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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 310, 30 December 1872, Page 4

The following sketch of Horace Greeley's career ia given in Men of the Times : — Horace Greeley was born at Amherst, New Hampshire, in the United States, February 3rd, 1811. About 1825 — his parents having removed to Vermont — Horace, who had always been a lover of books, obtained employment as an apprentice iv a printing office, and in August, 1831, arrived at New York, where he secured occasional work as a journeyman priDter in various offices. In 1834, in partnership with Messrs. Wh inch ester and Gibbett, he started the New Yorker, a weekly literary journal, which, after several years' trial proving unprofitable, was abandoned, and iv 1841 he commenced the publication of the New York Tribune, which has been very successful. Iv 1848, Mr Greeley was chosen to fill, a vacancy in the Thirtieth Congress, and served through the short term preceding General Taylor's inauguration. In 186% he visited Europe, and was chosen chairman of one of juries of the Great Exhibition, and afterwards published*an account of, bis travels. He is the author of a collection of addresses, essays, &c, published under the title of ' Hints towards Reforms,' and of * A History of the Struggle for Slavery Extension or Restriction in the JO nited. States, from 1786 to 1856 '—published in 1856. In 1859 he visited California, by wajr of Kansas and Utah, and delivered addresses in the principal , towns through which he passed, y He ad vocated the cause of Jhie \ I Union during Vtbe/^Gi^ljVWtf^tfba^^te^ •^•The American^ Conflict,' published : in $*$^^ yyk 'V- yb'tk '. ■