Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1867-06-21

Att printers festival hold in Buffalo re-
Gently, an able address was delivered. from
which we make the following extracts
which contain Il volume Of truth:
PRINTERS.
Printers are unlike other classes of mon.
Their vocation imparts to them an intcll-
gence that does not result from any other
business. Dealing with language cxclu-
sivelv. in its combination of flctters, words,
sentences and paragraphs. they are con
stantly brought into communion with
thoughts and their working. and thus in.
sensibly become imbucd with the ideas of
those minds whose creations they help to
embody into those forms that give them TO
the world. They literally get grammar at
their fingers ends while picking up the
types that form sentences that are gram
matlcal. Spelling comes to them as nat
urai as breathing. for they fall into cor
rect photography from force habit.
Th: characteristics of printers are not
so favorable to personal thrift AS those of
other professions. They partake of the
nature of artists in some degree. and are
generally liberal to a fault. thonghtless of
the future and frequently improvident for
the present-tiush when in good stu
alton, and dead broke on tramp They
may be said to be the working Dohenians
Of the world Of operatives.
PRINTERS DEVILS.
Prom wild fricndless bcvs in the streets,
are made what are called Printers Dev.
lis; next they become printers. and after
that sometimes editors. in which capacity
they not unfrequcntly make their mark in
the nation and i'll the world. DR.. Frank.
lin was most eminent instance in the
early davs OF our eountvr. and Thurlcw
Weed. Horace Greeley, Simo1 Ca:ne,uo.
Vice President Hamlin. Gen Dix, Speak
r CvifaA; Gideon Welles. Robert, Banner
Prince Napoleon, Petroleum Nesuyass
Nasty and Artemus Ward, are striking
examples at the present time.
TIE NEWSPAPERS.
How few Of the readers of our daily pa
pcrs, who hurriedly scan their contents.
see what the editor says of the general as
pect of affairs. run over the telegraphic
dispatches and Congressional reports, look
u moment at the coilated items of news,
just glance II: the varied miscellany at
tractvely piescn ted for their perusal. and
then see what the ..local " has to report
of current city intellcencc-ho few of
these. l repeat. have any proper idea of
the cost, the talent which has been rrqnir-
ed and employed to present tn them the
daily luxury as we'll as necessity-of the
newspaper.
Were the pains. sacrifices and cxpcndi-
tu"cs, of editors and publishers properly
appreciated lherc would be much less dis
position to indulge in fault finding because
this thing is not said exactly right, or that
thing is not said at all. People and pat
rons would be inclined to be perfectly con
tented with what they now get from the
newspaper men, if they only remembered
how much less the public got in that way
thirty or fifty years ago: or if they could
imagine such thing as newspapers not
being published hereafter at all 1t only
needs the latter supposition to point out the
consequences that would inevitably follow,
in every branch of trade, manufactures,
and general business: which would indeed
paraIyzc the whole interests OF the country,
and clog the wheels OF government itself