The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1850-01-24

CHEAPENtNs PAPERs-We hare put the Era
as low as we can affOrd-s2 year in advance
This is the rule, but it is qualified in several
ways
We allow agents so cents for every sub
scriber they may send us, rs cents for every old
subscriber whom they may renew The commits
sion they are at liberty to retain themselves, or
allow to subscribers an inducement to subscribe,
or renew their subscriptions.
Some have inquired why we pay only 20 cents
for Yenerrsd subscriptions, and so for nep. We
supposed everybody understood the reason 1t is
more difficult 10 obtain mem subscribers than TO
mem old ones, generaHy-and, besides, We are en-
abled to allow 25 per cent. on new subscribers
because, in most cases, they will continue renew
ing their subscription without charge to us, or at
a charge of only l211a per cent.
Publishers, issuing newspapers on the cash sys-
TEN, and with no support from merely local inter
ests, must resort to every legitimate means to in
duce prompt renewals among their subscribers,
and to procure constant accessions of subscribers
to take the places Of those dropping off Among
such means, we have adopted the plan of making
his own subscription, and send US new names,
by allowing him to remit FIVE dollars for three per-
sons, provided two of them be new subscribers
Whether he obtain from each Of them two dollars,
and pay but one himself or whether he share
the charge equally with them, or whether he
take 81 so from EACH and pay 50 himself is left
to bis own discretion. We have nothing to do
with that part of the business
But, says one, why not send the Era to three
old subscribers for s5-why discriminate between
them, and new subscribers ? We make no dis
elimination Every old subscriber is at liberty to
avail himself of the offer; and each of the new
subscribers, thus obtained, will come under the
same rule next year. when he too may procure
three copies of the paper for 50, provided, that
two Of the subscribers he sends be Rer.
We have found this plan to be good one, for
increasing the circulation of the Era 1t is fair
and reasouable-it Injuries nobody-it is an ae-
commodation to many-it is beneficial to the pa
per We shall adhere to it,
Again, we shall send ten copies of the Era, 10
one address, for S5,The reason is obvious. Il
costs ten times more labor to direct to ten sub
scribers individually, than to one-aud labor is
high in Washington
We cannot put our paper lower than the terms
Just stated Other papers may charge but ST.
That is much less than the naked cost of the Era
We shall be happy to have a large subscription
list because it will increase the influence Of the
papers bring an increased number of persons un-
der the influence Of what we regard sound prin-
ciples and because, too, it will add to means of
doing all that we wish to do, and think we ought
to do, at this central point. But we cannot seek
a large circulation at the expense of the essen
tisl interests Of the paper
A PALPABLE HIT.-Last Friday, in the House
of Representatives, after some dozen nominations
had been made for Sergeant-at-Arms, Judge
Wood one Of the Democratic members from
Ohio is reported in the Globe to have said, "that
he rose for the purpose of nominating another
STAKEHOLDER MS a candidate for Sergeant-at-Arms I;
but in casting his eye around be could not fnd
one who did not either hold an Office or who had
not already been nominated and that he would
be compelled TO sit down without carrying out his
original intention o-IadeP HdsEt a. ~ Democrat
Judge Wood, on the same occasion, in allusion
TO the votes Of the eight Southern Democrats for
the Wing candidate for Clerk said that he was
glad that the Southern Democrats had defined
their position at last, and relieved the Northern
Democrats from any obligation to them.
MISSION OF INoUIRY TO THE WRsr INDIES
We learn from the London Ami-SlauTy Reporter
that on the I'd November, Messrs. Alexander and
Gambler, distinguished philanthropists of Great
Britain, embarked at Southampton on the I'd OF
November for the West Indies, on mission OF
INQUIRY into the condition and relations and pros
poets of the emancipated classes They have been
favored by the British and French Governments
with all necessary introductions to the authorities
of the several Colonies; and, the Reporter adds
should they extend their tour beyond them, our
Government has provided them with every neces-
sary document to facilitate inquiries"