Minnesota weekly times., 1856-11-15
eT- The Time and Tide went up the Minnesota
River yesterday.
Pretty Good.

kTeuy 0OOOs
Thomas Holloway, the great pill and ointment
man in London, writes to the Prairie Ne'0s on
the subject of advertising. He says: ..
"Dear Sir. A correspondent Of yours has
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 wish to make contract with you
for the insertion Of my advertisement. | am
unlimited in my advertising, my list of papers
is now 1900, and l pay in advance. Yours
respectfully.
10 which the editor of the News responds:
Very Dear Sir-The circulation Of the Prairie
News which has been increasing with unexampled
rapidity for more than two years, now amounts
to forty- three, tho am bound in honor to say
that two of my subscribers being very precarious
paw, shall probably cut them of before this let
ter reaches you, so that you are at liberty to
consider the list reduced to forty-one. To this
number should be added seven gratis copies: sent
to as many friends of mine at q distance, out of
compliment to their indefatgable cxertions in
procuring new subscribers. This number should
be further augmented by permanent exchange
list of sixty five, making in all constant weekly
circulation of one hundred and thirteen, besides
an average of half doz. surplus copies week,
which are sent with RELIGIOUS scrupulOsty to post
masters and other distinguished individuals in
benig GIFTED parts of the world. have good grounds
for estimating my reading patronage at forty
nine persons per copy. You may safely calculate
that the 5537 readers of my paper would con-
sumo on an average ten dollars worth per annum
each, Of your pills, and ointment, particularly
the pills, for l cannot promise you an extensive
sale of your ointment in this region, cutaneous
diseases being rare, as may be inferred from the
fact that the foreign born population Of Msss-
sipni is only one in sxty-twO of the aggregate
So you perceive shall be the means of opening
a market to you for $56, $40 worth of the invalu.
able remedies which have immortal lies-ed your
name on which, after deduciing the cost of the
materials, boxes, &C., your profit will be about
eighty five per cent. or $47 ,O64.50. Upon this
handsome increase of your profits, ,accruing through
my instrumentality. propose to charge the mo-
derate commission OF one per cent. or $473.63.
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 install
ment Of $ll7.66, be so good as to pay for me enc
years subscription to Punch, Di0genes, and The
Times, all of which are good papers, and should
be encouraged, and send me the balance in cut
tings of the London Particular Madeira grape
vine. Subsequent installments may be sent, at
your option, in Bank of England notes, or any
sort Of truck, except your medicines. Give my
best respects to Queen Victoria, the next time yo
see her tell her she's lady whom greatly es-
TEEN, and that often think with what satisfac.
tion, while the disastrous war is SO thinning the
population of her realms, she must reflect that
she ut least, has done her duty in the keeping of
it up. Your obedient servant,
The EDITOR.