The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-08-02
An UnfayorabIe Account OF Horace
Greeley,

Correspondents Of the Boston Postl
NEw YORK, July %, 1868.
Mr.. Greeley declares that any maniwho saws hs
bid himself under table cloth, in windust's
saloon, during the draft riots, is branded liar
and yilsin.n Horace never had particularly
sweet temper in politics. but since the nomination
OF Seymour, and his own defeat for the governor.
ship candidacy by Griswold, he has been unusually
cross and sullen. The men in the Tribune Office
Dodge out OF the way when they see him coming
and not without reason, for he walks into them In
lively way every time he can make a chance.
Sometimes an article In the Tribune dspleases him
nd be querulousy wants to know " what id
fool wrote tbat?" Another time he feels ike
clearing out the whole id pack of them. -
simply because the compositor fails tonake sense
OF his horrible heroglyphics which are as alb.
struse study as the autographs of the Chinese
ambassadors. No journal in New York makes as
many and as frequent changes 10 its staff as the
Tribune. Greeley and Ripley are the only editors
who have steady places in ii. The others NAV be
on to-day and Oh tomorrow, and they hardly
know why. The reporters are changed every few
weeks and worked to death while in. People out.
side OF the Tribune Office imagine that Mr. Greeley
IS the soul OF iberalIty, but the people inside
know that he Is one of the meanest men 10 New
York. Because be lived on four or FIVE dollars
week thirty years ago, he imagines that man
who gets twelve dollars for his work is now over
paid..s
EMuch as he says about the rights of labor and
The wrongs of lsborers, he believes in getting his
moneys worth, and more if be can, out Of every
man in the Tribune office. Horace 10 frugal in
his mode Of living, dollar a day often covering
the cost of his meals; and as he neither drinks,
nor smokes, nor wears good clothes, nor goes into
company, nor lives in good house, of course his
current expenses are kept at q low figure. But
this is his own business, and would not mention
IL, except to show why he does not believe in pay
ing any man liberal salary. There Is so much
shectation of candor about Horace, that people
really believe him 10 be an honest, generous man
whereas he is something so opposite that only
very strong words would describe 1t.
How TO BECOME MILLIoSAIRE.-The writer
Of an article in the Galaxy on the New York mil.
lonaires, thus sums up what Is to be done by
man who would join the order:
You must be very able man, as nearly all
millionsres are.
You must devote your life to the getting and
keeping of other mems earnings.
You must eat the bread of carefulness, and you
must rise early and lie down late.
You must care little or nothing about other
mems wants, or sufferings, or dissppolntments.
You must not mind it that your great wealth in
wolves many others poverty.
You must not give away money except for q
material equivalent.
You must not go meanderng about nature, nor
spend your time enjoying air, earth, sky and
water, for there is no money In it.
You must not distract your thoughts from the
great purposes Of your life with the charms of
art and literature.
You must not let philosophy or religion engross
you during the secular time.
Iou must not allow wife or children to occupy
much of your valuable time or thoughts.
You bust never permit the fascnations Of friend
ship to inveigle you into making loans, however
small.
You must abandon all other ambitions or pur.
poses and finally
The profits Of the London Times last year were
100000.