New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-01-27
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This has been called. an age Of humbug. We
have always had friendly feeling for our own
age, as much as we have for our own home, and
have felt an earnest desire to defend its charac
ter, and send it down, with fair reputation,
upon the stream of time, into the depository of
history.
Our city contemporaries manifestiy think DIFF
ferently of the age and of its spirit. They GER
tainly consider it an age of humbug. Other
wise, how can we account for the extrayagant
and enormous puffs Of themselves, which daily
appear in their columns, double-leaded, capital
lied and italicised' According to their own an
nouncements, published in their own columns,
they have the most extraordinary, fiattering,
profitable and incalculable circulation that ever
was known in the history of newspaperdom
Copies Of their daily journals float through the
community, through the State. through the
Union, and through the whole world, thick
as leaves in the vale of Vallambrosa The only
wonder is that any one can walk through the
streets, and see five PAGES before him, on ac-
count of the countless clouds of Deltas, Plea
yunes, Couriers, ETC., falling raining down in
his path.
One would think, from the Improvements Of
our contemporaries that their issues fell, as
thickly and generally as snow flakes in the
street. After reading these immense self-glo1i-
fcations, we are astonished that the Street
Commissioner does not keep dozen carts ANA
score of men busily at work in removing their
falling shower of issues from the streets, in or
der that pedestrians may not be INSTRUCTED by
the accumulation Of them in the public high
ways.
And as for advertisements why it is won
der that such an immense number as they boast
Of does not require sheet from every one OF
them large enough to answer as a counterpane
for giant among Brobdignagians.
Now, hear the model Delta;
Tie Deltas business to discuss const uonal scr
pies and objections to any and every public man Is
for this reason de Delta is read BY thousands than e
Delta, Delta ARE you not ashamed OF your |
self! You profess a desperate anxiety to profit /
some charitable institution by making a wager
on your circulation, Well, we will wager you,
that, here, at home, in the city Of Neworleans,
the morning issue Of the Crescent is greater |
than both your morning and evening issues com |
bined.
But, into the lists comes our contemporary, the |
Picayune, announcing its seventeenth (may il |
celebrate its thousandth y anniversary, with the
least bit Of vanity in the world II speaks Of its
success, and says:
The result is greatly due acknowledge the kind
ness Of wide circle of patrons in whose hands place
journal Of moderate containing latest important
Intelligence Of all descriptions and from all quarters
been our continued aim. y
The Pieayune claims that its tone is /" mode |
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rate" so much so, that to arrive at its opinions
upon any important subject We wouldas readily !
read its leaders backwards as forwards, and feel
confident we should lose nothing of their point
Upon one question the Picayune is numerically
positive-that is, the weather, Upon this sub
ject it commits Itself without regard to conse-
quences. In this, it is not " moderate"
But, the Courier comes in, and blows its blast
Of self praise. in the following grand Style
We have already BY means of daily and semi weekly,
crculaton inferior to few papers in the South and
being the official journal of the state this circulation
viii be rapidly increased We offer therefore additional
inducements TO advertising friends
The Delta does not relish being beaten at the
game of brag; and So ii replies S in fun voice
and tartly to the Courier, as follows;
In reply to the foregoing would state that the Delta
IL Published Ia the South West and that its circulation
dx times that Of the official Journal Of the State II
the Courier is disposed to dispute this question would
invite comparison, terms that will add pretty sum
to the resources Of any charitable institution Of city
may choose Besides issuing six times the number OF pa
pers Of the Courier show and challenge Car
Ter to the proof larger circulation in either Mississippi
or Louisiana than the whole circulation Of the Courier
the United States and the world at large.
We further propose such terms as the
Courier may ndicaeso to add the funds any re-
spectacle charitable asseciatono show that the Deas
circulation in one single parish of the State double
that Of the Courier In the whole State We make these
propositions in order 10 ge neghbor opportunity 81
Qualifying the preference Of The Legislature By sorng rs e
,poud the selection Of Official journal disregard The pap
iar rfa and apreseiat0n Of jornSi indieatd ~ Is 6
scription-ia.
Now, Courier. there is chance for YOU
Take up the wager. There is no use in sending ,,
" Young America" to Jericho his beard is fully
grown, and he will not larry in that choice 10.
cality. Notice the sting in the tail of his an I
swer. /,
Well, as our contemporaries are all blowing t
their own trumpets, We may as we'll say an off h
hand thing, on our own account. The morning }
circulation of the Crescent in the city Of New
Orleans is larger than the circulation Of the /
combined morning and evening issues Of any il
other paper. and our country circulation is sec a
ond only 10 that of the Delta We are ready I
Ia Ia Delta) to wager something on these points,
to the profit of charitable institution al
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It will be seen by Topographic Dispatches that ga
are 10 have mail either to-day tomorrow Pleasant
state Of affairs, truly. h
We are indebted to the clerk of the steamer Golden az
Gate for late Louisville papers
The mali failed yesterday from beyond Montgomery y