The National Republican

Prentice and the Louisville Journal.
The relations of Mr. George D. Prentice
with the Louisville Journal have been for
sometime an interesting topic of conversation
in literary circles. From reliable parties we
obtain the following facts:
Mr. Henderson, of the Journal, did dismiss Mr. Prentice from the paper he built,
and with which he has been identified so
many years. This was, perhaps, an economical stroke of business management on the
part of Mr. Henderson, but the effect was
most astoundingly different from what he expected. Instead of saving $40 a week—the
amount of poor Prentice's salary—he found he
had raised a hornet's nest about his ears.
The Board of Trade and the citizens were up
in a moment. Measures were inaugurated to
withdraw all patronage from the Journal, and
to purchase a complete outfit for a new paper,
with a fund to float it, and make a present to
Mr. Prentice. For a few days Mr. Henderson
was in a bloody sweat of apprehension. He
flew around like a hen with her head off, and
made the most abject apologies to Mr. Prentice, with overtures for a resumption of amicable relations. Mr. Prentice rejected his
overtures
In the meantime Clarence Prentice met
Henderson on the street, and reminded him
that when he (Clarence) sold out his interest
in the Journal it was with the distinct understanding that his father should have a salary
of $40 a week during life, whether he did anything to earn it or not. This arrangement
Mr. Henderson had disregarded, and young
Prentice, in pursuance of Kentucky chivalry,
asked him if he was armed. If not, he had
better arm himself, as it was the deliberate
intention of Mr. Clarence Prentice to eviscerate and chew him up Mr. Henderson said
he was not armed, and did not intend to be;
that he had treated Prentice pere, shamefully,
and wouldn't fight Prentice, fils, on any terms.
On the contrary, he had made all the reparation he could to the old man, and negotiations
were pending which he felt sure would make
matters right. A Kentucky chivalry can't
eviscerate and chew up a man who refuses to
arm himself, and so the matter ended. Suitable arrangements have been made, and Mr.
Prentice is again at work on the Journal—
Indianapolis Mirror.