The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1869-09-07

about three weeks ] received the first
reply tp ~ advertisement. Offering me
! school 81 So scholars ID North Caro-.
\ ltua ;ola Sir Greedy at once that
I should leave tue city the next morning
| Ho asLa.l me % walk With him 70 Gle
/ Post Office. wh.ther be always aeut in
I person % 81 lis letters aud exchange.
and On tbs way inQaned where was
go.ug. told him q North Carolina
10 teach school lio asked me how
much they would pay mo. I said, sI00
a year oh, sFid he, "siay here
IrH give you that And this was my
/ Gr5t engagement on the press, and 10
cided the whole course d my liie.
al once settled down to work =
TLerc was not a. Mr. Graely says, very
much to do on the Niw Yorker, though
l believe ! ala my share 81 what there
was, But eztended my sphere Of op-
erations considerably / secured What
/ deemed drst-elass engagement. 70
write daily a fancy advertisement Of
some Vegetable Pills which bad just
been invented, aud which were to be
commended to public favor every
morning IN the daily journals by being
tngeniousiy connected with some lead
ing event Of the day for which SER
vice, which cost nae perhaps 10 min
utes Of daily labor, / received the sum
OF fifty cents | was fortunate enough
next to get Latin class in an uptown
seminary. And | sent proposals for
New York correspondence to a great
variety Of newspapers, daily and week
", throughout the country. several Of
which wero confding enough to close
With my proposals. Among the dailies
for which thus engaged we're the
Philadelphia Standard, edited by Il.
W. Griswold, whom l had known in
Vermont, and who always was my
friend; the Cincinnati Chronicle, edi-
ted by E. d Mansfield, now for some
years the Veteran Observer" Of the
New York Times; the Bangor Wing,
and the Buffalo Commercial Adyertis-
er, edited by d. Foote, whom in after
years / came to know, and Of course to
esteem, as did all who knew him. A
daily letter for each OF these papers,
with my law studies, my Latin class,
my work On the New Yorker, kept my
leisure reasonably employed, and gave
me fair income, as none Of these
Journals pad me tess than s. week,
and one Or two Of them gave me S.
picked up now aad then instruct
I've hints during my studies OF New
York lifs. While We liking down Broad
way one afternoon, before | had begun
to earn much money, l fell into tho
wake Of a tall, handsome, spleadidly-
dressed young man-dysplaymg HIM
self IN all the luxury Of white kids and
diamond studs to the general admira-
ton. fancied him one Of the nabobs
of the town, and fell into train OF
wandering thoughts as to how he had
probably reached his present hight OF
dazzling splendor. OF course l could
not wholly forbear contrasting my own
position with his, though without any
feelings Of special envy. The next day
Dir. Greedy asked me to so to the Office
Of Porters Spirit Of the Tunes, then
it Barclay St., and get hm copy of
the paper Whilo waiting at the desk
the door opened and my magnificent
friend Of the day before; all accounter-
ed as he was, sailed in. He walked IN
to the back part Of the Office, took of,
folded and put away his white gloves,
hung up bis hat and coat, put on an
ink-staiued linen jacket, and set him-
self to work writing wrappers. | felt
decidedly encouraged as to the pros
poets OF New YORK life