Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-01-16
N NASHVILLE:
FRIDAY. JAN. 1s. 1857.


Nj - S"A ~N0~oA ODoCi fdOlOnJ aware Vi Iu6
exact number Of the Patriots circulation
within the Post Office District. They
have, however, in consequence of the arti-
Gle of the Gazette, given the matter thor
ough investigation, and are satisfied that
the award of the Postmaster was correct,
the bona tide circulation Of the Patriot hay
ing been larger at the time than that of its
rival, and has since been increasing daily.
We trust this statement will be satisfactory
to all who feel any interest in the matter !;
and will be received as an acquittance of
our business partner, Mr. Morgan, of the
charges preferred against him by the Ga
zette.
We append a card from Mr.. M:
A CARD.
Having had charge of the subscription books
of the Daily Patriot for the past year, 1 beg
to obtrude upon its readers a few words, in
reply to an article which appeared in the
Nashville Gazette of yesterday, in relation to
the award of the Post Office advertising for
the current year.
The contest for this advertising has often
been made warm one in other places beside
Nashville: its value consisting solely in its
being taken as evidence of the greater circula.
ton of the paper obtaining it; and it is, per-
haps, only reasonable to make allow ance for
the ebullitions Of feeling on the part of the
disappointed contestant.
have not, during the past year, gone out
doors to solicit subscriptions TO the Patriot
my duty has been at the desk, where have
registered the names of those who have SUBJ
scribed personally, aud such as have been fur
nished me by the outdoor agents of the office.
| have entered no name upon the subscription
books that / did not consider at the time a
6OGn tide subscriber to the paper, and as such
have in all cases furnished it to him.
l have, in concert with my partners, made
extraordinary efforts to increase the circula-
ton not only of the Daily Patriot, but of all
of the editions of our paper, and succeeded so
well that | was ready and anxious to contend
for the letter list in July last, and notified the
Postmaster to that effect, but was informed
that the law fixed the LIST of January as the
time for the claim to be made We did, how
ever, in July, after full investigation by one
of the Deputy Sheriff., establish the fact that
the Patriot was entitled to the publication of
his land sales, which late law directs shall
be published in the paper having the LARGEST
CIRCULATION IN THE COUNTY. Since July the
increasing, aud it is rather complimentary to
the Gazette that we beat them only one hum
dred and seventy-nine copies in the county.
1t has been ascertained that in the confusion
necessarily attendant upon a change of carriers
about Christmas, several copies of the Patriot
were left with persons who were not subscri-
bers, and some were circulated gratuitousy,
as it was the undoubted right of the proprie-
tors to do; but these copies were not counted
in the number on which we claimed the letter
! list; though the publishers of the Gazette make
this the sole ground of their august insinua-
tons.
In making up the statement submitted to
the Postmaster, included such portion of the
circulation of the Patriot as, upon consulta-
/ ton with my partners, we were clearly salts
/ fed Of our right to count under the law. Our
subscription books have been at all times,
since the opening of this contest, open to the
inspection of any gentleman DESTROYS of salts
! flying himself of their genuineness, privilege
Of which the publishers of the Gazette have
failed to svail themselves, nor did they claim
their undoubted right to an exhibition of
books before the Postmaster, which, in con-
nection with their entire course in relation to
this matter, is convincing proof that they were
determined not to be satisfied, in losing the LETT
ter list, zen if we had exhibited circulation
double their own.
With this statement of facts, which I am
prepared at any moment to substantiate, and
this exhibit of the motives which have prompt
ed the furious and gratuitous assault Of yester-
day, on the part of the publishers of the Ga.
zetts, will leave the case to the judgment of
every impartial man in this community.
JOHN f. MORGAN.