Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-10-02
ALEXANDRIA,:
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1918.

ALEXANDRIA,:
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1918.
Maj. Gen. Gaines passed thro' this place
yesterday, on his way TO Georgia. The
general is Immediately from Pensacola,
and informs us that the utmost harmony ex-
listed among every class Of citizens at that
place that so far from murmuring, the
Spaniar1s who remained, found no fault
whatever with the authority established BY
Gen. Jackson, and that an instance had
not occurred in which deviation had ia
ken place from the true intent and meaning
Of the articles of capiiulation entered into
and ratified between Gen. jackson and
Don Masot, the late governor of that place
[S. Stephens Halcycn.
We understand that three companies OF
mounted men, to vii one under the I'M
mediate command of captain William r.
Ware, !. no will have the direction OF the
whole one under captain M'Girt, and the
third under captain Boyle, consisting OF 3
and 400, are ordered to rendezvous at Clai-
borne in few days, to scout the country
| from that place to Fort Jackson, and II pos
sible> destroy party Of out lying Indians
who iniest the road more for the object OF
plumber than from disposition 10 commit
murder. 1t is pretty well ascertsined that
the Indians in East Florida are now dis
posed for peace, and that il only remains
to break up the horde which frequent the
road between this and Georgia, and wi ich
we understand has never attached itself to
| any party, but continued p!undering during
the short interval OF peace which took place
after the late British war, TO put termina-
ton to our trouble with the sayagcs in this
quarter. Ibid.
The following account OF some important
Improvements in the art OF printing. is from
the patenlee, Mr.. T. c. Harsard, Of Lon
don. IN. York Daily .4dvertiser.
g The operation consists in the working
off both forms Cor s!des) of (single) sheet
at one time, and with one impression, upon
papers OF double size, viz. double royal,
deny, crown, post, fooIscap, &c. by the
means of printing press Of adequate d.
meusions and by the same action, without
any increase OF labor, time or motion, at
the moment the impression is given, it IS
divided into the usua! size oil single royal,
deny, &c. ana this with such undeviated
precision OF The line parallel 70 the pages,
as no cutting by the most careful hand Can
ever al;alnt 10. The apparatus may be fixed
al pleasure 10 a common royal size press,
which may thus, upon the same principle,
be made TO work (and cut double fools
cap: the divisions may be carried still fur
Their for cutting INTO three, four, six, eight,
&c. parts.
Another most important benefit gained
by this plan, is that the work will admit OF
every graduation ans quality of printing
with proportional degree of saving from
the mos, economical to the most splcn-
did, in paper, INK and workmanship and
that al no greater risk ofmaking waste pa
per, spelling the work, or giving shorl num-
bers, than the usual mode of the best press
work.
The saving in the article OF press-work,
is computed to be, upon deny, crown, &c.
from twenty to twenty-five per cent. upoI
toolscap, from thirty TO forty per cent.
Another improvement, worthy O. atten-
ton, is the patent Stereotype Pale Riser.
The paten! embraces some material i'm
provements in The mode of blocking, or
mounting stereotype plates 10 the necessary
height for printing, by materials which can
be instantly adapted either to the smallest
or largest pages required: and which, al
though of little weight. will from their con-
struciion, eflectually resist all pressure that
can possibly be applied, that (supposing
the plate once made perfect in uniform
thickness no possibility remains of one part
ever printing fainter than another from any
defect in the mounting which is the usual
case when wood (Which will alternately
expand or contract as more or less subjected
TO mosturej forms any material part OF The
apparatus. The profession will be suppl
ed with this article of my patent, indepen-
dent Of the foregoing, at a triAing expense
whom compared with that Of nrncurino tho