The Nevada journal., 1861-02-22

SCENE IN New York PRINTING OFrIcE.-

SCENE IN A NEW YORK PRINTING OFFIcE.-
We were in the composing room of the N. Y.
World when the Presidents Message was recei-
we'd and put in type, and are free to confess that
we never before appreciated the possibilities OF
types, ink and paper. Before the message was
received all the preparations had been made for
putting it in type, in the quickest possible time.
The gallsys were arranged in line and divided by
"slugs" into seventy-6ve sections, each one
numbered in its order. Seventy five compos-
itors, with their sticks in hand, stood waiting
for their "takes" under the directions of three
foremen. At about twenty minutes before one,
a reporter came rushing in from the Office ofCol-
lector Schell, with the Message. In halfa min
ute the editors sciessors were at work dividing
it into seventy-fve nearly equal parts, which
were numbered in their order and passed out to
the compos tors in waiting. In two minutes
more all were served and the Message was going
up" under nimble fingers. Then the gable of
the printers gave place to the music of types
clicking into the sticks. In about twenty min
utes more, the whole eight columns stood up in
the galleys. Then the foremen emptied it into
the forms, locked them up, lowered them away
down six stories below, into the embrace of the
ten cylindered monster that stood waiting to
multiply it by twenty thousand to the hour. A
turn of a screw, stroke Of a hammer, shifting of
belt, and round went the cylinder with news
papers flying off from it in every direction, more
than three hundred n minute. In about three
quarters of an hour from the reception of the
document it was in the paper and on the street,
"hying all abroad in the hands of hundred
ncwsb ,ys, and considerably in advance of all its
New York cotemporaries'-N (Ct.) BnH.
SCRAPS FROM ExERsoN'-The key to all ages
is imbecility imbecility in the vast majority of
nf men, at all times, even in heroes, in all but
certain eminent moments victims of gravity.
custom and fear. This gives force to the strong
that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance
original action.
We stand up against fate, rs the children
stand up against the wall in their fathers house
and notch their height from year to year. But
when the boy grows to be a man, he pulls down
that wall, and builds a newer and bigger.
Enlarge not thy destiny said the oracle.
"Endeavor not do more than is given thee in
charge" The ole prudence in life. is eoneentra-
ton the one evil is dissipation.
A man who has that presence of mind which
can bring him on the instant all he knows, is
worth for action dozen men who know as much,
but can only bring it to light slowly.
No genius can rec lite ballad at first reading
as well as mediocrty can at the fifteenth or
twentieth reading.
A feeble man can see the houses that, are buil
the farms fenced and titled. 4 strong man sees
the possible houses and farms.
he makes room for many.
How TO SELL "SuMPrER'-Thcre has been
not little diversity of practice in spelling tho
name of the fort now occupied by Major And
crson. The papers are about eq"ally divided on
the question. In Sparks Correspondence of
the Revolution in Marshals Life of Washing
ton, in Ramsay's South Carolina, in Gordon's
History of Independence, in Lees History of
the War in the Southern Department, and in
the edition of Wehster's works, the "p' is used:
but in the L. S. Statutes at Large, in the Ameri-
can Almanac, and in Lossings Field Book of
the Revolution, the "p' is omitted and the
authority of the latter work seems to settle the
question, for therein we find an autograph of
General Sumptcr, in which the ''p' docs not
occur. The General probably knew how to
spell his own name, and consequently wa say
Sumter without the 'p.'--Chicogo Tribune.