The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1856-03-01
ST. JOHNSBURY MARKET.

Under the head of Markets We have COM
menced this week the publication of week
ly report Of the current price Of most of the
more prominent articles bought and sold in
THIS village. We hope the plan may prove
an acceptable one, not only to cur villagers.
but to the large producing interests OF this
and the mel ghboring towns. is. in fact of
more Importance to farmers living within
ten, twenty, or even thirty miles of ST. Johns
bury, to know at what price their saleable
commodities are held here, than TO know for
how much the same things can be sold in
Boston or New York. St. Johnsbury has
become by virtue ofits position, and the ex-
tent of its mercantile and manufacturing in
tcrests, the great market for North Eastern
Vermont 1t is here that the surplus pro-
duce of the adjoining fertile and weIl-culti-
waited region is chiefly consumed; and it is
to the prosperity and rapid increase of bust
ness and population in this village that the
agriculturalists in its vicinity are in great
measure indebted for the high prices they
have received in exchange for articles con-
sumed here.
Beyond doubt, St Johnsbury is the highest
market in Vermont There is not village
in the State of Vermont where the average.
value Of everything used as food for man and
beast rules higher than here. We will not
except even Burlington or Montpelier A
comparison of the prices current will show
this fact at glance From dozen of eggs
to cord of wood Or a ton of hay the price
has been % or 50 per cent. higher here than
in villages in the State Of twice its population.
This is an interesting fact to those who have
such things to sell, if not to those who buy
AS general rule. however, the latter class
ire not'much disposed to complain. They
know that the interests of community are
so interviewer that no class can thrive with
ont contributing something to the interest;
Of every other. II the carpenter pays the
farmer a high price for his years stock OF
wood, the farmer, in turn. has the means to
en"ag, :he carpenter to make new repairs
upon hi. buildings. The interest is mutual
and CT advantage to both The same is true
IN every department of business. and a COM
munity bound together by such reciprocity
OF trade will prosper. The laws which gov
crn such relations are sure in their onera-
ton. and cer'al to produce similar results
in like cases. All efforts to di>arran-e this
natural order are futile, and disastrous most
Of all TO those who seek to interrupt it.
In conversation with an intelligent gentle
man. formerly resident Of D.nvii!e. but for
several wears citizen of a distant State. he
remarked tina: never within his rcccollection
had the farmers of his native town added SO
much to their wealth in the same nuub,r of
Years as during the four wears last past. lie
could observe from riding along their farms
that they were in higher state of cultiva-
ton. the houses and ont buildings in better
repair. ami the whole face of the landscape
>o!trncd down into more cultivated and
rural aspect. >Eowin. a richer and more CON
tented population. We inquired what he
supposed had produced this effect H. sta
ted. III reply. that although the same thing
was observable to a certain extent in nan>
other places throughout the whole country.
and was to ~. ..t,:h"."| ~ ~"~"-., ~ 1t,
change was SO marked that il could be refer
red to nothing 80 truly as to the ;nvirora'inc
priced market in the immediate nrithhor
hood The same facts are Observable in al
ly the mutual dependence Of all the leadin .
interests of communitv upon each other -
They prove that there can be no conflict be-
tween the manufacturing and agricultural
pursuits without damage to both, and that
where perfect harmony sub>s,s between
them, the most rapid advance il wealth, and
the higher intellectual and moral advantages.
Is sure 10 follow.
- 1t is very probable that there NAV lie
inaccuracies and omissions IN the rry or. this
week. which will be rcmc.lied hereafter 1t
should also be borne in mind that AZ this sea-
sen of the year many articles are selling at
lower prices than at most others.
-Our Danviile ncighbors had a fine cx
hi'ition of fub'edur at the Court House last
Friday evening \ few of our citizens were
present and speak in high terms of the per-
formance. One of them has furnished us
the following classification of the scenes -
" The proposal" =" The sisters" THE Rep
The summer scene" Stealing
apples" good; Il" The Flower Girl" Lost
Glove" Jacob JONES'" Maid of the Rec;.
ment," number one Miss Lanc>ton shield
ing her father" g The will" The We'd
ding" A, number one Pocahontas res,u
in" Capt. Smith" A, number one, tip top. -
We do not precisely understand these several
degrees of excellence, but have no doubt all
the tabl,aur we're first rate The proceeds
Of the exhibition we're devoted to charitable
purposes. Why will not the performers re-
peat the exhibition at this place?
-"GREES MOUNTAIN" In one Of
The central Counties of Iowa-N1arshall Co.
"a town has been laid out within tie last