Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1823-05-01
NEWSPAPER BEGGfNG.-rhere is

NEWSPAPER BEGGING.-There Is
a certain class of citizens, so Justly de-
serving the appellation of Newspaper
borrowers, that we can no longer refrain
from introducing the honorable profess
ion to public enthusiastically a day
passes, but:we are told by our subscribers
of the inconvenience they suffer from
the continued applications for the loan
of their paper. Considerable of their
time is taken up in lookig about their
stores for the paper, should it be mislaId,
and they are often obliged to send to one
borrower to lend to another. No sooner
is the paper thrown in the store, than it
Is seized by one of these spongers, who
appeHr to keep watch for the carrier. In
Ms parts of the city the practice has
become so notorious, that every one ap-
pears to have right to the paper, bat
the subscriber they not only infest, his
store, but frequently pocket the paper,
and walk off, with as little cerimony IS
though they had right to exercise such
an ownership over this species ofproper-
~.
Disdaining as we do the custom of
making individual vexation, the subject
oil newspaper complaint, we cannot in
common justice to ourselves be silent
here. Some OF our subscribers assert,
that they are so much annoyed by the
presence of these paupers of intelligence,
who are perfectly willing to satisfy their
own appetite at the expence of other
people, that they must forego taking
the Chronicle, unless this abuse is dis
continued.-Th1sd do these mean animals
do substantial injustice, not only by abu-
sing the hospitality of their neighbors,
but they likewise deprive US of the sup
port of those who are disposed to favor
us with their patronage. What would
be thought of the delicacy of man who
breakfasted at his neighbors table, and
at his neighbors expense so often, that
he compelled him to forege the enjoy
ment Of that meal, and the baker who
furnished his morning loaf, thereby lost
the custom of this family9
There are those in the community,
who think little or nothing of news
paper, and who, ignorant of the cost and
labor of printing it, suppose that the
same value is set upon it by it's subscri-
bers. We are acquainted with some of
those liberal minded gentry, who are
fond OF discussing the various topics re-
ceived by every arrival which they have
nigardly pilfered from their neighbours
paper-some of whom have even had the
impudence to apply at our office for the
loan of a paper. Over the private trans
actions of our subscribers, we do not pre-.
tend to exercise control; but when we
hear from so many of our patrons the
same complaint against newspaper men,
dicants, we conceive it duty which we
owe to them and ourselves, to oppose
them in common with other paupers WHO
lnfest our city. Those who are able to
pay for papers, should either remain in
ignorance by letting his neighbours pa
per alone. or subscribe for one. Far be
it from us to insinuate, that we desire
such persons to be added to our list-we
care not whose paper they take, if they
will only let those alone, who do take ours
for it is only from the frequent COM
plants of our patrons that we have ex-
pressed ourselves thus much on the sub
ject.-.Nor. Chron.
ETtract of a letter from Ncav- Or
(eans.-"We have had a winter of
intense cold, from the 10th to the 10th
of March, the ponds in the suberbs
were such, that your Northern boys"
were giving us of the south, samples
of their winter amusements in skating.
The Bay of St. Johns was SO iced,
that vessels didno move on it. The
Mercury was at II FAHRENHEIT The
Orange trees are all killed, those of 50
winters standing are gone with the
scions, the Figs likewise are gone.
The extremes ofheat and cold last sum
mer and winter, ought to place this as
remarkable epochin ThermometricaI
History."-Ndt. Adp.
UNITED STATES AND RUSSIA.
The editor of the United States Ca
zette speaking of the recent conduct of a
Russian vessel in the Pacific Ocean.
says,
1--WE could wish to see this arrogance
of Russia, checked or put to shame by
the appearance of Capt. Steward in the
interdicted spaces with a convoy of ira.
ders, or merely to make a demonstra
ton without them. We do not approve
OF the expansion of our empire to the Nor,
thern Pacific, but we would be among the