The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1838-02-16
From tie Raleigh Register.
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.

The Printing Office Of the g NATIONAL
lNTELLIGENcER IS, perhaps, at this mo
nent, the largest in the United States, and
SO far exceeds any calculation which even a
practical Printer would, without seeing 1t, be
likely to make OF its extent, that we shall
perhaps crafty our readers by publishing
the following particulars from a Meinoran.
dun furnished By freud who has visited
that Establishment within the last week:
"The NATIONAL ISTELLIGENcER, though it
employs ess than one. fourth Of the whole manual
ana mechanical force VI too Office in which il is
pflnted, is the soul Of the establishment, AID has
never been al prosperous as il hoW is. The nun.
Der printed of the Daily paper (33 quires Of paper
il ,qJ2; and, the number printed Of the thrioe-a.
week paper 800 quires) is 7.201-making the
~hols number Of % pers issued Oh the alternate
days 3 ,l92-tne whole nnnber pfluted per week,
1859. Some deduction must be made from this
number for wasage and for the free exchange list.
The aggregate number Of SnbscrIb to the Dali
Il and Country paper may, sller all necessary de-
ductions be stated at this lime at ., 750--nearly
double Of what IL amounted 70 al any period PRIOR
10 the year 1888 Il is larger by few hundred,
81 course, during tn Sf4slnn OF Congress, when
additional copies aTs taken By members ct the Ma
.Ion4 aud State Legislatures, thaa It is in lac
| SGmmer seatoa
/ Around the National Irtelligencef, howe ever, has
2rswn up WORKSHOP Of Printing machinery and
| materials, capabls II executing greater ainouat
). work IA thai Office, alone, taan foEty years age
could have been executed III I'll the Printing OH
| ces Of the United Stalee together and sbleh Is
| usw pretty busily employed lnasmuch as, besides
several other works carrying on there, the Print.
ing Of the il0use OF Representatives is executed 10
lRat Office for Nj. Alien, Of the NJ ldisonian, "
| the Public Phi ter. The number Of ps sons, v HON
our infofnsnt saw actually oploye thsre tla.
Guiding the Bindery attached TO tie Otfics) was
| ABOUT two huhered, of whom about fifty are fe-
! males--loldefs. sewers, &c.-Rho thus earn q
living by employment comparatively easy and
grateful to them The amount Of wages alone,
paid IN this establishment reeklg, now exceeds
81, 500. The Presses, all OF which are showed by
| Sieamposer, except two or three hand Presses
seldom called into use at sll,} consist OF ore deu.
| he-c hinder Napier Press, two singie.cylhoer
! Presses, two ADAMS Presses md iouf Treldweil
| Presses the whole, capable OF prntIs per day
Grating Ten hours TO the day 320 tokens, each To-
kea containing 1I0 sheets and are c3pabil. when
all al full work, Of using up paper 10 the amount
Of 500 Reams per week. As, howe ali but the
| Treadweil Presses are a6spted 10 double Royal
size, the consumption of paper Of the usual size,
| (.inge Roya,) Of which they ara capsule, per
week, would be- absut 800 Reams, OF course, We
must be understood as speaking OF the quantity Of
~ork which the Presses can be made TO turn oct
and mol of what they hshltualIy exscute--sueh
masses of Printing beng rarel, required to be exc
cutsd Within so laited time as ia call tor thsil
employment 10 the fu. extent of their capacity.