DEVELOPMENT OF THE AMERICAN NEWSPAPER. 18- 



The publications of that 

 period were not newspa- 

 pers in the sense in whicli 

 the word is now used, be- 

 cause no particular effort 

 was made to present an ac- 

 count of the hapiDcnings of 

 the day. Notices of the 

 arrival and departure of 

 ships, time tables of mail 

 coaches, and brief an- 

 nouncements of matters 

 of political interest filled 

 the limited space devoted 

 to domestic news. Foreign 

 news consisted entirely of 

 matter reprinted from the 

 English journals received 

 by sailing vessels, and 

 therefore weeks or months 

 old when it appeared. The 

 wooden presses used a hun- 

 dred years ago were op- 

 erated entirely by hand. 

 After the type had been set 

 it was placed in a frame or 

 " form," with little or no 

 regard to artistic arrange- 

 ment of headlines or dis- 

 played matter. To print 

 the edition, the " form " 

 was placed on the bed of 

 the press and ink spread 

 over the type by the use of 

 hand rollers. ' The white 

 paper was then dampened 

 with water, sheet by sheet, 

 laid over the stationary 

 " form," and the impres- 

 sion was made by pulling 

 down the upper part of the 

 press with a lever. This 

 work was so slow that a 

 circulation of three or four 



Hats Loft ! 



SUPPOSED to have btcn Irft on the whr>rf nt 

 Burlinf;-)li|., ot taken on hoard nf fomt- vcfTel '.ly 

 luiUuky, fomc time in the month of Nnvcnihcr Jalt, 

 ^IX Ocnticmcn's tine HATS, were packrd ip a Tea 

 (-heft, ami purfliafcd of Walter Kcndcrich, with 

 his C.:rd ififidc nT the Hati. , '•Vlvoei^'er will g-ive in- 

 tnniKUion where they may be jtound, (hall rcLxivc a 

 reward of FIVE DOLLARS, hy applying rb 



J'\ViK^ CASF.V, 



dec. ^^l . ^t iih. 164 Front-ftrect. 



Sherry Wine, 



OF the noted hii\iici.<,I. li. and D. Q^ jufl receiv- 

 ed per 'he brig Union, from Cadiz, and for Sale by 

 D. SMiril and Co 

 jio. ar?. Front-ftrcPt, neat Pcck-llip. 

 j^eceiriiber 13, _ im 



l^hn Montgomery, 



MUS-ICJL hVSTRUMEMT MAKER 

 and 10R\'ER, 

 TAKES this nrtthod to iiiforin the public, that 

 *•? has latc-1^' arrived from Charlctton, and has com- 

 menced biiltnefi 



At iNo. 23 ROSK-STRF.RT, 

 wl-^re 5ic makes ar.d rcj>air5 all kinds of Wind and 

 String Inflruments, in the neateft marncr. He 

 hopes from his experience in the uiioVc liufinefs. he 

 ihall merit the favour of the public in general, 

 deechiber 14. ',rn 



TOBACCO. 



35 Hhd^ of an excellent qiialitj-, jufl l.ahding 

 from Virginia, and for Saie, as low pncts, by 



JOHN P.VlRiCK, 

 pec. 31. No. 4 Wtlllara-flreet. 



■— ^Vnn HAS ON HANn'-^ 

 Several choice Parcel of 'l' O B A C C O. 



A Kegro Wench Jor Sale^ 



AtiED about 2% or 30 years, is healthy, ftrosg, 

 honcfl, fob.''r and indullriou's — has two Childrea, 

 the one a lioy, in his fotrth ye^ir, trfc other a Girl, 

 upwards, of a year oM — Sold for no fault. '1 o pro- 

 vent upnecelTary applicutiua, the price ftir the three 

 H 8ol.- Apply to C. Scluilts, jon. corner of Eagle 

 and Fourih-ftreets, Bowery. in> dci. j. 



lurks Iilan;>s 5ait. 



Ttie fubfciiber 13 auUiorifed io dii'pofe of from 2c 

 it> loc.oco bufbei* fait, to be delivered at lurks 

 inands,an<f Will tontra^St for it, ir; afiv qitantity, at the 

 very hw jVfice of Ij ccHts per bu'fhel, payable iij 

 New-York at 60 0* 90 days after fight of ilie pur- 

 thafcri drafts Rif H A R D I . I" U C K E K, 



■«<3- 39' l2j front-ilreet. 



■■■■'■ ^ - ■ ■ , - 



Landing this Day. 



At Burling-flip. from the fchooner Raven, 



20 bds.jinsjiav^ high proof Gt.ieva 



Fkom the New York Gazette and General Ad- 

 vertiser OF Wednesday, JANrARV 1, 1800. 



