The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1857-01-07
NEWSPAPER RECORD.

we have received from some quarter .
newspaper record, containing a list # all
newspapers published in the United States.
Canadus and Great Britain together with
a sketch of the origin and progress of print
ing. The facts submitted especially in ION
ncction with infant newspapcrdom in thi.
country, are interesting.
The tirs; Printing Press in North Amcri-
ca, was established at the city of Mexico
about the year 1000, and the first one in
the American Colonies, was established at
Cambridge. Mas, in 1929. Stephen Day
was the first printer in the Colonies. Those
ia favnE Of extending the grea, All. bad lc
combs, against the singular lotions and
prcjudices Of the people. IL wax nearly Il
%ccntur! after the first press wns =. tahlisici
rated in Virginia.
The first regularly issued paper from an
American Press, Was the Boston News Let
ter, c, mmcnccd on Inc oath OF April l7O4.
II was twelve inches by eight. two Pages
ta!lo, two columns on u page, printed in
Plea Type. The oldest living paper in
America, is the New Hampshire Gazette
established in 1856 and printed at first OH n
half sheet Of foolscap. The Colonies
were slow TO recognize the advantages of
printing. Sixty four years from tho date of
settlement IN Virginia, The Governor Of the
Colony "thapSed God that it had no free
Schools or printing"
Tho first paper in South Carolina, WAS
sst.blishcd in 1872, by Thos. Whitmavsh
it WAS called the Gazette. II Was printed
on Il sheet Of foo!scap-often on Il half sheet.
The subscription p.ice WAS three pounds,
(about $50. Daring the struggle Tor ln-
dependence the papers Of this State, gene
rally, supported the Republican cause.
Tho Oldest living paper IN the Slate, IN
the Charleston Courier. The growth Of
newspapers IN THIS, ax in all other States.
has been repaid. In 1913 she had two
journals ten in 1910 twenty in 1928 /;
seventeen in 1910 ; thirty niue in 1850
She has now siAty.fvc.
An enlightened people now feel The I'M
portance of u properly conducted press, ;,nn
acknowledge it as the Grst instrument of
civilization. A printing press MAS attached
TO The American army us il marched through
Mexico, and u few hours after u battle had
been fought, tho dctiils We're printed and
read by The soldiers A paper published
several months since, in the Territory of
Wisconsin,, contained the fulluwin ing mar.
v~ellous announcement,
I'VE are doing what, perhaps, has never
been lone in the United States beforc-we
are printing !hc Newport Wisconsin Mirror
in the woods! Not a dwelling, except oar
own, within. half n mile OF ny and only ore
within 4 uile, The forest oak. hang over
our office and dwelling, the deer and ra5-
bits shy around US, and the partridgcs and
quails seek our acquaintance, by vcnturing
n~acer and nearer our doors.
The emigrant, whatever his other priva-
tons, must have s newspaper, as is eviden-
ced in tho history of California, Nebraska,
Kansas, Sc.
Take the world over, and wherever 6cs-
pot,srn is scvcresi, tie press IL leasi enc"ur-
aged, aud il is only in a Republican gov
ernmcnt, that its blessings IAN be fully en-
joyed In 1850 in Great Britain, one news
paper Was Published for every $4,000 inhab-
itants in Belgium enc for every $4,000 (;
in Russia ahaut three newspapers for every
Million While in the Usited States, there
were about fifteen to every man woman and
ehAd.
The record from whrs We ya,Aer the
above facts, WAS compiled and published ~
Lay & Brother, Philadelphia.