Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1862-12-09
trRLlSHED SEMI.WEEkLY...
Tuesday Morning & Friday Afternoon.
New Year---Jan. |, 1863.

Another year has rolled away, and
many Of our subscriptions will again
become due. Those in the County
can all send in, during Ccurt--nexl
week. Those without, can send legal
bills, or postage stamps or currency
but no shinplasters.
We are grateful, that, while adver.
tising and job printing have felt the
general depression of business, our
subscription list has kept full, thus
enabling us (on the Advance plan) TO
keep out of debt. We hope to be
similarly favored in the future.
We pay over 81 per day cash for
paper to print upon. Paper, ink,
produce, and merchandise are largely
advanced in price, recently. In the
hope, however, that these advances
may not long continue-and that we
can still make fair living at our old
fates-we shall not change them at
present, nor until necessity compcls.
But we MUST collect little closer,
and require strict conformity to terms
for clubs. Thus aided, we trust we
may weather the storm-and while
almost everything else (not excepting
gold itsel) has changed its relative
value, the STAR & CHRONICLE remain
stable and unaltered +!
The following, from a wholesome
exchange, is worthy Of attention:
NEWSPAPER TRIALS.
The tribulatons of our brethren Of the
Press, all over the country, are sore and
heavy. In Boston, they have either gone up
in price, or down in size. The New York
Erening Post has advanced. The Baltimore
American has reduced its size without chang
ing the price. In the West, in tact all over
the country, changes are being made, one
way or the other.
With many of these, this may be absolutely
necessary. With some. II IS but preiext 10
bolster up sickly concerns that are eklng out
Q precafIous exisience, living upon the chart
ties Of the public, and taking from Others
what is justly their due, after having devoted
years to building up. establishing, and invest
ing their whole means in the enterprise of
printing in its various branches.
The fact is, there are too many sheets.
printed after fashion. called "Netcspapers."
Many of them are not needed, nor do they
@make a decent living" partly because they
are not IN any respect whatever worthy of
il, and partly because there is no room for
them. 1t is notorious that within The last
eight or ten years almost every little town had
to have its "ten by Twelve" newspaper Of
few hundred copies. stuffed with quack nos
rum advertisements of doubtful morality; or
some enterprising politician would imagine
il was necessary for his advancement 10 have
IN "organ." After considerable drumming
around. he gets up weak-eeged thing,
and has the satisfaction Of seeing himself in
print, and somebody he imagines is in his
way 10 fame "piiched into." For while, he
pays. and so do his friends; but they soon
grow tired. and a desperate struggle between
neglect and starvation enSues. The rise In
the price of paper, of course, comes near
taking the last puff of breath out of all such,
and the last drop Of blood too.
These kind Of papers are a positive nuis-
ancs 10 the people who are asked IN charity
to take them. and a swind!e upon those who
are asked to advertise IN them, because they
have no circulation or number OF readers
worthy OF consideration. True, there are
people who think paper is paper" and
that one is Just as good as another. They
never appear to think that there is any differ
ence between three hundred, or a thousand.
subscribers of their Immediate neighbors, all
of whom they want 10 reach. They see in
priRi. and think everybody else does.
Now, we do not intend that our paper shall
either 60 up in price, or down in size. We
mean that our subscribers and advertisers
shall get all they bargained for, and at the
same price. When times were good and ad-
vertising plenty, we got our share. and made
some little money-not much, but some, and
We are content. We mean TO be satisfied.
now, with little or no prof, at all, rather Than
take advantage of the times. and not share
the @biuer with the sweet" with our patrons.
We must collect our small dues a little closer,
and try 10 make it up in economy Of means,
and thus -ride through the storm" with the old
flag flying as proudly as ever. We believe
we have borne ii for The Right in the past, and
II shall be none the less SO in the fulure-a
welcome visitor, freighIed with something &C.
ceptable to every member of the household,
old and young, grave and gay. We have a
consciousness that we furnish more and bet .
ter reading for the same amount Of money. |
and give our advertising patrons as good set
of readers as any country PAPER.