Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1872-12-05

Oh seven miles. La 1921 the tamly re-
moved to w esthayen, Vermont, where
he assisted his farther as farm abesel.
at the same time availing himself Of
every opportunity for reading and study.
lie determined to become printer, ani
in the spring Of 1926 he entered thu
office of the Northern Spectator, at
East Poultney, Vermont, as All appren-
tee
lie speedily became an expert work
man and rapidly unit lied the oppor-
tunlties for intellectual improvement aft
orded by newspaper office. He soon
became the best workmen in the office,
and assisted in editing the paper. In
1873 his apprenticeship was suddey en-
ied by the discontinuance OF the paper.
Alter working for short time in differ
ent Offices he went to New York III
1881 with ten dollars in his pocket;
there he worked as a joulneym&n until
1885, when he commenced the printing
business in partnership with Mi. Fran
els Story. The firm published the
Morning Post, . the first penny paper
ever published in this country. The
paper failed in three weeks, and the
! p rtnership was dissolved by the death
Of Mr.. story.
Mir. Greeley, in 1884, commenced the
publication OF The New Yorker" part
nership with MI Jonas Winchester and
I Nj. Z. sibbett. The New Yorker was
political; literary and family journal,
and regarded by all parties as good au-
thority Oil statistics. It's circulation was
| large, and although continued for seven
years, it was not profitable from want
OF proper business management. Nir.
Greeley aso supplied the Daily Wing
with reading articles fer some months,
and for a year he edited the Jefferson
ian, weekly political journal published
at Albany, New York, in the interest of
the wing party.
In 1910 he edited the clog Cabin"
devoted to the election of William Hen
~ Harrison to the presidency. la Ap
I'll, l84L Mr.. Greeley established the
"Daily Tribune" and shortly afterwards
the weekly Tribune" in which was
merged the New Yorker and the dog
Cabin;' with this journal his fame as an
editor became national! In 1913 he
was elected to Congress to fill a vacan-
cy He served in that body from De
cember lst of that year to March 4th,
1S49, aud was chiefly distinguished for
MS opposition to the abuses of the mile
age system.
AS an editor and d lecturer, he has
devoted himself to the amel Grafton Of
the laboring cases, and however OBJ
Jectionable his policy may have been to
large number Of citizens OF the United
,tates, his purity Of purpose aud his in
domltable energy i'll the accomplishment
OF his object are generally conceded
La 1859 he pub ished a volume of es-
says and lectures under the title of
"hints towards Reform In 1851 he
went to Europe, and during his stay in
Eng and served as one Of the .jurymen
at the GrJs Palace exhibition. After
his return he published q volume EMIT :
ed "Glances at Europe" in 1856 he
published History OF the Struggle for
,olayery Extension or Restriction in the
United States from 1877 to 1856. In
1853 he made q trip across the plans
to California, and was received in San
francisco by the municipal authorities
" lille there he lectured on temperance,
the Pacific raj ro;d and Pc tics. Mr..
Greeley, ill c6 tended the Chicago
Convention as delegate from Oregon,
and supported the nomination for
Of President Judge Edmund Bates, of
Missouri
In February, 1851, Mr.. Greeley was
d Lending candidate Of the republican
party to represent the State Of New
York in the Senate Of the United States.
His rival WAS VIM. Evarts, the distiu
guished lawyer, and after eight ba lot
Jugs in caucus, the two candidates were
so nearly divided that there appeared
little hope Of either being selected. On
the tenth ballot the friends of Mr..
Evarts cast their votes for Judge Ira
Harris, Of Albany, which secured his
nomination, Mr.. Greeley history since,
including the period Of the war, his
bailing OF Jefferson Davis, his efforts
for the promotion Of universal amnesty,
and his nomination for the Presidency
by the Cincinnati and Baltimore Con
ventions, is too fl, sh IN the lublic mind
to require recapitulatlon.
Mr.. Greeley was married July l6,
1886, in Emmanuel Church, Warrenton,
North Carolina, by Rev. VIM Norwood,
to Miss Mary I. Cheney, of Warrenton,
formerly of New York His wife was
by profession a teacher The acquain-
lance had been formed at the Graham
House, and was continued by CORES
pondence after Miss Cheney, in the
pursuit of her vocation, had removed to
North Carolina. he lady is under
stood to have possessed high intellect
ia endowments, and her domestic viz
tues must have Teen great to have
secured such profound and permanent
devotion as MI. Greeley showed to her.
MI. Greeley's private character was
singularly pur. and free from every
thing of vicious OF corrupting nature,
even from his early youth and through
all the vicissitudes of fortune " hen
poverty pinched hard upon him, and his
early life was one Of toll and self denial,
his inmate integrity protected him
against the temptations that his genius
opened before him for corrupt practices
His temper, it is true, was irascible, but
those who knew him best INDUCED his
encentricities, knowing that under such
an exterior existed liz h mine of worth
never obscured when duty demanded its
treasures.
''The editor in-chief is at his desk
writing, in a singular attitude; the
desk is on level with his nose and the
writer sitting bolt upright. He writes
rapidly, with scarcely a pause for
thought, and not once in page makes