The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-14

7 reputation for sound sense. and by the
hospitality of his brilliant wife and ac-
Icomplished daughters, his evenings
were devoted to writing and reading
He was man of few words. Ills wife,
on the contrary, was a great CONVEX
sationalist. When | entered the
Register" office in 1912, Mr.. Seaton,
who had married Mr.. Gales second
daughter was associated With him as
editor. Mr.. Gales, Senior being the
whole or part owner of the "Intelli-
gencer," at Washington, edited by
Joseph Gales, Jr., transferred to Mr..
Seaton a half interest in that paper,
and he removed to Washington in
1912. The whole world knows how
eminent the "Intelligencer" became
under the conduct of Gales 81 Seaton."
The editors of the "Intelligencer"
enjoyed the personal friendship and
were the social peers of such men as
Madison, Monroe, John Quincy Adams,
webster, Clay, jackson and Randolph.
They reported alternately the debates
IN Congress, for which they received a
salary of $1,000 per annum. Mr.. Sea-
ton reported a number Of speeches of
MI Randolph, and Mr.. Gales reported
the great speech of Mr.. Webster, in
reply to MIR Hayne on Foote'S resolu-
tons.
Time and space would fail me should
"
of Weston r. Gales and Seaton Gales.
Ihey were graduates of our University,
men of letters and learning largely
GIFTED with genius, orators and forcible
and graceful writer's. The dust of the
grandfather, and his son and grand
son sleeps in Raleigh cemetery: and
the remembrance of their useful and
spotless public lives, and of their num-
erous private virtues is verv dear to
all our people.
1t would require volume to do JUS
t1ce to the character of Joseph Gales,
Senior, and to the beneficent infiu-
ences which have resulted from his
life and labors. These Influences still
operate. His example lives and should
be initiated by all our young men, es-
pecially by the younger members of
our profession.
The "HillsborO Recorder" was found
ed by Dennis Heartt, in 1920. and was
conducted by him, assisted by one of
his sons for a time. until 1863 when
he disposed of it to Mr.. Evans, of the
Chronicle 1t is now in the hands
of worthy successor, John ID. Cam
eron, Esq, associated with Mr.. Webb,
and is known as the Durham Record
er. Dennis Heartt was born in Con-
necticut in 1888, and died at Hills
boro, 18th May, 1870.
In Mr. HEARTS day the double pull
Ramage press was used, with buck
skin balls for mixing the form. Print
ing was executed under many diff
ficulties. Types were costly and were
used from ten to fourteen years The
forms We're sometimes underlaid with
/ damp paper to bring out the impress
| sion. Mr. Heartt engraved the head
of his paper. and with leaden cuts of
various kinds illustrated his articles
| and advertisements. He made his own
composing sticks of walnut wood, lined
with brass. They were good sticks,
and / remember to this day the sound
! they made by the types as they were
dropped by the left thumb into their
Fplaces. The latest news from China
was printed once in three months; and
Northern news, brought to Hillsboro
| by the tri-weekly stage coach, was
condensed and printed once a week.
| How slowly, in comparison with the
present, did the world move at that
day.
Mr. Heart was a good scholar and
wrote we'll, but he seldom presented
| his readers with column editorial in
! any issue. He was q man of refined
taste, and his selections were, there
fore. excellent. His integrity in all re-
spect perfect. No consideration could
have induced him to abandon or COM
promise his principles, or to do wrong
| knowingly. | was a member of his
! family as one of his apprentices for
six or seven years, and | knew him
! thoroughly There were many features
/ in his character and conduct which
/ | could not then understand, but in
reviewing the past | have since seen
| him in his true light. and | declare in
! this presence that the best man in all
| respects whom ! have ever known was
my old master and teacher, Dennis
Heartt
His son and associate, Edwin A.
Heartt, died on the 29th August 1855,
in the 36th year of his age. He was
/ an able editor and a good man. I'm
| usual honors were rendered to his
memory. The county court of Orange.
i the town government all the churches
in the town, and the academies and
benevolent institutions put on the ha-
| bHimentS of mourning on account of
the loss they had sustained.
Green be the turf above thee,
| Friend of my early days;
! None knew thee but to love thee
Or named thee but to praise"
For many years the Register" the
| Minerva" and the Star" were the
only papers at the seat of government.
When quite youth William Boylan
removed from Pluchamine. New Jer-
! sey, to his mothers brother. Abram
| Hodges, first editor of the Minerva
then State Printer at Halifax. Abram
| Hodges, during the Revolutionary
war, conducted the Wing press of
Samuel Lowdon of New York, and
just before the close of the war he
conducted Washingtons travelling
press while the army was stationed at
Valley Forge. At Mr.. Hodges death
! he left his press and other property
to Mr.. Boylan. who removed to Fay
etteville. and thence to Raleigh with
/ the Minerva" There were heated
controversies in those days between
these three Raleigh papers, but Hall
fax. where this Minerva" had sprung
= full armed from the brain of Jove, was
a hotter place politically than Raleigh.
Politicians in that noted town met and
fought every week or two. There was
u paper called the Halifax Compiler"
Some mischievous wag altered the
head so as to make it read 'Helfire
Complain" and one whole issue was
printed with this sulphurcus title For
several weeks thereafter Halifax was
a very hot place.
Mr. Boylan was a useful, honest and
distinguished public' man Among
other places which he filled he served