New York Saturday Press

Sponsored by Howland and editied by Clapp. Only lasted 2 years, but attracted some of the best young writers of the day, nicknamed the Bohemians "both for their unconventional ways of living and for their iconoclastic writings."

It's purpose was to "speak the truth, and... cast ridicule upon as many as possible of the humbugs then extant and prosperous in literature and art." "'At a time when the nation was on the verge of civil war, Clapp showed only disdain for politics and never mentioned the slavery controversy. 'The Saturday Press has no politics,' he boasted. 'It looks upon politicians, of whatever breed or half-breed, shell or half-shell, as an uninteresting species of maniac.''"

Contributors
George Arnold, Edward G. B. Wilkins, Ada Clare, Fitz-James O'Brien, Thomas B. Aldrich, and Walt Whitman. They, dubbed The Bohemians, gathered in the evenings at Pfaff's Cellar, the favored haunt of the writers, actors, playwrights, artists, and critics of New York Bohemia.