Litchfield enquirer., 1862-03-27
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Daniel Munger contributes to the Detroit Iri
 5Mae an interesting article, entitled A Printer
 Historical Sketch of the Times, 'sthe greater DOT ton of which we give below: V..,,
 hFl624 Thurlow Weed, a practical printer vas foreman and. principal writer for the sRoch { lsster Telegraph, in the employ of Edward Peck a in Kochester, N. r., when he was elected mem ' ber of, the State Legislature. Subsequently h' associated himself with Mir. Martin, from A lbany .al end purchased the 1s1eg'aph establishment tl ,a 1S26; printed for Weed < Martin, the irst nun Der of the Rochester Daily 1slegraph. II pelne D tho second daily paper printed west of -AiDany ,I h the slate of New York. was youngster but had the pride to strike of the rst few sheets of the newspaper by standing upon type box te rsacE the lever of the press. sss
 h l827, at Pittsburg, Pa, set type as the William Bigler, the former at one time Governor of California, while his brother, the latter, wa Governor of Pennsylvania. The Hon. John Big Ter was Miuister to Chili, and William Bigler re presided his state in the United States Senate is's In 1886, established the Constantine Repnb T. jicm, tt Constantine, in this state. About thu sanne time, the Hon. Schuyler Colfax established the Register at South Bend, Indiana, only thir ty.fve miles distant. He controls the same pa per still and has represented the district in Con gress, and was strenuously urged for the position 4of Postmaster- General under the present admins tration.
 The yice.President, the Hon. Hannibal Ham in, is practical printer, and, associated wltn last Postmaster- Genera, published county pa |. .psr in soms village in Maine. se, Inc Hon. Simon Cameron, the late .Secrsfery cfWar, and for some years representing Tenn svfyanis in the United States Senate, is 2 prac- tscsi printer, and has earned his daily bread by settinr tyre hy the thousand ems. v
 Hon. Montgomery Blair, the Postmaster-Gen- sral, is practical printer, and was raised in the Glots office, which was the organ of General Jaekson's administration, and was published by his father and Mr. Rives, under the firm of Blair ,.& Rives.
 Gideon Welles, the Secretary of the Navy, is . practical printer, and has followed the print ina business in Connecticut for almost . life lime. He was inventor of the Wells press" l have devoted great many days of hard labor on one of them.
 Charles L. Wilson, of the Chicago Journal . is practical printer, and has been appointed secretary of legation to England. Lg
 Hon. Rufus King, of Milwaukee, is practical 4 printer, and has been appointed consul at Rome.
 John l.. Scripps, of the Chicago Tribune, is practical printer, and is appointed postmaster st Chicago.
 te0rge D2ws0n, pracucal printer, iOrmerly of the Advertiser, of Detroit, but now partner of Thuriow Weed in the Albany E0ening Jour 'nal, has been appointed postmaster at Albany. 'g Mr. McElrath, practical printer, of the Csxtvy of New York, has been appointed ap- .praiser of New York city, under the present na- . tional administration.
 n Hon. A. NJ. Clapp, practical printer, and 2 editor of the Morning Express, of Buffalo, has T been appointed postmaster of that city.
 ts Rufus Homer, now one of the state printers, } and editor of the Lansing Republican, has been appointed U. s. consul to Frankfort-on-the-M Main. s% John Defrees, practical printer, for years publisher of a paper at Goshen, Ind, and lat isrly editor of leading paper at Indianapolis, has been appointed superintendent of printing, yo reside at Washington-a new office. |. Seth Lewis, practical printer, and editor of the Stuesnan, at Marshal, in this state, has been appointed postmaster of that place. s.o. ,., There have been various other appointments of printers to different offices under the new ad- niniatration, and it seems as though there was a . disposition to give printers justice for once. do not know of but one printer appointed to of flee during the late administration, and that was myself Twas appointed U. s. Consul Agent to s Windsor Canada -i- 7 5i'