Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-12-01
social statistics and C,rou,a,,ou


The Banner Of yesterday morning saws it
only claims 5000 subscribers for all three
of its editions. We claim AZ, O0O for our
three editions. and the cry is still they
come. No doubt these figures hurt, but
we are not to blame fer that. The
Peoples" is sweeping ever the country
like an avalanche, and subscribers are
pouring IN upon us daily by the hundreds.
We confess We are in an exceedingly plea
SAINT humor at the unprecedented success
which has favored our newspaper enter
prise We certainly feel proud of such cir~
culation, and by Ontiring efforts will endes-
vor TO merit the patronage so bounteousiy
heaped upon us. We rejoice too at our
neighbor's success. We desire only tolesd
them about 1000, and if they lag behind
at any time IN energy, or should by ACCT
dent take the wrong chute, we will en-
deayor to point them 70 the channel which
will ultimately lead them safely on to the
currents of prosperity. For two years past,
our ambition and aim has beento establish
IN Nashville newspaper that can boast of
one hundred thousand subscribers When
that number shall have been reached, it
Will be gratifying to know that the Banner
Is only four thousand behind
We are little astonished, however, that
the Banner, IN its very labored article, by
which its numerous readers are robbed of
l fully half column Of interesting ROW..
should be led into such 'glariDg, palp-
able and absurd inaccurscy" as to intimate
that the UNION AND AMERICAN has over
claimed 1900 daily subscribers. The
census returns, as published in this paper.
show that the UNION AND AMERICAN and
Banner are each published daily, and that
the average circulation of the UNION AMI
AMERICAN with its daily, semi-weeklv and
weekly editions) is 1900. The semi.
weekly and weekly editions fly under The
head of ''UNIoN AND AMERICAN
just as with the daily. and
hence all the editions ale
the UNION AND AMERICAN. However. th;
tabular statement of the census reports j.
plain on that point, and no fair-mindet
man could infer otherwise. Our contem
porary Sin permitting carelessIy such a,
extravagant" conclusion, ''has so far ex
ceeded the bounds" of common sense a.
ito overtax public credulity" as to what j
is driving at. In ''saying this much abou
matter personal only to the two papers
our purpose has not been to prejudice on
neighbor's business or to make its circu
lation appear one figure less than it aetu
ally is," bat merely to show that we an
only 900 ahead, and still crawling up.
Our neighbor should reflect that tht
subscribers to newspapers do not belonJ
to them. It cannot claim as its propert,
the men who subscribed to the Banner
year ago, or month ago. 1t should refec
that the UNION AND AMERICAN is the larges
paper in Middle Tennessee in all its ed
tons; that the Daily is furnished at SIS
year, while it charges $40; that lis Week.,
and Semi Weekly editions are correspond
ingly larger, and proportioHately cheape
and that these arc positive elements O
circulation, besides Others, which we pos
ssss, and it does not Without deprccis
ton we say to you, come up to the stand
ard, and we will assure you Of better thira
than you dare hope for yourself In otbe
words, initiate the example that We lay be
fore you in the ample columns Of tht
UNION AND AMERICAN day by day, and yor
will assuredly do we'll. If, by taking on
advice, you succeed, as we believe you viii
in year or so we will transfer to III
Banner Press Rooms, on your own terms
our elegant Double Cylinder, when we vii
require a quadruple cylinder, to keep pac
with the demands of our subscribers