Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1843-09-08
VOL.-X. NO. 2.
AN INTERESTING DIALOGUE.
DON'T FAIL no READ 1T.

AN INTERESTING DIALOGUE.
DON'T FAIL TO READ IT.
The following dialogue is copied from
the Mills Point Herald. 1t is suited to ey-
cry meridian, and by the substitution of Me-
chanIc, Merchant, Lawyer, Doctor, &c. is
adapted to all the various classes in the COM
munlty -
Farmer-Good morning Mr.. Editor. I
wish you'd give me paper, want to see
the news.
Editor.-With pleasure; here is one Just
from the press. What have you in that bas-
ket2
Farmer have some fresh butter, eggs,
aud about gallon of raspberries which |
have brought 10 market.
Editor-Well, neighbor Snobs, am glad
that am out OF butter please give me
pound or tDo, il you can spare it.
Farmer-You can have it all at a bit a
pound.
Editor.-Very true, but ] gaze you news
paper at your request tnrn about is fair
play you know; now / want you 10 give me
some butter
Farmer.-But I have brought that butter
to sell.
Editor.-We too publish our paper TO SELL
by our labors we live, and if you Farmers
will not support us, we cannot buy your
marketing. We cannot afford to give pa
pers away
Farmer.-But / only asked for paper.
and that is not much you know; you will
not miss that.
Editor.-I asked you only for pound or
two Of butter, and that is not much YOU
know.
Farmer.-Yes, that's all very true and if
| should give you my butter, every body else
would want TO get it on the same terms. and
couldn't sell any more to any person.
Edltor.-Exactly, Farmer Snobs, now
have brought you to the very point, l wish
you to understand: it is true, one newspa-
per is of but trilng value, but let an editor
get in the habit of giving his papers away to
Tom, Dick, and Harry, whenever called on,
who will be fool enough to pay for what 9th
ers get gratis ?-besidcs, il is morally wrong
TO make paying subscribers pay for the pa
pers thus wasted upon persons who refuse to
contribute one cent to the sustainment of the
public press. We therefore feel it our duty
to inform you, neighbor Snobs, that we do
not giUe papers away-if our paper is not
worth buying, it is not worth reading.
Eloquent E1tract-"Generatio after
generation" says an eloquent writer, shave
felt as we feel, and their fellows were as ac-
tive in life as ours now. They passed away
IN vapor, while nature wore the same as
pect Of beauty as when her Creator COM
manded her TO be. And so likewise shall il
be when we are gone. The heavens shall
be as bright over our graves as iheyfare now
around our path; the world will have the
same attraction for offspring yet unborn that
she had once for ourselves, and that she has
now for our children. Yet little while and
all this will have happened The throbbing
heart will be stlled and shall be at rest
Our funeral will wind on its way, and the
prayers will be said, and the grave clods will
be thrown in, and our friends will all return.
and we shall be left behind TO darkness and
the worm. And il may be for some short
time that we shall be spoken of, but the things
of life will creep in, and our names will soon
be forgotten. Days will continue to move
on, and laughter and song will be heard in
the very chamber in which we died and the
eye that mourned for us will be dried and
glisten again with Joy; and even our chill
dren will cease to think of MS, and will not
remember to lisp our names. Then shall
we have become in the touching language of
the Psalmist, forgotten and clean out of
mind"
Governor Van Nesss Aceounts.-It gives
us great pleasure TO be able to announce to
the friends Of Ex-Governor Van Ness, and TO
the public, from an authentic source, that
his accounts have been adjusted with the
United States Government, and a handsome
balance found his due. An able report was
made to Congress last year, drawn up by the
Hon. John O. Adams, one of the committee
to whom the subject of Governor Van Ness's
accounts with the Government was referred:
and they were liquidated upon the principles
laid down in that clear, able and lucid re-
port PlattsJurgh Republican.
Arrest Of an A5olitionist in Maryland.--
We learn from the Cumberland Civilian,
that William Wall, an Englishman by birth,
but recently of Bucks county, Pa. was ar
rested on Monday last at camp meeting
near Eyerstine's, in Allegheny county, char
ged with disseminating incendiary publica-
tons and inhaming and exciting the slaves
against their masters, On Tuesday he was
brought before Justice Fehctig, and exami-
nation was committed, in default of bail, to
answer for the felony at the next term of the
Allegheny county Court.-Bah Clipper.
Cabbage Lice.-The Southern Planter
says that Mr. ]. G. Burton, of Henrico, has