American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-04-02
A FEW THOUGHTS AT RANDOM.


"My own affairs touches me more nearer
than any body else's," says Billy Lackaday.
Poor Billy is by no means singular in this
The AMERICAN TELEGRAPH has been badly
served by the carriers on some of our city
routes. We to-day place on duty persons who
win reform this.
We thank the public for the kind reception
we have met with, and our efforts derive new
energy from their encouragement.
There are many things easier than starting a
new daily paper; but there is no task in the
performance of which success could bring to
us more pleasure We love the pursuit, and
are proud when we feel assured that our SER
vices are appreciated, even though faithfulness
and discretion, rather than great abilities, are
Inequalities eliciting commentator. l ,t.t,'a
Cent papers attain to a wide circulation, and
therefore command an extensive advertising
patronage. Upon this they live and prosper.
But in a community in which the advertising
patronage is not large, a cent paper cannot be
published, or must be very small, and without
telegraphic and the other costly facilities Of
modern times. There must therefore, be some
profit from the sale as well Us the advertising
custom. Two cents win afford little Of this.
If there were not in each community desire
to sustain paper of its own, the superior IA
ctities OF large commercial cities would render
all places ofless note dependent upon them. A
copy Of the New York Courier and Enquirer
double sheet) weighs half a pound. Philadel-
phia has nothing equal to it !; yet Philadelphians
do not neglect their own Journals for the sake
of the cheaper bargain it might promise.
Editors perform many gratuitous services
for the people to whom they look for support,
and finally rebuke many persons in their cofins
bypublishing obituary panegyrics gratuitously
How often they are thus innocently revenged
for years Of neglect ..
Ut all men, editors are the most sighted in
adversely, and the most courted in prosperity
probably because their merit is gagged by their
success. CIV sci ae IS
"Why don't you advertise in the Herald 81
gentleman once asked his neighbor.
81 win, !" said the latter, when its circula-
ton becomes large
"Why don't you subscribe, them"
81 win as soon as think the paper is firmly
established. AT present | prefer to wait and
see'
But the Herald died very dead before the
grass grew, and then the dialogue was con-
inued: $500 800.
"Why did the Herald dies"
"Why, because its editors wanted energy |
We would all have taken it If he had done bet
ter. 80 HAN
" think, said the catechist, s'that there is
! something like envious feeling in the breast of
most men, and that, like substratum of muddy
water, it opposes the beginners of a good enter
Prise, whose progress upward is never rapid
until they, with patient and almost hopeless Ia
,or, struggle through the turbid element, and
ind themselves surrounded by the pure light Of
uccess, and behold the smiles Of those who
rowned when they thought they had the power
o, crush.n * 69,-sstn ..fss..t sgs 5s 4 t
/ This is not all about ourselves, however but |
he followinHnote is, for twas written by a very
sensible gentleman, who evidently wishes well
o our undertaking;
To the Editors of The american Telegraph. .33I
oGRxTERMxS: Il am among but not Of the peo-
Pile of your good city. dwell affair off, in
Instant State. am not a profound philoso-
pher, nor statesman, nor politician. OF Che
newspapers heretofore published at Washington
there ARE none that suit my case want to
read, when at home, about Washington itself
Yea win therefore please send me your paper,
md receive the assurance Of my best wishes for
your success, and the success of the 7elegroph--
which think is very certain. q. ltra o"if
tst2 Respectfully yours,
!, WAsuISarpN. April ID. 1851, ,,x.ft.tt