The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-08-31
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lists, Should assign place TO MI. Dana IN a.
list all by himself, and then / should place
that list very near the foreground of Amert-
can hum0r.
pANAs WIT
is of the sort that steals upon you unawares,
or rather. | should say, you can feel it warm
ing your veins through like the generosity G8
W. W. Corcoran's real old Burgundy which
Nine. Robson once sugared and iced at q
dinner, by the way, to tho unspeakable horror
Of the venerable phiianthropist and friend Of
be Mr.. Dana's faults, he is frank, truthful and
sincere; he hates a fraud or % sham as
naturally as he draws his breath, and he has
been the best friend the South had in oil the
friends and had little wherewith to requite
friendship, except her gratitude--of which
| Mr.. Dana needs no assurance. The Sim prints
| it's circulation at its head OF column, SO there
| is no need OF guess work. To-day the figures
are 100000. / suppose it makes the third
newspaper money in New York, being ey-
ceeded in this respect only by the HeraM and
Times. Long may it shine.
| AS to
| THE HERALD,
/ have already reviewed 1t considerably I'm
running comparisons with the other papers.
| That was natural, because the Herald is d rel
ative rather than an absolute entity in jour
nalism anyhow-to use Spencerian terms. To
| me the most interesting and instructive part
| of the Herald Is
| IT'S ADVERTISING COLUMNS.
Once in while it has an editorial the bright.
ness of which gives rise to the horrid suspi-
cion that the managing editor has relaxed his
vigilance and betrayed the great trust Pc
great trust seems TO be the careful exorcisnf
Of everything that is not stupid. As
to the Heratds correspondence IT is sinh
ply the grand clrnacteric OF absurdity5
dense, inert mass Of solid nonparejl, I'm
which misinfOrmation seems to struggle lam
guidly with bad syntax for the mastery.
Moreover, half Of 1t seems to be written at o.
point no more foreign" than Castle Gardens
that is to say, in palmer terms, fabricated II.
keeps a regular "staff' OF European corre-
spondents on duty in the home office, who
zibar OF Nova Zembla, as the case may be- u
was amused the other day at a Herald letter
from 'varna." / had read the letter two
days before in the London Daily Nens- thai
is to say, the same letter ri, n good English
ply taken the Daiiy Ne1rs' letter ana
reduced it's syntax to the. Herald focus; that
was all. The effect was like rendering seIee-
tions from the Bohemian Girl on jewshazTa
| / am told by attaches Of the HeTald that
JIM BENNETT MANAGES IT FROM PARIS mK
| CABLE.
should suppose so. An improvement w0aA
probably be visible il the elder. Bennett
should supervene and undertake to manage"
it from hell by telephone.
The fourth paper on my list is
| THE sTAArs-zEITUNG,
whose name bespeaks it's Teutonic origin. 4
| have no hesitation in saying that the lVes5
| YORKER Stadts-ZeitaaO is at this moment tho
greatest and best daily newspaper printed i'm
the German language on either SIDE OF tho
pers" Of Germany, neither the Berlin nor the
4 Vienna papers, nor yet the Augsburg AU1e-
naeiy,e, compare with 1t In either the essentials
or the ornaments Of great daily Journal L
ment, but read 1t with some regularity and
can testify that it Is well managed and abty
written up. / learn that it is the fourth paper
i'm New York in point OF wealth, sofidfty Of
foundation and certainty of income.
THE EVENING POST
is known to everybody as the paper which
uses the honored name of William Cullen
Bryant to give semblance Of respectability
to the management" OF q fellow named
Henderson. who some m years ago ACQUIRED
son is not the first Of his species who has
stolen the livery of a good name to serve the
devil in. The circulation Of the Erening Post
is comparatively small, but it has strong,
piles Of money; the best judges tell me IL
makes the fifth biggest newspaper profits in
New York.
/ am in some doubt as to. whether the
World or the Tribune should be placed sixth
ON the list. / suppose it would be fair to
place them side by side at the foot and tell
them to fight it out on their own hook for the
supremacy Both are "edited" at club
houses and you know what clubhouse
belongs to Jay Gould, and probably would
reflect his personality If he had any above the
cutters Of Wall street. AS it is, Gould'g
financial columns, though last fall he went
into political copartnery with Zach Chandler
and took some hand at the crank in the gen
eral conduct Of the sheet. For general pur-
poses however, in the long. run, Whitelaw
, Reid controls the Tribune with good deal Of
absolutism. Whitelaw is out Of his sphere as
the manager OF great newspaper. He
J should have been q professor OF rhetoric In
his tuition the sweet girl graduate would
have produced new splendorsfn vernal poetry,
which are now unhappily lost to the world
There are three good writer's and every way
first-class journalists on the Tribune George
w. Smalley, its London correspondent; Jess-
White it's Washington representative, and
Ike Bromley, an editorial contributor. WHAT
ever value it has In these days Is mainly dEs
to these three men.
THE WORLD
has always reminded me OF a pale, sickfgs
dyspeptic, ricketty child / knew once. 0ass
day I asked the family physician what wass
the matter with that child;
"Well," said he, "it was born dying p
The World very nearly died a 'bornin. az
the saying is, and can't see that Journalists
at large would have been the loser if it hasa
died entirely. And yet the World has always
been one Of the most readable journals in the
country, so far as good English, elegant dkc.-
tion and wealth Of pure intellectually car
make a journal readable. Under Mant0a
Marbles direction the World was a peculiar
mixture of empirical theories and Democratic
pretension, which last generally availed to keep
the Democratic party in perpetual turmoil
Finally Marble went out and Hurlbert caHo
in Hurlbert is as genial a gentleman Of the
anywhere, and he has worked many visible
improvements in the conduct Of the World
But am informed that the effect Of his fna-
provement has never been appreciably felt in
) the counting-room OF the concern; and yea
know adhere to those primitive notions ia
journalism which rate the intellect Of the
counting room first, and that Of the editorial
department second as essential to success L
think however, that the trouble with tbs