The Northern star, and constitutionalist. [volume] (Warren, R.I.) 1834-1837, 1835-10-10
THE PRESS.

I THE PRESS
We cannot better illustrate one of the causes of
the rapid advancement which has been made with
| in Few years in the various branches Of morals,
than BY drawing aside the curtain and disclosing
| Wharf.-The Press is doing in one branch--that of
Temperance. We shall look only into one Of
fee, thyt OF the Temperance Recorder in Alba
ny. Sixty workmen are there constantly employ
ed--six presses are kept in operation by steam,
and six by hand power. These are in constant
operation, and every working minute in the year
are throwing out tWenty copies Of some Tom
persnce pub.ication--each one intended to 10
forth a6'fdo its work in the public renovation
1t ssnot Surprising that any hydra, either in the
meral or political world, upon which the Press can
be hought to bear, is more easily vanquished now
than in former times-for the sirty Printers
employed in the Office 10 which we have Just re-
ferred, exert greater influence on the public
mind, Than si1iy thousand scribes with their
greatest industry, possibly could have exerted 500
| ysars since.
The office Of the Harpers, in New York, gives
employment TO l40 persons. They print on an
average an edition Of books Of the Family Library
size, every day in the year. Their expenses are
about three hundred dollars per day.
We do net speak Of this establishment as stand
ing forth above every other we do not know but
more extensive ones arc in operation in our coun-
try. Al Brattleborough, in the state Of Vermont,
is one whehis deserving notice. The printing
establishment of Messrs Fessendens, keeps in ope-
ration seven OF eight power presses, printing not
far from twenty thousand sheets Of paper per day.
Connected with the estab ishment is paper mill
at one end and book bindery at the other, SO
that (like the clirysal is changing Of vile cater
pillar to beautiful buttertly,) what enters at one
end ,sthe cast off covering Of the human body, is
BY Irregular aud rapid process brought out at the
other extremity beautiful paper fine printed and
bound-a material for permanent dress Of the
immortal mind So rapid is the process by which
paper can be made by the power OF steam, thai
rags have been received al that mill in the morn
ing, manufactured into paper and printed before
night The Comprehensise Commentary il
now printing at that establishment. When it is
| completed, il will have consumed fifteen thou
sand reams ofppper. Think not that the woolen'
or the cotton manufactures are the only ones for
whose benefits sheep are raised, or cotton i'm
ported Tor this one work will use up the amount
Of thousand bales of cotton in paper-and will
require the skins Of sirty thousand sheep for its
binding.
THE GRAND Duke CONSTANTINE AND
HIS WIrE.--N Three or four times week
l received o(:Asnands to attend his levee,
and n6t uiafequently to breakfast-a
meal which he commonly took at about
1 / O'Clock in the day. On these occa-
sions he seemed 10 take considerable
pleasure in all could tell him of Eng
land and its modes and customs--its arm
v, its capital, and its domestic and COM
mercia resources. If on some of these
subjects confessed my ignorance, he
would eye me with doubling and sus-
piclous glance, urge nae again and again
on the same point, as if he thought l was
unwilling to explain, or expressly reserv-
ed that of which confess was utterly
ignorant or he would dash up in tower
lug passion, break into some incorporate
expressions, and declare that ought to
be ashamed ofmyself not to be acquaut-
ed with statistics, which even foreigners
knew well. In these sudden and unfore-
seen excesses of passion, he was with dii-
ficulty pacifed-a task upon which new
er dared venture-I could only look on
and listen in silence i; but if his elegant
and amiable Princess was present, as was
not unfrequently the case, her graceful
tenderness and endearments claimed
down the storm /: she patted him like a
froward child, and with doubling pause
or half f-huttered growl his good humor
returned. This charming and accom-
plished creature was his wife by one of
those lelt-handed marriages so common
and vel! understood among the German
Princes, it was always matter OF sur
prise to me by what strange freak of des-
tiny being so mild and gentle in man
ners, SO graceful, so tender, and amiable
in all the acts and movements Of her life,
could have been linked 10 such mon
ster and what. seems stranger still, she
loved him, and thence perhaps, the secret
| of her influence. have seen him often
playing with her long ringlets, or fondling
in his great paw the pretliest and whtest
hand in the world, or kissing his hand TO
her at a window with all air that actually
approached 10 tenderness. She, indeed,
was the only person who possessed any
real influence over his mind, and her gen.
lie ways could soo.he the wild beast in
his angriest moods she would follow him
as he stamped about the room she ex-
postulated, she wheedled, she caressed
she would try with tear in her eye to
make him laugh and it would seem that,
almost in spite of himself, the smile she
sought SO anxiously came at her bidding:
he would look into her eyes, kiss her lit
tie hand, and seat himself again without
another alluson to the cause Of the cx-
plosion. lie seemed almost to encourage
her interference, and he played with her
as child would with doll but she was
plaything with which he never quarrel