Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-11-09

BEHIND THE SCENES -JoURNALIsM.
persons not initiated have any adequate idea
of the expenses of publishing daily paper.
The following from the Mobile Register will
serve to enlghten those who read it. While
the estimates are greater than those that would
be applicable to this establishment, yet, In pro
portion to income, our outlay is doubtless as
great as that of our cotemporary. Our su5Scri-
bers and advertisers therefore will see the ne
cessity for the prompt payment OF therdues'
We quote from the Register:
"Not one man in fifty has the ialntest con
ception of the cost of running an establishment
like ours Only two nights since, IN converse
ton with two OF the most intelligent business
men of the city, We asked what they supposed
our weekly expenditure was, in hard cash
promptly paid down on the nail, every Satur-
was 'neae five hundred dollars - When we
stated the sum actually disbursed, our friend
could scarcely credit it. But we gave him Il
convincing explanation, which we now give to
our readers.
SIN the first place there are some thlrty-t8o
adult males employed on the work These ale
foremen, compositors and pressmen. there
are book keepers, collectors and clerks, besides
editors and special correspondents upon the
Daily Register. Every one OF these has to De
regularly paid off, in full, on every Saturday
night Then the expenses OF paper alone, Will
average four hundred dollars weekly; telegraph
bills, for press and special dispatches, rent tlres
gas, &c, one hundred and fifty more; SO that
the actual cash expenditure each Saturday
night runs UP to overy twenty two hundred and
fifty dollars .,,
penses of wear and tear of machinery, engines
and type, which are very CONSIDERABLE; not to
speak of losses OF waste and dead paper, nor
interest on the capital invested.
''There is one other heavy drain, paid con-
trbutors, who vary from three to eight per
week.
"Now let any clear headed man reflect that
these expenditures must be met; that there Is
no delay and no putting off one hour aircr the
bills against a newspaper are due. Then he
will see that it is utterly impossible to attempt
to run paper here as it has been proved to
be everywhere ese-on the credit system.
ut is all very we'll for each of the thousand
patrons OF newspaper to say when his bill OF
few dollars is presented-"Oh, wait II
arrange this trihe in few days. 1t the
speaker who says this were the only one, 1t
would really be this trile. But triHes make
up the sum of life and more especially the sum
"a sum in subtraction 1t generally ls-ol Il
newspaper life. Let the bad payer, who ne
elects to settle promptly for subscription, or
advertising, reflect that the man next door and
the man opposite are just as apt TO do the same
thing Neither may mean TO accept any ser
vice for which be renders no equivalent; but
he does accept it, If he neglects TO pay prompt
ly, whether from negligence, inconvenience, or
constitutional objection to handing out money.
He does not think that he has already received
the good Offices OF his paper, he does not re-
feet that he is only one OF many rctusers; and
he does not reflect because he does not know
the heavy and and invariable expenditure
of over twenty-five hundred dollars per week. "
RAILROAD QUARRELs. Richmond
Wing has supplement sheet containing near
ly eleven columns of controversy upon questions
at issue between General Malone, president oil
the line of road from Norfolk to Bristol, and
Messrs. Samuel Tate, John II. Branner, and
Thomas II. Galloway, presidents Of Tennessee
lines connecting with General Mahonc's line,
forming with their joint roads the famous
through line from Norfolk to Memphis.
The matters in dispute are terminal charge
of five cents per hundred weight Tor transfer
ring freight-pt0 rating with the Orange and
Alexandria road-and facilities of intercommu-
nication between the co operating lines. The
main difficulty, however, is with reference to
the Orange and Alexandria railroad which
General Malone contends should not be placed
in competition with the 'air line" to Norfolk.
The Tennessee presidents urge the bringing Of
the Orange and Alexandria railroad into the
ring as competitor with other lines than the
Southside, contending that its facilities for
travel and transportation, properly employed,
will enable the western line from Lynchburg TO
Memphis to compete successfully with those
lines crossing the Ohio, going by the sea or fol-
lowing the seaboard.
Gen. Malone is uncompromislng ID his OPP
position to altering the schedule OF pro-ratlng
with the Alexandria road, but offers every facll-
ity for the transferring of freight and passcn-
gers at Lynchburg As he is president of 200
miles of road that lies between the Orange and
Alexandria railroad and those of the Tennes zee
presidents he has it is thought the whip hand
in the contest; but at the same time, should
the quarrel proceed to open rupture, those
roads may do serious evil to Gen. Malone )
road.-Rjch. Dispatch.
GEN. GRANT The election OF Gen. Grant
was celebrated at Galena, ILL.,, on Wednesday
night, by a large torchlight procession, illuml-
nations, and other demonstrations OF JOY, A
dispatch to the Chicago Tribune says:
The Galena Tanners with two bands Of music
and procession of citizens numbering several
thousand, marched to the residence of General
Grant, in front of which a splendid display of
fireworks was sent up, after which three cheers
were given for the President elect, In re,
sponse to repeated calls, the General stepped
out upon the piazza and addressed the multi
tude as follows:
FRIENDS AND FELLOW CITIZENS OF GALE
MAJ thank you for this additional mark OF
your kindness Sufficient, | suppose, has now
been heard of the result Of the late election to
show upon whom it has fallen to administer
the affairs OF the nation for the next four years.
1 suppose it is no egotism in me to say that the
choice has fallen on me. The responsibilities
of the position feel but accept them without
for IL | can have the same SunnOrL which has