Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1855-10-13

medicines we have every confidence, we cannot
refrain from re-printing it. Publishers Of
newspapers in particular will know how to
appreciate it:
Correspondence of the Prairie News.
81 MAIDEN LANE New YORK,
August 10th, 1855. (
Dear SRA correspondent of yours in this city has
recommended your paper an advertising medium
He tioned the circulation but may have been mistaken
in the amount. Viii you kindly inform me as to the cir
culation of your weekly and shall be glad make
tract for the insertion Of my advertisement &C. in your
paper. unlimited in my ad ertising, and shall be
glad to add your paper to my list already amounting
1900 My payments made in ndvance Awaiting your
reply, Iremain Yours respectfully,
THOMAS HOLLOWAY.
To PROFESSOR THOMAS HOLLOWAY,
pa Strand, London. {
VERY Dear Sir:-Your favor, directed to me
from your New York agency, is at hand, and [
make haste, at the sacrifice of much important
correspondence, which demands my immediate
attention, to reply:
The circulation of the Prairie News, which
has been increasing with unexamped rapidity
for more than two years, now amounts, per
subscription list, to forty-three, though l am
bound in honor to say that, two of my subscri-
bers being very precarious pay, shall probably
cut them off before this letter reaches you, SO
that you are at liberty to consider the list as
reduced to Al. To this number should be
added seven gratis copies, sent to rs many
friends of mine at a distance, out of compliment
to their indefatigable exertions in procuring me
subscribers. This number should further be
augmented by a permanent exchange list of
sixty FIVE, making, in all, constant weekly
circulation of one hundred and thirteen, besides
an average of half dozen surplus copies a
week, which are sent, with religious scrupu-
tosty, to postmasters and other distinguished
individuals in benighted parts of the world.
These last, however, will not include in the
calculation, nor my tri-weekly aud daily Cir
culation, both of the latter being, to tell the
truth, inconsiderabe, and I understand that
you propose to limit your advertising patronage
to my weekly paper.
! have good grounds for estimating my read
ing patronage at forty-nine persons per copy.
1t is impossible in the limits of a letter, to go
into the minutie of the calculation, but will
simply refer to the fact that the more widely
the circulation of my paper extends the less
find it to be quoted-a circumstance which
evinces very plainly that it u.s. habitualy, either
stolen from the editors tables or surreptitous-
ly distracted from the mails by the Postmasters,
in like manner as they flched all my exchanges
Immediately after the Tennessee and Alabama
elections. 1t may not be amiss to notice, par
parenthese, funny occurrence which has lately
taken place. A number of nice young men, in
Mobile, who have arrived at years of discre-
tion-facetously SO called-since the Prairie
News became scace, having become possessed of
a copy Of Josephus, mot Flavius, but he of the
Mill, conceived the idea of publishing q hui
morous paper, christened it Our Owl, and
proclaimed it "the funniest paper in the
A. i fhay,
themselves confess, that there existed either
such paper as the Prairie News OF such
place as Okalona For the better appreciation
of this joke, you must know that Mobile is a
village on the tide waters of the Gulf Of Mexico,
where our planters sell their cotton and buy
their groceries. Lamentable at is this want of
information concerning matters and things in
general, and geography in particular, it is sur
passed, if possible, by their blunder In ornitho
logy, in claiming superiority for their bird on
the score Of his being torn raised out; their
idea of an owl evidently being formed from the
bird which may be seen picking up otfil in the
streets of Charleston. But enough of this
DEPRESSION the scope of which was to show how
much these Newspaper pilferers have to answer
for. Before leaving it, by the way, let me
that you would probably find the Sour
OWL cheap advertising medium. since judging
from the verdancy it has manifested on the
Honeycut question, there is little doubt you
could drive bargain on your own terms.
You may safely calculate that the 5597
readers of my paper would consume, en- an
average, ten dollars worth per annum, each, of
your pills and ointment, particularly the pills,
for cannot promise you an extensive sale for
your ointment in this region, cutaneous diseases
being rare, as may be inferred from the fact
that the foreign born population of Mississippi
is only one in 81 of the aggregate. So you
market to you for $55.370 worth of the inval-
liable remedies which have immortal Hesd your
name, on which, after deducting the cost of the
boxes, &C.. your profit will be about
IS per cent, or $47, 064 so. Upon this hand
some increase Of your profits, accruing through
my instrumentality, propose to charge the
moderate commission of one per cent or S474-
64K. This is slightly above the average of
what you are in the habit of paying, as ESQ, 900
divided among 1900 newspapers. would give
only about Sis piece; but that expresses,
within small fraction, the estimate place
upon my paper in comparison with the average
Of papers--my too partial friends estimate it
higher. If these terms do not suit you, come
over by the next steamer and we'll talk about
it. If you are satisfied with them, for the first |
quarterly installment of $l17 &c, be so good
IS to pay for me one years subscription to
Punch, Diogenes and the Times, all Of which |
ire good papers and should be encouraged, and |
send the balance in cuttings of the London
Particular Madeira grape vine. Subsequent
nstallments may be sent, at your option, in |
.hecks on the Bank Of England, or any sort of
ruck except your medicines.
Give my best respects to Queen Victoria, the
,ext time you see her; tell her she is lady |
whom greatly esteem, and that often think
With what satisfaction, while this disastrous
var is so thinning the population of her realms,
the must reflect that she, at least, has done her
luty in the way Of keeping it up.
Your obedient servant,
The EDITOR
The CAMEL ExPEDITIoN.-The "Star" has
ome particulars Of the progress of the expedi-
ion to the Levant in search of camels to be
lsed on the western deserts between the At
antic and Pacific oceans. The q. s. storeship
supply was at Tunis on the 4th of August.
Major Wayne, the chief of the expedition, and
be officers of the ship were presented to the
Bay of Tunis, who, on hearing Of the object of
he expedition, Immediately sent them present
f two fine camels. They were gratefully ac
epted in the name of the President of the
United States. The Supply left for Malta on