| From the Savannah Republican |
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| June 24, 1861 |
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| To the Public |
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| Savannah, June 24th, 1861 |
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| The undersigned are constrained to
increase the subscription price of their respective papers. |
| This necessity arises from the diminished
income of their offices, growing out of the stagnation of business
generally, while the expenses are largely increased and cannot be
curtailed without injustice to our readers. |
| Advertising, ordinarily so large a portion
of a newspaper's revenues, is almost wholly suspended, and will
continue so during the war, while the price of paper has largely
increased, and telegraphic expenses are nearly trebled. |
| It is not reasonable to suppose that the
Proprietors of papers will continue their publication at a loss when
there is no immediate prospect of a change for the better. We have too
much reliance upon the sense of justice of our subscribers, to
apprehend that they will complain at our course; on the contrary, we
hope for and need a generous support from them, and cheerful efforts
on their part to increase our subscription lists. It is only upon
their support and those efforts we can now depend to maintain the
usefulness and value of our papers as full and reliable vehicles of
information at this most critical period in the affairs of the
country. |
| From the 1st day of July, our terms of
subscription will be |
| For the Daily, one year |
8.00 |
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" six months |
4.00 |
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" three months |
2.00 |
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" one month |
1.00 |
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" Tri-Weekly, one year |
5.00 |
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six months |
2.50 |
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three months |
1.50 |
| The Weekly will be as heretofore, for one year |
2.00 |
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| Apart from existing exigencies, it may not
be generally known that the papers of Savannah and Augusta have long
been furnished at a price far below that of the journals of other
commercial towns in the South, and on terms wholly unremunerating. In
proof of this, we refer to the following statement of terms. It shows
that we do not ask more for our labor and capital than is promptly
conceded to others engaged in the same business. |
|
Charleston |
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Daily |
Tri-Weekly |
| Courier |
$10 |
$5 |
| Mercury |
10 |
5 |
| Evening News |
8 |
4 |
| Mobile |
| Advertiser & Register |
10 |
6 |
| Tribune |
8 |
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| New
Orleans |
| Daily Picayune |
12 |
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| Crescent |
10 |
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| Bulletin |
12 |
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| Delta |
10 |
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| Memphis |
| Avalanche |
10 |
5 |
| Bulletin |
10 |
5 |
| Appeal |
10 |
5 |
| Nashville |
| Union & American |
8 |
5 |
| Banner |
8 |
5 |
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Montgomery |
| Advertiser |
8 |
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| Mail |
8 |
5 |
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| Contracts for subscriptions unexpired on
the day indicated, will be completed at our former rates. All orders
for subscriptions MUST BE ACCOMPANIED WITH THE CASH. |
| F. W. Sims |
| Proprietor Republican |
| Theodore Blois [?] |
| Proprietor Morning News |