Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-08-14
[From the New York Gazette
HORACE GREELEY

lA In6 OoSG KNOWN man III = AueflCd+-
His name is as familiar in the courts o
Europe as that of Gladstoneor Drouyr
ide PHuys. He has been more talked
of, and written about, and. caricatured,
and lauded, and slandered, than any
tother citizen of the United States ii
this generation. He has furnished
themes for editorials in every recog
nized language, and has figured so of
/ ten in Punch, ChGriVari, and the Berlin
and Vienna comic weeklies, with hi
tgreat head and little nose stereotypeC
! white hat and white coat, thst half oi
4 Europe consider him-the drollest geni
us and most peculiar great man in the
model Republic. $50 A8CE
Everybody knows the history of his
career-his struggles in his New Hsrnp
Eshire home, his coming to New York
a poor printer boy, his establishment o.
the Tribune, his subsequent course as 6
politician and journalist, his embarka-
lion in the anti-slaVery cause, when its
advocacy meant social .ostracism and
ayowed anaticism down to the suppress.
sion of the rebellion, and the perplexi-
ties of Reconstruction But very
Itew have any knowledge of Horace
Greely, the actual man, dissociated from
pictorial extravaganza and grotesque
Illustration on dead walls and antago.
lnistic cotemporaries. We very much
Edoubt if any celebrity is so widely and
almost universally misunderstood; that
the popular conception of any public
character is so entirely confounded
with the private individual.
Seven-eights of the people in the
United States believe Greedy subsists
wholly On btanIhfead that his sloYen-
| " costen1e mainly consists Of white
coat, and q slouch hat, hung on the
back of his head that he always
Wears a boot on one foot and q shoe on
1 she other, and Invariably ties hiscravat
like hangmsn's knot under his left
ear ;, that he ID q species of baby of
/ ffty-five whom police carry across
broadway, and to whose coat unchTis-
tian boys pin papers, while he is won
dering on the street-corner who he Is,
and mentally offering rewards for the
discovery of his remains.
Horace Greely is pre-eminently q
Epnhlic man He lives in print and on
restrpm; is monomanical on the sub
|ject of work, and never quite satisfied
when wholly Withdrawn from the pub
lie eye. tits much harder for him to
rest than to work. Though he COM
plains often of Weariness and fatigue
and the countless tasks he sets himself
10 do, he would be Hretched if he we're
obliged to be quiet for g week. If in
Iduced to take little recreation out of
town, he devours al the books and pa
Ipers and magazines he can find, and
would write letters TO the Tribune and
Independent, and hsye something fresh
and interesting to say too, if he spent
the night at Astoria or Carmansville.
- Mr.. Greely was married more than
e4uarter of a century ago to young
and pretty New England woman, who
was teaching in North Carolina, where
he accidentally encountered her in his
travel. He has been the father of three
children, two girls and boy, the lat
ter of whom was particularly bright,
and gave extraordinary promise, but
died in his early childhood, leaving
yacuity in his doting parents heart
thst has never been filed. He had
formed the brightest hopes of his boy,
ana under the bereavement his phiIo-
sophy for time gave way completely.
His two daughters, Gabrielle and Ida,
aged respectfully eight and eighteen,
are clever and interesting, but eccen.
trio and self-willed. They are at pres
ent pupilssta a convent near the city /;
the elder has nearly finished her edu-
cation. Faii ~ 80 yaa.e 80. So. z.
Mr.. Greeley's house is at Chafaoua,
thirty-six miles from the city, on the
Harlem railway, where he has q ''faney"
farm of q hundred acres, upon which
he has spent most of the money he
has earned for the past fifteen years.
This farm is his weakness and pet
BE will talk to any one about it for
half 8 day if he has leisure, and expsti.
ate upon its merits as many men would
upon the beauty of woman with whom
they had recently fallen In love. He
IA always making improvements at
Chafsous, or what he declares such, at
least--digging, ditching, planting,
draining, sub-soiling, msnuring, plan
ming and speculating upon what win
be best for the farm. He seems to
take more pride in huge turnip or
carrot of his own raising than IN his
abIest editorial or most convincing
speech. He certainly ought to, for all
his products haye been very expensive
TO him palmer and more practical
tillers Of the soil estimating that every
potAtoe and beet he raises costs him
ten dollars In gold. 81. G. denies this,
however, and says the hundred acres
viii make him an excellent return be-
fore he dies fer. all he has invested in
them. BE lives In town six days of
the week, hut goes home every Satur-
day ond remains until Monday morn
ing. During those twenty-four hours,
II the weather IS pleasant, helsys aside
journals, books, and pen and paper.
takes off his coat, and sets to work
digging, chopping wood, driving posts,
OF engages in some other purely bu-
colo employment. He relishes this
exceedingly, and no doubt it has great
influence in preserving his health,
which constant labors have never yet
impaired. Hardly literary man or
writer in New York has such physical
endurance and fine health as Mr.,
Greeley. His head is always clear, his
hand steady, his digestion perfect
There is no time when he is not in |
laboring condition. He has no moods
Of Incidence waits for no inspirations;
aefeTs no task from more want of lei
'ure. As Clarendon once said of Sir |
Walter Raleigh, he can toll dreadfully,
md at all times and in all places,
slough he is usually regular in his hab-
ts, and lays solid bar Of sleep be-
tween his days.
! Sunday morning, when in his neigh
oorhood, he always attends DIR. Chap.
ms Universalist chufch, of which be
5 . member /; and, though it has been
charged that he sleeps through the
Iermon, he can always give the text
md the points of the discourse as clear
y and correctly as if he had been en-
,ioyed TO report il for Mondays 7H.
Fns. .zi.y s..-.I ,
Z If the seditorin-ehief Of. the great
RADICAL journal Of the country has one
leiight- above another it Is elections
nd election returns. He reveals in, |
nd he seems 70 have sensuous affec-
ion for them. They appeal to his