The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1863-04-29
GOING, GOINGv GONE!!i

The present number closes Volume Y, Of the
PRRnYspURG JOURNAL. About two months since
and weekly since that time-we published the
announcement that on the first day of May, 1858,
we should commence the advance payment
system. We did not do this because we thought
a majority or minority of our subscribers enter
tanned malicious ideas Of swindling us, but because
we regarded the idea of doing business to the
amount of one dollar and .ftiy cents per year with
several hundred different persons, and taking trust
for pay as a very shiftless method Of operating
a method which, if unsupported by other means,
would speedily run q man Of moderate capital
"nto the ground" and with person of large capi-
taIit would be only "question of tims" besides,
the duties which we owe to our grandchildren
quire that we shall not pay more for white paper
than we receive for the same after the labor of
printing it! Let not the gentle readers who think
that "papers don't cost much" startle at this as
sertion. Our receipts on subscription have been
what some country offices might call fair-tor
month having been as high ono hundred dollars
yet during the first six months that we have pub
lished the JOURNAL ending April l, 1853, our easI
receipts slJscr pon hacs erceedd expenditures
fer rhite paper by precisely The Of FIVE CENTS
Our books show this to be fact! In the mean
tims We have paid our employees cash. boarded
ourselves, paid our washwoman, and bought our
own tobacco! Have we subscriber who would
consent to do business after this fashion? If so,
let the miserable specimen of humanity step into
our office, make affidavit to that fact and he shall
have receipt for years subscription, ytree-also
suit of our old clothes.
We do not feel inclined to further argue the ne
cessity of our eracting payment in advance-as
we propose to hereafter leave the arguing of self
evident propositions to gentlemen of more talent
than we claim to possess. We dislike to drop the
name Of a single subscriber from our list-yet
much more do We dislike the idea of receiving no
more for the JOURNAL than we pay for the white
paper on which it is printed. Common Sense die
tates that of the two diskes we choose the least
and we have concluded to follow the advice of
Common Sense !
Our subscribers ought not to expect US to make
each of them personal visit for the collection of
the pittance due us. As General Washington
said" to his soldiers, when bidding them farewell
81 cannot go to each Of you, but you easily
come to me"-so says the JOURNAL to its patrons ;
while we could not in 4 months time find each of
them, they can find tho JOURNAL office without
uLncuity
The terms of the JoURSAL will hereafter be al
follows
Four months s....................... so
Eight months = ...''''' '.........$l %
Twelve months ..''.''''.''.''. '.''''''. %
We shall continue to receive on subscription
anything which we can eat drink, wear give
away-from hooprpoles and potatoes to cOFp'in-
the-ear and bankabe notes-ol'cays n advance
To those who have already paid US for Volume
XI we tender sincere thanks, and We pledge
ourselves to faithfully labor to print paper which
shall be fully worth the amount they have paid US.
We shall do the same for those who pay hereafter.
To those who have not and will not hereafter pay
in advance for the JOURNAL, we can only aayi We
dislike to part your company, yot we wish you we'll
may your paths be strewu with 4" something" /"
that will make you realize the fact that printers
can't olive on nothing and board themselves "
We bid you a last, long, lingering, languishing,
yet loving-FAREwELL