Year: 1861

I've often seen Horace Greeley write for
the Tribune; when he'd dip bis pen in ink,
the pen would from force Of habit write
"Kansas" easily enough, which would sug-
gest to Horace that he ought 70 say some
thing about that interesting country before
he'd get dozen sentences written he'd
branch off to Albany, and say good word
or two for Weed, and then sometimes about
lobby corruptionists; then a little about
Congress by which time some one would
come in to beg dollar, and Horace would
conclude with column or so Of statistics
on the finances Of the couatry.


They keep a man in the Tribune office
on purpose to cut his leaders into square
little pieces, and put the "Kansas" bits all
together in paste-board box the "Albany"
bits together, in another box; the Estates
Of the Union" bits in another and when
they want an article on any of these Sub
jects, the foreman goes to the proper box,
and takes out an indiscriminate handful,
and has it set up.


James G. Bennett, of the Herald, is not
quite so bad for he only writes on two
subjects the panic and pufs of the Her.
aid. Every article he writes begins by
praising the panic, and concludes by putting
the Herald He generally writes eight
articles day; ard ali they have 10 do is to
cut each one in two and paste the panic bits
and the Herald bits together; when he
writes an odd number any day, they either
save the pieces till next week or they cut
out an article of the last week and paste
them together-they're so much alike that
no one ever finds out the difference.


As 10 Henry J. Raymond, of the Times,
they have long since given up the useless
task of trying to piece together his leaders
SO as to make sense, and they let them 60
as he writes, with one exception. Ever
since his memorable running away from the
battle of Soferino, he has had an incurab!e
tendency 70 introduce into every subject he
writes about, a short but comprehensive
eulogy of the practice of foot-racing. One
clear headed young man is constantly en-
ployed in striking out these nimble-footed
passages, and is frequently called out of his
sleep to revise some article that Raymond
had tried to smuggls in, without letting him
see it. There are always sure TO be more
or less allusions to scramblng, running, trot-
ting, hurrying, galloping, dashing along,
boiling, scudding, flying or scampering,
which need the attention of the clear headed
young man.


And the novel writers are worse than
the editors mean the novel writers who
deal in what is called ''yellow covered liter
aiure" of the concentrated sensation sort.
There isn't one in dozen Of them that can
remember from one chapter TO another the
color OF the heroine's eyes. When they SIT
down 10 do a sensation job, they know they
are expected to do something terrifeally
startling with their hero, but they are never
certain in advance whether they will make
him 90 up in e balloon, or fall over a preci-
pice whether they'll transport him to the
North Pole. and make him fight a polar
bear. with penknife and Kill him, or take
him to South America and have him run
away with three or four ~Creole brides
that belong to other people; whether they'll
throw him into prison 10 pine in risors, find