Price of newspapers.
--The Southern Watchman puts up the following knock down argument in reference to the price of newspapers to which we invite the attention of all readers:‘ It is said that owing to the peculiar circumstances of the case it would now be unfair to take gold as a standard of value. Inasmuch as corn is the basis of our provision crop, let us try that as a standard. When we published our paper at $2, we could buy four bushels of corn for that amount. Our paper was therefore worth four bushels of corn. Four bushels of corn is now worth $12 in this market; and further up the country $20. Our paper is therefore worth $12 by the corn standard. It was formerly worth two bushels of wheat.--Wheat was selling here a few weeks ago at $12. Measured by the wheat standard, our paper is worth $24. A year's subscription to our paper would formerly buy ten pounds of sole leather, which, at present prices, amounts to $30. Our paper is therefore, measured by this standard, worth $30 per year. A year's subscription would formerly buy four yards of jeans, or sixteen yards of cotton homespun.--The four yards of jeans is worth $20, and the country homespun $24 at this time. According to this standard, our paper is now worth from $20 to $24. A year's subscription would formerly buy sixteen pounds of bacon, which will now cost $16 or upwards. Hence our paper is worth $16 by the bacon standard. We might thus go on ad infinitum, in every case, that to bring newspapers to a level with everything else could fix their price at from $12 to $20 per year.
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