The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1854-03-06
PERRYSBURG JOURNAL.
MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1854.
End of the Volume.

With the present number the first year Of
the Perrysburg Journal is completed We
take the occasion to return our sincere thanks
to the few personal and political friends who
have constantly stood by and assisted us in
every time of need. The experiment of pub
fishing a second paper in this town has been
successfully tried, and the predictions Of
those who foretold failure have not been
verified. Although the paper has not been
what we have wished to make it, and what
with more patronage we could easily have
made 1t, yet in some respects it will COM
pare favorably with any other country paper
in this part of the state With but five mer-
chants advertising by the year, and some six
or eight other yearly advertisers, and not over
300 subscribers, we have set up an average
of $4,000 ems week for our paper during
the year. The Democrat, with double our
patronage, has averaged butlittle over %, 600,
until recently, it has come up to the neigh
borhood of 10000. The Maumee Times has
averaged from 49, 600 to $4,000. Papers in
he surrounding counties, with much larger
patronage, have none Of them come up to us
il the amount Of their reading matter. Be
sides this, the form of our paper has been
much more troublesome and laborious to
make up, and much more valuable for pres
nrvation, than the common newspaper or
folio form.
We mention these things, not by way of
boaSting, but to show that we have endeav-
ored to do our duty towards that small por-
+ion Of the public which has hOnored US with
its confidence and patronage, and as evidence
of what we would do with larger means and
more extended patronage. We have labor
ed hard to get through the first year safely,
aud have carried economy to point con-
oderably beyond our own taste or conven-
ience. We believe we have discharged every
obligation, expressed or implied, towards our
friends, Except those Of dollars and cents, }
and we now ask them if they have done the
same by us? Some of them have, and more !;
cut we regret to be compelled TO say, some
have not. Some encouraged us to start q
paper here by intimations and hints of the
long lists of subscribers which they would
get for US; but we have not seen them yet
Sl1crS, WHO were duhlUuS ~ ScC our paper
started, have not even subscribed themselves
and Others still have subscribed but not paid
Our weekly receipts, published from time to
time, are not by any means encouraging to
20 on, and had it not been for the liberality
Of some Of our public officers, and those
having control of legal advertising, we should
long ago have been compelled to suspend.
But we are not yet discouraged. We shall
go on with the paper, hoping for better times.
If at any time hereafter the prospect should
seem so dull and unpromsng as to overcome
us, those who pay us in advance may rest
assured that we shall take care TO refund to
them promptly every cent that they are in
advance with us.
We have no claims upon the support of
any party or man, for we have but little faith
in the stability or vitality Of party support
or parties; but we ask those who may read
this, and who are friendly to our paper but
have yet done nothing for it, to determine if
we have not done something to earn their
liberality and patronage.
.z+y- The Democrat manifests some init