Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1862-11-07
NEWSPAPERS.

Newspapers.
The hard times, with The large advance in
the price Of paper, and the three per cent
tax to government, will affect newspaper
publishers pretty seriously. Heretofore
there has been rush into this department
of in lustry Of large numbers Of persons who
were impelled to it from the novelty Of the
business, or for the excitement supposed to
attach to it, and because they supposed it
furnished a sure and safe road to compo-
tcncy, while it supplied a medium through
which they could reach the public in behalf
Of some grand scheme or other Half q
these publishers have failed before a twelve
month, while the Others are not in the most
tlourishiug condition. The poetry Of the
business is found to b. one thing, while the
stern reality is quite different ono and to
make newspaper business g along smoothly
it has been found that the machinery has to
be well oiled with cash just the same as any
other business. The whole machine will
stop and refuse to bulge an inch, unless
there is used a plenty OF this lubricatng and
stimulating article, This, to those like most
Of us poor country publishers, knocks the
fanci full part, or the poetry Of the business
INTO "pi There is therefore, a gradual
and material change going on in the uewsra-
per world, as there is destined t. be a still
greater one. The large establishments are
becoming fixed institutions in the land and
under the advantages Of railroad speed fer
the transmission of their issues. and the
state oil the country which necessitates the
most complete reports of the army and the
markets, they are getting to be an every day
necessity, and one which requires the most
ample means and the greatest facilities for
supplying. Indeed, the country reader
hardly appreciates the vast outlay required
to carry on such establishments Is The Fu5-
uat, Tie Hrad, The Post. The Boston
Jou nal, The Trare9cr, &c, 6e., while
reading the weekly or daily issues of these
establishments. Under the advance prices
for the raw material, the cost must be nearly
or quite as much as the price paid Tor sub.
scription. But while the leading metropoli-
tan papers, are from necessity growing more
firmly established, and ara extending their
circulation, the country papers are growing
feebler and poorer. weekly ISSUE, in this
dry Vi wonders and startling events, is altJ-
setLcr a snail like affair. y matter il the
Editor hh7rs long and hard t5 call a. mach
OF tie rcdl facts OF the current weeks his
terry as possible. aud even if he gives ali tie
important events Of immediate public in
tercst, still, 1t does mt satisfy. The dear
public likes to lie fed daily on war news,
If half Of what is daily published has to he
c5ntrad,cted the succeeding day. 1t has
such an absorbing interest in all that FER
tains to the veal or woe Of the country, that
it will read all if it can be obtained whether
true or false, aud the loss - tie country
paper comes from this ayefiin. AMI cen
trolling desire for war news instead Of local
news Lfeal events lasc their inn ort4nce in
the light Of such stirring news a. that Of
BATTLES fought, and tie movements Of grand
armies Then again. down East" WHERE
the "timcs are pronounced hard, and
the farmer and the mechanic, can ilIy afford
u take two or three papers. tAe small local