Litchfield enquirer., 1856-01-24
PRETTY GOOD.

Thomas Holloway, the great pill and ointment man in London, writes to the Prairie Neus on the subjec, of advertising. He says:
 Dear Sir-A correspondent of yours mas recommended your paper to me as an advertising medium. He mentioned the circulation, but may have been mistaken in the amount. Will you kindly inform me as to the circulation of your weekly, as l wish to make contract with you for the insertion of my advertisement l am un- limited in my advertising-my list of pa- pers is now 1900. and pay in advance. Yours respectfully"
 To which the editor of the News re- spends:
 Very Dear Sir-The circulation of the Pratr,e Ne,cs, which has been increasing with unexampled rapidity for more than two years, now amounts 10 forty-fhree, tho am bound in honor to say that two of my subscribers being very precarious pay, l shall probably cut them off before this let ter reaches you, so that you are at liberty to consider the list reduced to fo!ty-one. To ihis number should be added seven pra- us copies, Sent to as many friends of mine at distance, out of compliment to their in- defatigueable exertions in procuring new subscribers. This number should be fur. ther augmented by permanent exchange list ot sixty five, making in all a constant weekly circulation of one hundred and thirteen, hesides an average of half dog surplus copies week. which are sent with religious scrupulosiiy to posimasters and other distinguished individuals in benuh,ed parts of the world l have good grounds for estimating my reading patronage at forty nine persons per copy. You may safely cal ;ulate that the 5537 readers of my pa per would consume on an average ten dol. lars worth per anum each, of your pills and ointment. particularly the pills, for cannot promise you an extensive sale of your ointment in this region, cuta neous dis eases heinz rare, as may be inferred from the fact that the foreign born population of Mississippi is only one in sixty-iwo of the aggregate. So you perceive l shall be the means of opening d market 10 you for S56,310 worth ot the invaluable remedies which have immortal -Hes-ed your namr on which. alter deducting the cost of the ma. teriais' boxes, &c. your profit will he about eish'yfve per cent or S47 .0G4 30 Upon this handsome increase of your pro- fits, accrning through my instruinentali,y, ! propose to charge the moderate -comms- sion of one per cent or S413 63. If these terms do moi suit you, come over by the next steamer. and we'll talk about il. If you are satisfied with them, for the first quarterly installment of SIl7 66. be so good as to pay for me one years suhscrip- ton tn Punch, Dogenes, and The Times. all of which are good papers, and should he encouraged, and send me the balance in cuttings of the London Particular Madeira grape vine. Subsequent ins,allments may be sent, at your option, in Bank of England notes, og any sort of truck, except your medicines. Give my best respects to ! Queen Victoria, the next time you see her tell her she's lady whom greatly esteem, and tha; often think with what sa,sfac- ,ion, while the disastrous war is so thin ming ,he population of her realms she must reflect that she at least, has done her duty in the keeping of it up.
 Your cbedieht servant.
 THE EDITOR"