Demoine courier., 1855-02-08
From the Muscatine Journal.
Three Cheers for BeardSley.

Who is Beardsley! And what is the
cheering about? the curious reader will
like - know. BE patient awhile and
we will explain.
Paper Is abominabIy scarce. The
Jackson, lille Press IN to US this week
upon a mere slip Of paper. the editor
having sent all the way To Galena for
paper without success. No paper can
be had this eide of Chicago, and il is
doubtful il II can he had there. The ed
Tor Of the Wapello IntellIgencer was in
our office last week trying to borrow pa
per. but we had only the week before
been up to the Moline Mills. bought all
The manufacturer could spare, tried TO
borrow more in misrepresentation
got upset in the stage-coule home with
a broken head and four bundles Of pa
rer. Last Friday we wrote to the Mo
line Manufacturer. peli,ioning him, ''for
II ercy's sake TO send US some paper
our regular size, or a smaller size-any-
thing to print on-probably we shall get
IL, probably not. Every once in i while
a paper comes with an apology for print
ing on a reduced size.
Amid all this general distress in the
newspaper world, ONE the giad news
that an enterprising genius, of N. York,
has invented a method Of making paper
of bass wood (Lynn.( We are pari'cu-
larry pleased with this invention, mas,
much as the manufacturers have lately
been putting up the price on US, and ev-
cry day rags seem TO be growing scarcer.
They are now Two cents and a half a
pound, while Mr.. Beardsley says he can
sell his material after il has been reduced
~ a pulp. a: two cents a pound. Mr..
Beardsley ,..however. is not the first man-
ufaclurer of paper from this substance.
From time further back than the memo
ry of man. wasps have collected mate
rial for their paper nests from Lynn, or
bass wood.
The Buffalo Democracy gives the fol.
loving account Of The new invention:
Bass WooD PAPER.-rhe article has
come. 1t is before us-ihree qualities Of
il. One almos, good enough for 4 news.
paper quite good enough for the Wash
Ington Union, altogether too good for tha,
scoundrei Journal the N. Y. HERALD
the other better than most of the paper
the Democracy has had 10 put up with
and The third a strong, smooth, even
sheet, Fl, for Promissory no.es-nay. for
love Gotes, the least dangerous Of the
TWO. /! is made of bass wood The
genius who got up the Beardsley P,,aning
Machine studied out this new paper
He made the pulp in the kitchen of his
house in Albany-and made the paper
there, too. after some primitive fashion,
in which a sieve conspicuousIy figured.
On one side Of these samples is an adj.
veriisemen, of $50 reward. Eastwood
has fairly entered into The service of man
in the pursuit Of stolen property. This
handbill indicates n horse and wagon as
the object of The distress of the gentle
man who invokss the linwood to aid his
search of a thief. II is of white and
quite smooth paper. We understand
that the wood is treated by revolving
SuhCIS, uiSu wi " W lulC III uo ttlIC.
Then something else is done to this fibre
which we don't understand. A caveat
is now on file in Washington, which will
inform the curious what this something
else is. Two other things we are told,
Of which the most i'm porlan. is, that NJ.
BeaIdsley can make the pulp, aud make
a fortune u of il, by selling it at two
cents per pound. The other is. tina. an
edition of The Albany Evening Journal
will soon be printed upon the paper
Mr.. Bear1sley was last week eng aged
in building machinery tor a paper mill
under HE new process. The white &C.
dar is said to yield The finest ard strong.
est paper. There is talk Of setting tina,
apart Tor bank notes. The Cottonwood
of the South. aud the Cypress, are said
to be especially adapted to it, as also is
the Tamrac. Devou'ly do we invoke
success upon Beardsley's efforts.