Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-06-24

marvellous facility with which we can get anythlng
done to order at second hand from the negotiation
| of marriages. French invention Burr please
take notice and profit thereby Ito the writing OF ed
itorials and other trfing and Insignificant matters
That very secondary and second-rate character
the country editor meaning, thereby. every devo-
tee of the quill (for quill, please read steel pen)
who resides out of New York, classicaly denomina-
ted " Gotham" can have his original writing
and thinking done for him In manner calculated
to astonsh the natives, by "your obedient servant,
GEORGE PAYN QUACKENBOS." We put the
name in capitalist deserves the biggest sort OF cap
itals, yea the brass faced types He, Quack-
enbos the aforesaid, proposes to do the wiring ana
thinking for all the papers out of New York, on rea
sonable terms-to wit: IS cents per closely written
manuscript page as witness his circular. in manner
and form follows:
NEW York, June 9, 1S53
Dear Sir :-Knowing that many editors are JUST al
the present time endeavoring TO find competent I'VE"
York Correspondent. take the liberty OF nespass'ng
on your attention have recently established Liter
airy Agency in this city, and prepared to supply
Newspapers with the following matter:-
Letters from this city during the continuance OF the
WORLDS FAIR, illustrative of that great Exhloton ana
giving full descriptions of thing win II n
its gossip as we'll as all matters of interest in and
about the city during the coming eventfu summer
When printed to abont column and half
the ste Of T
made and at the same date to derent OF
the appear m ae 9at sure
that they do not interfere the slightest degree o'th sach c
"% t. all Wf these III
make them interesting and briant while by thus sharing
Teev at S poe each desire
of such letters will guarantee you an exclusive copy
IT. Original matter of every description, Editorials Re-
views embodyng CATER the nan %a
ter SC. IS closely written MIS- pages or 5pages tor
Ill Original TRANSACTIONS from the cream of the current
literature Of France and Germany 90 cents per MS page
Selected Stories and short articles of every description
drawn English works. old publications long out print
and other which great city alone supply These
warrented they embrace every variety are choe
and interesting and furnished at the low rate of ~ cents per
printed column. . -
greatest success-I refer to EXTRACTS FROM New Books
Under this caption furnish choice passages OF every new
general heading for the whole and subheads
enables it to keep pace with the current literature of day
1t fail to be well received by country readers as
while few get OPPORTUNITY of seeing
them The copy put up so that the composor has no
trouble 40 cents per column; or, columns tor 81.
The postage prepaid here. Settlements to be made
monthly
You may rely on having all orders properly and
punctually attended to. AS assurance of this,
leave to say that projected, owned, and conducted
the N. Y. Literary American, up to the time OF ITS
sale in $780, and have been and now am correspond
ent of several prominent daily and weekly papers
The best of References e ven if desired mention
this merely you that whatever engagements
are entered into will, my part, be faithfully per-
formed.
Commenting this subject to your consideration,
remain, dear sir,
Your obedient servant,
GEO. PAYN QUACKENBOS,
124 LIE Roy Street, New York.
So the public will see that l., or in other words
in the first c-frstly-Quackenbos will send
any whom it may concern, all the original ideas
of Quackenbos about the Worlds Fair, etc, So per
letter of five closely written pages. And further,
Quackenbos will furnish joint letters, just good
. as new, to all whom it may concern, which the "a
foresaid Quackenbos engages to make Z" interesting
and brilliantly oh most modest Quaekenbos-at
the low price of 81 rs per letter.
II II. Secondy--in the second place, Quackenbos
i will furnish to the country press aforesaid, origi
nal matter of every description Editorials, Reviews
II after the of Backwood--a second Christie
pher North, come to Observation-Disclosures, original
tales scientific and agricultural matter, and forth
J. at IS cents per page. Most erudite and versatile
Quackenbos.
IS HI--Thirdly and in the third place. He, Quack
a enbos, will give original translations from the
of the current Literature of France and Ger
It many" So that Quackenbos is also linguist anG
exerts his talents at the low price of SO cents pei
re page.
Is IV.--Fourthly--in the fourth place, Quackenbo.
will select stores and do all that sort fthing
And finally he will give extracts from new works
TO which it is modestly insinuated that he alone ha
d access, although, in good TRUTH we thought tina
j. books published for all the world and the res
lie of mankinds 1t is further added, proof of VIII
Quackenbos is, that he projected owned and conduc
of ted the Literary Americana paper which has
,e err reached this benighted place.
s. We cannot but admire the sublimity of Quacken
bos conceptions and promises In this degenerate
IS age, and among mere like unto the presen
n writer it is apt to be thought that the duties con
to nected with the editing of one paper is about a
" much as one man can get along with. but this gen
tleman heroicay offers his services to edit and con
duct all the papers in the Union. He is determine
~ to be poentate in the world of journalism and in
~, augurate the reign of Quackenbos the First
be- But we feel comforted. In this hot weather lazi
no ness is besetng sin. and we want to get off -
IS There is nothing to detan u.s. We can all chan
up the fiddle and the bow'-drop Quackenbos lin
and have all editorial cares taken off our minds an
all trouble off our hands. 1t is great and progress
III sive age, and Quackenbos is mutipotent person
'e age 1t is true that we had proposed seeing thi