The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-06-04

Courier OF tnat city, as tne trahsiator Oh
South American revolutionary news. II
seems that the Catholic seminary had
taught him Spanish. For the Courier he
used TO sail out to sea 10 board vessels for
fresh news, a fac. which he aftcrward on
the Herald did we'll TO remember. In
year he was In New York wanting to
teach school, but getting no pupils.
Whereupon he began TO lecture in the
Fulton Street Dutch Church on political
economy, but soon found that he must earn
his bread by hack.writing fer the news
papers and especially for the National
Advocate the democratic organ. In
1926 he purchased the Sunday Advocate
on credit but he shortly restored IL TO the
original owner. He reported trials, wrote
dramatic criticisms and began to be known.
When he was twenty-eight years old Ben
nett showed remarkable talent for journal
ism. 1t was while he was Washington
correspondent of the New York En-.
quirer. On his return to New York Ben.
nett suggested to Webb the union of the
Courier with the Enquirer. In 1882 he
left Webb because the paper would no
longer support Jackson. He started the
Globe and it lived only thirty days.
Then he invested in the PennsylvaniHn
and advocated the measures of the demo-
cratic party. ....
In New York, in 1888, the SUM- a one
cent paper had appeared, to be followed in
1884, by another one-cent paper, the
Transcript both of them scholarly, plod-
ding journals. Bennett, with the aid Of
two young printers, on the 9Th of May,
1885, published the first. number of the
third one-cent paper, the New York Her.
add Then began the second part Of his
career. His days of sentimentalism and
party fidelity were gone by. He was
thirty-fve years old no had Ave hundred
dollars his Office was q cellar in Wall
street; his desk, counter and folding
board were plank resting on two empty
barrels. Bennett was sarcastic rather than
hnmurous, and, strange TO say, he did not
mean to be sarcastic and he did mean to
joke. He was sometime witty and fire.
quently poetical; that is, he had certain
courteous grace that is always poetry.
Sometimes he showed the brusque pic.
turesqueness Of Scott; frequently the gro.
tesque fancy Of Byron. The success OF
the Herald however, was assured. Those
who took offense at it bought it. Person
ally he was an extremely shy and mod.
est man; publicly he said, 1--WE have
never been in minority, and we never
shall be-" He has kept his word. He
concentrated his abilities on always giving
the best report of the largest affair, il
good type and on good paper. "Wbat in
terests everybody" was his motto.
OF the history ofthe Herald from 1888
until now we have little materials no
have we much to say. 1t has grown int
circulation sixty to eighty thousand
copies day.
Bennett for many years displayed /,
journal which gave great deal of minute
light and cheerful news. He committed
errors. His very sentiments were auda.
cions. His manner was kind and courte.
Gus, his humor was always unrufled. He
would take of his hat, with bland
smile, to his smallest enemy ard there
are men still alive who remember his get
ting struck on the head with a cane, and
hearing him say, as they tenderly wiped
the blood from his white hair, that that
was not the first time his life had been
saved by the direct interposition of God
He determined to have power, but no man
set SO little value on what it would bring
When men charged him wishing to SEE
the American flag traied in the mud h,
advocated the policy Of Lincoln, and wher
the grateful president offered him the
mission to Fiance, he refused it. He had
| but one idea the Herald.