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James Gordon Bennett’s Editorial Career.[2]
Incomparable Meanness.[5]
Spectres and Hobgoblins.[6]
To James Gordon Bennett and Frederic Hudson, His Cunning Secretary.[6]
The Way New York Is Bamboozled.[7]
Startling Revelations.[8]
Life of Stephen H. Branch.[10]

Volume I.—No. 9.]—— SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1858.—— [Price 2 Cents.

STEPHEN H. BRANCH’S
ALLIGATOR.

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James Gordon Bennett’s Editorial Career.

Bennett left his native hills of Scotland in 1819, and arrived in Boston in 1820. After enduring the tortures of poor Goldsmith (as teacher, traveler, editor, and author) for fifteen years, he takes the basement of the crumbling ruin at No. 20 Wall street, and advertises for a boy, when John Kelly (now a Member of Congress from the Fourth, Sixth, Tenth, and Fourteenth Wards) thus responds: