, connected with the Amer
lean press. Then, too, in the same
office, are Clarence Cook, waging war
against all bad pictures and some
good; Edwin III. House and William
Winter, dramatic critics; Nathan Urner
aud Kane O'DOnnel, comparatively new
arrivals In Gotham; Albert ID. Richard
son and Junius III. Browne, who came
very near being made old by Castle
Thunder and Salisbury prison; and
Prof. Schem, who would have been
young enough to mention if this article
had beeu written ten years age. The
Times, in the absence of Henry j. Ray
mond (who is just finding out how
much less influential his congressional
chair is than his edItorial), is conduct
ed by Franklin j. OttarsOn-a gentle
man who, we believe, Is never remem-
bered to have been young, but who is
the kindest OF editors to juvenile appll-
cants with manuscripts; for VIC happen
to know of a youngster whose first piece
of newspaper writing was accepted and
printed by Mr.. Ottarson, then city edi-
| tor OF the Tribune. But all the rest oil
the Times men, we believe, are young,
I-Stilman $. Conant, the two Swim
tons, Edward Seymour, Henry j. Win
ser, and the rest-thOugh We believe we
ought to except Mr.. Morrison. In the
Herald, James Gordon Bennett, jr., is
| "a e
management, but we are unable to sa Y
whether or not his youthful pen is yet a
competent master of that elegant and
Addisonian English wherewith the edi-
torials of the Herald so charm the
| North American Review. Manton Mar
bic, chief editor of the World, is gen
tleman whose politics are very bad, but
whose editorship Is very able. George
| William Curtis, the editorial writer OF
| Harper's Weekly, is not tile youngest
of young men, but We trust the years
will be many befor he shall grow old.
The Nation Is edited by E. l.. Godkin
and Wendell Phillips Garrison, both
young men. Mr.. Sweetser, of the
Round Table, we take to be a rather
oldish and melloweG man, Judging from
4
rene tone with which his columns usu-
ally refer to his editorial Ieighbors.-
As to Bayard Taylor, Richard IL. Stod-
dard, Grant White, and Joseph Bar
Der, we are little doubtful of their
| ages, but we give them the benefit OF
the doubt. Edmund @. Stedman, the
poet, is still in the early morning of his
song. Frederick b. Perkins, born
magazine-writer, is lending a young
| mans energies to the Galaxy. Charles
ID. Gardette, John Alden, Barry Gray,
| G.. ID. Stanley, and DIR. Stiles, OF the
Historical Magazine, might all be much
older and still young. George w. Bun
gay has Just renewed his youth by taxi
ing charge of the Herald of Health.
Colonel Halpine and Private Miles
| O'Reilly, those interesting twins who
edit the Citizen, cannot pretend that
their united ages are over 80; and
George Alfred Townsend, the co-editOr,
is much younger. Eugene Benson, the
art critic, was a boy only yesterday.
The Anti Slavery Standard begins its
new volume with Aaron M. Powell-the
youngest man who ever edited it. On
the other side of the East River is Ed
ward Cary, the interchangeable young ed
itor of the Brooklyn Union. We pre-
sumo that the journals of every Ameri-
can city are equally crowded with
young editors. Solomon thought it
good for man to bear the yoke in his
youth; and nothing in this world is
more like bearing a yoke than the ed
iting of a newspaper.