, 1873-01-24
James Gordon Bennett to Undertake
a Great Daily in London.
Henry Ward Deccher Earning Hearly
. $4,000 Annually.
a Polyglot Farnily---A New Anti
Lending Society.
From Our O,cn Correspondent.

has price beyond any mere material portion
is generally supposed that q journal is worth te
t1nes tho averngo annual income that it yields
| and this 6upposition is, in the main, We7
[ founded.
EEwsPAFEE-PRopERTY.
Everybody knows that the Reral. is the mos
profitable daily in tho city, clearing abou
e30O,000 per annum; thus fixing it
value of 50, ,o00, 00,-a price few persons would
/ willing to give, aud which the owner would no
bo tempted to take. Auewspapor is such q YER
delicate piece OF property While certah
kind OF management renders it extremely pros
porous, another kind, that might seem even bet
ter, would ruin It. have often heard speculat
ed upon what might be the effect Of printing
the Herald in choice English and the opinion
generally entertained has boon that such an un
looked-for departure would provo disastrous. Tt
make tho Tribune like the Herald, or even like
the World, in tone and style, would be to de
plete it's exchequer; and to convert the Jo,srna
Of Commerce into genuine newspaper would
doubtless, consign 1t to the tomb OF the Capu
let's.
L journal ia an educator either for good OF
in,-rory often, am afraid, for il,-and nc
alteration from its past can be undertaken with
out great peril. People get so accustomed to q
daily or weekly that they consider any sort ol
change deterioration. # it be bad, they like
its badness Us much as they would its excel
1onco,-just AZ those in the habit Of smoking
vile cigars are made i'll by the best Of Havanas.
This is the reason why new papers have SO hard
struggle. 1leritorious as they may be, long
time is required by the public to discover their
merit; and then it must be duly instructed
In tho principles with which they set ont, in their
mode Of thought and even in their manner Of
expression. The name Of an established jour-
nal is, probably, worth more than anything else ;;
but the namo must be kept in harmony with its
antecodents, or it will be Of little avail.
DOES sEysAT1oNA11sM PAT
The fashion Of the time is to make tho daily
press what is called sensational; and yet sem
sation can scarcely be considered renunoratire
in the long run. There arc two or throo sem
Eational dailies hero q prefer not to name them),
which were quite prosperous for q while, but
which now, understand, have materially fallen
OIL. both in circulation and in advertising
Tho two most profitable journals in town,
after the Herald, are the most conservative
the Journal Of Commerce and tho Erening Post.
It costs next to nothing to publish the first, and
the expenses Of tho latter arc comparatively
very small. Still. both OF them manage to
clear, on an average, rs much as $150,000 per
annum,-and this with d slender circulation,
and very little Of the fame so much coveted by
Journalists Of the present day. Whatever tho
quality OF their editing, their dividends arc 60
extremely satisfactory that have never known
any of the stockholders to object in the slightest
thereto.
l. not this one of tho strongest (because anan-
ciaD arguments against sensational journalism
AN AMERICAN DAILY ABROAD.
It is rumorad that ono Of the objects Of James
Gordon Bennett in going abroad Was to make
the necessary preparations for Issuing now
daily in London, that should have al the enter
prise, facilities, md variety Of leading New
York or Chicago journa1.t This is said to have
been fayorito project Of tho older Bennett, who
Gun principles must eventually reach an enor-
nous SUCCESS. The son seems to share this
opinion; aud the story is, that he is willing to
invest s5oo,ooo OF even 100000, in such an
The British are so set in their Ways that /
should think the experiment rather hazardous;
but, az Bennett has the money, and the faith
beside. there can be no harm in his 1audable at
tempt. .-,,~.,.
ECCLESIASTICAL OPERA.
have heard many persons wonder what be-
comes OF all the young women In this country
whoshave euch fine voices that they are destined
to occupy q high position on the operatic stage.
They arc constantly springing up In thia and
other cities, and going abroad to cultivate them
selves in the conse'.uatoires OF the Continent.
gress they are making, and OF their certainty Of
3 brilliant future. Then sileuce and oblivion
fall upon them. and they aro succeeded in turn
by new geniuses Of tho lyric type.
artistes; and 80 they are by tue accident Of
birth, though not by lineage or training. With
the exception Of Adelaide Philippe, Clara Louise
Kellogg, Mimic HauoL, Isabella NlcCulloch, Lau-
ra Harris, and few others, We have no singers
who lave achieved any lyric distinction. Mrs.
Moulton, through the earnest bias and effort Of
personal friends, waa wildly bepraised.-as il
she had been q second Malibrar Eho lna a
sweet aud highly cultivated voice, though it is
adapted to tho draUlng-rcom, and not to tho
aer renown but there it riu ..eud. Deprived
If tho ardent prejudice excited in her
oehalf because aLo is q pretty and
agreeable woman, she will be no moro than d
hundred other concert-BingerB OF mediocre abil-
ty.
After studying abroad, our country women re-
urn homo with much-abated opinion Of their.
capacities, especially if they make public de-
out; and, instead Of running to tho top Of tho !
>peratic ladder, they quietly subside into the |
:hor Of some fashionable church. There their
am from s, 900 to $1,000 per annum. Thore |
,annot be less thnn three hundred paid feminine |
ingers in all our churches, and aoue Of them, ]
Ike Mrs, 1moseue Brown, Of Chicago, receive as |
nuch US s., 600 3 year. It is noticeable, by the
ho West, though they get to be genuine Now |
.orkcrs, ns everybody else does after q worry /
hort residence hero.
4 FoRrY-F1vE THOUSAND DOLLAR CLERGYMAN.
The most industrious, as well as tho bost-paid
nd ablest, clergyman in America 10 Henry Ward /
'eecher.. His present salary, as pastor Of Ply
louth Church, is, think, $4,000. He has
10000 @ year as editor OF tho Christian Union,
0 which he gives his namc, and one article
'cek; and he earns some $4,000 beside by the
title lecturing and writing that ho finds time to
o., Ho is, probably, the most popular lecturer
! tho country, and could earn 9 great deal Of
honey in that way, if he wero willing, to surreu-
ar other duties. Ho has boen offered as high as
&c, 600 and over. sic, 900, season. by lecture
gents, who feol confident that even this high
rice would leave them large margin for
roft. Earning 5000 year is remarkable
or any man; and I question if any other
reacher on tho planet can match Beecher in
lis respect Genius or talent in tho pulpit is
lore likely to be appreciated TINT anywhere
[se,-perhnps for the reason that it is ra1or.
CLERGYs1EE GENERALLY );
70 very poorly paid, though, in this city, many
them have handsome salaries. As many ~
Senty or twenty-five Of the leading pastors
ave salaries Of $10000 each, and $1,000 is |