Newbern weekly progress., 1859-12-06
Newspaper Changes.


il.. Washington Dispatch has some remarks on
,Ht l;j that there are conetan changes III the pro
i:js.:rI-aIp ct newspapers in North Carolina. We
too have been struck with what has thu5 arrested
the ail utjou OF the Dispatch. There has scarcely
n..u week Ill the last six months that has not told
'f ~.--e paper discontinued for want OF support
~"l.,. uther removed from one to another own, some
r .r atartrd, some editor retired. or another just
,-.,,t I'll, Ii an cx riluet in Vocation which re-
81: .,- degree. of tact, talent, nlormation in
"G~, , energy, pHleHce ptrSe VcraNcc, and perhaps
n' ,Am any OF these, discretion; with most other
,r,"'t qualities and virtues As the business is often
t@:,-rl "n lightly and ind9crectly it Is soon e.
Hu4lsled wnrm lis difficulties and annoyances begin
I:,ui.,.~t themselves. And thus there inces-
stunt cnHnGo4. Before an editor becomes qualified
h experience, by TIE acquisition Of the requisite
":n"nt of intommation to conduct paper rcspecta-
h. he r"tirt~ to give place 10 another three months
sr six months cXpcrjluentcr.
The Dispatch attributes these ncessant canges
Of disposition the people to sllst ain home
papers thus Withholding the patronage which would
justify the necessary talent and means to make
item better" There can be no doubt of this indlf-
ference 10 our own papers, while the trashy publca-
tons of the North read with avidity; but would
r" tine necessary talent and means to make papers
% tier " conn maud better success 4 lawyer or ply
r5ciHn without the requisite knowledge Of his pro
is~ion cannot justly complain that people d" not en-
t~uet lin with the de fence of their rights lie pre-
.erNatt"n OF theIr health: Nor can Il lnerclant who
keeps GOODS reasonably complain that his store is
rot througod with customers.-F FoycncrHIc Ohsercer
Just SO Hundreds of trashy publications at
thc Eorsh We patronzed-somo of them exten-
@ivcly-in every Southern community, and that
too III many Instances by men who do not feel
that they under any obligations to helps
port papers published in their own towns which
are engaged in building up their interestss and
contemding for improvements calculated TO en-
hancc the value Of their property.
But in sparse population there is such athng
rs overriding the newspaper business, and even
where there is abundant material to work upon
q certain amount of tact and labor are actually
necessary to success Too many persons,s in
North Carolina, engage in journalism as step
ping gstonc to something clse-many of them new
think of pursuing it as profession for life
We understand that even at the present. time
efforts are being made to establish in the town
OF New bern, by contributions from prominent
and leading men political paper. 1t is confess
Cd that the enterprise cannot, of ITSELF command
success in ordinary hands; but it is expected
that It may be kept up awhie-long enough per-
haps to elevate some and pull down others-by
outside assistance. Now we have only to say
that papers that viii not pay their projectors and
publishers for the labor bestowed on them cannot
tn Of much service to parties communities.
Newspapers that deserve success generally com
manI il, aul those which have to be started and
kept up by outside contributions, general de-
Srrvc but Very. little. The house carpenter black
smith or shoemaker who understands his bus-
nos5 and who has energy and tact, will succeed
without contributions, and so of publishers OF