nothing to condemn.  From that day to this he has been but in one thing consistent,—­contempt for the negro and for all white men interested in his welfare, approving himself in this a thorough Celt.  If, for one brief period, he forced himself, for personal reasons, to veil this feeling, the feeling remained rooted within him, and soon resumed its wonted expression.  He liked the South, and the people of the South, and had a true Celtic sympathy with their aristocratic pretensions.  The salary of an assistant editor at that time was something between the wages of a compositor and those of an office-boy.  Seven dollars a week would have been considered rather liberal pay; ten, munificent; fifteen, lavish.

Returning to New York, he endeavored to find more lucrative employment, and advertised his intention to open, near the site of the present Herald office, a “Permanent Commercial School,” in which all the usual branches were to be taught “in the inductive method.”  His list of subjects was extensive,—­“reading, elocution, penmanship, and arithmetic; algebra, astronomy, history, and geography; moral philosophy, commercial law, and political economy; English grammar, and composition; and also, if required, the French and Spanish languages, by natives of those countries.”  Application was to be made to “J.G.B., 148 Fulton Street.”  Applications, however, were not made in sufficient number, and the school, we believe, never came into existence.  Next, he tried a course of lectures upon Political Economy, at the old Dutch Church in Ann Street, then not far from the centre of population.  The public did not care to hear the young gentleman upon that abstruse subject, and the pecuniary result of the enterprise was not encouraging.  He had no resource but the ill-paid, unhonored drudgery of the press.

For the next few years he was a paragraphist, reporter, scissorer, and man-of-all-work for the New York papers, daily and weekly, earning but the merest subsistence.  He wrote then in very much the same style as when he afterwards amused and shocked the town in the infant Herald; only he was under restraint, being a subordinate, and was seldom allowed to violate decorum.  In point of industry, sustained and indefatigable industry, he had no equal, and has never since had but one.  One thing is to be specially noted as one of the chief and indispensable causes of his success. He had no vices.  He never drank to excess, nor gormandized, nor gambled, nor even smoked, nor in any other way wasted the vitality needed for a long and tough grapple with adverse fortune.  What he once wrote of himself in the early Herald was strictly true: