gh to secure a large contract
from Dr. Brandreth for advertising his pills in the _Herald_. The sum
received was very large, and was conscientiously expended in the purchase
of news, and in improving and increasing the attractions of the paper.
At the end of the fifteenth month of its career, Mr. Bennett ventured to
increase the size of the _Herald_, and to raise its price from one to two
cents. Since then the paper has prospered steadily, and is now one of
the wealthiest and most powerful journals in the land, and the best
purveyor of news in the world. Its success is due almost exclusively to
the proprietor. Mr. Bennett has not only built up his own paper, but has
revolutionized the press of the world. This is his chief claim to
distinction.

He rarely writes for the paper now, though he maintains a close
supervision over all parts of it, as well as over the mechanical
department of his enterprise.

[Picture: JAMES GORDON BENNETT.]

He is married, and has two children, a son, James Gordon Bennett, jr.,
who will succeed his father in the ownership of the _Herald_, and a
daughter. He resides on the Fifth avenue. He is said to be a courtly
and agreeable host, and his long and extensive experience as a journalist
has made him one of the best informed men of the day.

In person he is tall and firmly built, and walks with a dignified
carriage. His head is large and his features are prominent and
irregular. He is cross-eyed, and has a thoroughly Scotch face. His
expression is firm and somewhat cold--that of a man who has had a hard
fight with fortune, and has conquered it. He is reserved in his manner
to strangers, but is always courteous and approachable.

LXIII. DRUNKENNESS.

During the year 1869, there were 15,918 men, and 8105 women arrested for
intoxication, and 5222 men and 3466 women for intoxication and disorderly
conduct, making a total of 21,140 men and 11,571 women, or 32,711 persons
in all arrested for drunkenness. Now if to this we add the 21,734 men
and women arrested during the same year for assault and battery, and for
disorderly conduct, and regard these offences as caused, as they
undoubtedly were, by liquor, we shall have a total of 54,445 persons
brought to grief by the use of intoxicating liquors.

But it does not require this estimate to convince a New Yorker that
drunkenness is very common in the city. One has but to walk through the
streets, and espec