Columbia gazette., 1854-01-07

or corruption or some one OF the keeE
ers. The existing contract, for te
years from 1851 provides for the saf
retention Of all the prisoners, the Stat
furnishing the prison only, and the 9th
er provision being made by the con
tractor in consideration of their services
Point San Quentin affords an unfailin.
supply of good building stone, and get
ting out this material, and b lex making
is likely to continue the chief depart
ments Of convict labor. From prescn
appearances, with the growing number
fprisoners to be taken care of, there
seems every probability that another
structure, at least as large as that nov
being completed, will be Immediately
required, and if the money required is
as judiciously expended as it has been
under the present contract, the appro-
prlation should not be delayed.-Iimes
NEWSPAPER SUPPORT.
Much depends upon the supporters of
newspaper, whether it is conducted
with spirit and interest If they are
negligent in payment, the pride and
ambition Of the editor is broken down
he works at thankless and improbable
tasks-he becomes discouraged and care
less, his paper loses its pith and inter-
est and dies. But, on the contrary, if
his subscribers are Of the right sort, if
they are punctual, liberal hearted fell
lows, always in advance on the subscrip-
tion list, taking An interest in increasing
the subscribers, and new and then speak
in word for his paper, cheering on his
course by smiles and appreciation with
such subscribers IS these, he must be a
dolt, indeed, who would not get up an
interesting sheet. Such is the language
Of one Of the most sensible papers on
our exchange list, and the subject Of the
complaint is the cause Of the poverty Of
the columns of about one-half of the
newspapers published. The publishers
compelled to neglect the;S,iegitimate du-
ties, and to devote ID nalf of their
time in search of means to keep their
respective establishments open. But
whose fault is this' If newspaper pro-
prietors would have little more respect
for themselves and their labors, and in
advance, for subscriptions and advertis-
ing. this paral lyzing dependence Of pub
fishers, on their patrons, would not ex
ist. 1t is idle to say this cannot be
done. We have tried and know better.
We send the ''Newspapers' to no one
who does not pay for it. We thus save
the expense fclerks in keeping accounts
and avoid the loss of delinquent subseri-
bers. What we make in this way, we
are enabled to apply to the improve
ment of our paper, and as it is made
more valuable, and better worth the
price charged for it, the inducement is
strengthened to have it; the consequence
is, the "Dollar Newspaper" is talked of
and read the country over, subscriptions
for hundreds Of milcs-passing other
cities to it, for the ample reason that the
senders believe that We give them, in
our paper, more for their dollar than the
dollar is worth to them applied for any
other purpose. And this is the only
principle on which any business can be
successfully prosecuted. Make the ar
ticle or commodity sold, whether news
paper, labor, merchandise, worth more
than its price, and our word for it, it will
60 off rapidly. The sellers will not
have to hunt up purchasers; on the con-
trary, purchasers will come to them.
This is true of all BUSINESS, but applies
with more force to newspaper publishing
than to any other pursuit, and it ought
to be put into universal practice-Dol-
lar Newspaper.
SpIRrrUALIsM.-One of the reporters
of the New York Herald recently paid
visit to Judge Edmonds, of that city,
who is equally renowned as a man of
good intellect and finished education.-
The Judge who is noted apostle of
Spiritualism, informed the reporter, that
church of spiritualists would be form
ed very soon, and the doctrines and
marvels Of the new creed fearlessly
preached to the world. One grand fea-
ture of this modern sect is the ultimate
and universal salvation of all mankind.
They acknowledged temporary hell,
to purify wicked souls, but deny eternal
punishment.
A few days since, ,~he workmen en-
gagged in excavating for the grade of
Clay street above Powell, discovered a
spring of water at the depth of three or
four feet below the original surface of
the ground. The presence ola spring
of water at that elevation is considered
somewhat singular, from the fact that
number Of wells have been sunk to the
depth Of one hundred feet in its imme-
diate vicinity, without the obtaining Of
water.-S F Journal!