Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-09-25
A Storm Of Newspapers.

II was n quarter before six o'clock when
they crossed the hall-six being the latest
hour at which the newspapers can he posted
without fee. Ii was Just then drizzling
newspapers. The great window OF the de-
partrnent being thrown open, the first black
| fringe of lhunder-cloud of newspapers
! impending over the Post-oflice was disclIar-
ging itself fitfully-now in large drops, now
| in littlo; now in sudden plumps, now stop
ping altogether by degrees the storm came
on harder aud harder, until il blew, rained,
hailed, showed newspapers. A fountain OF
newspapers played in at the window; water
spouis of newspapers broke from the enor-
nous sacks and ingulphed the men inside.
A prodgious main of newspapers at the
newspaper river head seemed to me to be
turned on, threatening destruction TO the
miserable Post office. The Post-oflice was
so full already, that the window ioamed at
the mouth with newspapers. Newspapers
flew ont like froth and were tumbled in
again hy the bystauders. All the boys in
London seemed TO have gone nInd, and TO
he beseiging the Post-oflce with newspa-
pcrs. Now aud then there was girl now
and then woman; now and then weak
old mnn; but as the minute hand of the
clock crept near to six such torrent of boys
and sucll a torrent of newspapers, came
tumbing in together pell nell, head over
heels, one above another, that the gddy head
looking on chiefly wondered why the boys
sprngiug over one nnoiher's heads and fly
ing the garer into the Post-ofiice, with The
enthusiasm OF the corps of scrobais at Nj,
Franconis didn't post themselves nightly
along with the newspapers, and get delivered
all over the world. Suddenly il struck six
| - Ill al.
Nobody there. No token of the late storm
not a soul to late! But what chaos
within. Men up to the knees in newspapers
on great platforms; men gardening among
newspapers with rHkes; men digging and
) delviug among newspapers as if new DIES
criptiOn of rock had been blasted into those
fragments; men going up and down n gigan'
tic trap-an ascending aud descending room
worked by n steam engine-still taking will
: them nothing but ncwspnpcrs All the his
tory of the lime, all the chronicled births
denlhs and marriages, all the crimes all the
vnnilies, all the changes all the realities, q
all the civilized earth, heaped up, parcelled
out, carried about, knocked down, cut
shuflled, dealt, played, gathered up again
and passed from hand TO hand, in an appar
emily interminable confusion, but really in
system of admirable order, certainty, anC
simplicity, pursued six nights every week al
through the rolling year! Which of us aiiel
this, shall find with the rather more exlen
sive system OF good'nnd evil when we dom
quite understand it at a glance or set tie
stars in their spheres? The friends wer,
Informed that 100000 newspapers passc,
through all the Post-oflices every year.
Upwards of 100000 newspaper stamp,
nre distributed annually from The Stamn. .of
fee; but most of the London papers ar,
conveyed into The country by the earl trims
On the other hand, frequently the same pa
per passes through the post several times
which accounts for the small excess of 10,
000,000 stamps issued over papers posted.-
In weight, le7 tons of paper and print pas
up and down the ingenious Z" lift" ever,
week and thence to the uttermost corners O
the carth-irom Blacklriars to Botany Bay
and the Strand TO Chusan.-Dicken's House
hold Words.