The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1857-07-23

| y That souls may o'erpass IL, and livel
The London Times Newspaper.
A London correspondent of the New York
Herald, supposed to be one of the officers of
the U s. steam-frigate Niagara, gives the
following description of the office Of the Lon
don Times: a@E @'.-a
the London Times made its first appearance
in the year 1888, as successor to the Univer-
sal Register, paper which had issued from
Printing House Square almost from time i'm
memorable. The times is now in the zenith
of its power and prosperity, the necessary re-
salt of those qualities which always secure
newspaper success in this as we'll as other
COUNT adherence to its object,
prodigal intellectual ability and towering
assurance, backed by a perfect organization
of its printing establishment, and its world
wide ret-work Of correspondents and re-
porters." i" a .a
lately had an opportunity Of taking peep
into the Times office, and after traversing sew
eral narrow, dark alleys, came suddenly upon
small court in the centre Of ssPrinting House
Square," "upon which fronts the "Times Build
ing"-a plain, unpretending and irregular
structure, with blackened exterior in perfect
keeping with its antiquity. One feels here as
if he should tread lightly. He is about enter
ing the temple whence issued tha mighty power
which carried the cause of Queen Caroline
Amelia, of Brunswick, against George w.;
which caused to be adopted the poor law sys-
tenn; which levelled Lord Broughan; waged
successful war on Ireland; adopted the league
against the corn laws, and "when Golden had
begun TO despair, announced the triumph"
Yes, the times has written its own history, re-
corded its own triumphs, and erected monu-
ment as enduring as time itself.
The transformations entrace on the right leads
to the quiet and plainly furnished sanctum of
Mr.. Mowbray Morris, the presiding genius
of this wonderful establishment, whom found
to be an accomplished gentlemen, of refined
taste and polished manners, and resembling
a good deal in polished manners the Hon. Ca
leb Gushing. Being furnished with tickets OF
admission to the printing Office, through the
politeness Of Mr.. Morris, our party crossed
again the small court, and entered the venera-
bic pile from the diagonal corner, where we
were taken charge of by "Ml. Johnson, prin-
ter Of the Times" who has been connected
with the office for thirty-6ve years, and who
made up the paper for upwards of twenty-five
years. g 8 f
We entered the Office at twenty-five minutes
before II O'Clock; and as our tickets named
thirty minutes past eleven, we were politely
shown into the Iefreshment room to wait for
| FIVE minutes-such is the exactness With which
everything is done. In this room noticed a
large number of dusty, black looking volumes,
which ascertained to be Parliamentary de-
bates, running back through long series Of
years. Here the reporters take refreshments
during the sitting of Parliament, as they have
no opportunity of taking their meals at home.
| Under the kind guidance of Mr.. johnson
we proceeded first to the reporters Ioom--a
long, dark, comfortless looking hall, with ia
bic running through the centre, surrounded
with heavy oaken chairs, and covered with a
profusion of writing materials. From this We
passed next Into the compositors' room, where
Parliamentary debates are put in type, and
forty-two compositors are employed. Ad-
Joining is the editorial, news and advertisement
rooms, in which eighty-eight compositors are
constantly engaged, receiving each forty cents
per thousand ems for their labor. Next came
the proof readers room, where eight persons
are employed exclusively on advertisements,
and four principal and six assistant readers on
editorial and other matter. These several rooms
are all on the same (second) floor, and srs
small and dark, with low ceilings, ard devoid
of all the modern conveniences which mark
our first class printing establishments. Speak
to the proprietors and call attention to these
facts, and they will answer by pointing to
the antiquity of the building. The composi,-
ors engaged on the advertisements are required
to put up also the reading matter for the sec.
ond edition Of the morning paper. The sup.
plement or advertisement sheet goes to press
at six O'clock ON the evening previous to its
issue.
The present edition of the London Times
numbering 5000, copies daiiy--nearly twenty
thousand less than the New York Herald-E
printed on six Eresses-three verticle one'!
(Applegarth's patenD and three horizontal
The largest of the vertical presses throws OF
nine papers at every revolution Of the NAH
cylinder; the two smaller ones eight papers
each. The three horizontal presses work foul
cylinders each. In order 10 use such mum
Der Of different presses the Office has twenty
!, four columns OF matter electrotypsd ever,
morning. A new press has been ordersd frol
! the United States, and Hoe & Co., New York
will soon have one Of their new patent presse
of mammoth size operating in the Times Office
G and illustrating the superiority Of Yankee IN
vention over all competition. Their preser