Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1854-01-17
THE LIST OF LETTERS-THE LARGEST CIRCULA-
TION,


We are very willing that our neighbor, the
Gazette. should have the benefit of the Post Office
advertising, but we are not willing that it should
mislead the public about the relative circulation Of
the papers printed at Nashville We kRow that we
have the largest circulation of any paper printed
in Tennessee, and as large. indeed, any paper
printed in the South. The crcuations of the Nash
vile Union and Nashville American, prior to The
consolidation were each least equal to that of any
paper in the State. The union Of Che two gave to
the consolidated journs!-the Union and Ameri-
oan"-iust double the circulation which either paper
had separately and since the union, this circulation
has gradually and rapidly increased. As the best
evidence of this fact refer to the increased
facilities we have found absolutely necessary for
printing the different editions of our paper. Our
circulation in the city of Nashville is not only the
largest but it is the most substantial and respectable
which has ever been obtained by any daily paper
here. We have within the Post Office delivery,
at least eight hundred good subscribers which is
much larger number than that filed by the pub
fishers of the Gazette at the Post Office There is
hardly family in the city able to pay for news
paper Qor we do not suffer the names of non-pay
ing subscribers to cucumber our books in which
the q Union and American" is not daily, and we
trust welcome, visitor But the great bulk of our
circulation lies outside the city, and reaches every
county in the State. 1t is substantial paying SUBJ
scrpton-thrifty farmers, merchants, mechanics,
lawyers physicians, etc.--and of which may
rightly boast and be justly proud
In the face Of these facts if it is asked why we
do not claim the "List of Letters" the answer is
easily given Our advertising engagements for the
present year are already larger than for any previous
year All our available space for regular advertise
ments is, or will soon be, disposed of at rates that
pay US four times as much as the government allows
for advertising letters. If we were to publish the
letter list the consequence would be heavy an
nual loss, such we unwilling to incur ever
for that best of relatives Uncle Sam. That the
public may see we are not peculiar in our views on
this subject, we copy the following paragraph from
the Boston Times. The Times, which has for eight
years successfully claimed the post Office advertising,
on the ground of its having the largest circulation
ofany paper in Boston, now surrenders the priv-
eye not paying it expenses. 1t says:
-"At the rate now paid of one cent per letter, we
have for 600 letters, Sl6-cost of putting in type
S12-balance, the enormous of four dollars
to pay for three columns of the finest printed mat
teri In year, we therefore give ytJty-ttoo inser-
tons of this large amount of matter for only 5000
We should charge to all other advertisers for the
same amount of space, $50 for each insertion. De-
duct from this SIG, all that the government allows,
and we out of pocket by the operation Just s44
per week amounting TO ToO Thousand TUo Hun
drsd and Eighty-eqht Dollars per annum To this
should be added from tl0o TO fire hundred dollars
annual expense for defending our rights under the
law, ald thus we find ourselves a net loser each
year of nearly three thousand dollars for the priv
1ege of advertising this list of letters!"