Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1860-06-16

IM9 04AMeNNt on tWe 1NWNMNAs
Ncighbor DENNY, Of the Gorette IN his pa.
per Of yesterday, pays his compliments 70 the
Journal Ia the following manner
Tho Journal few daysago ihiimoied that
the Empire, h copying our ariiclc on sheriff
Mills, was eailif Of rafting which being IN.
ierpreted into plain EnElish, meant tha, the
Gasefk was fairly chnrgable with this heinous
offence On Tuesday u says
'rThe Empivs seems 10 misunderstood our
remarks about tho prices Of ADVERTISING in
daily papers II the editor viii refer 20 the
article on the outside of Fridays Empire, he
will "posi himself in regard 10 our allusion,
We said nothing about the Empires prices
Nor did Il say anythng, in terms, about our
prices II refers 20 the Gdfcfte by inuendo
This business Of rafting is tckish subject
for the Jopraak Ithas been Gniliy of tvo Of
fences, in our estimation, equally reprehcnsi
bic viz Rafting and ErtoriioH Has the
Journal forgotten how Il RATED the Garrett,
out Of the contract for the laws n year ago
taking the job at forty cents thousand when
the law allowed siNty2 Has Il forgotten ia
bid last year, Of $l5 for the advertisement Of
the Board Of Public Works; for which the
Statesman and Journal at Columbus, re-
ccived Sl209 II united with the Empre, in
that instance 10 prevent is insertion in the
Gazette Our bid was 800 which We were
compelled to reduce 10 sl5 in order 10 head
the Journal and Empire, which then, like two
turtle-doyes, billed and Cuood together in great
unity.
We have always been ia favor of good hui
fair prices We charge by rule aud right
and never on the pratical principles Of tho
Journal Of skiHHing man ,chen he can
help IL In this connection, We say, that the
charges Of the Journal against the count,
and the city, aud for legal advertising, gene
rally, are perfectly enormous aud without pre-
cedent or Justice Why is il that the charges
il makes against Montgomery county, neyel
appear in the Exhibit Of the Receipts and Ex
ponditures, published under the authority o
the Commissioners viii the Journal hun
up the facts and print them in lis local col
umnY The public, then. will be able 10 see ii
Inconsistency in unjustly charging the Em
pire with receiving aid from the Fedora
treasury It's q cormorant feeder at tn,
public crib; lives ON Sheriff and other lega
sales luxurietes on STAT takes and burrow
in the abdominal pouch ofthe county treasur,
like the young Of an opossum.
Can the Journal explain 10 us the reason
that the City Council, last spring, cut down il
bill for advertising the City Exhibit nearl'
thirty dollars2 The bill of the Gaseitc, bcini
fair charge, was allowed ON the same niah
of It's presentation, while the Journals wa
sent 10 committee for investigations an,
was subsequently docked nearly one-thrd
Can il explain why il costs the public nearl
twice ns much TO advertise the Dclinauon
List in the Journal us in the. Gagette, whcr
the law fixes the price2
Why is Il, that the sheriff and the Lawyer
,cW persist in using its columns, to the cxclu
sion Of the Gazette, when THEY KNOW
our circulation is greater than the Journal
and our terms more moderated
SO far from wishing to play the rat we nT,
willing TO meet the Journal ut any time, il
convention with other city printers, and fix NJ
HONEST SCALE for advertising and job work
And we are ready to sign a mutual obligation
that the violator of it, whoever he may be
shall be posted as Rat on the corners of th,
streets and in the public prints. We are rs
sured by the proprictors of the Empire an,
by Mr., Burrows, that they are ready, at an
time, to come into the arrangement Nam
the time and the place, and the work shall b
done
So far ms the last paragraph is concerned
the proprictors of this paper are ready to at
cept fully and unroservedly the proposition
therein contained We are not only willing
but anxious for the establishment of un
form, fair, living scale of prices by the prin
ters of this city