| From the New Orleans Daily Crescent |
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| February 19, 1862 |
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| Our Half Sheet |
| This morning's issue of the
Crescent appears on a sheet half the usual size. The resort to this
expedient to continue our publication is very mortifying to us, but as
circumstances have rendered it unavoidable, our readers must bear with
us until we can do better. We have spared neither pains nor expense to
obtain printing paper, and our endeavors have been crowned with
considerable success, but the railroads are so occupied with Government
business that we cannot get it forwarded to us. We have paper lying at
various railroad depots, which would supply us for weeks, if we could
only get it. But, as we cannot get it, after having exhausted all the
means in our power to that end, we have reluctantly concluded to come
down to a half sheet in order to continue our issues as long as possible
and in the most convenient and readable shape. |
| By adopting this course we
think we see our way "out of the woods." Under all circumstances,
however, the Crescent will be continued in some shape or other, and it
will contain the current news of the day in a condensed shape, which we
will try to make as valuable as though it was spread over a large
surface. |
| With this explanation we trust
our readers will be satisfied, and we will take leave of the subject by
saying that we never penned a notice so disagreeable to our feelings. |
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