Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1817-09-29
From the Democratic Press.
NEWSPAPERS.

From me DtHoCfutN kitSS'
NEWSPAPERS.
From the Richmond Wiz Compi-
Ter. we learn the following curious
facts. In 1880 there was newsra-
per printed by Dickson and Nicolson'
al Williamsburg. then the seat OF TO-
yeru,uent for the State of Virginia.
The conditi u were consPicuously
placed at the SeaI Of the paper. and
run thus" All persons may be SUI
piled With this paper at FIFTY Dol
LARS a year. and hav" advertisements
Of moderate length. inserted t"r Ten
dullars the first week and seven dol
lars for each week affer."
That nothing may be wanting TO
excite interest in this arConnt.lt rs ad-
feh that the paper MAS published only
once a 1reekt Fifty doila 5 a year
for a weekly newspaper This Sih-
eular article induced us to turn TO
Thomas.s History of Printing in A
merica. a very curious book, to see
whether he had taken any notice oi
the facts mentioned. He mentions
no such firm as {" Dickson and Nicoi-
SON" but states that :. Clarkson and
Davis" began the publication OF
newspaper at Williamsburg in April
I77s. and were appointed printers to
the State in l-7e. Nothing was SAID
Of the terms Of the newspaper, but 1t
is stated that 50 early as 1886 news
vauer WAS established at Williams
burg. BY William Parks.
We arc led from the interest oil The
matter which presents itself. TO extend
this article so far as to make an ex-
tract from the work before us.
q" Sir VIM. Berkeley, Who was go
vernon of The colony (of virginia.
thirty eight years. in his eSrd az
swer to the enquiries Of the lords III
the council for the Colonies IN 1871,
81 wears after the settlement OF |ir-
ginis, saws i" | thank God We have not
/" free schools nor printing and
+. ho,e we shall not have these hun
:. dred years. For learning has bro't
Sc disobedience and heresy and sects
:. into the world, and printing has d.
{" vulsed them and libels against the
. government. God keep US from
l." bntb -" Lord Efingham,"hc was
appointed governor in 1888. was or
dered expressly " to allow no person
to use a printing press, on any coca
sion whatsoever" Mr.. Thomas DOES
not mention when the first printing
press was put up in Virginia, but
he states that so late as l776, +" there
vas but one printing bonse in the Co
lunv. and this was ihn'i 10 be too much
under the controul Of the Governor
Life, 10 be worthy Of rational be
ing, must BE- always in progression :;
We must always purpose to do more
and better than in time past.
Ofreal evils the number Is great !;
OF possible evils there is 10 end.
The desire Of fame nut regulated,
is as dangerous TO virtue as that Of
money.
Flash. light. and loud conversation
is often a cloak for cunning: as snowy
life. and a gay outside spread m" anu
then a thin covering over a'arfce ana
poSerty.
There arc few minds to which ty-
ranny is not delighted powrr Is no.
Thing but as il is felt and the denSht
of superiority is rroportionate To The
resistance overcome.
Old times have beqaeathed US pre-
cept, t. be merry and wise; but Who
has beeen able To observe III Pra-
dence suOn comes to spoil cur mir'h.
The advice that is commonly vel
come, and that which is not wanted IS
evidently Impairment