The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1869-01-24
Enlargement of Our Paper.

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-, - Enlargement of Our Paper.
Next sdnday week Ws lsasde ths afst number
Of the second volume q Ne MORNING STAR, and
it is with great pleasurs that we announce, in
advance, I'd our readers, the very handsome ex-
have assumed They win scarcely recognize as
an old -acquaintance the new form that will
visit them in such sudden and wonderful de-
velopment. NE
We have made arrangements to increase the
aggregate width pf the paper by eight new col
umns, and to lengthen it in such proportion as
to give, in all, an additional amount of space
equivalent to about twelve of our present col.
umns, thus presenting the largest double sheet
in the city.
This enlargement has been called for by the
extraordinary increase in our advertising bust
ness, encroaching as it does, to such an extent
on our limited space, al TO cuftail too much the
amount of reading matter which we desire to
present. We must add, too, that some such re-
sponse as this is appropriate on orr part, as an
acknowledgment of the very handsome and en-
thusiastic support which our friends have re-
Gently accorded us in the sudden growth of our
subscription list.
We do not propose, however, to limit our i'm
provement to increase in size and in amount of
matter. Now that tho MORNING STAR is an as
sured success, and is in q condition to incur in
creased outlay, we wish to oonyineeits subscri.
beers that its Directory is animated by spirit
not SO much of immediate pecuniary profit as
of iberality and enterprise. Indeed, such
course is the part not only Of iberality, but of
sound discretion and forecast.
We shall, therefore, enlarge the sphere of in
formation presented by the addition of several
new topics. Our readers win find q compendi-
GUS and reliable statement of the markets, as
also financial and monetary articles. 1t is i'm.
possible, with our present arrangements for
press work, to give the Sunday morning tele-
grams, but as soon as circumstances will per-
init, it is in contemplation to add this feature
to our columns, thus afording as complete a
Sunday journal as any in the city. Theadvan-
tage of such an arrangement will be obvious.
In the mean time, we promise our readers a
original story, by a lady who has
heretofore contributed to our columns over the
nom de plume of "Jacquelne" We shall com
mence this story with the first number of the
new volume, and would request all who may
wish to get it, and are not yet subscribers to
leave their names in time, as otherwise the is
sue published an.fy be Insufficient to meet all
demands.
The MORNING STAR now stands a permanent
success. We take pleasure in being able, at
the close of our first volume, to assure our sub
scribers of this fact, and to congratulate the
founders of the paper upon the result of their
enterprise 1t was in about the darkest hour
of the recent financial distress of this commu-
nifty that our first issue appeared, and some of
the more timorously inclined feared that the
was unpropitious. 1t was evident,
to every one present at the Archie
piscopal residence on the occasion of the initia-
tory meeting, that the undertaking must sue
coed. The enthusiastic feeling of all comprising
the assembly, including many of the most in
fiuential clergymen of the city, and the hearty
appreciation of the Most Rev. Archbishop, in
dictated q support which could not but assure
success. I'd
We need not be surprised, then, that the
MORNING STAR has struggled successfully
through the embarrassments of it's dawning ex-
istence, and is now gradually mounting towards
that zenith of popularity and influence to which,
as q Catholic organ in New Orleans, it has every
right to aspire.
We must not close this article without ex-
pressing the hope that at the close of the year
on which we are about to enter, we may be able
to promise our readers another improvement as
marked as that now contemplated, and that our
third volume may be in all respects a credit
both to the cause it will represent, and the city
which will sustain It.
There is every ability, pecuniary and intel
lectual, in the Catholic element at the South to
maintain journals of the highest order devoted
to its interests. This has not been done hitherto
not only in the South but at the North, because
the Church has been struggling through the pc
Rod of formation. Everything was being crea-
ted-changes were innumerable-developm
was beyopd the means necessarv IN u,eet ito