Hannibal journal. (Hannibal, Mo.) 1852-1853, 1853-02-24
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making Money" an extract has been taken ard
is going the round Of the provincial press,
pointing out The facility Of making immense
a sums by the simple process Of continuous adver-
, Using Doubtless large sums have been, are,
and will be made by such system by certain
I persons Of ability, who no doubt would make
their way in the world il called upon TO play
different parts on the great stage Of life, but to
suppose that men in general must, us a matter
r of course, acquire wealth by such means, is as
absurd as TO suppose that all the penniless and
shoeiess of London are capable Of rising to the
: dignity an6wsdith of an Alderman or the Lord
Mayor of London simply by reading the
Young Mans Best Companion" Money is
not so easily made as the writer Of the article
referred 10 would lead people to suppose; If il
be so, few need be poor. But TO our text: for
tunes made by advertising. Undoubtedly the
greatest man of the day as an advertiser is Hol.
loway, who expends the enormous sum of TWEEN
ty thousand pounds annually in advertisements
alone; his name is not only 10 be seen in nearly
every paper and periodical published in the
British Isles, but as if this country was too
small for this individuals exploits, he stretches
over the whole of India, having agents in all
The different parts of the upper, central, and
lower provinces of that immense country, pub.
fishing his indictments in the Hindoo, Oordoo,
Goozratee. and Other native languages, so that
the Indian public can take the Pills and use his
Ointment according TO general directions, as a
Cockney would do within the sound of Bow
bells. We find him again at Hong Kong and
Canton, making his medicines known to the Ce-
estials by means of Chinese translation. We
trace him from thence to the PHILIPPINE Islands
where he is circulating his preparations in the
native languages. AT Singapore he has large
depot: his agents there supply all the Islands in
the Indian Seas. His advertisements are pub
lshed in most of the papers at Sydney, Hobart
Town, Launceston, Adelaide, Port Philip and
indeed in almost every town Of that vast portion
of the British Empire. Returning homeward,
we find his Pills and Ointment selling at VAL
paraiso, Lima, CallaO and other ports in the Pa
cifc. Doubling the Horn, we track him in the
Atlantic-Monte Video, Buenos Ayres, Santos,
Rio de Janeiro, Bahia and Pernambuco: he is
advertising in those parts in Spanish and Por-
tuguese. In all the British West India Islands,
A as also in the Upper and Lower Canadas, and
the neighboring provinces Of Nova Scotia and
New Brunswick, his medicines are as familiar
ly known, and sold by every druggist, as they
are at home. In the Mediterranean we find the m
selling at Malta, Corfu, Athens, and Alexandria
besides at Tunis, and other portions of the Bar
barry States. Any one taking the trouble I,
e look at the Journal and Courier OF CONSTANT
n nople, may find in these as we'll as ether papers
, that Holloway's medicines are regularly adver
- tsed and selling throughout the Turkish EN-
3 pire; and even in Russia, where an almost in
!, surmountable barrier exists, the laws there pro
!. hibiting the entree of Patent medicines, Hollo
ways ingenuity has been at work, and obviate
this difficulty by forwarding supplies to hi
Agent at Odessa, port situated on the Black
;, Sea, where they filter surreptitiously' by vari-
Il GUS channels, into the very heart OF the empire.
Africa has not been forgotten by this indefatiga-
. BILE man, who has agent on the river GAMBIA:
also at Sierra Leone, the plague spot of the
S world, the Inhabitants readily avail themselves
of the Ointment and Pills; thus we can show
2 our readers that Holloway has made the COM
plete circuit of the globe, commencing with In
dia, and ending, as we do, with the Cape Of Good
Hope, where his medicines are published in the
! Dutch and English languages: and while speak
ing of Dutch, we have heard that he has made
5 large shipments to Holland, and is about adver-
Using in every paper or periodical published in
that Kingdom we might add that he also start
ed his medicines in some parts of France; In
: some portions Of Germany; as also in some por-
j. tions of the Italian States. We have been al
some little trouble to collect all these facts, be-
d cause we fear that the article before alluded to-
e ''lhe Art or making Money" because it is cal
i culated to lead people TO spend their means, ii
the hope, Gas the author states of making
. hundred thousand pounds in six years for thei
>. pains, by holding up an easy example 10 fol
y low, such man as Holloway, who is really
n Napoleon in his way. Many have the means
d but have they the knowledge, ability, energy
e judgment and prudence necessary Failing II
any one of these requisites total loss is certain
Holloway is a man calculated to undertake an
l. enterprise requiring immense energies. of bod
and mind. He has made large fortune by hi
labors; and is, we should suppose, every da
o greatly increasing his wealth. OF course it
1 not to our interest to deter the public from aC
Of vertsing; but, guardians of their interest, W
1t think it our incumbent duty to place lighthou:
4. upon what we consider dangerous shoa
which may perhaps sooner or later prevent shil
wreck and ruin to the sangulne and inexperiel
,e ced about to navigate in such waters.
ne The editor of the Edinburgh Review, in
number published three years ago, stated III
be he considered he was making desirable b
fc quest to posterity, by handing down to them Il
he amount of talent and ability required by d
present class of large advertisers. At that p
Rod Holloway's mode of advertising was me
he prominently set FORTH and if these remarI
&C. conformity with his, should descend TO a gener
n. ton to come it will be known to what exte
the subject of this article was able to carry @
ny his views, together with the consequent expen
IL, iture in making known the merits of his prep
ce. ratons to nearly the whole world Pictor
n. Times, London Weekly Paper
L SENATE.
."e Jefferson City, Feb. II.
ara A bill to tax merchants and grocers "
passed after considerable discussion. The
- proydeS for an ad valorem tax on the amount