The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1868-11-05
A Newspaper AutOcrat.

An article in Packards Monthly tor
November gives further description of
the trcaaa of the Tribune office, New
York. We extract passage concerning
the managing editor, John E. Young,
ana some oil his visitors:
Young writes by spasms. He pays
st.ict attention to the business details of
the Office. Every letter, every bill, every
rejected communication is filed. He is
able to furnish at moment notice FL
ed voucher for every cent of expenditures
Earring his administration. Such strict
attention to business requires vast
amount of time, But when a great ma
siona emergency arises, especially during
Inc absence of H. G., he throws himself
into the breach with characteristic energy
aud the columns of the Tribune are red
hot with his short. sharp, ringing senten-
rs until the storm has passed. His were
the singing editorials on the Philadel-
Il!.a Convention: his were the columns
aG invective poured over the IInpeach-
snent renegades, his were the fierce at
tacks upon the far born movement to
nominate Grant before the General had
,a6ned IL position. and his are the show
ers OF sarcasm launched upon John T.
Hoffman. The phrase impeachment
is Peace is Youngs; so are the words
Let Us have Peace" He it was who
called Grant "a sashed and corded
Sphynx re it was who wrote the bril-
liant book reviews of Buchanan's DE
tense of his Administration Greeley S
american Conflict" and Richardson S
life of Grant" There are no lazy
hairs in his head each one seems to be
inspired with electric energy. As Butler
vas tie author of the word 'Contraband
applied to slaves of rebels, so is Young
tie author of the word "Copperhead, y
as applied to the members of the demo
cratic party.
lie motioned us to seat. Dickens has
occupied this same chair. Sickles, Sheri-
dan. Longstreet, Meade, Pryor, Butler,
lIill Howard, Rosecrans and fifty other
generals, Of more or less renown, have
ground their elbows on this table, ColfaA
Ashley. Wendell Phillips, Sumner, Grow
Washburne. Burlingame, Griswold, kel
IN, Boutwell,, and hundred otheer dis
t.nguished statesmen have played will
this paper-cutter. Miles O'Reilly, Ban
croft, Sam. Bowles. George VIM. Curtis
Theodore Titon, A. d. Richardson, An
il,ony, Trollope, r. B. Rhett, E. A
Pollard, Mark Twain, Petroleum v
Nasty, Col. L. B. Thorpe, and three score
Of well known authors and editors have
bruised their shins against this table-leg
Abraham Lincoln spent night In this
room in q revision Of his Cooper Insti
tute speech, in the winter of 1859. tn,
writer of this article read the first proc
sheet, and had he saved the manuscript
would have been, at this time, 81 ZOO il
pocket, Edgar A. Poe used to borrow
money of Horace Greedy in this apart
ment. John Brown, Henry Ward Beech
er, and Lloyd Garrison have gazed a
this library. Viscount Chalrol, Lore
Morley, Lord Camperdown, Thurlov
Weed, Kossuth, Jay Cooke, Edwin For
rest, Mrs Yeiverton, Hawthorne, Web
ster, Clay, Chase, q Baldwin and Sew
ard have all trodden this floor. While
we are conversing the boy brings in &
dozen cards. First,we have Gen. Butler
Out he goes, and Sig. Blitz appears ;ther
fellows John Alien, ''rhe Wickedest
Man, with Oliver Dyer at his side next
comes the Rev. o. b. rockingham, and
after him Robert Dale Owen, both editor
ial scribblers of the Tribune Billy Ed
wards, the pugiiist, is bowed out, and
Max Maretzek appears: Gov. Ward, Of
New Jersey pays his respects, and Kate
Field follows suit-all having bushes.
with this boy And lively time the,
make of it for this blue-eyed boy I'll;
may thank his lucky stars that he has
cottage at Spuyten Duyvel, to which h'
when can retreat when overburdenet
with the cares of office.