Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-04-16
THE NEWSPAPER PRESS.


The labor ofcompiling "Newspaper Re-
cord" containing complete list Of f.newspa..1
pers in the United States, the Canadas, and
Great Britain, with the statistics of the news
paper press in the principal countries in Eu-s
rope, has been accomplished to such perfec.;
tion as the many changes and rapid increase,
of newspaper property will permit The
data contained in volume entitled as above,
have been cleaned during the past four years,
and have appeared, in part, in the "Ink
Fountain" the publication of which, as,
newspaper, has been interrupted by the Uni,
ted States Government, on the ground that
it was not newspaper, and that exchanges
made by and to it must be charged postage,
An essay on newspapers by Mr.W T. Gogg-
shall, State Libraian of Ohio, is appended
to the "Record," and furnishes much infor.,
nation, exhibiting careful and elaborate re-
search. We make few extracts from the
work.
The whole number of newspapers publish
ed within the United States and territories
is 1884. Ofthese there is published in Ala
bama, s3; arkansas, %; California, 81;
Connecticut, 2; Delaware, 8; District Of
Columbia, II; Florida, 1s; Georgia, 70;
Illinois, %; Indiana, 242; Indian Terrific.
ry 1; Kansas, 2; Kentucky, 1888; Maine,
65; Maryland, 65; Massachusetts,, 219;
Michigan, 17S; Nebraska, a; New Hamp-
shire, 43 New Jersey, IT; New York, 6I8;
s--oliiuaye55: -eehiu; 8ess2e, Oregon, g;
Pennsylvania, 419; Rhode Ialana, 90 svurshh
Carolina, So; Tennessee, 14S; Utah, Il /;
Vermont, 33; Virginia, 1877; Wisconsin SO.
There are SO newspapers published in
Canada, 5 in the Sandwich Islands, and 2
in New Brunswick. 2s.: I 'sses.1sg
The first paper published in North Amer.
lea was on September 25th, 1890, by Rich
ard Pierce for Benjamin Harris, in Boston
but it never assumed more than the charsc.
ter of a pamphlet. The first weekly publ.
cation deserving the name of newspaper was
published by John Campbell, postmaster Of
Boston, and native of Scotland, in 1704.@
1t was called the News Letter. The next
the Boston Gazette-appeared in 1719.-+
The third-the American Weekly Mercurie
also in 1719; and the fourth--the New
England Courant, by James, brother, ,=of
Benjamin Franklin. New York first rejoi-
ced in newspaper in l725, when the Ga
zette was established. Rhode Island first
had newsparer-the Rhode Island Ga;
zette-in 1882, Connecticut in 1775; New,
Hampshire New Hampshire Gazette,
in 1856; Vermont in 1881, and Maine in
1875. The first daily paper was started in
Philadelphia in 1884, and the first semi-
weekly at Boston-the Independent Chron-
icle-in 1883. s,ss,
In England and Wales there are 272
newspapers daily and weekly published,
of which % are printed in London and 10 in
Wales. In Scotland there are c.; in Ire.
land 113 newspapers published, and in the
British Isles and Jersy l7-total 46S. Pre-.
suming that the population Of Great Britain
and the United States and her Territories
are now about equal, the: statistics we have
given show that 3l66 more newspapers are
published in this country than in the Euro
pcan dominion Of Queen Victoria. ~.
The first paper ever published in England
was called the English Mercurie, andap-
peared in London, under the auspices of
Lord Burleigh, on July 23d, 1888; but the
best authorities says that the Weekly News,
published also in London, in 1919, has the
best claim to. priority of age. The first semi
weekly was printed in 1865, and the first
daily in l7O9-both in London. This her
aid of the millions Of sheets which now TEEN
from the presses of the world was very ap-
propriately called the Courant.
If we exclude the unauthenticated asser-
ton that Lord Burleigh's paper, mentioned
above, was the first daily ever printed il: the
British Isles, then We have the Edinburg
Gazette, which was first published in 1860,
and is generally considered the oldest paper
in the world.
The statistics of the circulation of the En-
glish papers show that they do not begin to
compare with us in that respect. The most
extensively circulated paper in England, the
London Times only excepted, does not print
within 1000 per diem of the number we dai-
ly publish of the Journal and our daily is
sue exceeds that collectively published of
five of the principal London papers, viz; the
Post, Herald, Nsws, Advertiser, and the