Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1866-01-03
cuRRrNr PRIcEs---MArTER FOX NE
ELECTION TO HOUsEKEEPERs'


We invite housekeepers, and citizens
generally who feel it necessity 10 econo-
mize in their daily outlay, to look care
fully at the comparative table oil prices
presented in our commercial columns TINS
morning A year ago we were i'. III ,r Tue
very heat and crisis of the rebellion nc
term of its duration was altogether uneer-
tain. The limits of the public debt were
not even within speculative reckoning
The ocean was secured by Anglo.reoei
nriyateers which had almost driven Amer
lean merchantmen from the great marine
highways. The certain rupture oil 'he
republic invited bets of ten to one against
us in the London and Liverpool and Paris
Exchange Rebel emissarles were admit
ted at various European courts on foot
ing practically, if not officially, on terms
of greater intimacy than the duly accrcd-
tied representatives of the United States.
Our paper currency had degenerated to
wildcat banking level. Gold was at 226;
aud the prospect on every hand was any
thing but consoling
Reasonable people at such crisis made
allowance for the disarrangement of trade;
for the highly speculative character OF al
most all commercial exchanges; and for
the uncertain character of market quota
tons generally.
But twelve months have sped over us
since then. There is neither rebellion
nor riot in all the borders of the land
The term of the rebellion, under favor
ing Providence and stout war,ike blows,
was measured and determined almost
within the first quarter of the year now
closing. The last pirate has been driven
from the ocean. The money changers Of
London, Paris and Liverpool have paid
their forfeited stakes. The emissales of
the confederacy are known abroad only
as needy spectators, with none of all
their former acquaintance so poor as to
give them even passing recognition Our
credit abroad has kept pace with the APP
probation of the currency at home. From
226, gold has declined to l45. We are at
peace with the entire outside world. And
to complete the grateful change, we have
reaped IA superabuudant harvest.
In view, then, of all these cheering facts,
why is it that it is fully as hard tor the
honest, hard working citizen to make both
ends meet, in the mere outlay for uecesSa
ries, as it was a year ago? The tables
which we publish to-day show that in
the great home com, orts Of tea, coffee, mo.
lasses, &C., there is no reduction of price
at all corresponding to the improved finan.
cial. political and social condition Of the
country. In the great necessaries Of -four
meat and butter there is nothing at all
like proportionate decrease either in the
wholesale or retail quotations while the
common article Of potatoes is fully as deal
to-day as it was at the close of last year.
In the dry goods market the same STIFF
ness of prices is observable, although
there is certain decline in cotton.
Going outside of the domestic expendi'
turc proper, look at the exorbitauce Of the
charges for hack conveyance alone. Ac'
commodation in this branch of business
which would cost $40 here, could be had
IN England and in most parts of Western
Europe for ten shiIlings sterling-or one
fourth the New York current rate. And
50 it is with nearl everything else in TIM
way Of nrcessaries, comforts or conven
igDces
The newspaper-at least such news
paper as the 7tmeS-is an exception. 1t
spite of the enormous price of paper ant
, printing materials; i'll spite of having t.
pay from rs to 100 per cent. more thai
formerly for all kinds of labor, in spit
of the heavy burdens of the internal rev
enue laws, aud the greatly enhanced valu
OF mere house accommodation, whetbe
represented in the interest on capital i'll
vested in buildings or in rents-the Time
to-day gives more than one-third addi
tional reading matter than it did yea
ago, at no additional cost to the pur
chaser.
In other words we have done what
equivalent to taking 80 per cent. off tn
retail price of this journal during sea
son when every other article of ordinar
commercial value asremained stationar
Or has been reduced by the meres
,, fraction.
In this. as in everything else tendin
toward practical reform, the press has t
: lead. If the press leads as it ought to dc
. it will bring about reform outside of i,
. own relations to the public. And to thi
= end We urge every housekccper to loo
carefully to the weekly hills. A Sigh
economy In the Article of butter, at tn
particular time. will bring the artic
. down 20 per cent within three week
: The coal-dealers are now trembling in e,
, cry fibre.
y The combination of plumbers can
checkmated, if the housekeepers will onl
combine in turn, and resolve to do wi,
s much less for limited period The On,