Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1857-08-05
American Safety-Paper.

venting certain diseases. DR.. Burcqsand 9th
ers have demonstrated this clearly. The
safety-paper, being chiefly an oxide Of copper,
refuses to receive organic matters, which is a
highly important fact in a sanatory point OF
view, and has been shown in some very curl
GUS and interesting experiments. Letters ar
irving from countries infected with the plague,
would be perfectly free from all faint, and
could never communicate disease-rendering
unnecessary the piercing and fumigation OF
quarantine. Applied to bank bills, it is high
ly important. John r. Morton, of Cincin-
natl, caught the small pox from handling in
fected bank notes. Had they been printed
on this paper, it is certain this never could
have happened.
Anything that can act as a safeguard to
the public health makes us rejoice in the pro-
gress of science, and we shall be glad if this
notice meets the eye of the sanitary depart
ment everywhere.
After publishing, as we have, the common
dations of Mr.. Kent, chemist and assayer of
the u. s. mint, and that of G.. L. Lyman,
esq, of the N. Y. clearing house, also that of
Meade Brothers-in relation to the new safe
ty-paper company, it gives us sincere pleasure
to add the following COMMUNICATIONS from the
press.
The "Journm Of Commerce." of June
Goth, of this city, is on matters affecting the
business men Of the country, probably the
best authority in America 1t says:
GA new company called the American safety
paper manufacturing company, of which A. Mich
olas, esq., 70 Wall-street is president has been or
gained to carry on the manufacture of chemical
paper for checks, bills Of exchange, &c. which, it
is said will prevent all successful alterations
sures, or Photographic limitations of these mpor
tant documents. The recent bold frauds in the al
iteration and counterfeiting of paper securities
have alarmed all of our merchants and bankers,
and various remedies have been suggested This
paper is made under the patent of Messrs Glynn
Apple, England, and it Is claimed for il that
it effectually defeats the usual processes of al
terations, transfers, and the Photographic imita-
tons. 1t is at least worthy of the attention Of
those Interested"
1t is proof against countcrfeits, the depredations
of insects in warm climates, and almost proof
against the ravages of time itself. For bank pa
per- and all permanent records of value, we doubt
not this paper is nvaluable-Bt6ical Record, Ra-.
leigh, ~. C.
company has been formed in New York, with
100000 capital, called the American safety-paper
manufacturing company, who have mills Of about
300 horse power in operation in Morris county in
this state, for making chemical paper, which is
said to be security against all manner of fraud
or counterfeiting on paper, to photographs
and anastatic counterfeits erasures, transfers or
alterations -RegiSter 8' american, RahOay,fNiJ.
The American Sqfety-paper company-Capital
100000. Shares, SO edch-This company propo-
ses to furnish paper to the public, which can nei-
Their be erased or altered without detection at
glance. Documents written now on the common
paper in can be altered initiated so perfect
ly as to defy detection OF this fact any one may
be satifed by calling at our office and examining
specimens. The checks of merchants including
their signatures, can be so perfectly initiated that
the sgner himself will be unable to designate the
original. In like manner can railroad bonds with
their coupons, bank notes, and, in short, every in
strument formed by the impression of ink upon
any of the paper now in use, can be so perfectly
initiated, that person, however skilled, can dis
tnguish tho original from the copy. No docu-
ment is safe from being duplicated, perfectly, un-
less it is written on the paper which the American
Safety-paper manufacturing company furnishes
Nicholas Reporter.
The American safety-paper company introduces
really scientific paper to the commercial world,
which embodieS all the requisites necessary, and
will, we have no doubt, be the thing desired by
able engravers TO render, without dangerous and
foolish cooring all our bills pattern to the world
IhompSonS Reporter
PRINTERs.-The Belfast Mercury, in an
article on the craft says: from high to low
they are the same careless, light-hearted, well
informed and clever, reckless fellows, knowing
how to act, better than they do: nothing at
if occasion requires or the
fit takes them. No sooner are they comfort
able in one town than they make tracks for
another, even though they travel on hair
space means. And to what will they not
turn their hands? ave have SEEM" says the
american editors, one and the same indi-
vidual of the craft minister in California,
lawyer in Missouri, sheriff in Ohio, boat
man on western canal, sailing privateer
and pressman in large printing office.
Nor are the characters confined to any one
country-they are every where the same.
We have met them as lecturers, actors, trav-
cling preachers, ventrloquists; in fact, every
thing. We have met them on tramp in this
country members of this moving profession
from all parts Of the globe-Frenchmen,
Spaniards, Portuguese, Germans and Swedcs,
and all apparently as much at home as in
their own country. Ardent lovers of liberty,
king-craft and priests finds but little favor in
their eyes. They are always with the peo-
pie. When the Chartst excitement was
raging in England, the most eloquent and
spirited leaders in the movement were prin.
tiers. When the barbados were raised in
Paris, in lS4S, the compositors cast their type
into bullets and fired them at the royalist