Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-12-04

ground glass of the door 20 Young room,
then darts back to a match, safe hanging at
our side, and pulls thereirom two square
slips Of letter paper.
please write your name on this paper
or, if you We got your cards with you, they Il
60 lis as well. III take EN- in 70 Mr..
Young
Our cards 20 in, and in ten seconds we
+ are ushered into the presence Of the Manag-
ing Editor Of the Tribune You glance at
John Russell Young and then gaze back at
Jonuy, as if sou thought be vas perpetra-
ting joke at our expense. What this
I blue eyed boy the Managing editor Of the
most influential journal in America You
can hardly believe it, In personal appear
ance Mr.. Young is the most insignificant
person about the office He is light com
plexioned has a large, sloping head thatch
F ed with brown hair, clear forehead, and
+ prominent nose, and is as quick of motion as
a sparowhawk. He is of medium height,
say Eve feet eight His words fow from his
( lips in rapid succession, as if each one was
struggling to get cut Of bis mouth ahead OF
the other. And this man has flashed upon
the journalists of New York ike literary
comet. Twelve years ago he was printer 5
devil; when South Carolina sprouted into
/ secession he was a reporter in Philadelphia
i one YEAR more found him a dramatic critic
/ on the Washington Chronicle six years ago
/ he was the Managing Editor Of the Phila
+ delphia PS,ss; two years after this be was
/ with Gen. Banks during the Red river ex
! pedition; next we find him an agent Of Jay
I Cooke IN Z, 30 tunes. While at this busl-
ness, in his leisure hours, he wrote ediforI-
/ ais for the Tribune They were unusually
/ spicy and argumentatige, attracted the at
tention of Mr. Greely and SIDNEY Howard
Gay, and now that printers devil is news
paper autocrat-the peer of Statesmen and
a potent power in the land. At first sight
( he appears commonplace, but when you talk
with him, aud partly fathom the depth OF
that wonderful blue eye, and the decisive
I cut of the nose and mouth, you recognize an
impress Of peculiar intellectual vitality,
/ fertility Of resource, quickness of compre-
+ heu>ion, and nervous energy, that stamp
him as steam engine among newspaper
men. His attire is neat, but not fopplsh.
I He wears one Of those little round topped
/ hats, with a small, circular rim, and this IN
creases his boyish appearance. His room Is
lined with books of reference. Bronze stat
ues and lively colored ehrOmos occupy va
rious positions IN the room. Young writes
+ BY spasms. He pays strict attention to the
business details Of the Office. Every letter,
every bill, every rejected communication is
+ fled. He Is able to furnish, at a moments
notice, fled voucher for every cent Of e1-
+ psnditure during his administration. Such
/ strict attention to business requires vast
amount of time But when a great nation
/ al emergency arises, especially during the
( absence of II. G., be throws himself into the
/ breach with a characteristic snergy, aud the
columns Of the Tribune are red hot with his
short, sharp, ringing sentences, until the
storm has passed. His were the stingiug
editorials on the Philadelphia Convention,
4 his were the columns Of invective poured
over the Impeachment renegades, his were
the fierce attacks upon the fsr-born move
ment TO nominate Grant before the General
had defined his position, and his are the
showers of sarcasm launched upon John I.
Hoffman The phrase Impeachment is
Peace, Is Young 5; so are the words Let
US have Peace He it was who called
Grant sashed and girded sphynx. He
it was who wrote the brilliant book reviews
on Buchanans Defence Of his Admins
tration, Greeley's American Conflict, y
and Richardson Life Of Grant There
are 10 law hairs in his head; each one seems
TO be inspired With electric energy. As
Butler was the author of the "Contrabaud, -
applied to the slaves Of rebels, so is Young
the author Of the word 'Copperhead, as
applied to the members Of the Democratic
party.
While we are eonversing the boy brings in
dozen cards. First we have General But
ler Out be goes, and Sig. Bitz appears;
then follows John Allen, The Wickedest
Man, +" with Oliver Dyer at his side; next
comes the Rev. o. B. rockingham and
after him Robert Dale Owen, both editorial
seribbIers Of the Tribune; Billy Edwards,
the pugiiist, is bowed out, and Max Naret.
zek appears; Gov. Ward, of New Jersey,
e paws his respects, aud Kate Field follows
suit-al having business with this boy.
And lively time they make of it for this
blue-eyed boy. He may thank his lucky
stars that he has a cottage at Spuyten Duy-
vel, to which he can retreat when overbur-
dened with the cares Of office.
Young Is a strict diseiplinarian. He runs
the editorial department like machine. -
Every cog strikes its groove with punctual
regularity. When he Is absent his duties
fall On Mr.. John r. G. Hassard. If Has
sard is missing. Mr. Amos G. Cummings
takes the managers chair, aud so perfect
does everything iibe, that if all the editors
we're ab;en the oldest reporter, like the
senior sergeant of a company destitute o
commissioned officers, would take charge
An editorial council is held in the Man
, aging Editor room every DAY, between the
2 hours Of and 2P NJ Mr.. Young pre-.
sides. Mr.. D. G. McEwen, his private sec
retary, a stenographer and one Of the
witnesses 10 the impeachment trial, sits at
a., his side. The editors are seated about the
2 table. Mr. Hassard, a tall, straight gentle
man, with light complexion, blue eyes
) regular features, sandy moustaehe, and side
D whiskers, and legs ike those Of Presidenr
: Lincoln, occupies a chair at Mr.. Young
D left Mr.. Hassard writes English as smooth
I as the music Of ripping brook and fre
\ queutly dashes of an editorial article steep
2 ed in an original solution Of humor and sar