Monongalia mirror. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1855, 1854-01-21
Posing Cooks.

Posting Books.
We hove been vigorously engaged, during
The las, two weeks, in posting up our books,
zha preparing fora general settlement Of our
nccosn,U lo the end Of the year. II is high
time, we GNd, tibet this matter wss attended
TO, for there ste scores Of subscribers on our
list WHO are indebted fot Two, THREE, oa
TovR YEARS, and are now making rather o
hazardous experiment upon our PATIENCE
The fac: Is, we MUST HAVE MONEY, or
oar credit will be sorcly impaired.
C-Y- Subscribers are earnestly requested
!" send us The amount due, or a; least pot.
ion Of it, BY Mail or otherwise, without DO
lly. Those who do so will only be charged
~ 81 50 q yuar,-but il we arc obliged to
hire 4 Collector to ride over the country, or
10 cue out our claims, and run the risk Of
paying costs in hopeless cases, we shall be
under the necessity Of charging 50 90 per
annum, according 10 our standing terms
Those, therefore, who owe Sc 90, for three
years, may get receipt in full by paying
81 so down, and thus save 81 so TO buy a
dress for wife or daughter. Please consider
us in earnest, and very needy! Listen to
facts. u We do not receive money
cnoxgi frOm our snJscri6ers to meet cur
rent rzpensrs, aud are consequently
obliged 10 borrop money, or procure
paper on credit, and pay interest for it
while ,hore are several thousands OF
dollars fairly due to US on subscription,
Now, probably you, dear sir, who
are reading this paragraph, have never
once thought that your laborious friend
the Editor. is actually paying interest
on The money you QUE him and at the
same time using his best cxer,ions, by
day and night, to produce paper that
willboth entertain and profit you.
The credit system is the 5aHe of the
Newspaper Press. 1t has killed many
a good paper outright, and is constant
ly Gripping many more. The follow
ing article is directly to the point We
clip i, from Que of our exchanges
TaE CASH SYSTEM IN THE NEwspA.
PER BusIyEss.-The Rev. MIR. Patton,
Of Hartford, who contributes articles
for the New England Religious Her
ala, makes public the following; we
theeriully endorse it, and pass it over to
our readers:
AZ, is our personal opinion that no
newspaper should be sent on credit
Advance paymen, is the only reasona'
sle plan, and to that it will sooner or
later come. If no man is allowed to
,rsysl on a ra;lcar, steamboat, or COACH
mr. to enter concert room or any other
nublic exhibition, without first paying
the stipulated price, much more should
subscribers scattered all over the coun'
,ry. and owing ore or TWO dollars each
for a paper, be required to pay the cash
down"
I.is probable that few persons living
have had more ample or trying exPs'
rience on this subject than the Editor
Of this paper. We commenced bus''
ness "on our own hook," about A. D.
is2o; and with two or three short IN
,sryals OF rest, at tho pillow or in pas'o'
rate, have been making newspapers eT'
ar since. Most Of this time has beon
spent in wealthy communities, US in
Chester, Westmoreland and Greene
counties, in Pennsylyania--,he hrst ma
med Of which is considered the "gar'
don" Of tho Keystone State; aud yet
under ,hesc favorable circumstances
our books show Tor rather ooal2 show
II we had not long since thrown them
aside in di,g4,.,) balances due to US for
labor earnestly and consciensiously OK,
yended, of not con, less than fire tAon'
sand Goiigtsi Now this sum, it we
had it. would contribute not a little to
o,,r comlortin advancing age and amidst
growing infrrni,ies. 1t is irrc,rievably
cone, however, and we have beer s~in'
llsa cut Of It. by those protesting to be
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