The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1868-11-14

ANEWSPAPER AUTOCRA AT. 81.
An article in Packard g Monthly
for November gives furthe er desgrip-
ton of the C,rcaaG Of the Tribune
office, New \ ork. Wee tract a pas
sage concerning tire managing cdi-
tor John +, HQnngs aud some Of bis
visitors .f.-.
Youngwrtes by spasnis. He pays
strict attention 70 The business de-
tails Of the Office. Every letter, eve
ry bin, every rejected communica-
tion is filed, He is able to furnish at
a moments notice, a filed voucher
for every cent otexpendituTes during
his administration. Such strict at
national emergency arises, especially
during the absence of III. c., he
throws himself into the breach with
characteristic energy, and the col
ur1lns of the Tribune are red-hot
withhis short, sharp, ringing sen
tenCes until the storm has passed.
Hiswere the singing editorials on
the Philadelphia Convention, his
were the colu INNS Of invective pour
ed over the iInpeach nlent renegades,
hiswere the fielee a ttacks upon the
far-born movement to nominate
G rant before theGenefal haddefihed
| his posi- tion, and his are the showers
of sarcasm lauuched upon John. ~
Hoffman. The phrase lmpeach-
ment is Peace is y Dung g; scare the
words 'tLet US have Peace lie Y
" as who called Grant''a sashed and
Ecarded SPHINX He it was who
wrote tie brilliant book reviews Of
1Ruchanan's 'sDeiense Of his Admin
'Iistration, 2 Greeley American Con.
fiict,n and Riehardson's Life Of
Grant. :" There are no lazy hairs In
i Ihis head; each one seems to be in
spired with electric energy. As
Butler was the author of the word
''contra band," applied TO slaves o.
rebels, so is Young the au thor OF the
word "copperhead, iRs applied totht
4 m embers Of the Democratic party.
He motions us to a scat Dickeni
has occupied tile same chair. Sick
les, Sheridan, IIongstreet, Meade
Pryor, Butler, Hill. Howard, Rose
Grams, and fifty other generals, o
more or less renOwn, have groun(
: their elbows on this table. Colfax
Ashley, Wilson, Wendell Phillips
Sumner, Grow. Washburne, Burlin
> game, GrlswoId, Kelley, Boutwell,
and a zhundred other dis linguistic
statesm en- have played with this pa
! hereafter. Miles o. Reilly, Bancroft
I Sam. Bowles, George Wm, Curtis
: Theodore TAton, A. d. RlehardsoI
A nthony Trollope, r., B. Rhett,
!, A. Pollard Mark Twain, Petroleul
d ". Nasby, Col Il B.Fhorpe, an
4 three score we'll known authors a.
h editors have bruised their shil
: against this table-leg. Abraha
+ Lincoln spent nightin this ROOF
g in a revision Of his Cooper Institu
D. speech, in the winter Of 1863. n
d writer of this article read the fiji
n proofsheet, and, had he saved t
le nlauuscript, would have been at Il
time, ST 900 in pock ct. Edgar A. 7
es used to borrow money Of Hors
in G Greeley in this apartm ent. 10
e Brown, Henry Ward Beeeher, q
n. Lloyd Garrison have gazed at q
in library. Yiscount Chairol, IC
lie Morley, Lord Cana perdown, TIL
er low Weed, Kossuth, Jay Cooke, 1
"a win Forrest, Mrs, \ Yelverton, Hs
lt- thome, Webster, Clay, Cha
X, OlBaldwin and Sew ard have all tr
,e- den this floor. While we are c
- versing the boy brings in do
We cards. First we have Gen. But
m Out he goes, and Sig, hlitz appei
nd then follows John A lien, The WI
Of edest Man, with Oliver Dyer at
led side; next comes the Rev, o,
hy Frothinghanl, and after lAim Etol
Of Dale owen, both editorial scribb
Of the Tribune; Billy Edwards,
pugllisu Is bowed ut, and Max !
IN e etzek appears; Gov. Ward, Of J
ere J ersey, pays bis respects, and ]
OH. Field follows sult-all having /
ere ness with this boy. And II
ore time they make OF it for this
Ie eyed boy. He may than k his ii
ood stars that he has cottage atspu
e z Duyve1, To which he can re-
when oyeFburaened withthe I
of Office.
son -
n2p Douglas Jerrold used to say
No, ladies talk less In 4 February tha1