Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1845-06-05
VERY TRULY SAID.

taken charge Of the Stepbenville Herald and in
bis Introductory remarks, thus discourses. His
remarks are intended to be local, but they are az
applicable to other regions as his own:
ITO make himself useful, an editor
must not only have large number of
leaders, bat they must also be paying
ones. A large amount OF money is sent
out of the county Of Jefferson, annually,
for foreign papers, mostly calling them.
selves "Family Papers which but
little solid information is derived, and
which rarely contains any thing that con-
Germs the people OF our county or State.--
Such papers are afforded at low price,
for the reason that they are generally
made up out Of the old matter of the dsi.
lies, thrown together in kind of hotch
potch; they are then bazoned forth as
the "cheapest papers in the world" and
even some of orr western papers give
currency to this fraud, under the promise
of a free excBange--thai is, they adyer.
tise 10 the amount OF five or ten dollars
for the privilege Of creating rivals for
their own circulation, and the favor oil an
exchange Of papers!l 1t is thus that
many oil our western papers have been so
simple as to permit themselves to be ia.
ken in, and to be made the main instru-
meals in the circulation Of that foreign
trash. Because of the type having been
set up principally for daily papers, aud
from their immense circulation, those
weekly sheets can be offered at little
more than half the price Of the western
papers-hut thanks to the new post Office
law, this inequality Will be in great de-
gree, done away. After the first of July
next, all newspapers can be circulated
through thu pos; flee free of postage for
distance Of Thirty miles from the town
in which they are prlnted--lhus giving
an area of sixty miles within which news
papers can go free. The dollar paper, "
then, will cost when sent more than thr-
ty miles, 81 cents year postage. Then
il the western weekles could be afforded
Tor 81 so per annum, we would all be up.
on par. We doubt not but that il would
be more for the interest of the western
weekly papers to take that sum, il paid
strictly in advance and in money, than by
pursuing the present loose credit system,
and often taking trade at a disadvantage. "
The above is as true preaching, and we say
# those who send out of their own counties after
cheap pape,s would only bestow their patronage
on their own papers, it would show much more
liberal spirit, and be an improvement to both the
paper and the subscriber. We have been frequent
ly told by persons who subscribers of the che0r
papers away from home, that they have no OBJ
lection to our paper, but they get much more
reading matter in them than they do in ours, the
columns of which are partly occupied by advertise
ments Admit it is so-but suppose all who send
abroad for papers would patronse those near
home, how would the matter stand then. Had we
double many subscribers we have, and pune
tusIly paid up, might very easily afford to en-
large our paper and extend the reading space in
it's columns ant afford more important matter to
eur home readers than can be found in The large
weekies which are strung together every Saturday
night in the cities, We hope the new
| Post Office Law goes into operation. that sub
.cription list will improve considerably. No good
ciiizsa is too poor to take paper. and no man
who has family ought TO be without one in bis
] house We intend to make arrangements soon
as we can find a liule leisure visit the different
sections of the county, establish agencies where
those who may wish to paironize and sustain the
G zette can see eur terms and leave their names
| We will no. boa-t of what can do or viii do,
we say let friends procure us a thousand sub
,cribers aud we will snow them what can be nc
complished in Martn.burg in The way of News
paper.