Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1837-1839, 1838-08-25


cation of your children, then, be your first
Common School Almanac.
The DEsrRoYER-* 1t is no long time
respected reader, since cammuned together.
Yet how many matters have happened since that
period, which should give pause and solemn
meditation! We still extant; the beams OF
our spirit still shine from eyes; vet there are
many, whn since last ny sentences camo 10 yours,
have dropped their lids forever upon things of this
earih.-Nlmberless ties have been severed; mum
berless hearts from their pantings--and sleep
no more fold The robe Ger sacred pam. All
the deceits-,he masks of lfe-a,e ended with
them. Policy more bids them TO kindc the
eve with decettui lnstrc; no more prompts to
semblance. which feeling condemns They are
rome! ashes To ashes, dust to dust;' aud when
think of the numbers, who thus pass away, | am
PANIED within me; for l know from them, that
life Is not only as a dream which passeih a.
way. but that the garniture. or the carnival oil II,
Is indeed vapor-sun-siit tor moment, then
colored with the dun hues OF death--oE stretching
It's dim folds afar, until their remosest outlines
catch the Imperishabie eternity. Sich Is lie;
made up of successful successless accidents;
its aud from the cradle TO the three
score-and-ten pushed about by Fate; not their
own; aspiring but impoient--imPeiled as by Wis
ions! and rapt in dream-which who can DIS
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
( Persons starting new papers III io"HS
generally labor under great error, to which
may chiefly be attributed those Intermittent COM
plants, and subsequent disasters, 50 generally ter
mnating IN their demise. We ailude to the low
price which they published This OF course
is engendered BY the unwlse economy aud sting
mess of those upon whom they should rely Tor
support Whilst anxious to have Il country
paper. such patrons eternally Insituting com
parsons between the dimensions, price, anu ex-
, ternal appearance of their domestic press, and
some Eastern mammoth, whose columns are well
filled 18th profitable advertisements, or whose ten
thousands of papers printed with materials
1 costing less than half of what they can be OBJ
r tanned for in tho west, besides being struck oil by
. the agency of steam, horse, or las is sometimes
' really the case) power, at very compara
, tive expense 1t may be laid down an axiom
that Just proportion as newspaper establish
ment is. from It's position, likely to be limited II
its circulation and mercantile and adv ertlsing pa
: ,ronage, the greater rs the necessity tor higt
terms of subscription; for it is ftct beyond dis
/. pute, that newspaper, Invested OF the KIND o
support above alluded to- sustain itself at tn
IS present low rates Of publication, in Indiana. Wit
t ali the neccssarlcs OF life uncommony high, an
without am correspondent advance in the pric
J. of newspapers, how can it be otherwise? y
e other mechanical pursuits, and even day laborers
e have Justly advanced their scale of charges
l. meet increasing outays. The printer alone
d either from fear of the circunyenting rivalry
E. opponents, from knowc ledge of the fact tina
s however valuable newspapers may be TO the wei
At boing of society, they are not like bread, indl
- pensible to e-dares not assert his claims II ad
ar an iota to his mornings at Il time when 1t must
~ evident to all his outgoings nearly doubled
n IVabash Courier.