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John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 27: administration of President Hayes begins a new era (search)
heir respective lines, the sketches as corrected by Dana's own hand are here inserted: Moses Y. Beach was a business man and a newspaper manager rather than what we now understand as a journaliat is to say, one who is both a writer and a practical conductor and director of a newspaper. Mr. Beach was a man noted for enterprise in the collection of news. In the latter days when he owned anthen brought to Halifax by steamers, just as the news from Mexico was brought to New Orleans. Mr. Beach's energy found a successful field in establishing expresses brought by messengers on horsebackbers in this city and to other newspapers in every part of the country. Under the stimulus of Mr. Beach's energetic intellect, aided by the cheapness of its price, the Sun became in his hands an impmuch force and elasticity as he went after everything else. He ran expresses in opposition to Mr. Beach, though he finally joined the combination and became a member of the Associated Press, with Be
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Index (search)
eek or Champion's Hill, 221, 223, 225. Baltimore, 336, 337. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, 337, 347. Bancroft, George, 453. Banks, General, 209, 212, 233, 301, 302, 349. Banks, N. P., Speaker, 142, 144, 147. Baraguay d'hilliers, 67. Barker, Fordyce, 177. Barlow, United States Marshal, 417. Barnard, General, 328. Barrett, James, 18-21, 25, 28-30. Bartlett, Robert, 53. Bates, Attorney-General, 162. Bayard, Secretary, 471, 475. Bayou, Pierre, 220. Bayou, Tensas, 209. Beach, Moses Y., 484-487. Beecher-Tilton scandal, 449. Belknap, General, 418, 419. Bell, Senator, 180. Bern, General, 96. Benjamin, Senator, 153, 359. Bennett, James Gordon, 128, 314, 430, 484-489. Benton, Mayor, 351. Benton, Senator, 98, 104, 144, 145, 152. Bentonville, battle at, 355. Berlin, 83-85. Bermuda Hundred, 328, 329. Big Black River, 209, 216, 220, 221, 223, 225, 230. Bingham, Lieutenant-Colonel, 242. Black Ant, children's stories, 155. Black Friday, 417, 425, 493.
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.7 (search)
dvance of the regular mails. Never had there been a finer opportunity for the display of newspaper enterprise. It consumed seven days to transmit the mails from New Orleans to New York at the that time (near the close of the year 1846), and Moses Y. Beach, of the New York Sun, conceived the idea of outstripping it and supplying his readers with the latest intelligence from the front a full day in advance of his competitors. The Charleston Courer was then published by Wm. S. King, a man of rare judgment and journalistic enterprise, and to him Mr. Beach proposed a co-partnership in a pony express that would accomplish what they desired. Mr. King was delighted with the idea, and accepted the proposition at once. Without delay the necessary arrangements were perfected and the line went into effect at once. The first intelligence received in this way was published in Charleston, exclusively, on the 27th of March, 1847. This news, full twenty-four hours in advance of the United St
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 26. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)
ts petition to be transferred to Alabama, 26; tributes to the women of, 186, 213; cavalry of, 220. American Constitution, The, guarantees of, 185, 210, 334, 335, 336. Appomattox, Its memories, 199. Arsenal, The Confederate, at Richmond, Va., 373. Badges for Confederate gallantry, 10. Baird, William, 39. Ball, Colonel W. B., 242. Barbour, B Johnson, 357. Bartlett, Remarks of Commander, on John Buck, Ex. C. S. A., at Boston, 309. Battle, General Cullen A., 16. Beach, Moses Y., 102. Beaufort Volunteer Artillery, Sketch of, 233. Bee, General Barnard E., 140. Blaine, J. G., on the Dred Scott Decision, 52; on the right of secession, 59. Boonsboro, Md., 17. Bostick, Benjamin, 33. Boyd's Landing, Battle of, 63. 82. Bragg, General B., Failure of, at Fort Fisher, 161. Bristow Station, Battle of, 20. Brock, R. A., 255. Broun, Ll. D., Colonel W. LeRoy, 365. Brown, Rev. Dr., William, 289. Bull Run, Battle of, reported by the N. Y. Tribune, 103,