Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1853-12-15
The Newspaper Press.

" 0"auhSSl'iuS sermon IN |
Philadelphia, November oath, and
had for his subject, "The News paper
Press. It is a somewhat novel;
subject, but was handled exceeding
ly well by the speaker. The sermon
is published in the Philadelphia
Evening Bulletin, and we should with
pleasure transfer it to our columns,
had we roOm--we make an extract.
however:
The first newspaper published in
England, that could properly be SO
called was entitled the Public Intel
ligencer, esta blished by Sir Roger
l. Estrange, and issued in the year
1868 only one hundred and ninety
years ago. The first newspaper pub
.lished in America was the Boston
News Letter, issued in 1904 = one
hundred afd lorty-nine years ago =
The second was the Boston Gazette,
issued in17l9-fftee en- years lal er.
The very next day appeared the
third -ond hundred and thiIty-fbur
years ago. The FIRST number of that
paper is ndw in the Philadelphia III.
brary, for| THE amusement Of the Gu
rlous- ltIcontrasts strangely with
the pewsHapers Of to-day consist
ing Us it does, of but one leaf, and
that the precise size OF a half fools
cap sheet Its whole contents are
Sscraps of European intelligence,
then a mdnth Old, a price current, in
Guiding about twelve articles for do.
mestic CONSUMPTION, a shipping list,
and one advertisement all of which
was furnished for ten English shil-
llngs a year, by Andrew Bradford,
printer and publisher Whether
there were any grave questions Of
national Or municipal interest agfta
ting the public mind at that period
whether there was anything of ludi-
crous incident or distressing casualty
whether the good people of PhiL,-
delphia married OF died in those days,
the Weekly Mercury does. not inform
US. We are only left to infer, that,
as the constitution OF man and Of
society, was hon essentially the same
that it is now, human life was SINH
lar varied experience or struggles,
successes, disappointments, hopes,
fears, sorrows and joys.
In December of the year 1928,
Samuel Kelmer commenced the pub
lication of n rival newspaper, called
the Pennsylvania Gazette. Nine
months afterward, the Gazette passed
into the hands of Benjamin Frank
lin and II Meredith On taking
the editorial chair, Franklin address
cd his subscribers in somewhat
quaint, but modest, and Of course,
sensible manner, The following ex- .
tract will serve as specimen: "There
are many who have long desired to
see a GOOD Newspaper in Pennsylva-
MIA, and we hope those gentlemen
who are able will contribute towards
the making this such. we ask as
sistance, because we are fully sensi-
bic that to publish good Newspa-
per is not SO easy an unde rtaking as
many people imagine it to be. The
author Of a Gazette Gin the opinion
of the learned) ought to be qualified
With an extensive acquaintance with
languages, a great easiness and com
mand of writing and relating things
clearly and intelligibly, and in few
words; be sh Guild be able to speak Of ;;
var both by laud and by sea; be we'll
lcqupinted with geography, with the
history Of the times, with the several i
interests Of princes and states, the !
secrets of courts, aud the manners
md customs of all nations. Men
.hus ACCOMPLISHED are very rare in
his remote part Of the world; and it
WOULD lie we'll if the writer of these 7
,apers could make up among his I
riends what is wantingin himself |
Franklin continued to be the edi- b
or and publisher Of The Gazette for Q
years L that is, till the
ear 1865, when, in consequence Of a
he Stamp Act, the Gazette was sus-
ended for d month, and was after
Iards rosuscitated by other men.
AN INFER EscE,--Ae Georgia editor \