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THE NE W ORLEANS DAILY DJM tAOCRAT.
OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA AND OF THE CITY OF. NEW ORLEANS.
VOL. II---NO. 243. NEW ORLEANS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1877. PRICE, FIVE CENTS.
VOL.II--NO.243., , "
DOMESTIC NEWS.
The Chicago and Rock Island Railroad I
Accident.
[Special to the Democrat.]
DEr MoINEs, Iowa, Aug. 30.--The total
number of deaths by the railroad accident
yesterday foots up twenty.
Most of the killed were in the car in front
of the sleeper. The scene at the time of the
accident is described as terrific.
.otoRaln was falling in torrents, accompanied
mty wind, lightning and violent thunder. A
.,,,rash put out the lights, and a scene of terror
ensued. One mother was killed sitting be
tween two children, who escaped unhurt.
About twenty-five wounded have been
brought to this city.
Brigham Young's Death.
[Special to the Democrat.]
HALT LAKE, Aug. 30.--Brigham Young died
at 4 p. m. yesterday.
Death of Admiral Raphael Semmes.
(Special to the Democrat-)
MonxIL, Aug. 30. -- Admiral Raphael
iemmes died at 7 a. m. to-day, at Point Clear.
After the Nez Perces.
[Speolal to the Demoor it.)
OMAHA, Aug. 80.-Gen. Wesley Merritt has
been ordered to take command of a column
of cavalry of about ten companies and to
rendezvous at Camp Brown, in the Wind
river valley, whence they will proceed north
ward to the Nez Perces' trail.
Gen. Forret's Condition.
MSMl mas, Aug. 30.--The latest advices from
Blly Springs, Ala., state that Gon. Forrest's
eosiltitn is somewhat improved, but Is still
very critical.
The Pittsburg Riot Losses.
[8Special to the Denmocrat.]
I~LADELPl1A, Aug. 80.-The merchants,
auffering a loss of freight at Plttsburg during
the late riots, hold a melting to-day and ap
pointed a committee to confer with the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company with power to
make such terms as they may deem advisable
for the prosecution of suits in connection with
the. railroad company against Allegheny
county, provided the railroad company would
furlish claimants with a guarantee for the
payment of losses within a period of two
years.
The Saratoga Races.
Specianl to the Democrat.)
SAtRATo A, Aug. 80.-The first race to-day,
for a purse of $250, two-year olds, five fur
longs, was won 'by McDaniel's War Dance,
flly. Time, 1:04%.
The second race, for a purse of $850, free
handicap for three-year olds, one mile and a
quarter, was won by Bradamante. Time,
sa184.
The third race, for a purse of $850, for all
ages, one mile and a quarter, was won by
Rhadamanthus. Time, 2:13.
Selling race, mile dash, was won by Queens
town in 1:44. The free handicap hurdle was
won by Kelso.
Bold Tramps.
[Special to the Democrat.)
BALTIMORE, Aug. 80.-At a late hour last
night a number of masked tramps entered
the telegraph office at the junction, tied and
gagged the operator and robbed him of his
watch and pocket-book, and carried away
$everything portable in the office. The opera
tor got loose and telegraphed the occurrence
to the president of the street station. Officers
were immediately sent out and succeeded in
arresting the tramps, with the stolen articles
on their persons.
The Chicago Banks.
[Special to the Democrat.]
CHIcAGO, Aug. 30.-Beyond a small run on
the Fidelity and some other of the savings
banks, there was no unusual stir in banking
circles to-day. None of the officers of the
State Savings Bank have yet turned up.
S. L. Davenport Dangerously III.
[Rpecial to the Denuocrat.)
CANTON, Penn., Aug. 30.-E. L. Davenport,
actor, is dangerously ill here. This morning
his doctor pronounced his condition exceed
ingly critical, although not without hopes.
Another Railroad Accident.
[Special to the Democrat.)
SALEM, Mass., Aug. 30.-Last evening as
the Lowell train was running down the Penn
sylvania pier it struck a group of five persons,
killing Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Swazey and Miss
Rachel Gifford, sister of Mrs. Swazey, and in
juring two others.
Base Ball.
LOWELL, Mass., Aug. 29.-Lowells 7, Louis
villes 8.
AUBUs N, Aug. 29.-Fourteen innings-Au
burns 8, Syracuse Stars 9.
BOSTON, Aug. 29.-Game called at the end
of the fourth inning, on account of rain.
Score: Bostons 6, Cincinnatis 1.
WAR NOTES.
Turkey Will Depose Prince Milan.
(Special to the Democrat.]
F LONDON, Aug. 30.--Twenty thousand Turk
ish troops are tobe concentrated on the Timok
frontier of Servia. The Porte has resolved to
depoae Prince Milan if Servia begins the war,
and to appoint a Turkish governor over that
principality.
servia Will Try War.
BELGRADE, Aug. 30. -Pontoons and bridge
materials are at Morava and Timok rivers
and Kladova, and many engineer ofi Vers have
left for the frontier, and eight battalions of
regulars also leave for the frontier.
The Roumanians Cross the Danube.
[Special to the Demecrat.]
LONDON, Aug. 30.-A whole division of the
SRoumanians have crossed at Keravia, to be
followed by twenty others, together with
Pince Charles himself. The Russian Impe
rial guard have arrived in Roumania.
The Coming Battle at Plevna.
[Special to the De nocrat.J
LONDON, Aug. 30.-The Times military cor
respondent at Bucharest telegraphs that for
the moment all interest has concentrated it
self again on Plovna. where Osman Pasha is
strongly reinforced by men from Sulciman
Pasha, and guns from Widdin. He is now
Eredited with two hundred guns and is about
to make good defense, but if defeated the
Turkish loss will be irreparable in the face of
an immensely superior Russian cavalry
Osman Pasha's defeat would moreover imme
diately give the Russian force enough, even
without the coming Guards, to push again
over the Balkans.
Turkish Reinfreements Pouring In.
[Special to the Demnoerat.]
LoNDON, Aug.i30.-An Adrianople dispatch,
dated 1 o'clock this morning, says thattroops
are pouring to the front at the rate of 5000 per
day. Large numbers of Albanian volunteers
are arriving to join Suleiman Pasha. They
have exchanged their old guns for Henry
rifles. No decisive action will take place at
Schipka Pass until the arrival of reinforce
ments on one or the other sides. Bebrava
has been burned by irregulars from Rasgrad.
The Taking of Sehipka Pass Hopeless.
LONDON, Aug. 30.-The Daily News Vienna
dispatch, dated Wednesday night, says:
A telegram from the seat of war states that
Suleiman Pasha considers the taking of the
Russian position of the Schipka Pass front
hopeless, and will merely construct fortified
camps in the villages of Schipka and Hainko,
and cross the Balkans through other passes
northward.
The Rnssians at sehipka Pass.
LONDON Aug. 30.-A special to the Paris
Temnps, dated Gornystuden, Alug. 28, says:
Gen. Nepokoitschitzky, chief of the Rus
sian staff, who visited Schipka Pass to ascer
tain the condition of the troops, reports that
they are well supplied with provisions and
very determined. The Turks are getting
wearied. Several thousand unburied dead
cause an unbearable stench aroand the hill.
Considerable reinforcements arrivei at Ga
brova on Sunday. The correspondeht esti
mates the Russian garrison in the pass at
thirty battalions.
The Crossingr of the Roumanlans.
LONoON, Aug. 30.-The Vienna correspond
ent of the Times telegraphs: The Roumanian
bridge at Karabla was ready on the 25th,
when whole division crossed. Two others
have l'obably crossed by this time, together
with the Prince himself, who assisted at the
operations from the beginning. Whatever
may be thought of the value of Roumanian
troops, the appearance of 25,000 men in flank
and rear of the position of Plevna must be
very awkward to the Turks; above all, as
they may soon expect to be attacked likewise
by a powerful force in front. From the spot
where the Roumanian. have crossed a tolera
bly fair road leads ak ng the right bank of the
Icker, and strikes near Aylzie in the rear of
Plevna, on the great road by Orchari to
Sophia, which is now Osman Pashas line of
communication.
Trouble in Crete.
[Special to the Demooratt
PABIs, Aug. 80.--Advices from Athens state
that two thousand Italians have offered their
services to the Greek army in Crete. The
agitation continues. Five hundred Christian
families have asked permission to leave the
island, but the Governor has refused their re
quest.
FOREIGN NEWS.
A Me.al.
[Special to the Democrat.)
PARIS, Aug. 30.-President MacMahon has
lisued a decree conferring the gold medal
upon Lieut. Fozier, commander of the Amer
ican steamer Pix, for saving the French ship
Peabody in the Mississippi river.
Cotton splnning.
LONDON, Aug. 30.-Owing to the depression
in the cotton trade, it has been decided to
close the Mineatone Cotton Mill, which em
ploys over 500 operatives.
MONEY AND STOCKS.
[Special to the Democrat.]
NzW YORK, Aug. 30.-Gold 104%. U. S. 6's
of 1881, 110%@110.4; do. coupons 111%@111%;
new 4%'s 106%; coupons 108; 5-20's of 1865,
new issue, 106%@106%; do. 1867, 108%r. 108%;
do. 1868, coupons, 111; 10-40's 108%.; do. cou
pons, 112%; currency 6's, 123%@124; new 5's,
IhONDON, Auq. 30.-Consols for money
95 1-10; new 4%s, 105.:- 67's, 1071H; 10-40's,
108%; new 5's, 107 %; Erie, 11.
DOMESTIC MARKETS.
[Special to the Democrat.]
ST. Louis, Aug. 30.-Flour unchanged.
Wheat-medium grades higher; No. 3 red
$1 22% cash; $1 10%@1 10 September; $1 09%
October; No. 4 red $1 03 cash. Corn higher,
38.'.38/ cash; 38)%39I September; 40%(18
403 October. Oats lower 25 bid; 25%125%
September. Whisky steady, $1 09. Pork un
changed; jobbing at $12 75. Bulk meats are
held firmly and nothing doing. Bacon higher,
5/@8. Lard nominal.
CHICAGo, Aug. 30.-Wheat steady; 99%
September; car lots No. 1 $1 10%, No. 2 $1 10.
Corn steady; 42%/442% September; 42% Oc
tober. Dry salt meats, loose, short rib, 6%
September; 6.62% October. Pork steady;
$12 27% September; $12 40@12 42/ October.
Lard quiet; 8.27% September; 8.37% October.
Whisky steady; $1 08.
CINCINNATI Aug. 30.-Flour steady. Wheat
steadier; white $1 20@1 28 Corn and oats
unchanged. Whisky in good demand at
$1 10. Pork quiet; $12 50. Lard quiet; 8%.
Bulk meats held firmly; 4.90@4.97. Bacon
steady and unchanged.
RIVER NEWS.
[Special to the Democrat.]
3rEMPHIS, Aug. 30.-Departed: Tolle for
St. Louis.
THE WEATHER YESTERDAY.
The following is the "temperature" at the
various points named, as reported by the
Signal Service telegrams furnished by Ser
geant Brown, of the Signal Bureau, and indi
cating the state of the temperature at the
points named, at 3 p. m. yesterday:
Cairo 91 degrees, Cincinnati 87, Galveston
89, Keokuk 92, LaCrosse 71, Leavenworth 92,
Louisville 89, Memphis 91, Nashville 92,
Omaha 91 Pittsburg 83, Shreveport 94, St.
Louis 98, At. Paul 73, Vicksburg 91, Yankton
(D. T.) 91 Augusta (Ga.) 96, Corsicana (Tex.)
91, Mobile 91, Montgomery 96, Savannah 88,
New Orleans 91, and Key West 87.
The following were the variations of tem
perature, according to the thermometer
(Fahrenheit) at Duhamel's store, on Canal
street, yesterday:
6 a. m., 80; 12 noon, 90; 3 p. m., 91; 6p.
in., 88.
A NEGRO LMMIGRATION SOCIETY.
[Sbreveport Tim-s.]
Some time ago a movement was set on
foot among the colored people of this
city to organize a colony to emigrate to
Liberia. The movement had several
very strong advocates in the city, but
they did not meet with much encourage
ment in the rural districts, hence the
movement fell through. Quite recently,
Dr. Cromwell and a number of promi
nent colored men set to work to organ
ize an association for the aid and pro
tection of their own race to in
vite immigration to our State and
to foster all kinds of industries. The
movement was very popular, and if
the objects set forth in the constitution
and by-laws are faithfully carried out,
it will enure not only to the benefit of
thre stockholders, but to the entire race.
Yesterday a number of the signers met
at the office of Dr. R. I. Cromwell, and
went into an organization and election
of officers. The name and style of the
organization is "The Negro Union Co
operative Aid Association," with its
domicile in this city. The capital stock
has been fixed at $50,000, in shares of
$25 each. The following named par
ishes are included in the provisions and
privileges of the charter: Caddo, Bos
sier and DeSoto,
The following are the principal ob
jects of this association :
AnT. 5. First-To buy and sell gro
ceries and dry goods, etc., in Shreve
port, La. Second-To lease and culti
vate lands or farms. Third-To select
government lands and aid the mem
bers to locate and settle thereon; to
publish a newspaper in Shreveport, La.
Fourth--The cultivation of literature
and science and the mutual improve
ment of the members and those who
may be brought within the influence of
the association, and to that end to
maintain a social and remunerative or
ganization, under whose auspices a li
brary and an annual course of lectures
can be sustained. Fifth-To encourage
immigration to this State; to buy and
sell real estate.
ART. 6. To give advice; obtain for the
laborer good and sufficient contracts;
purchase supplies; sell crops, and keep
a laborers' account and exchange office.
The following are the officers and di
rectors elected to serve for the ensuing
two years:
Dr. R. I. Cromwell, president; Evin
Allen, vice president; Charles Morris,
secretary; Patrick James, treasurer;
Jullious Surveyor, agent, (Bossier).
Directors - R. I. Cromwell, Patrick
James, Thomas Lue, Levi Adams,
Hamp Human, Evin Allen, J. H. High,
Charles Morris, Jullious Surveyor, Jos.
Alexander (DeSoto), J. F. Crazeller,
Edward Jones.
P "5"c--
THE WHEAT CROP.
[Washington Dirpatch to the N. Y. Tribune.]
ihe latest returns received at the
Agricultural Department show that the
winter wheat crop, already safely har
vested, is the largest produced in this
country for many years. The spring
wheat is also in excellent condition, and
an unprecedented yield is expected. The 1
cotton prospects are also more favorable
than last year at this time, the product
being estimated at upwards of 4.500,000
bales. The wheat crop last year was
260,000,000 bushels. This year it will be
more than 325,000,000 bushels. The
average export for five years hai been
61,500,000 bushels. The largest amount
ever exported in one year was 90,000 000
bushels. Of this year's crop not fees
than 100,000,000 bushels will be sent
abroad.
Another important circumstance in
connection with our abundant harvest
is the reduced production of Southern
Russia, resulting from the disturbed
conditfmn of affairs in the country ad.
jacent to the Black sea. Recent special
reports from Southern Russia report the
estimated crop 6f the present season at
less than one-half of the former years.
Russia has hitherto been been our only
great rival in the English wheat mar
ket. Before 1872 Russia shipped almost
as much wheat to the markets of the
world as the United States. Last year
the Russian supply was only one third
as great as that of the United States,
and for the . present year it is shown by
official communications that the pro
portion of Russian wheat will be much
less. It is shown by official reports that
the wheat crop in Calfornia fpr the
present season is small, so that the esti
mated surplus of 100,000,000 bushels will
be produced east of the Rocky moun
tains, and must reach the seaboard by
rail or river.
THE PITTSBURG WORKINGMEN.
[Chicago Times.]
PITTSBURG, Pa., Aug. 26.-The differ
ent organizations of workingmen have
consolidated, and the Greenbackers,
workingmen and Social Democrats will
make a united effort to defeat the politi
clans on September 8, when the labor
convention assembles. The Green
backers of Washington, Pa., have re
solved that the only way out of the
present difficulty is for Congress to al
low colonizers to settle upon govern
mpnt domain, under the homestead
law. Several grand mass demonstra
tions are to be held this week, and the
politicians are surprised at the flourish
ing condition of the movement.
The exact basis of consolidation of
the labor interests is not yet made
known, but it is understood the Green
backers get only the financial plank,
while the workingmen strike out the
plank demanding that trades-unions
shall control industrial establishments,
and tone down several other resolu
tions of their platform.
TIE PACHECO-WIGGINTON CONTEnT.
[St. Louie Republicans.]
The discovery of an error in the re
turns of Kern county, California, by
which Wigginton, Democrat, receives
six votes which had been counted to his
opponent, Pacheco, will probably settle
the contested congressional election
case in that State. It will be remem
bered that Pacheco claimed one ma
jority, and that the case was taken into
courts, on a question similar to that in
volved in the Metcalfe and Frost case in
this city. If the reported error is con
firmed, it will effect a change of six
votes, and no judicial decision will be
required.
The aggregate value of taxable prop
erty assessed in Illinois is $892,342,338.
NOTICE TO RED RIVER SHIPPERS.-The stesmer
Ella B.a:ues will put :reight and passeng re to
j a d Ec re without reshipping at Alexandria.
Leave- on Satn.day, let, at 5 p. m. TThe lightest
bu.~ m the trade.
THIE NEW YORK PRESS.
THE SEVEN GREAT JOURNALS OF NEW
YORK--TIIE TIMESI, UN, HERALD,
NTAATS-ZEITUNG, EVENING
POST, TRIBUNE AND
WORLD.
Their Circulation, System, Character,
Speelalties and General Management.
[Speolal Oorrewoondenoe of the Democrat.]
NEW YORK, August 22, 1877.
"The Press" is always a toast and some
times a topic. To me it is, of course, a topic
of rare Interest. I love to watch the develop
ments of human nature through journalism;
to observe the manifestations of editorial in
dividuality even in journals of the densest
"Impersonality," and to see how, like our poor
selves, the great daily newspaper is prone to
err and subject to weaknesses. Of late,
through much leisure and by reason of pro
pinquity, I have been devoting my observa
tion to
TIHE NEW YORK PRESH.
By this phrase I mean seven journals-the
Times, Hn, HIerald, Slcutls-Zeilung, Eeeninyf
Post, Tribune and World-which I have enu
merated according to my judgment of their
excellence as purveyors of current intelli
gence and their importance as exponents of
public thought; and I will proceed to discuss
them in the same order.
If I ran my pen on my prejudices, I should
place
THE TIME5
several stages down toward the foot instead
of at the head of the list." But, leaving out
all questions of political difference, and look
ing at the paper in its character of purveyor
of current intelligence, I must frankly con
cede that the T'imes is the first news-paper in
New York, and, next to its ChicAgo namesake,
the completest news-paper in the United
States. En passant, let me remark that the
Chicago Times is conceded by all the best
judges of journalistic excellence, whom I have
heard express a view upon the subject, to be
the most perfect newspaper in the coun
try. The limits of this letter compel
me to omit extended discussion of
the merits of the several New York journals,
so I will mention but one salient feature of
the Times of that ilk. I refer to its admirable
and unsurpassed correspondence from the
seat of war in the East. It does not reach the
extravagance of the Herald in cable dis
patches, it is true; but it keeps the situation
fairly summarized by cable, and I would ac
tually rather buy it for its letters two weeks
old than take the Hera'd for the slosh it prints
by cable at one (lay's sight. The iaison d'etre
is that the Times is served at the seat of war
by intelligent and observing men, instructed
to report the facts, while the Herald's corre
spondents--both those at the scene of hostili
ties and those who write
"WAR CORRESPONDENCE"
at the corner of Broadway and Ann streets
seem to be absorbed in a frantic effort to
whip the Turks whether the Russians do or
no. The consequence is that the Herald's
war news is made up of turgid recitals of
Moslem "atrocities," which nobody on this
side of the ocean believes or cares about, of
transparent attempts to belittle Turkish suc
cesses, palliate Russian blunders and, in gen
eral, depict the whole struggle in most in
tensely Russophile colors. But the Times
gives the facts day by day, in clear, strong,
unmistakable &Enllish, not straining after
brilliancy nor warping the truth to suit doc
trine.
I suppose most newspaperreaders, like my
self, want the raw facts, and are both willing
and able to furnish all requisite sympathy or
prejudice themselves. For my part I have
very few prejudices enlisted in the struggle,
and what I have can be summed up in the
words of my small brother-a lad of sixteen.
I took occasion the other day to ask the
youthful scion of our house which he sympa
tihized with, Turk or Russian.
"Oh, I don't care much which whips," said
he, "but I guess I'd like to see theTurks
whip 'cause they're the weakest and them
other cusses, the Russians, pitched onto 'em."
Then after a moment of deep thought, the
young philospher added, "Yes, and besides
that, I sort o' sympathize with the Turks
'cause Henry Ward Beeecher's down on 'em."
These were primitive notions, but I think
they showed that the mental and moral
training 4o my small brother is of the
proper school to produce a correct develop
ment of manhood. A boy of sixteen, who in
stinctively sympathizes with the weaker side
when it is "pitched onto" and who instinctive
ly coppers Henry Ward Beecher, may fairly
be consideredl as having in him the "makings
of a man."
The fault which the Thrall commits and
which the Times avoids rests in the fact that
stories of "atrocity" fall, for the most part,
on languid ears this side of the water, and
the only avidity there is in regard to the
struggle is for incidents of campaign and
developments in the general strategy. To
this avidity the New York Times ministers
with surpassing li(ielity and, thus far, with
the most captivating grace. Now it may be
reasonable .and logical for the opposition
press of England, lecd by the London Daily
News, to harp on
"TURKISH ATRO(ITIES"
because the war has certain political aspects
that closely concern the politicians of Great
Britain. But no such motives can possibly
obtain on this side of the water, wherefore the
Herald's ceaseless wail over "atrocities,"
mawkish at the beginning, becomes maudlin
in the end. Thus the lferald's war news has
lost all interest for those who desire the raw
military facts, and is rendered valueless to
the historical student. I have discussed this
particular feature thus at length as between
the Herald and Tius, because they are the
only New York papers that seem to be doing
anything worth comment in the line of East
ern war correspondence.
As to resources, there can be no doubt that
the Herald surpasses the Times, though not
so considerably as most people might imag
ine; for the Times is a paper of large and per
manent income. When Raymond founded
the Times his aim was to make it as distinc
tively "New Yorkish" as possible. He suc
ceeded, and obtained for itaclose-communion
sort of provinciai patronage which itL _
always held and which Is lucrative. It used i
to be a curious fact that the Tribune,
with all fame and power as a na
tional organ under Greeley's manage- I
ment, never had half and sometimes
not more than one-third the daily circulation
of the Times, which, by the way, was scarce
ly known in those days west of the Allegha
nies or south of the Potomac. Mr. Raymond
left the Times firmly established, but in a
narrow rut of custom and patronage. After
his death it underwent various shifts of for- s
tune, but finally fell into the exclusive hands
of
.FOROE JONES,
who had been Raymond's associate in its
formation and who had always been its busi
ness manager. Jones is a shrewd, shifty
Yankee, now about sixty years old, but as
keen as a youth of twenty-five. He is a
modest, almost retiring man at first
sight, but widens and deepens, upon
acquaintance, surprisingly. Jones is now
business manager, editor and, for
aught I know, superintendent of the
press-room to boot. At all events he is all
over the Times establishment all the time.
He used to hire an editor, Louis Jennings by
name, and a thorough-bred editor he was too,
barring some faults incidental to a strong
character, positive to conceit and aggressive
to arrogance.
Jennings was undoubtedly the most uni
versally hated man in the profession while
he was at the head of the Times. I never
heard or read a good word of him, and thus,
with my customary perversity, presumed he
was a good fellow if he could only be found
out. So I happened to meet him once
casually at Wormley's in Washington
and liked him. He was simply a bluff, sturdy
Englishman, running largely to opinion of
himself, and not hypocritical enough to be
popular in the northern half of the United
States. In New Orleans he would have neen
made to fight inside of a fortnight, and would
probably have been killed-for he would
fight.
Well, Jennings found the Times in the deep
narrow rut of Manhattan Islandism, where
Raymond left it; he lifted it out, made it
TIlE NATIONAL ORFAN OF G(ANTISM,
and got rich by buying a few shares cheap
when he began, and selling them for ten or
eleven thousand dollars apiece when he quit.
As a political organ the Times has always
been to me the climax of the detestable. But
as a journalistic enterprise I have been forced
to admit its excellence for years, and
never so unreservedly as now. However,
just at present the politics of the Times are
like the old woman's soap. Jones is not a
philosopher, nor is he a statesman; but a
plain, matter-of-fact Yankee printer, with an
eye to the main chance. Thus he is bewil
dered at what his eyes have seen since Hayes
came in.' The Southern Policy, Schurz, Civil
Service Reform, John Sherman, Conkling,
Fenton, and the devil generally, dance before
his disordered political vision in fantastic
can-can, until he is .dumb-founded to know
who he is himself half the time. As in whist
you take the trick when in doubt, so Jones,
when bewildered by the antics of the Ad
ministration, falls to abusing the South. "If
thy friend aggrieve thee, bear in silence until
thou meetest thine enemy; then visit upon
him the sins of thy friend," is an old Turkish
proverb. Jones seems to have adopted it,
and so whenever he is disgusted with Schurz
he whales away at the South. Ah, well, it
does not hurt us and seems to do Jones a
power of good. At a rough guess, I should
say the Times had the third best circulation
and paid the second best dividends of any
paper in New York.
THE HSUN
is my favorite. When my exchequer is re
duced to two cents I always freely bankrupt
myself to buy the Sun. Time was when it
had the largest daily circulation on this con
tinent, but now the Herald is said by good
newspaper judges to lead it several thou
sand. The Herald always jumps ahead when
there is commotion in Europe-on the
strength of its ancient reputation, however,
for mercy knows its Turkish war news has
been mainly as worthless slosh as ever dis
tigured white paper. I think the Smn made a
mistake in giving the Eastern war the go-by.
A trifle of cable service, short, sharp, crisp
and comprehensive, with such a line of letters
as say three active correspondents could fur
nish, would have given the Sun a sale of 40,000
copies more than it has now, and need not
have cost more than half the sum derived
from the additional sale of papers-say $200
to $250 a day. By the way the Sun did start
A BUREAU OF WAR CORRE-PONDENCE
but it fell early in the action. It was a funny
episode: The Chicago Times had senta young
gentleman of the name of Keenan, somewhat
known in Washington for a couple of winters
past, to London to organize a Chicago Times
European Bureau. The Sun undertook to
take Keenan's specials at New York in transi
tu, paying a share of the cable tolls for the
use of them, or something to that effect. I
believe the Sun printed one of these partner
ship specials, accompanying it with a double
leaded editorial setting forth its excellences
which, by the way, were not visi
ble to the unassisted eye. This was
a memorable special. I judged when
I read it that Victor Hugo must have fur
nished the facts, and Miss Braddon the rhet
oric. It related mainly to the map of Europe
for the year 1900. With that special vanished
the S,,'s. great bureau of Eastern war
correspondlence, and I suppose Mr. Dana, see
ing that his correspondent had arranged
everything for the next thirty years, felt that
it would be a waste of money to pay cable
tolls upon dry details of events as they might
transpire in the interim. In about a week
the Chicagol Times reached a similar conclu
sion, and thus Keenan, who is my friend and
who is likewise bright and beautiful in many
things, came to grief all round. As I said be
fore, I think Mr. Dana made a mistake in
giving up the enterprise of war correspond
ence. But I suppose he knows his business
better than I know it, and he certainly doesn't
pay me anything for my advice. As a
domestic newspaper for the million the
,S,,n is without a peer. Doctrinal and
opinionated as it is, it nevertheless
furnishes more information to the square
inch and with less of gush or rhodomontade
than any other sheet I know of. Moreover,
there is a vein of dry, caustic humor running
through the Sun, the like of which I have
n;.'r seen anywhere els., and wI¢ich I a,'c.
never heard either, for that matter, exceptim
the conversation of Mr. Dana himself. If I
were making up a list of American humor
ists, I should assign a place to Mr. Danatisa
list all by himself, and then I should place
that list very near the foreground of Amer
Scan humor.
DANA'5 WIT
is of the sort that steals unon you unawares;
or rather, I should say, you ca n feel it warm
ing your veins through like the generosity 1
W. W. Corcoran's real old Burgundy- whl·a
Mme. IRobeson once sugared and iedx at a
dinner, by the way, to the unspeakable horror
of the venerable philanthropist and friend of
Webster, who doted on it. But whatever may
be Mr. Dana's faults, he is frank, truthful sand
sincere; he hates a fraud or a sham as
naturally as he draws his breath, and he has
been the best friend the Houth had in all the
North in the days when the South needed
friends and had little wherewith to reqfite
friendship, except her gratitude--of which
Mr. Dana needs no assurance. The Hun prints
its circulation at its head of column, so there
is no need of guess-work. To-day the figure
are 108,000. I suppose it makes the third
newspaper money in New York, being e
cededn in this respect only by the Il~ere and
Times. Long may it shine.
As to
THE HERALD,
I have already reviewed it considerably in
running comparisons with the other paperal
That was natural, because the Heraldis a rel
ative rather than an absolute entity in jour
nalism anyhow-to use Hpencerlan terms. To
me the most interesting and instructive part
of the Herald is
ITS ADVERTISING( COLUMNS.
Once in a while it has an editorial the bright.
ness of which gives rise to the horrid sus.
clon that the managing editor has relaxed hia
vigilance and betrayed the great trust oe
posedl in him by Young Jimn Bennett; whick
great trust seems to be the, careful exoreieam
of everything that is not stupid. As
to the Herald s correspondence it is slm
ply the grand cilmacteric of absurdity;
a dense, inert mass of solid nonpareil in
which misinformation seems to struggle lan
guldly with bad syntax for the mastery.
Moreover, half of it seems to be written at a
point no more "foreign" than Castle Garde;
that is to say, in plainer terms, fabricated ia
the home office. I am told that the Herald
keeps a regular "staff" of European corre
spondents on duty in the home office, who
produce to order' letters" from Khiva, Zan
zibar or Nova Zembla, as the case may be. I
was amused the other day at a Hrald letter
from "Varna." I had read the letter two
days before in the London Daily Newn--tht
is to say, the same letter in good English.
The Hlerald news editor had sim
ply taken the Diuly News' letter and
reduced its syntax to the Herald focus; that
was all. The effect was like rendering sealo
tions from the Bohemian Gi(rl on a jowsharp.
I am told by attaches of the Herald that
JIM nENNETT "MANA(#EN" IT PROM PARIS SM
CABLE.
I should suppose so. An improvement wo ld
probably be visible if the elder Bennet.
should supervene and undertake to "managd"
it from hell, by telephone.
The fourth paper on my list is
TE sTAATNs-ZlTUflNI,
Whose name bespeaks its Teutonic origin. I
have no hesitation in saying that the New
Yorker Htaats-.eitung is at this moment the
greatest and best daily newspaper printed hi
the German language on either side of the
I ocean. None of the so-ealled "great newspa
pers" of Germany, neither the Berlin nor the
Vienna papers, nor yet the Augsburg Al.e
mein, compare with it in either the esentalls
or the ornaments of a great daily journal. I
know little or nothing of its internal manage
ment, but I read it with some regularity ant
can testify that it is well managed and ably
written up. I learn that itis the fourth paer
in New York in point of wealth, solidity of
f foundatnsaoad eertainty of income.
STHE EVEDINO PoorT
is known to everybody as the paper whiLc
uses the honored name of William Culle
Bryant to give a semblance of respectability
to the "management" of a fellow named
Henderson who some years ago acquired
control of it in true Yankee fashion. Hender
son is not the first of his species who has
stolen the livery of a good name to serve the
I devil in. The circulatioa of the Eveninf/ APaE
is comparatively small, but it has a strong,
healthy advertising patronage and makes
7 piles of money; the best judges tell me it
makes the fifth biggest newspaper profits in
New York.
I am in some doubt as to. whether the
Worbl or the Tribune should be placed sixth
L on the list. I suppose it would be fair to
t 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
I houses, and you know what club-house
S"editin "' is.
THE TRIBUNE
belongs to Jay Gould, and probably would
reflect his personality if he had any above thel
gutters of Wall street. As It is, Gould's
hand rarely shows in the paper outside of its
financial columns, though last fall he went
into political copartnery with Zach Chandler
and took some hand at the crank in the gui
eral conduct of the sheet. For general pur
.ses, however in the long run, Whit.law
ieid controls the Tributa with a good deal of
absolutism. Whitelaw is out of his sphere as
the manager of a geat newspoaper. He
should have been a profemor of rhetoric i
some female seminary. I fancy that under
his tuition the sweet girl graduate would
haveproduced new splendors in vernal poetry,
which are now unhappily lost to the world
There are three good writers and every way
first-class journalists on the Tribune--4eoUrg
W. Smalley its London correspondent; Je;L
White, its Washington representative, and
Ike Bromley, an editorial contributor. Wihat
ever value it has in these days is mainly des
to these three men.
THE WORLD
has always reminded me of a pale, siklfy,
dyspeptic, ricketty child I knew once. O(N
day I askdl the family physician what was
the matter with that child.
"Well," said he, "it was born dying !"
The World very nearly died a 'bornin' as
the saying is and I can't see that journa.k.s
at large would have been the loser if it hd
died entirely. And yet the World has always
been one of the most readable journals in tha
country, so far as good English, elegant dic
tion and wealth of pure intellectuality ean
make a journal readable. Under Marnts
Marble's direction the World was a peculiar
mixture of empirical theories and Democratic
pretension,which last generally availed to
the Democratic party in a perpetual turmoil
Finally Marble went out and Hurlbert came
in. Hurlbert is as genial a gentleman of the
Ne v York club-house variety as you can find
anywhere, and he has worked mapy visible
imiprovements in the conduct of the World.
But I am informed that the effect of his Im
provement has never been appreciably felt Ia
the counting-room of the concern; and yru
know I adhere to those primitive notions in
journalism which rate the intellect of the
counting-room first, and that of the editorial
department second as essential to success- I
think, however, that the trouble with the
World is more radical than any mere defect hi
or of itself. It is
A SUPERFLTrTTY.
Three morning papers in the English
tongue are about all that can be made to pay
big mone in New York, and the three niches
are filled by the tlherald Ths*4sd S... "F_
fact is a natural obstacle l It VDii take a
vast combination of editorI ~e busin"
capacity and cash capital toov neither
of which it has ever enjoyed Wea
steadiness to win in a long pull, g struo p
and a pull altogether. I wish the Worbwell
and Hurltbert success, but I fear that in this
asL in many other things my wish and theaw
conplished fact will be wide apart.
There are other Mjiopls in New York, .bu,
i t.-o-lg:tlic=r rJt. .. C. J.