Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1860 — The New York Herald and its Editors—The Impending Crisis Written in the Herald Office. [ARTICLE]

The New York Herald and its Editors—The Impending Crisis Written in the Herald Office.

The New York correspondent of the Mobile Register, makes the following remarkable statements with regard to the New York Herald: “Young Bennet is now the principal assistant editor of his father. He conducts the editorial department,when his father is not in town, and writes well. For a long time, young' Bennett gave no token of editorial talent, but all that changed. Ho has been for a year at the ediorial room every day, (when in town,) and either wrote or dictated the principal editorials. Ho has more talent than his father, though not the experience. There is no person in the United Slates that has received such an education as young Bennett, He has spent years in France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. He was at school in all those countries; consequently he speaks, writes, and reads all those languages with the correctness of a native. When he is 21, (a few days hence,) his father intends to change the heading of the Herald, so as to have it read ‘James G. Bennett &. Son, Editors and Proprietors.’ When the old gentleman dies, then the heading will be changed back to the single J. G. 8., as the son has the same name as the father. The Herald has some very extraordinary men engaged upon it. The principal editorial writer, is the celebrated Dr. Jones, who is the real author of the ‘lmpending Crisis of the South,’ by Helper. That book was compiled by Ur. Jones, in the Herald office, from facts and statements that have been attested by Mr. Bennett. Helper may have assisted the Doctor. As a proof of this, let me call your attention to the fact that nothing of any consequence was said about tlio book, until a tew days before the meeting of Congress; then the Herald opened upon it, republishing extracts and abusing it editorially, day after day, until members of Congress engaged in the discussion, and the fortune of Dr. Jones, Helper, and Burdick, the publisher, is secured.”