The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-06-19

| servants 10 MI. OlAlUUuCe AL
their masters goods and keeping disofderly
whipped" December 2, 1851, Will Hard
ing. convicted of a great deal of base car
rage, and enticing men servants to night
meetings and junckettings, was sentenced
to he severely whipped and to depart and
not retourne under penalty OF severe pun
ishment." l am satisfied that the above
was much better way of dealing with
vicious characters than to give them 70
20 days Cor less) of idleness, with plenty
to eat and with opportunity of strengthen
ing their evil inclinatlons. This i say af-
ter having met hundreds of this class face
to face in prison, and having carefully stud
led the question. Here is another extract
from an ancient criminal record showing
how they dealt with hoodlums of that day:
"Andrew Low for breaking into Mr.. Longs
house where he broke open cupboard and
took from thence some strong water and
six pence in money and ransacked the
house from roome to roome, and stu re-
mains horribly rebellious and incorrigible
against his parents. Whereupon, 1t was
ordered that he shall be rs severely whip
ped as the rule will bear, and work as
prisoner with lock upon his leg 80 that
he may not escape" The present method
WOulu NC W lndhb thC SOhhty bCe-sN
prisoner 30 days. And yet this is called
an age Of progress.
EDITORIAL FANoIEs.
Having attended a meeting of the press
association at Albany, could not but think
what an embodiment of mental activity
was present. AS l took my place in the
audience at Martin hall the very air was
electric with ideas, and one could. not but
recognize the power of thought which is
concentrated upon the press. Could Faust
or Gutenberg (to whom the speaker of the
occasion appropriately alluded have been
restored to life, how overcoming would
have been such a scene One of the most
striking features of control suggested by
view of the literdti of past age is found
in their privations in the matter of journal
ism. We may look for instance, at such a
point as the trial of one of The greatest
scholars in England for murder, of which
there is no full report, though it occurred
in the days of Johnson and Pope. l refer
to the case of Eugene Aram, and mention
this particularly because Bulwer In his
novel of that name 80 deeply regrets this
omission, and yet the court was held in the
city of York. 1t may be raid that muir
der trial is a very unimportant thing, but
the defect referred 10 extended to every de-
partment of the press
SLOW GROWTH.
The growth of the profession was slow
in Great British because, as Mr.. Francis
observed, editor al style favored elaborate
essays, but idea OF true journalism occa-
sonally fitted before the British mind. By
ron for some years had desire TO start
journal in London and it is evident that he
would have made very good editor. His
letters are the most racy and interesting
correspondence of that day, and show how
readily he would have won popularity.
Walter Scott also had love of journalism,
and l relate it as a very interesting fact
that he served as a ''reporter" after he had
been made baronet. Being in London as
an invited guest at the coronation of Will
liam w., he wrote an extended account of
the magnificent pageant for the Edinburgh
Weekly Journal HIS signature on this oc-
casion was can Eye Witness" and his des-
cription has that graphic power which is so
essential to the PRESS The best novelist
after the days of Scott was developed by
the London Chronicle, in which the early
sketches of Dickens first saw the light.
AMERICA AHEAD.
1t is fact grateful to national pride
that in point of journalism America has
greatly outstripped Great Britain, and yet
one of the leaders in American progress
was British subject of Scottish birth. i
refer to Bennett, who never became "nat-
uralized," and yet built up grand institu-
ton, whose energy was a credit to the
American press. Bennett was essentially
combative, and loved a newspaper fight,
because he was self-conscious of triumph.
The bitterness of the attack made upon
him by the press OF this city, and especially
by James Watson Webb, reminds one of
the language of Macduff:
Cut short all intermission; front to front,
Bring out this nend OF Scotland.
Webb is the only survivor OF that edito-
rial warfare which for ten years kept the
press of this city in state of intense fu-
sion. The personal aiatribes of that day
are curiosities of hatred, but all ia now
past and will never occur again.
MRS. CORNING.
While in Albany called on Mrs. Eras-
tus Corning, with whose deceased husband
had very pleasant acquaintance. The
mansion remains unchanged since his death,
except the construction of a spacious and
elegant dining room. The pictures and
other works of art, which l once viewed in
company with their former owner, now re-
call his memory in very powerful man
ner. The mosaics of Roman ruins and the
model of Metalla's tomb are full of rich
suggestions. and the coliseum gives a ma
jestic view of the grandeur of architecture
degraded by more than bestial cruelty. 1t
is one of my most pleasant memories of
Erastus Corning that he cheerfully recalled
the struggles of early life. He began as a
poor boy in Troy, and he was not ashamed
of the humble station from which he rose
co. ay,ata n hAn - H..
rung on the ladder is very hard, as / can
testify from experience, but experience has
also told me that ii is the safest way, and
sometimes think it is the only way OF
safety.
POPE ON THE PRESS.
To return to journalism. What curi-
GUS thing it is that the best description of
| a good newspaper should be given by man
who never saw one. / refer 10 Pope. In
his day true journalism had no existence.
There papers were printe hut news was
neglected and the dignity and importance of
the editorial profession had not been devel-
oped The first indication of this nature is
found In WoOdtaTs Public Advertiser. in
which the Junius letters appeared, and 1t
| vas consummated in Great Britain in the
London Times. Pope would have made
| good editor, and think he must have had
some notion of the news department of a
modern establishment when he thus wrote
IN the "Temple of Fame:
.There various news heard OF love and strife,
or peace and war, health, sickness, death
and life,
| ofloss and gain, OF famine and OF store,
| or storms at sea and travels on the shore,
| OF turns OF fortune, changes IN the state,
| The fall OF favorites, projects OF the gr cat.
| OF old mismanagements, taxatinns new,
All neither wholly false, nor wholly true"
Pope, / say, would have made a good