New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-07-29

Providence journal thus narrates q WISH W ene
Office of the great English newspaper:
Among many other famous places in London,
have visited the Office of the London Times. 10
view the establishment, application must be
made by letter to the manager. rms GUS
patched, q reply was promptly received oy posi-,
and on the card was named the hour when the
presses could be seen in motion. Mr. Apple
garth, brother of the inventor OF the press
there used, and for many years superintendent
of the machinery, very amlabie gentleman,
conducted me through the various departments,
freely answering inquiries, and explaining every
thing as we went along. Some idea of the re-
sources and extent Of the Times Office may be
had from the single fact that upwards Of $500,
600 are paid to the Government annually for
stamps, d penny, or two cents, being paid on
each number of the paper issued The daily
circulation is 1000 copies, each number, in
GLIDING the supplement, containing sixteen
pages. Two hundred reams of paper are used
every day, each weighing from eighty-six to
eighty eight pounds, making in all from eight
to nine tons. The quality of the paper every
one knows who has read the Times Each sheet
costs the publishers q penny and halt, or three
cents, before it is printed. One Of the presses
was put in motion at o'clock, P. NJ, to print an
edition to be sent off by mail an hour later.
Twenty men were employed on the press, part of
them above in gallery to supply paper, and
part below to receive the printed sheets as they
came out. The noise Of the machinery was SO
great that it was difficult in conversation to be
heard. The number printed an hour is 10000.
By holding watch and counting, discov-
cred that each man received from twenty two to
twenty -four q minute Now and then sheet
with an imperfect impression would be hastily
thrown out by one of the sharp-eyed men below,
and once or twice, at the stroke Of bell, all
the wheels stopped, and the great machine
rested for moment, then at another signal
commenced the stunning clatter again. / was
shown the vaults where the large stock of paper
is kept. So much is now used that the supply is
sometimes short Of the demand, and the price is
much advanced. For some time an advertise
ment has been standing in the columns of the
Times offering reward of $4,000 for the discov-
cry of substitute for rags in the manufacture
of paper. This offer is made by the proprietor
of the Times. / believe the man has never been
met who has seen the editor Of the Times, but
am convinced that there is such parsonage, for
/ have heard his name pronounced and been
shown his room and chair. The editing of the
paper is carried on within the publication build
ing to q greater extent than has been stated.
There are convenient rooms fitted up for the
purpose, and also for the use of reporters.
During the sessions of Parliament large num-
Der of skillful reporters are employed. These
are relieved every half hour, and are conveyed
to and from the office to the Legislative place in
cabs, no one remaining on duty longer than the
prescribed time. In viewing an establishment
like that Of the Times, and rejecting upon the
vast influence it exerts, one cannot but be filled
with wonder and awe.
MOBILE AND GIRARD RArLRoAD-On Thurs
day morning, by invitation of Geo. S. Runey,
6o1,, by,o
the river to enjoy the first ride upon the Mobile
and Girard Railroad. Arrived on the ground,
we were pleased to find the g Chunneynuggee,"
an engine Of eighteen tons, on the track, fired
up and ready for the race We ran out mile
and a quarter and returned, much pleased with
the excursion, and in higher hopes of seeing
this great enterprise completed than we have
ever been. The track will be laid to Colbert,
distance of twenty-five and half miles, by the
18th of October The iron weighs so pounds to
the yard, and the track is SO well laid, under
the supervision of Col. Pillsbury, that the cars
run over it with great smoothness When
finished, the Mobile and Girard Railroad will
be one Of the best roads in the South, and, con-
shutting the only connecting link between the
Atlantic and the Gulf, must be the best railroad
stock in the world
CoTToN MANUFACTURES IN THE UNITED STATES.
II appears by the last census that there are in
the United States one thousand and ninety
four establishments in operation manufacturing
cotton that the capital invested is seventy six
millions Of dollars; that they consume six hun
bred and forty-one thousand bales of cotton;
that the value of the raw material is thirty
four millions of dollars; that the number Of
males employed in them is thirtythree thou
sand, the number of females fifty nine thousand,
and the value of the entire products of the es-
Establishments, sixty-one millions eight hundred
Thousand dollars; that as to the value Of the
products they stand thus: Massachusetts, nine
teen and half millions; New Hampshire,
eight and half millions; Rhode Island, six
aud half millions; Connecticut, four and
quarter millions; New York, three and quar-
ter millions; Pennsylvania, five and quarter
Maine, two and q halfm millions; Geor-
gia and Maryland, two millions each; Virginia,
one and half millions New Jersey, one mil
lion; Delaware and Tennessee, half million
each; Ohio, four hundred thousand dollars;
North Carolina, eight hundred thousand dol
lars; South Carolina, seven hundred thousand
dollars; Alabama, three hundred and seventy
thousand dollars; and Kentucky, two hundred
and seventy thousand dollars. These are ex-
pressed in round numbers, and are sufficiently
accurate to show the relative amount of revenue
derived in several States from the manufacture
of cotton, beginning with the highest ON the list
tMassachusetts) and coming down. We had
not been aware of the fact that Ohio and Ken
lucky stood SO low in the scale of manufactu-
ring
ENGRAVING ON SoAP-An artist of Sheffield,
England, it is said, has discovered that soap is
an excellent substitute for wood in engraving.
A drawing may be executed with hard point
on a smooth piece of soap, almost as readily, as
freely, and in as short time as an ordinary
drawing with lead pencil Every touch thus
produced is clear, sharp and well defined.
When the drawing is finished, a cast may be la
ken from the surface in plaster or better still,
by pressing the soap firmly into heated gutta
percha. In gutta percha several impressions
may be taken without ipjuring the soap, SO as
to admit of 'sproofs" being taken and correc-
tions made, o very valuable and practical good
quality in soap.
RINGs.-A ring, when used by the Church,
signifies, to use the words Of the iturgcal wri-
ter, integritatem fdei, the perfection Of fidelity
Its form having no beginning, no end, is the
emblem Of eternity, constaney, integrity, fidel-
ity, etc., so that the wedding ring symbolizes
the eternal or entire fidelity the wife pledges to
her husband, and she wears the ring as the
badge of this fidelity. Its office, then, is to
teach and perpetually remind her of the fidelity
she owes to her husband, and swore to him at
the marriage ceremony
HIGH FALuTIN lin the late message Of Gov.
Baker, of New Hampshire, referring to the Ma
tional Administration, he speaks in such high
terms of the same that he employs the adjective
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