The Litchfield County post., 1827-12-13
CHEAPNEss OF NEWSPAPERS.

ChEAfNESc OF NEWSfAIERS.
1t is generally known that the quantity of prin-
ted matter contained in newspaper is much more
than be obtained in any other form for the same
price. At least when book auctions held upon our
common, many of the good people feel perfectly salts
fed in bidding of book quite ordinary merit, "be
cause it went off cheap" and which is generally
third and even SO per cent. higher than news
paper. The paper and printed matter of one VOL Of
the County Post will fill Sic Duodecmo volumes, of
3l2 pages each, by actual computation. Average the
price of paper at $3.50 per VIOLA price which
we by no means get, allowing for delays Of payment
and actual losses,-and is equal in price duode
elmo VOL of 3l2 pages filed with and useful mat
ter, IS cts. adding the expense of binding 81
l2 cts % per cent less than the publications of the
American Tract Society sold. This is fctien !;
it he abundanty proved to the satisfaction of the
most sceptical. Surely the patrons so called, of
do lay the the editor under very great
obligations by paying for his cheap publication if
in advance, least at the end of six MONTHS on
the receipt of No. % of each Volume.
We were led to these remarks by statement in the
Vermont Chronice,-a sheet of the size of the Coun-
ty Post, relative to this subject. The editor published
his calculations in answer to a complaint of pat
ROM at the eXtravagant price of his paper"
ave went to our shelves and took down volume
published in London, price in boards $780, and on
making an estimate, found that our paper for year
contains much nine such volumes worth, at so
each, $22, 80! 1t startled can it be, thought,
that our paper is so rery iov? We took a volume in
boards published in Boston, and having made SINH
lar comparison found that, making the letter press,
or reading matter Of that voume our guide, we ought
to charge for the Chronicle $l2, year! But per-
haps periodical works come cheaper. Here then is
the American Journal of Education,a excellent work,
and nobody complains of its price. Judging by that,
above the advance price of our paper should be
$1,000; and taking the National Preacher for
our guide, it should be $500! We will apply one 9TH
test, the severest in our power. We have on our
desk the little Tract, Improvement in Farming,"-
we recommend 1t, by the way, agricultural
friends they ought all to read Unpublished by the
American Tract Society," and therefore sold as every
body knows, at price proverblaly low. Yet in Or
der to make the paper as In the publications Of that
Society, we ought to charge 1923, in advance! and
yet fault is found with US for asking 81 at the end of
the year.
The following beautiful verses were inserted in
young ladys album, by clergyman of this state. We
need not tell our readers that the efuson will bear
than reading, or that they are uncommony
excellent
Hast thou seen the gem of dew
Graded in the roses cup?
That morn greedy sunbeam flew
And drank the little globue up.
Hast thou seen the vernal bloom
On Duice Domwm bright and sweet?
Its bower is changed for beauty's tomb,
Its robe for winters winding sheet
Hast thou seen the fair cheek glow,
As DER it loves blush played the thief!
Now that cheek is pale with woe,
And gisten's with the tear Of grief.
And is there one, whose being wove
With thy own being-changes neuer?
Or will not both these forms OF love,
Ere long, be known IS no more forever? ~
Yes all that's lovely must depart,
As time shall rapidly reveal:
But there is feeling in the heart;-
The heart shall ne, cease to feel! Il.
IMPORTANT DECIsIoH-The Hon. Judge l. Amo-
reux in case before him on Thursday under the
act to abolish imprso for debt, in certain cases.
after an elaborate argument by the counsel on both
sides, decided that the opposing creditors of an In
solvent before him, competent witnesses to PrODe
the charges they themselves had made in tvriting in
opposition to the Insoirens discharge The opposing
creditors had called for jury Of frsehoiders under
provision in the act try the validity of their written
objections. and such opposing creditors offered
fore the jury After investigation of two days, the
jury found verdict in fduor of the insolvent and a.
gainG the objectonso of his creditors. He accor-
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