New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-04-10
TIE TRIBUNE ENLARGED.

TIE TRIBUNE ENLARGED.
Nine year, ago this day, the writer hereof
submitted 20 the public the first number Of
TIN NV -Yoas TmGrNg. The .Ieotvatmo--
phcre. the lcadan sky, the unreasonable win
biue,,. the general gloom, Of that stormy
da,. which witnessed the grand though
moupf1l pageant whereby our Cry COM
mcnorated the lighting Of a Nation hopes
in the mos, untimoly death Of President
Harrison, were not inapdy miuiatmed in his
own prospects and fortunes, Having de-
voted the seven preceding year, almost
wholly to the establishment Of weekly COM
pend If Literature and Intelligence The
Ncw-Yorkcrl vhercfrom though widely cir
cuatci and warmly praised, hc had received
no other return than the experience and
wider acquaintance thence accruiuc, Doc eu-
tered upon his novel and most precariou~
enterprise most ~lcnlerIy provided with Tire
external means Of commanding Subsistence
and success iu its prosecution. Viii uo
partner or business associate. with inc1u~d-
cradle pccuuiary resources, and only prom
is from political friends Of aid o. the cxtant
Of two thousand dollars. of which but one
half was ever realized. land that long since
repaid bat the sense Of obligation to the far
from wealthy friend who made the loan Is
none the la., fresh and arient.l he under
tool the enterprise at all time, and under
any circumstances hazardous of adding
one more 90 the already amply extensive li,t
Of Daily ."V>paper- issued in this Empo-
mum. whore the current expenses of such
paper, already appalling were soon to Dee
doubled ly rivalry by stimulated comrcu-
ton. b, iicpro-res, Of business. the comph
cation VI inter ,,,, and especially by the gem
eral diffusion ,hc Electric Telegraph. and
whore an least nineteen ont Of every twenty
attempts To establish new Daily have
proved disastrous failures Manifcstly. the
prospect of success in this ease was far from
fatlcrng
Nctourattempt has not been unsuccessful.
Commencing with a subscription of but
Few hundred names, and these procured ~
the efforts of very few personal as well as
political friends, our list was rapidly swclled
by acccs>ions within aud without the CITY
We printed Five Thousand copies Of our first
nUmber and found some difficulty in giving
them away bat before the year expired We
had steady daily sale for more than Ten
Thousand copies The necessity of incrcas-
Ing the price, in order to make the paper
what the increasing and expanding wants of
the time demanded, has since checked the
rspidity of acce>>ions, yet the actual los, Of
patrons on the several occasions of adyanc
Ing the price of our Daily from six to Nine
and ultimately TO Twelve cents per week to
City, With a corresponding advance to more
distant readers, was considerably less than
we had anticipated.
Those enhMcements ofprice were dictated
by necessities quite beyond cur yoltion.-
We could have done well enough pecuniari-
" at our first price by being content 70 print
such paper as that price implies and ne
ccssitates-a mere hash of the more con>pic-
,loaS incidents and developments of each
day, crowded and chowdercd into five or six
closely printed columns, giving currency To
twice as many devoted 10 Advertising. such
Journals, worthily conducted. have their
uses, and are playing no important part in
educating and stimulating 10 mental aetiyi-
ty the hitherto uniaught and unrefecung
millions. But the wants thus recognized
and ministered to are by no means matured
and 6naEthey discover and develop Others.
Ii is mot enough for the citizen and elector
Of our day to know what Congress and the
Legislature did yesterday what ships have
xrrived or sailed OF met with disasters, what
events have transpired in Europe or Caliior-
uia. what steamboats, have burst their boil
ers W taken FIRE on the Lakes or Western
Rivers, what lawsuits were tried yesterday
OF may be today. who have been married OF
have died. sc. &c. All these it i well that
each should know-nay, il is scarcely possi-
Bile to get on creditably or successfully with
sutyknowing them. He who goes about the
dsy's business after giving sn hour to the