The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1857-08-01

Or dark despair, with threatning gance,
It's shadow throw before thee.
And whom the soft ssphyrs Of night.
Gently lulls thy sweet spiiit n dresu,ss
Then cast one little Thought 10 hin.
The unknown one far, far awayi
COUNCIL BLUFFS, july, 1857. 10.
HeraId's London Correspondence.
APEEP AT THE LONDON TIMES OFFICE.
LONDON, June S, 1857.
1t seems to be admitted that there 10 in
England an Inevitable tendency towards
social and political institutions similar to
those Of America, and the newspaper press
is the great propslling power. The middle
and working classes are rising in the scale
of general intelligence, while the privileged
nobility are losing caste and influence
through the mental effeminacy of the young
members Of their order.
At this time the power most felt, most
feared and most obeyed in England is the
press, at the head of which stands the Lon
don Times-an ssinstitution'' which wields
more influence over all Europe than any of
their crowned heads. The columns of the
morning Times furnish topics Of converse
ton for all society during the day; while
admit its information is the earliest, COM
pletest and surest, gathered as it is from an
army of correspondents scattered and sta
toned throughout the globe.
The London Times made its FIRST appear
ance in the year l7SS, as successor to the
Universal Register, a paper which had issued
from Printing House square almost from
time immemorial. The Times is now in the
zenith of its power and prosperity, the
necessary result of these qualities which
always secure newspaper success IN this as
well as in other countries-sunliinchlng
adherence of its object, prodigal intellectual
ability and towering assurance, backed by
perfect organization of its printing estab-
lishment, and its world wide network Of
correspondence and reports"
lately had an opportunity of taking a
peep into the Times Office, and after traver-
sing several narrow dark alleys, came sud-
denly upon small court in the centre Of
ssPrinting House square," upon which fronts
the s'Times Building"-a plain, unpretend-
Fing and irregular structure, with biackened
exterior in perfect keep with its antiquity.
One feels here as if he should tread lightly.
He is about entering the temple whence
issued the mighty power which carried the
cause of Queen Caroline Amelia Augusta,
Of Brunswick, against George W.; which
caused to be adopted the poor law system;
which levelled Lord Brougham; waged sue
cessful war on Ireland; adopted the League
against the Corn laws, and .swhen Golden
had begun to despair, announced his tri-
umph." Yes, the Times has written its
own history, accorded its own triumphs,
and erected monument as enduring as
time itself.
That unostentatious entrance on the right
leads to the quiet and plainly furnished
sanctum Of Mr.. Mowbray Morris, the pre-
siding genius of this wonderful establish
ment, whom found to be an accomplished
gentleman, and resembling good deal in
personal appearance, the Hon. Caleb Cush-
ing. Being furnished with tickets of ad-
mission to the printing Office, through the
politeness OF Mr.. Norris, our party crossed
again the small court and entered the ven-
cradle pile from the diagonal corner, where
We were taken charge of by ''Mr. johnson,
printer of the Times," who has been con-
nected with the Office for thirty-fve years,
and who made up the paper regularly for
upwards Of twenty-five years.
We entered the Office at twenty-five min
utes before IL O'Clock; and as our tickets
named thirty minutes past IL, we were
politely shown in the refreshment room to
wait for FIVE mlnuses-such is the exactness
with which everything is done. lr this
room l noticed a large number of dusty,
black looking volumes, which ascertained
to be Parliamentary debates, running back
through long series of years. Here the
reporters take refreshments during the sit
tings of Parliament, as they have no oppor
,f fok, = hair or
Under the kind guidance of Mr.. johnson
We proceeded first to the reporters room-a
long, dark, comfortless looking hall, with a
table running through the centre, surround
ed with heavy oaken chairs, and covered
with profusion of writing materials. From
this We passed next into the compositors'
room, where Parliamentary debates are put
in type, and where forty-two compositors
are employed Adjoining is the editorial,
news and advertisement rooms, in which
eighty eight compositors are constantly en-
gagged, receiving each forty cents per thou
sand ems for their labor. Next came the
proof readers room, where eight persons
are employed exclusively on advertisements,
and four principal and other matter. These
several rooms are all on the (second) hoor,
and are small and dark, with low ceilings,
and devoid Of all the modern conycniences
which mark our first class printing establish
nfents. Speak to the proprietors and call
attention to these facts, and they will an
swer by pointing to the antiquity of the
building. The compositors engaged on the
advertisements are required to put up also
the reading matter for the second edition OF
the morning paper. The supplement OF
advertisement sheet goes to the press at siz
O'Clock on the evening previous to its issue.
The present edition of the London Times
numbering $4,000 copies daity--nearly
| twenty thousand less than the New Yorl
Herald-is printed on six presses three
vertical ones (Applegarth's patiently and
three horizontal. The largest Of the verti.
cal presses throws of nine papers at every
revolution of the main cylinder tho two
smaller ones eight papers each. The three
horizontal presses work four cylinders each
| In order to use such number of different
presses the Office has twenty-four column,
Of matter electrotyped every morning. A
new press has been ordered from the Unite(
States, and Hoe & Co., Of New York, vii
soon have one Of their new patent presse.
of mammoth size operating in the Time.
Office, and illustrating tho superiority 0,
1 Yankee invention over all competition
Their present machinery is driven by tw,
engines Of thirteen horse power each.
The Times prints its own stamps by
private arrangement made with the govern,
/ ment, but 20 guarded that fraud Is out o
/ question. The government officer who ct
4 tends each morning notes the number print
i ed by q machine somewhat resembling,
gas meter, but to which no one has 90
CEN but himself. In this machine 10 als.
dspnsited tie die. A dnplcatsof the coun
] is also kept by the foreman Of the pres
room in similar machine, but under hi
own lock and key, and a third copy il KEEP