The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-04-04
No~ruaper Matters.
Io,usvfr.LE, March u, is'Z.

Tor1SyrILE, MHfIu - 800.
The Louisville Ledger diggeu Pr ~ ~; T 1,;s
f,,,,.;e,,.. Journal. aud then ieii iu.o n' NJ
little attempt to break down inc ia1eer lap n'
bas cos. s,,ndry gentlemen ABOUT ~, nouI,rnie
some forty thousand collars. lhey nav W,
nothing to show for their money no eehen'
."1.alancc the other side Of the cash book
a W lesson learned In the school Of expo
T;ence-a costly educational institution kep'
fnr the benefit of those who will not learn
elsewhere From the day that 1t was born
INIT, the (lay that it died the Ledger sahn
money. AT every casting up Of accounts .1.''
balance was upon the wrong SIDE OF ths oooS'
Since few mouths ago, when IL enL,i go"
with q doublc-leaded flourish OF I[uuipesI,
and tho Lieutcnant- Governor OF hen.uvas
n,o,,nted tho editorial stool, its cNiTho."a, ~,
axceeded ;ts receipts hundred doiaFs Is
,,s;th chas,f,,l regularity Blow us IL "oulu'
49,, ~ Il could, boast rs 1t qua, IL was
3 g. "i =, c,;I,rf from the first. The oniy va
..:ns,a,, i, ,h. aggregate Of its weekly LOSSES
..aIo ,ont;n,,cd increase Of the same, winch
" 10, considered IL healthy sign among DUST
ncss men. The name and fame OF the LIEU
tnnont.fioye,nor did not bring II NIFTY sup.
scribcrs, and its enlargement did nothing pu'
increase its expenditures.
Tie Ledger was started with the i'l.en'.on
and for the purpose OF brcahihs w" !. w.
Cosricr-JournGl; and its failure, a.iiohS otll.i
things, illustrates the difficulty Oh suppiHn.-
mo nm established newspaper. Inc COURIER
' Ios.r.oI Ind laid Itself open TO assault by ad-
t;u,, nccro testimony and embracing all
branches Of the new departure. 1t was de-
cI,red not to be representative OF true hell-
t;,rkv Democracy, which is the most uncom-
nromisjnr and larl-shell Democracy TO be
fo,nd In the United states, and the BourbonS
sought to make way with it. Its managing
editor, Mr.. Henry Watterson, was unpopular,
partly from his Wing antecedentS, partly
from the fact that he was carpet-baggef from
the mountains of Tennessee, hut mostly Oh
account of his liberia! views. For months the
Ledqer wagcd brutal war of words against
him, but never got a reply but once, anu that
was of such nature as TO quletn.
The Courier Journal did not lose any sub
scribers when the Ledger started, nor gam
many when it died. The change upon its
subscription books was inside of four hun
dred The Ledger had no daily circulation
of consequence outside Of the city, ana us
advertising patronage was always slim. IL
built up some weekly circulation in the rural
districts at the expense Of its rival, by play
ing upon the prejudccs Of the not overly en-
lghtened backwoods population, but not
enough to save 1t from the jaws OF bank
ruptcy. .u
The Com1eY-Journal is getting along well,
and is a credit to the city and the state. ANY
Kentuckian who is not proud Of it has more
';ce than local pride. for it is certainly
rnre)u,- nd liberal PAPER ever pub
the larges', -"hcn the Ledger ell
fest, most rewsy~~ ''tcnant-Gover
lished in Kentucky. w. Courier
Iarged, and employed the Lle1 .nrs
nor 70 write able editorials for It. tho
.Jrn.rnal also took d jump ahead, its mafae.
to make it in every department ana e
particular superior to its rival, IL IL LOON
every cent of the receipts to do SO, ana tteli
success was ample. The day never was that
m issue of the Ledger would compare <li
nm issue of the Cowicr-JourhaL
The truth is, the Com7er-Journa' mas ,
some tirst.class editorial talent upon lt--su
perior; in that line, to anything usually louho
in the heads Of any number OF Governors OF
I Observation-Disclosures or Presidents. Il
nan may be great success rs governor
and failure as the conductor OF neWSla-
1,er. 1t Is oftener SO than otherwise.
The Courier-Jou,ndl is very liberal IN the
matter Of exchanges. 1t exchanges with hum
dretts of insignificant country sheets all over
the South, giving the daily for weekly,
some Of them not worth having at any con-
elderatien.
The Nashville dalics have lately taken a
new departure in this particular, whlsh Is
likely to rebound to their loss. They have
been in the habit of sending dailies in eX-
change for weeklies published in the State,
but lately cut them all of, proposing to sub,
scribe to such weeklies as they wanted, ana
give no daiies in exchange except for dal- |
lies. The country editors are offended at
this, and will not send their papers to the
city dailies for pay, so that the Nashville
editors are without the country press pub
lished in their own State, and have no way
to supply themselves. They anguish for
local State news, and get it not But they
do get good deal of abuse from the rural
press, which is now advising the people to
drop the Nashville dailes and take the
Courier-Joursal, which is declared to be
greatly superior to both the Nashville papers
put together.--H Y. Redfeld, in Cincinnati
Commercial.