Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-08-14

the very citadel of his most sacred
pleasures. They are to him what the
Anatomy of Melancholy was to DR.. John
son, as Delphine would be to sentimen-
tai girl, not only taking him out, but
keeping him out of bed hours beyond
his usual time. He was never known
to lie down on election nights so long
as there was sny doubt Of the result,
or any possibility of hearing more
Very often the early sun has lighted
the social philosopher from his Office
on Printing House Square to his up
town lodgings; and he has gone home
rosy with hope or pallid with despon-
dency, according to the character of the
returns. The interest he feels in elec-
tions and political measures is personal
and absorbing, and he rejoiccs over
them if they favor his visWs, or re-
sents them if they go against him, as
others would the affection of friend
or the insult of foe.
Mr.. Greedy can count ais admirers
by tens of thousands; but he has few
personal friends, for the reason that he
does not want, and does not, care for
them. His attachments are rather to
principles than persons; and while he
is unswerving in his loylty TO the for
mer, be seems entirely indifferent to
the latter. Perhaps. like the charac-
ter Goldsmith describes with triaing
change) zf vsa - as La...s
HAS east of bis friends as hunisman his pack
For he knows when ne will he San whistle them
back"
The few men he particularly effects
he invites to Chafaqua, and likes to
dine with when he has a leisure hour
or two. When he has written enough
to satisfy mis- greedy soul, he. relishes
stealing out of the ssnctum with one
of his intimstes, sitting down at the
Astor table or at Delmonico's lcorner
of Broadway and Chambers) and hay
ing pleasant chat over a bounteous
bill of fare. He has an excellent appe-
tite usually; is fond of meats, and es-
pecially partial to tea; but he never
tastes wine or liquors, spirituous or
fomented, and never touches tobacco.
He does not take his meals anywhere
in particular, but Bohemianizes around
he is thorough Bohemisn in the tru-
est sense) as is most convenient and
ClICUmsldnceS prOmpI.
Women he does not cultivate; he
seems to like those of the gentler sort
when thrown into their society, but
rarely visits any of the opposite sex
except Alice and Phoebe Carey, in
Twentieth street, where he always
takes tea Sunday evening when in town !
and indulges in q deal of pleasant talk !
on every subject with the clever peo-
pie he meets here. ,gcuI
1t is part of 81. G.'s religion to be- !
heVe he must write at least two col |
umns for the Tribune every day he is in |
town, and he does it most faithfully.-I
If he does not have subjects, he hunts |
them up. He enters the office with |
halt dozen articles in each eye, calls |
for the evening papers, certain favor |
ite exchanges that are always st issue
with him, tits up his chair, and be |
gins to make Virginis worm fences in |
ink, which, withs dry humor charse-
teristic of the man, he declares leeible
manuscript, Fer the next four or five,
perhaps seven or eig Int hours, heis lost
TO the outer world, pays no attention
to any body who comes in, unless some
one he knows intimately, but scratches
away rapidly and Hretchedly until, he
has said everything he desires. Then
after writing "musL go in" upon most
OF his matter he puts on. his hat, ex-
presses daily repeated wish that he
could get somebody to do what he
wants done, and disappears for the
night into unknown space. "a, 4
MAnuo-nl A.rvz1,oA -~>ls-~...-- L.
written upon Mr.. Gresley's peculiar
sloveny dress, which, like everything /
else connected with him, has been;
grossly carricatured. He is neither q
Brummel nor D'Orsay sartorially.-.l
He wears old-fashioned clothes, and
puts them on carelessly. His panta-
looms sometimes slip up to his boot
tops, and his cravat to one side, but
he IS too busy to notice such .trihes.-
BE always scrupulous neat. His linen,
though often limp and crumpled, is
Immediately clean, and his garments
are rarely ragged or threadbare.
he is devoted to the bath, and physi-
cal purity is, as nearly as aught can be
with him, passion. His hands are
white and soft as an elegant woman's,
and his face always looks as fresh and
smoot as a child's. How he preserves
that perfectly tranquil, almost seraph-
ic expression with all his little contro- {
Versies and fierce newspaper wars, his
complaints and countless an
noyances in his ffty-sixth year, is one
of the enigmas his closest intimates
cannot solve. & aA .G
The editor-in-chief of the Tribune,
though he owns but ten shares of the
stock, is the controller and director of
its course, and has been from the first,
all stories to the contrary notwithstand-
ing. As much so is this the case, that
there have been times when every 9TH
er editor of the paper has held views
directly opposed to his, and yet he has
expressed his opinions as independent
ly of theirs as if they were at the bot
tom of the sea- People are always
declaring he will ruin the IFibEns and
himself by his crotchets; but the pub
lie so believe in him in spite of his un-
question able vagaries, that his bare
statement to-day carries more weight
than that of any man in America,