The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-03-15

a Country Newspapers.
=. -, ma taen assIed 10 the list Of deiin
a,an, Northern newspaper agerces, and our
.o.ntrx friends who have any claim4 upon thai
concern. may not be able 10 get them safisheds
even in refuse printing ink. New York Is the
great sponge that absorhs cserythng ;a'l the CO.
p.tai aud labor of tho country, big streams and
little, are all absorbed in the great spenge, whose
capacity for absorption never seems TO be exhaust
ed. Every branch Of business has its ramihca.
tions through all parts of the country, and armies
Of runners, with sharp, prying rhysicgnnmies,
horsiA nasal twang, aud the most intense suiga'
riiy of mind and manner, threng every railroad
and every other road that leads where pigeons
may be plucked II might be supposed that poor
country editors, who have inst about as much as
they can do to keep soul aud body together, might
be spared by even the cormoranfs, who ought to
CLINT their voracity upon people who live in fine
houses aud are clothed In purple and flne linen.
But, no! There IL class of birds of prey, whose
peculiar vocation is TO fatten poor country edi-
tors, to extract nourishment from their leaa car
cases. to devour their best dishes upon their scan
~ tables. There are Nc,e York Newspaper Agea
cies, whose mode of operation 10 grand, two-fold
system Of putting, blowing and swindiing. In
tho first place, they announce themselves to all
the business men of New York, as a medium oil
advertising in all parts of the country; IDLY, they
| send advertisements to ali the country neWapa-
pers In the United States, and also publish them
| on the covers of books. &c. One of these agen.
| cies, which has just collapsed, and which was IN
the habit of payLg the country newspapers IN re-
/ fuse ink was in high favor in the Tribune Office
and received an annual puff in the Wing Al
| tuanac from that establishment. The facilities
for plucking the public and for shaving off large
| slices Mt both ends, are obvious at glance.
| New York merchant drops in at the Agency, and
pays say ten dollars for advertisement In some
distant country paper; medium keeps ten dollars
| forwards advertisement, and when country editor
sends his bill, medium knocks off twenty i've per
| cent. for his services in sending advertisement
aud then in many cases, offers to pay IN ink, and
the cheapest and worst ink that the diriiest and
most corrupt of cities can produce 1t Is easy &c
see that an agency OF this kind may accumulate
from various small contributions an immense
sum, and then disappear with its ill'gotten gains
with perfect impunity, it being manifestly impos
sible for multitude Of small claimants in various
parts OF the United States to obtain redress in such
| a case. We have lately received circular from
the successors Of Of these collapsed firms, one
| of the gorged leeches which has dropped off and
disappeared. announcing that thcy Hafo7uoI0ooe"
to the late lamentad bloodsuckers, for whose liza
bilites they not responsible, and giving it as
their opinion that polcy-generaily uppermost in
the mind of a New York; agent-as we'll as honesty
will dictate fair and upright dealing. They add
that they have printers ink for safe We warn
our country brethren that there is but one remedy
against being swallowed by these newspaper
agency sharks, one which we have always adopt
"a I'D hicIn Fa Nppgr am rt fJejx nd
refreshments WITHOUT The cash in adrdncc They have
the money: it has been paid into their hands by
the New York merchants to be paid to you; they
can pay you just well as not, and, ifthey don't
after this warning, the fault ia yours, as well as
| thnir's