Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-08-29

| unlli DlOuuay morning. Duflny tHOSe
twenty -four hours, if the weather is pleas
ant he lays aside journals, books, and pen
and paper, tax ss off his coat, and sets to
work digging, chopping wood, driving posts
or engages in some other purely bucolic
employment. lie relishes this exceeding
ly, and no doubt it has great influence in
preserving his health, which constant labors
have never vet impaired. Hardly literary
man or writer i'm New York has such ply
steal endurance and fine health az Mr..
Greeley His head is always clear, his
hand steady, his digestion perfect. There
10 no time when he is not in laboring con-
dition. He has no moods OF indOlGnce;
waits for no Inspirations; defers no task
| from mere want of leisure. AS Clarendon
once said Of Sir Walter Raleigh, he can
toll dreadfully, and mt all times and at all
places though he 10 regular in his habits,
and lays solid bar of sleep between his
| days.
| Sunday morning when in this neigh
bOrhOod, he always attends DR.. Cbapn's
/ Universalist Church, of which he is a mem
! Der; and though it has been charged that
he sleeps through the sermon, he can always
give the the text and the points OF the dis
course as clearly and correctly as il he had
been employed 70 report it for Monday $
Tribune.
If tho editor chief of the great Radi-
cal journal Of the country has one delight
above another it is elections and election
returns. lie revels i'm and he seems TO have
a sensuOus affection for them. They appeal
To his heart as well as intellect and enter
into the very citadel Of his most sacred
pleasures. They are to him what the
| AnotOnIy Of Melancholy was to DR..
johnson, as Deiphine would be 10 SEN
timental 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 40 long as there
vas any doubt the result or any POSSIBLE
| ity Of hearing more. Very often the early
sun has lighted the social philosopher from
his Office on Printing House Square to his
uptown lodgings; and he ha. gone home
rosy with hope or pailid with dependency
according to the character Of the returns.
| The interest he feels in election and pOliti-
cal measures is personal and absorbing,
and he rejoices over them if they favor his
views, or resents them if they go against
him, az others would the affections of a
| friend or The insult offs foe.
Mr.. Greeley can count his admirers by
tens of thousands; but he has few personal
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care for them. His attachments are rather
to principles than persons; and whiic he is
answering in his loyalty to the former,
he seems entirely Indifferent to the latter.
| Perhaps like the character Goldsmith de-
scribes (with trifiing change)
"He casts Of his friends like = huntsman his pack
For he knows whom he will he whistle them
| back"
The few men he particularly affects he
invites to Chafaqua, and likes 10 dine with
them when he has "A leisure hour or two.
When he has written enough to satisfy his
greedy soul, he relishes stealing out of the
sanctum with one OF his intimates, sitting
at the Asfor table or at DclmOnico's (cOr-
ner Of Broadway and Chambers) and hav
| ing pleasant chat over bounteous bill
of fare. He has an excellent appetite usu
ally, is fond OF meats, and especially par
tial tot tea; but he never tastes wine or liquors.
spIritious or fomented, and never touches
tObaccO. lie does not take his meals any
where In particular, but Bohcmianizes
around Che is a thorough Bohemian in the
truest sensc) as is ulost convenient and
or un Stances prompt.
Women he does not cultivate; he seems
to like those Of the gcntler sort when thrown
| in their society, but rarely visits any of the
opposite sex except Alice and Phoebe
Carey, in Twentieth street, where he al
ways takes tea Sunday evening when in
town, and INDUCES in deal Of pleasant
talk on every subject with the clever peO-
pie he meets there.
1t is part Of III. G.'s religion to believe
he must write at least two columns for the
| Tribune every day he is in town and he
| dose it most faithfully. Ifhe does not have
| subjects, lac hunts them up. He enters the
office with half dozen articles in each eye,
calls for the evening papers, certain favor
lite exchanges that are always al issue with
him. tits up his chair, and begins to make
| Virginia worm fences in ink. which, with
dry humor Characteristic of the man, he
declares legibls manuscript For the rext
four or five, perhaps seven or eight hours,
ne is lost TO the outer world, pays no at
tentiOn to anybody who comes in, unless
some one lac knows intimately, but scratches
rapidly and wretchcdly until he has said
everything he desires. Then after writing
''musi 60 in" upon most of his matter, he
| puts on his hal, expresses daily wish that
lie could get somebody TO do what he
wants done, and disappears for the night
into unknown space.
Several hundred volumes have been
written upon Mr. Greeley's peculiar and
| slovenly dress, which, like everything else
connected with him, has been grossly car
ricatured He is neither Brummel nor
= DOrsay saratOrially. He wears old
fashioned clothes, and puts them on care
lessly. His pantaloons sometimes slips mp
TO his boot tops, aRd his cravat to one side,
but he is too busy TO notice such trifies.
He is always scrurulously neat. His linen,
though often limp and crumpled, is immac-
ulately clean, and his garments are rarely
ragged or threadbare.
He is devoted to the bath, and physical
|, purity is, as nearly'as can be with him. q
passion. His hands ale as white and soft
IS an elegant woman's, and his face always
looks as fresh and smooth as a child's.-
How he preserves that perfectly Tranquil
almOgt seraphic expression with al his lit
T tie controversies and fierce newspaper wars
his frequent complaints and countless an
nOyances in his fifty sixth year, Is one o
, the enigmas his closest intimates cannot
T solve.
, The editor-in chief of the Tribune
, though he owns but ten shares ofthe stock
r is the controller and director of its courst
and has been from the first, all stories Il
; the contrary Notwithstanding As mucl
! so 10 this the case, that there have beer
4 tiiuCS W HCH tfCll CNtiiOA VI tAfO PoPe
] held views directly opposed 10 his and yet
, he has expressed his opinions As independ
&. emily of theirs as il they were at the bot
a tom of the sea. People are always declar
I ing he will ruin the Tribune and himsel
5 by his crotcit t.; but the public so believ'
in him in spite of his unquestionable va
= carries, that his bare statement to day car
!. ries more weight than that of any man il
n America.
: The country has entire faith in Horac
: Greeley's purity and integrity, in his inten
: ton and determination to do right as h
c understands il and the severes
censure we have ever heard of him is tina
: he is too honest for a politician. Defect
0 and faults no doubt he has, but he will di
: with more reputation than any journalist o
4 this generation, and merely as man on
/ who has struggled all bis life to help tn
A lowlv and benefit his fcllows he IL hevOnt