New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-11-27
AUroBIoaRApHrEs AND ADVERTISEMENTS

We are being constantly placed under obliga-
tion to Northern publishers for advance sheets
of new works which they are about issuing, con-
tanning extracts which it is expected we shall
transfer to our columns, with laudatory notices,
is 4 stimulant to futures sales. Were we to
publish all Of these specimens and extracts of
highly thrilling character" which we receive,
we should hardly have space for any thing else i;
and as in nine cases out Of ten, they are utterly
we should hardly have six subscribers left.
We're we, in addition, to fill up our advertising
columns with the fayors Of Northern patent
medicine manufacturers, at the highly remu-
nerative prices offered, we might calculate on q
certain failure at an early day.
1t seems to be supposed by a certain class Of
men that country newspapers in general and
Southern newspapers in particular can find
nothing more valuable to set before their read
ers than what is directly or indirectly linked to
some private speculation, for the advocacy Of
| which the publisher is to be recompensed by a
copy of the book or a box Of the pills pulled.
Our opinions on the subject are somewhat differ
emit and lead us to decline the new system Of
gratuitous advertising for any man. If North
ern publishers wish their works advertised here
we shall be happy to accommodate them, even
tothe publication Of the entire work, for fitting
compensation; and if pill doctors desire to have
the efficacy Of their medicines made known, we
will publish every recommendation they have
| received or written on the same terms; but we
will not take their pills at any price.
We are induced to make this statement by the
receipt OF about the coolest, as it certainly is
the lengthiest, of all the putting circulars which
have ever reached us. Mr.. J. s. Redfeld, of
NewY ork, proposes to publish Barnum's Auto
biography, and, in order to make it sell he has
struck off a large sheet containing the table of
contents and about three columns of matter ex-
tracted; all Of which we are politely requested
to copy with such remarks as we may deem
proper" Having done so we are to be furnished
with a copy Of the work. Price about 81 rs.
We respectfully decline. Wehaven't the room,
and if we had, could fill it with much more val
liable matter than Mr.. Barnums account of his
different deceptions and rascalities. Nor in fact
do we think that Mr.. Redfeld has any need of
the press. The Life Of Jack Sheppard and the
Adventures Of Murrell find ready sale with
out being advertised, and though Barnums
rogueries are not so grand they are infinitely
| more numerous and most unblushingly avowed.
We have no doubt that the book will sell rapidly
and extensively, and advise Mr.. Red6eld to save
his money instead Of uselessly spending it on
advertisements.
Among other notabilities in the same quarter
who aim at an early immortality, we observe
Horace Greeley and Chevalier Wikof- the
former an ardent Abelitionist, etc.--the latter
nothing more than an ardent lover. When Bar
mum, Greeley and Wikotf are fairly worked off
and sold, we shall anticipate the autohiographies
Of Capt. Rynders and the remaining celebrities
Of NewYork. Can't we have them at once !
The public mind is on the rack The lives and
speeches Of Calhoun, Clay and Webster can only
be sold by the hundred, but Barnum is to be
$. simultaneously published in Network, Lon
don, Paris, Madrid, Vienna, Berlin and Lepsic. .
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