How newspapers were issued in the War of 1812.
--Our venerable brother of the Macon Messenger relates the following.In consequence of the extremely high price of paper, it might not be out of place to remind our junior contemporaries of the reports made by the journals of the Western States during the war of 1812, when it was scarcely possible to procure paper or ink. Each subscriber provided himself with a piece of cotton cloth of the proper size, carried it to the office on the day of publication, when it was printed with the best quality of swamp mud. When the subscriber and his neighbors had read it, the mud was washed out, and the cloth returned to the printer for a further in vestment of news. All credence may be given to the reminiscence, as the news of the day is to a "reliable gentleman" who has passed through Atlanta, or to a telegraphic dispatch.
