Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1857-07-24
THE CHRONICLE.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
MONDAY, JULY 20, 1857.

WV NssssSSSA
Confusion is often caused by the want of
d,faiteness or appropriateness IN the heldinSs
Of public journals, and there is great nonsense
N the grand and spreading names which some
assume. One of The smallest English sheets
We recolleci, was printed in hamlet-liEc
Town, not upon any great thoroush!are. and
hal the sounding s0briquet Of Americdn intel
E,-ac,r! II advocated some forty or fifty
important "causes." and died very "prema-
;urely" if its existence was beneficial 10 any
them. The Batk-Are IF Freedom, and the
.Nnional .iI5naor, are similar specimens Of ex-
epsive names fourisheG by insignificant sheets
III out-ofthe-way places,
..Iuru TO blush unseen,
And waste thrir sweetness on the desert air"
Tls Democrat, Tie Hhig, The Gacsiie, Tie
AusricIa, are titles we often see used by the
mefest country journaIs-ridicuous, iur no
one can tell by their tile what Town or State
!ney hail from, or what party they advocate.
Tae National IiteAgencer, at our great Cap
it4l on the contrary, has right 10 assume
the name it honors /; long established, and cir
cula,ing among the best Informed men IN this
and in ether nations, it gives also fair cur
rent epitome of the world history. The Times
OF London can also justly say,
..s;o pen;-rp U,i-a contracts powers,
But the whole bOundless universe Is ours,
for wherever the English language is spoken,
The Times is read. The NeU York Tribune,
the PHILADELPHIA 1Tmes.ihe baltimore american.
&C.. with powerful claims 10 more compre-
hsnsive designations, are content TO win re-
,own By deeds and not by names. The Weekly
Tribune, The Record of the Times, the National
Itdz,fe, and other papers We might MENTION
although excellent journals. are after all local
in news mater, in circulation, and IN influence,
and with such examples as we have mention
cI might be less exclusive on first acqnain-
t,ncr. In truth, 999 out of every 1000 news
Ilurrals issued would advance both their ulil-
nv and their credit, BY using such headings
as would express their location, or character,
or bnth-"thai, and nothing more. Papers
4, National or Safe Capital, are indeed
excusable in claiming a National or State
nane-as The Ghbe, or The Cnion, al Wash
,acton, d. c., or Tie Harrisburg Telegraph, or
Tie Keysfone, al Harrisburg; so also those AT
County sites may properly take county name;
but farther assumptions are generally laugha-
be. and sometimes deceptive. On the other
hand long established papers, like the LyeOm-
ing Ga-effe. Tie NhOnian, (Ihe weekly" is a
sham) the DanriiIe LlteNgsacer, &c. &c. have
titles which fairly announce their objects and
homes at a glance, and GET ALONG QUITE AS
WELL as though they vapored about being
WuH's HuminatOr, Peopies Benetdctor, or
the Organ Of oil Creation.
We are led 10 refer TO this want Of taste, or
Judgment, or honesty, or refecton-one, or all
by the receipt of No. l, Of TIE Independent
Press issued at Lewistown, Pa, in place of
The Aurora. We have in our Office the head
lag of Tie hdspendent Press, printed at Lewis
burg few years ago-and there is Tie hide
pendent Press now issued at Wiliamsport Pa.
Here, then, are two papers but few miles
apart, bearing the name Of oefunct paper In
their neighborhood-a name not very appro-
priate, either, for one is decided party sheet,
and the other much more Neutral than lnde-
dependent. or course, confusion must resul;
from this duplication. Wemust prefix Lew
Istown" or "Willamsport' 10 every allusion
70 either "Press:" whereas, NiAiamsport Press,
or Leoisiocn hGependent-or the name of
their town preiixed to their present sufficiently
long nomenclature-wou!d sound equally well
and be much more expllcil.-lt would be rare
II ever that towns of the same name would hit
upon the same title for journal. The Le,c-
i,durg Union Co. Pa Chronicie was issued
frs,and twas not until the Le,cisburg Green
brier Co. Val Chronicle los, some p. o. favo.s
intended for them which came to US, that the
latter found they had unwirinsly "tilched from
us our good name" and that is the only in-
stance within our knowledge when an appro-
pirate newspaper heading has resulted in hav-
.ng two alike.