Southern telegraph., 1837-06-06

tiA atacAluiiNt ~ y uoAill4 Hfltb tiAH tdiI
TINT sh0Idanswsr yours. am ca4psH.
tor by trade, bul have settled on farm.
where intend to carry on the business oi
both.
E-What do you ask for barrelof fimi
As ] have not been here long en1agh
to raise any yet, have none for sale. !
expect 10 have after next hlryesl, though,
when sh1ll ask the customary prices,
which suppose will be fran ten to twelve
dolllrs.
| E-Wbat was the price Of the article ID
the easi9
SIN the western part of Penn'ylyania,
where | came from, d9ur was five and six
dollars b1rre.
E-Well, sr, what do you charge fJr a
days work at your trader
S--When | work by the day, ask two
AMI a halG and sometimes three dollars.
E--What did yol ask in Pennsylvania
S--A dollar diy generally, but some
times dollar and half,
E--Well, now, in yo1r business you ask
double wages for your work, sell barrel of
lIur fr twice the sum Won w,ultl eastward,
and yet YOU nsk US to furnish a paper FIR
the same price. NV, put TINT and thatt To-
gether, and see if you can nuke them jim.
gle.
S-D)n't misunderstood me. Rccollect
| was not attempting to beat down yonr
price, but was only suggesting that by 50
doing, Won would rocaiVo better patronage.
E--Bn', VIC crn assure you the more Of
such patronage the worse for us. An exten-
siyc patronage Of that kind would inevitably.
bre TX down the establishment. No, sir
our prices are 80 per cent too low In
stead of being dluble whit they are in the
e1s', they arc not m1re than % per cent.
higher; and until they are so per cent high
er,than they arc at present, We shall nj be
on an equality with our ncighbors. Every
holy charges a high price for every thiny,
except tho poor printer; whose doom is
three fDld worse than that according TO the
rest Of the family Of Adam With them there
is no hing worse than to earn their bread
by the sweat of their brow--it is to work
for nothing AMI fad ourselves. Every body
has his price f,r whit he warts to sell, but
if the printer dire to pctiiin fbr any thing
like fir remuneration Ilr his toll, he is
insuted with tnunis, and with the thrcnts
that if You d. not take 50 and 50, VIC wont
petr1nize yoni we will 60 to the cast FIR
or newspapers. Let them 90 tothe east for
their papers MS quick as they please, Ln
them 60 and Get their great oyergrown
shoets-,heir highly pllf,l flmiIy papors--
for two dAlara or even Il dollar per annum--
md when they hive them, whit are they
worth? Whit do they cIntaln? IA tale Of
CIrty yards in long'h, or thluslnl Stale
anecdotes, to nuke Iove.sich misses weep,
or dinccs hugh. Bn do they contain what
we want to sec here? our local news--,he
state Of our mlrke's--'he advertisements Of
our neighbors, &c.? There is always
something about even the worst western
paper 10 make it of m Ire mportlnce to him
who resides in its vicinity, than the best he
can find in the cast. Go to the cast! Well,
we want carpenter to build ms house
you ch1rge too mlch--%e will go to the
east for our workmcn. Bit if we d., they
come here AMI charge us the same prices
that You do--anl they arc right. AMI s.
} it is with newspapers. Elstcrn newspaper;
arc Published f,r Elstern peoplc--,hay arc
not INTENDED to snit the west, with the ex
ccpton Of some fnw WIN wish to circulate
. their sheet cast and west, and they suit nj
, body Bat, let the people e. tp the ems
: for their papers, Let them g. Bit whcl
: can1ia,tc wishes to address his constitl
4 ents--when a politician wishes to publish
! stump speech--whcn a farmer wishes t
advertise his prod ice---a machqnic his 'wor
I they will plcesc re c;pIect that they m is
S 90 to the elst to do all this.
q S--Ehongh: here's yolr money. 81
e me DOWN for two copies for mysel
$ md the other to my frionliu Pennsylvania
: We will send them At least one piper f
It the tioqs1als the Pennsylvania presses ci
r cullte in this mntry. am slts6sl tn
# you are none tDo high; and If you shoaI
% ask m,ra, would cheerlulIy give it.
j Eve will tell yol as a MN of hoao
e that, when we compare the prices ofour b
;, sincss with every thing else, there shol
ID not be paper in the State for less prir
3 than FIVE dollars por anlnm.
lie who drcqds giving light to people,
like u MN whD bIils a. house wIth0;
or windows, for fear of lightning.
Ii Whatevcra wam1n asserts you my !
well admit at once, fi,r she will never yiel
filthy friend is displeascd with thee q.
him an pportunity TO do thee a great fave
/, and he viii SION he reconniled.
', 10 abstain from small thing is moi
DIFF 'ult th7n to undertake a grcatone.
c. The cultivation nf The heart should
like that ofa gardon where wo prune Al
y weed before sc begin To plant.
81 S,mc men are lk9 the NJ rayians, wi
,fI m Ike garlens of their grlve-yar1s; nthe
i? like the ancient Jews, nlde gFave-yards
o their garlens.
% Religion and medicine are not rospoas
BILE f,r the faults and mistakes Of the
NJ doctors.
m Uucle John said littIe urchin to |