The National Republican And Ohio Political Register

N. Y. Enquirer.

We are pleased to observe that, in many places, our brother editors are manifesting a disposition to assert their rights, and endeavor to obtain compensation, or at least a promise (which, alas! is too often their only reward) of compensation for their services. At Baltimore, Harrisburg, and other places, the several editors have mutually entered into an agreement to charge for all notices, hymeneal and obituary only excepted. This is as it should be. In publishing notices for societies, military companies, &c. without charge, the printer does himself manifest injustice; he is not excused, in consequence of these unrequited services, from paying his due proportion of the expenses of any society to which he may be attached—if collections are to be made, for charitable or other purposes, he is expected to contribute as much as his neighbor—and if he fails to attend a volunteer or militia parade, he is subjected to the same penalties that other individuals are. Why, then, should he, and he alone, be called upon to render gratuitous services to such societies and companies? We hope the determination to charge for these publications will become general.

West-Chester Republican.