New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-11-30

= RyAL1sM IN THIS C1TY.-The Times
local columns has these reminiscer ses
r~no~ krnsism in this city: r.a..
late Henry T. Brooke, upon his death.
IEW-p NJ fond of speaking of the crowded
In that attended his twenty-five
=, dnnnection with the press.
q c1 m. agothers of whom he then poke was
EGinnis, the founder of the True
iAzISl md to whom Brooke had through
ssD greatly attached. Upon one oc-
the co. n > said Brooke, shortly after the pa.
eige Il been started and the chances were
s sl. its success, McGinnis came to the
cry re- at a late hour at night, looking more
The g Id depressed than had ever previous
u INV b him.
bat is the matter with you tonight ?"
per md him. 1.-THE matter is, Henry, that
per an per is making many enemies and few
PEI PEI an an s. 1t hardly pays expenses now, in
Ter AM ason, and there are notes to pay for
per am Ost of material, etc. And then, too,
~, ,,, bring months Surprising we live
per a. gh the winter, how will we get through
per an months when the city is deserted"
Hid to him, "You are the d est man
P'' a. roaking that ever saw. Your
ut will are going to be paid. and you are not
T ho to be troubled during the spring
he y tOa5I hs. | have been looking ahead, too,
, EalCulatlDB, Out my leeaS are any LuluS
BY me RESPONDENT about the future
MIS- 4 was then that l suggested the Idea OF
bscrip& hing the California True Delta, and
E. Hhe publication was resolved upon.
BERS Eeut into it with our whole souls. !
'ove pa ews editor then, and from every quar-
aus, sa the world from which an emigrant to
Awe mia might come, l collated carefully
ews 70 Tvs. When it was in type, stood by
at To forms were being made up, and
IN nj Id out on blank sheet of paper the
Vestn Ae place which each item of news was
l az Aupy. 1t was the most carefully made
| 10 Or ma compiled newspaper that ever was
for my care.
> Al. Tie next point which McGinnis sue
1be fed% without great trouble in obtaining
di ertain mail facilities by which the
bould be carried on the steamships in
wed les made up in the True Delta Office.
Ne' these had reached san Francisco they
.rv hken off the steamship without wait
pr the distribution OF the ordinary
= The consequence was that this
d tb besides being more carefully COM
roya or the benefit Of the emigrant than
mai ther, really gave news twenty'four
in advance of that contained in other
. n papers.
~ hen 1t was sold on the streets it was for
81 less than twenty-five cents. and in
-----o1' cases for as much as 50 so a copy.
rs, were its profits may be gathered from
pt that enough gold was brought back
pe IN ach returning steamer to pay for the
nec-l e of printing it and the True Delta
ae by ~ city, too: By the time that papers
y es s BEN established in San Francisco, the
shing Dett0 or this city mad become sue
ivantz
! r ,ss hn McGinnis was generous man in
i, con- way to his friends and to those who
uld under him. He came to me once
y y d 1lI was embarrassed about some debts.
ultra be, you are a id fool. Go and
avn, What money you want to get clear,
UmiS Int wear long faces about debts while
bee can raise cent"
- attachment he felt for McGinnis, how.
anal Id not extend to every other publisher
journals. With one of these he had
AAna for great many years. He had in
OF lis health, he stated, by excess; but it
A. q, much by excess from work as from
. her cause. Yet, when he became old
BILE In I'm out, and with many less friends
e elst.l had in his younger days, not one
arato, fisit or friendly message had he re-
iteraJ mot one offer of assistance. up to
Schoaf bald he, 81 have never heard OF his
,iotht eny man an act of pure kindness
sual the many years that l WORKED
A.. p. There, for instance, was one
EddU P0rters-the best newspaper man
erint Nv. When he was dead his friends
to prepare some memorial Of his
sDE hd wrote to the head of the paper
,,,s which Porter had worked, either to
ne s' information or to know where to
The request was thrown aside and
stree answered. 1t was done in my pres
! tb az y and could not keep from telling
y chi 4At II man had worked LOT me as
tn sid &d faithfully and with as much mark.
SCI ity as the deceased had done for his
imp lel, that would not have treated his
III : i with no more respect than that OF