The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1863-12-29

~The Conservatives who nominated
Gen. Mcclellan for President must cer-
tainly hope for support from jeff. Davis
& Co., else they are trying to kin him
off.
9- The versatile New York Herald,
which sometime since nominated Presi.
dent Lincoln for reelection, and afterward
Gen. Mcclellan. now sees in Gen. Grant
the rising man. 1t means to claim the
credit Of first having nominated whoever
is the successful candidate.
RThe Governor of Rhode Island has
sent circulars TO all the soldiers of that
State whose terms Of service are about 10
expire, urging them to re-enlist.
I@-The copperhead and rebel journals
are equally bitter in their denunciations
of President Lincoln's PROCLAIM alton Of
Amnesty sure sign tha. the document
is what it should be-
WHY NEWsPAPERs LIVE Or DIE.
Many people pass through the world
without thought in regard to the why
or wherefore Of many things constantly
falling under their observation, while
many others never push their curiosity
far enough to elicit correct information
in regard to them. The former class
simply know that newspapers exiss-the
latter observing so much gas in them take
it for granted apparently, that the entire
establishment lives on air-and sooth to
say too much ground has been given for
such an opinion by the conductors Of the
press in the western country in times
past. But then, the heavy bills of NOR.
tality amongst newspapers have always
kept the reflective portion Of community
from falling into the error of the unthink-
ing mass. or of the enthusiastic gentlemen
OF rose. colored fancy who have underta-
ken to carry on newspaper establishments
by any other medium except the gold Of
greenbacks earned by the concern. A
newspaper must be self-running, self
paying concern, or it must sooner or latel
close up. If it don't pay its way some.
body must pay for it, and whatever the
deposit in bank or elsewhere to be drawn
on, it will eventually be exhausted. The
newspaper establishment thus conducted
must stop-it is only question of time
sooner or later.
Now, We take it that every community
and this community in particular, is inter
ested in maintaining good newspaper
the Gate City for instance-and that they
desire that others should aid and ara vii
ling to bear their fair share in supporting
such paper. Many of you know tha,
one paper after another has 'winked out
in our city, because their proprietors in
the heat of their enthusiasm and the ex
travagsnce Of their fancy or the desper
alton of competition, failed to charg,
remunerative prices. And We oursel
have been guilty in that direction to th'
loss of several thousands of dollars.
1t is too much the habit of editors O
the press. to become the pack-mule fo
the public and to "dead-head" all manne
of public and private institutions an,
persons through their columns at the ex
pense of the proprietors of the establish
ment, although they have no create
interest in the matter than any othe
citizen, and ought not to be expected +,
contribute more than others. In th
east, and in the larger and some of tn
smaller cities Of the west, this latter nui.
ance and burden on the press has bee
abolished, and it must soon be resolutel
met everywhere.
The great advance Of the last year q
two in the prices of paper, material, labor
rents and living, and Of everything whic
/ goes to make up. the expenses Of > news
paper establishment, hes put the propris
tors of the press 4sto their tsumps." An
ia order TO make the business pay the
have been constrained not only 70 advans