The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1867-02-07
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WE cOndense from IN article IN etis
Con .regationalist the Following: s
| The first number of the New York
4 Tribune was issued on the 10th Of April.
1Sil, from No. SS Ann.stroet;e Horace
Greeley, editor; Henry J.. Raymond be
! gan his journalistic career at ten dollars
aweek. At the outset the stan was
made mp Of i've or six msn; now The
1 Tribune writer's, home and foreiGn, num-
Der nearly three hundred. s~ e-ss,sz 49,
1t was started as one cent paper
There were then twelve dailies, and but
one hundred periodicals published IN
New York. AT present the whole mum :
Der of periodicals is about 250.asa The
Herald, which had then. been. issued
| about six years. was two-cent paper.
The Penny Sun, neutral IN politics, had
an immense circulation.1 Mr. Greeley
had acquired consideEahlo REPUTATION .
. politicA writer, throAeh his New
Yorker. No prudent Journalist would
now undertake to found in New York q
| new m0rning daily, with less than half
| q million dollars But only sone thou
sand dollars-borrowed by @ ssely frum
a friend-was required for sta ,ting The
| Tribune. It began With SEQ Sona fde
Subscribers, and the first mornin0 print
ed {, 900 copieso At the end on the week
the expenses amounted TO 0526, which
Twas thought alarming md extrava01nt..
Daring the past summer, I'M . Asineie
day, The Tribunes telegraph bills-only
one Of the many expenditures have run
up to 81 500. sIsoa aaa ssas5 Is 70 eegzaE Ess
At the end of three months, aThomas
NJ Elrath took charge Of the business
department; and for several years it
continued to be published by Greeley &
NJ Elrath. In 1849 it was changed to a
joint stock concern Of 81 one hundred
shares, with par value Of 81, 600 each
These shares now sell at from Sc, 900 to
$500. In 1S65-thc most lucr ative
year in newspaper history--The Tribune
divided Sl65, 900 among its stockholders,
besides setting aside a considerable sum
OF It's earnings for the purchase of ma
terlal, and the payment Of an old mort
gage. a T &I siaI -E0kI g
The editorial department expanded so
greatly that Greeley was unable to at
tend to its details. aAccordingl :, when
it was changed to a stock coucefn, Chas
A Dana took ten shares, and assumed
the mAnaging editorship "a position,
which he held for fifteen years. Under
Dana The Tribune had . shinin !, staff.
George Ripley one of the best book re
viewers in the q nitcd States, William H.
Fry. one of the most brilliant journalists
Of his day, Richard Hildreth, the histo.
rian, Charles T. Congdon, the humorist,
Bayard. Taylor, Jas. 8. Pike, now abroad
in our diplomatic service, Samuel VIII.
,kinson, writer of great strength and
pictures4ueness, Margaret Fuller, Mrs
Julia Ward Howe, Sidney Howard Gay,
respondents, helped us ,ffh4fnfts epd, cor.
Tic attach oo Il a, .rx,..e "a l---
to permanentliterature;o over 2O0 volumes
have been published from their pens
Greeley's American Conflict Is reach
ing sale of 900 600 copies, and will
bring its author fifty THOUSAND dollars.
Dana and Ripley's a"New American
Cyclopedia, published by the A ppletons,
is also a great success. Bayard Taylor
has received from his dozen volumes.
and for lecturing, something over 800, z
600. The sale of Richardson's uField
Dungeon, and Escape, ,"sa has reached
nearly one hundred thousand copies Io-
Dana, who left the managing editor
ship in 1862, was succeeded By Sidney
Howard Gay, one of the most aecomp.
lished editorial writer's IN the country.
He held the position till last May, when
his health broke under the heavy burden.
His successor is John RUSSELL Young;
born in Pennsylvania, and edncatod in
New Orleans. For several years he
edited Forney's Press, and before taking
the Tribune helm he was one Of its edi.
torial writer's. His style is strong, SIM
pie, and picturesque. Young nis only
twenty six years old, and promises to
become one of the most successful writ d
ing and managing journalists in the
country. ggHg HasssssH faaya osf li
a. P;,lax, af:lg -
rary department Clarences CooIe 10 the
Art Editor. and William sWintsr has
charge of the Dramatic. ..hsa 6ome of
The Tribene's best work has been done
by women. Mrs. L. G. Calhoun, nomi- q
naliy Fashion Editress, but attached 10
the general staff, writes upon al sub
iects, as required Her letfers from the
watering places last Summer, and her
articles upon cookery, and other topics,
have excited general attention Miss !
Kate Field s recent criticisms upon Rfs-
tori were widely copied, and noticed
the country For several
years the Boston Transcript wss edited I
bis lady: and now the Springfield Re- Z
other leading journals, n6ve asazss ..,,.A
their editorial STATS. It Is becoming
more and more apparent that IA some
of the greatest and most
exacting profession Of our times, women
excel men. Es2s4-s@sf sssssaAasz-se
Greeley was born in Amherst, Hills
boro county, n. H, and is now fIfty five :
years old He is q member Of DR. E.
n. Chapin's (Universalist) Church,
where he may be seen regularly sleeping
almost any Sunday in the year. Pro-
baby he is not always slumbering 20
soundIy as he seems On one occasion,
after nodding all through i sermon By.
the famous Channing. he went fmmedi-
ately to his onice, and wrote out m Alb :
.tract of it, nearly colsmn ID length,
which proved An exceedingiY 9r1phic,
spirited. and faithful report lA51- -. =.
His family reside upon his farm, thirty
miles shove New York, on the Harlem
Railroad HIS Wife has been "a invalid
for several years They h9ve had seven
children, only two of whom Are now