New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-11-23

1854. el03707 1883. 500 ,372 Increase slO, 55'
Increased Receipts for Advertising for the foul
months ending Nov l, 1854, as compared with
the same months Of the preceding year, 1856
These are exact transcripts from our books, as
made up to the last date practicable, aud they
will serve to show whether, and in what fashion,
THE TRIBUNE is "runniDg down." If these are
the statistics of q declining concern, what mlst
it not have been in its days Of prosperity II
this ia Z" running down, what would % going up
Let us not be misunderstood. In common with
most people in business, especially in this City,
we have suffered, and still suffer, from
the extraordinary hardness Of the times.
This does not dissppoint US, and will not surprise
others who have had fair average experience
of the times now prevailing. Our Advertising has
not fallen off, as some have exultiDgly pro-
claimed; but it has not increased to so great an
extent by at least S25, 200 as the increase of our
circulation would have secured had this year been
like last. And, though our profits were never
half so large as they have been currently re-
ported, we have no reason now to doubt that our
entire business for the year 1854 will show fair
balance ON the tight side of the ledger. We ap-
prehtrd that there are many large concerns, news
paper and other, that will do worse than this to
one that will do better.
For these are indeed trying times. The Da-
guerIeotypists, Booksellers, Merchant Tailors
&c, &C., who are usually our best advertisers
are now under very short sail, waiting for our
streets to become more filed with visitors who
can be persuaded into becoming customers. Few
new enterprises are undertaken, and as many old
ones as possible are hurried to close or stopped
half way to completion. Industry suffers by the
paralysis or desrth OF Capital and the winter
before US is likely to be su exceedingly hard one
for the dependent Poor
We expect to lose some subscribers-that il,
some of the many thousands whose terms will
shortly expire will feel unable to renew their sub
scriptions Some will fall of through careless
ness or from dislike to the course we have taken
and shall pursue. And besides, We are now We
hemently threatened with the active and deter
mined hostility of the "KnOw.Nothings, who
have formally denounced us in public assemblages
in this City, ard threaten to follow this up with
q secret edict requiring each member of the order
to keep clear Of pstrOnizng THE TRIBUNE
We are not at all dismayed by this, and only
ask those who propose thus to prescribe ns, to
work in open daylight, and not through midnight
cabsls. Let US only see who they are and what
they propose to do, and we ask no further favor.
A Newspaper has seldom been ruined by those
who hate it, bat often enough by those who never
Al. u. H. a NathiaoN
proscription-at least not yet.
Ii might have been more prudent to have pro-
pitiated than provoked this powerful organization,
butTnE TRIBUNE ia not prudent paper. What
ever Of reputation or position it has attained has
beeDby daring to do what the polite aud gorld-wise
have left undone. We are not likely to change in
this respect.
Those who so urgently counsel us to bend 10
the storm and let it pass harmessly over our
head seem to forget that THE TRIBUNE is des-
tined TO live after many more parties and secret
societies shall have risen, fourished deca3ed
and passed away; and that we can live by other
than Editorial labor whenever this refuses US
livelihood. To conduc! a journal in which the
whole truth was not to be spoken-only popular
ard already accepted truth-would be harder
task, more pitable lot, to us than to labor from
dawn to dark in friendly relations with some
richer mans wood pile. We can do better.
We seem to have rather increased the num-
Der of our enemies during the past year, aud
must rely more on the kindness Of our friends.
In times like these, all need friends: we now sp-
peal to ours TO inquire who among their neigh
bors, whether present subscribers or not, will
take THE TRIBUNE for the ensuing year, and
send us the result as promptly they convenient
ly can. A large share of our present subscrip-
tiOns expire within the next ten weeks, aud
many will fail Of renewal unless some one as
sumes the labor Of circulating subscription LIST.
Where that trouble is cheerfully taken, there are
very few places at which our present list may
not be retained if not increased. In almost any
machine-shop, factory, foundery, furnace or ship
yard, a club may be go. up very speedily, pro-
vided THE TRIBUNE ia known there. VIII those
who regard this paper as an instrument Of good,
u5liee Us by trying
We manage no lottery offer no premiums for
subscribers, and pay no agents. We iud by ex-
perie nee that the men who ike THE TRIBUNE
best ara aid il most, dislike TO be COMPOUNDED
with those who for pay solicit subscriptions.
Hundreds viii work heartily for US, provided
the! are not thereby COMPOUNDED in the public
mind with tLcse Who canvas for stipend. Let
I'll understand, then, tina. whenever an agent
offers or paper st rae lowest rates named By US,
he is doing it without fee or hope of reward
expressly 70 serve Us and difuse intelligence and
correct views among the people. Yet any one
who prefers to be paid for his efforts in our
behalf, may readily secure a fair compensation for