New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-02-13
A RRCUsANT SALESMAN.

Il is our painful duty to announce that IHH
TRIBUNE has lost certainly several readers, and
possibly one subscriber 1t has lost these readers
not south of Mason and DixOn's Line, nor yeI on
the banks of the Potomac or Tombigoee RIVER,
but little north of the City Hall, and not Tar from
the mouth of the Hudson River. The subscriber
is possibly saved though it is not easy to see how
man who is deprived of his bread can save his news
paper; but there are men who provide the lu1nrles
of life first, and procure the necessares afterward II
they cam Some of our readers of this SORT and 1t
may be that the person we refer tots OF Them Ii
not then the circulation of daily impression has
decreased from 40 900 to 80, 999. Bat our lossma
be anothers gain, result for which, we trust we
are sufficiently imbued with Christian spirit TO Dc
duly thankful There is no loss, according to some
philosophers, without its compensating gain. The
gain in this case will be probably not less than the
sale of one pair of ready made trowsers, warranted
not to rip. Or it may be vests or neck-tle; or
coat with two faces. The latter, it strikes US,
would be the most suitable.
A few mornings since, one Of the firm Of large
furnishing establishment in side.street not lar
from the Park-and We are thus particular that the
precise locality may be left undesgnated as we do
not propose to go into the business OF Black and
White List observation-disclosures of firm that shall
be nameless said to a clerk in its employ, "is 1t
" YOU who take THE TRIBUNE and leave it about
" the storel" The reply was in the Affirmative
The offence, then, he was told must not be re-
peate3 but that if he continued to read that PRINT
-.
he must put it out of sight. The clerk Inquired IL
that was TO be the rule in regard to all newspapers
as if it was, he should cheerfully comply with it.
No. he vas told, the rule was not general
one. but it would nevertheless be enforced
40 far az THE TRIBUNE was concerned. The
youpg gentleman took The matter into con-
sideration, and cOnceiying, on reflection,
that his right to the pursuit of knowledge was
unwarrantably interfered with by requiring him
to read his morning paper in surreptltleus and
clandestine manner, declined to render obedl-
ence to this requirement. On respectfully making
known this determination, he was incontlnently
told that his services no longer wanted In that
establishment. The fact that he had been for sew
era years faithful servant to his employers, and
that his engagement with them for the current year
did not expire till the LIST of July, was not sufficient
to counterbalance the enormty of reading such
paper as suited him BEST and of firm determination
to continue to dsburse two cents daily to that end
AS it is still possible to divide the sum of two
cents by two and still keep the current coin of the
Republic, one, free, and ndiyisible we may yet
have to record lower bid than this for the South
ern trade. Our columns are open. Perhaps, on
mature consideration, we may be induced to open
White or Constitutional List with the sums an
nexed. If we do we shall head it with the name OF
Messrs. ----& Co., Two CENTS.
In the meantime, the young clerk is thrown out
of employment in the dead of Winter. He may be
heard of at this Office if among our readers there
are any who Think that after the contumacy he las
exhibited, they could trust him among their dry
goods.