Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1828-10-09
BUYING CHEAPER.

OF the "Anerlcsn Observation-Disclosures
Journal.
For the purpose OF illustrating the
idea, that it is sometimes cheaper for a
community TO pay, NoNIFALLY, higher
prices for many articles of consump
lion if manufactured among themselves,
than TO bring the same articles from
abroad, at a less CASH PRfoB, we will
give a short sketch OF the history of a
country village, which we have some
where seen OF heard of, though we can
not at the present moment tell when or
where.
AS the history goes, in the state Of
we will say Observation-Disclosures
existed in time past, a very aourishing
village, which. from being situated in a
remote corner of the state, had but lit
tie foreign trade, and the villagers were
constantly in the habit of manufactur
ing almost all articles for domestic use
among themselves. Me-. Koran sup
piled his neighbours with hats, Mr..
Snip the tailor made coats, and Mr..
Crispin made shoes. In short, the
Blacksmith, the carpenter, the cabinet
maker, siIversmIth, all found employ
inen., and supported their families in
ease and competency. The school
master, the doctor, the lawyer, the
Parson, the printer, and the barber,
found sufficient patronage among them;
and al! together gave a profitable bust
ness to the tavern keeper, and grocer,
and the dealer in fancy articles. Toe
farmers also, for twenty miles round,
felt the general effects of this village
prosperity. They found a steady mar
ket for their corn and pork, and -four
and butter, and beef, and even the good
woman derived a proportional adyan
tage from the prosperity of others; she
found 10 difficulty IN exchanging, her
poultry and eggs, and the productions
OF her loom, or cash, or sugar and tea;
or tobacco and snuff, if she happened
TO prefer those articles, as some geoo
women willard was never at q loss
for a new bonnet IN a holy day.
Outlines effects changes every where.
The lawyer went to Boston, and found
that he could obtain a coat for a less
SUM than he was in the habit of paying
MIR. Snip, the village tailor 1t was
ms interest he thought, to buy on the
cheapest terms. So he bought all his
coats a, Boston; it became fashionable,
and all the villagers followed his exam
pie They were not to be taxed, they
said, for the benefit of Nj, Soip The
tailor lost his business; mortgaged his
house TO the lawyer; became bankrupt,
and moved way 1t was soon found
that hats could be purchased in Boston
cheaper than Mr.. Koran could manu-
fscture them. So Mr. Koran soon lost
his business, and was obliged to follow
the tailor. The farmers found they
could send to Boston for their furniture,
their saddles, and their brides, instead
OF purchasing them as heretofore at
the village. DR.. Pestle said he could
buy better and cheaper shoes 10 Ros.
ton than could be furnished by Mr..
Crispln. Thus one after another, the
mechanics lost their business. and left
the place. The shopkeepers o o fol
lowed their customers. AT length the
bar Der found that, save thu lawyer, the
doctor, and the psrson, he had no chins
to scrape-so, in a Fl, of the blue, devils,
he drowned himselfin bis suds.
What became of the printer we could
not exactly ascertain; though we felt it
our duty to m AXE particular inquiry
From q habit. however, which he had
contracted, Of feeding entirely upon
thin air, like a camelion, it is copiec
tured by bis friends that he euaporated!
But the doctor finding none left to take
bis pills, shifted his quarters.-So did
the parson,-And in the end, the law
yer, leaving monopolized all the real
estates of his neighbours, by fore clos
iDg the mortgages, found himself the
sole inhubItant of the skeleton Of the
once h%ourishing village OF Fairtown-
and himself totally ruined by the utter
wor.hiessness OF the property be had
acquired.
The farmers in the neighbourhood
no longer found d market for their corn
and their pork. Whatever they nigh,
raise over and above their own con