When Harrison was nominated for President in 1840, Greeley started _The Log Cabin_, which reached the then fabulous circulation of ninety thousand.

But on this paper at a penny a copy, he made no money.
His next venture was the New York _Tribune_, price one cent.

To start it he borrowed a thousand dollars and printed five thousand copies of the first number.

It was difficult to give them all away.

He began with six hundred subscribers, and increased the list to eleven thousand in six weeks.