chez, in the County of Adams, and | Territory aforesaid, upon the 22d Day of January, | Anno Domini 1799, and in the 23d Year of the Independance of the United States of America: and continued by | Adjournments to the 25th Day | of May, in the same year. | By Authority | Natchez: | Printed by A. Marschalk, | and Sold at the Store of Messrs. Hunts, & Co.1 Sm. 4° Pp. (2), ii, 2-63, 65-209. HISTORY AND CHRONOLOGY OF NEWSPAPERS. 1800, August 1 (est.)—The Mississippi Gazette, at Natchez, by Benjamin M. Stokes. The earliest number known is Vol. II., Numb. 5, September 10, 1801. If the paper was issued regularly from the beginning this would indicate that it first appeared in August, 1800, instead of in the summer of 1799, as stated by Col. Marschalk, writing from recollection in 1837. The number just cited consists of four pages, each 134x8 inches, three columns to a page, and has the following heading and announcement of a change of publishers: The Mississippi Gazette. By Sackett & Wallace. Natchez, Tuesday September 10th, 1801. Num 5 Vol. II. To The Public Mr. Benjamin M. Stokes, the late editor and printer of the Mississippi Gazette, having declined business, we purpose continuing the publication on the same political plan that Mr. Stokes has heretofore printed, and will furnish ali the subscribers of the gazette on the terms and manner hereinafter mentioned. Those gentlemen who are subscribers, in the Town and vicinity of Natchez, shall receive their papers on each day of publication. Those who reside on the post road leading to the states, will be supplied once a fortnight with two numbers, which shall be deposited at the most convenient places. Those subscribers who reside in the lower part of the Territory, and below the line of the route to New-Orleans, shall be regularly furnished by post once in two weeks. We solicit the patronage of a generous public, and hope they will encourage the present undertaking. We intend to make it our duty to render the gazette a vehicle of useful and pleasing information-It shall contain matter, of the most interesting nature, Foreign & Domestic intelligence, congressional and Legislative occurrences, particularly such as respect this Territory. Essays will be thankfully received and published, which do not contain immoral, indecent matter or personal reflections. Having made arrangements to procure a 1 In the Lenox Library; title and collation furnished by Wilberforce Eames. large addition of Types to those we have on hand, will by the Month of April next, enable us to exhibit to the public as large a paper as any published in the Western country. Terms of the Gazette. Six Dollars per annum, one half at the expiration of six months, the remainder at the end of the year. Advertisements not exceeding a square, will be inserted three times for one dollar and fifty cents, if above, in proportion; and for each continuation after, fifty cents. Sackett & Wallace. The new arrangement does not appear to have been satisfactory to the parties concerned, not more than two issues appearing under the names of Sackett & Wallace. Then there was an intermission of three or four weeks, when the paper again appeared under the original management, as follows: Vol II. The Missisippi Gazette. By B. M. Stokes. Sacred to virtue, liberty, science and civilization. Tuesday, October 13, 1801. -No 7. The latest issue known is Vol. II., Num. 10, Natchez, Tuesday, December 1st, 1801. It is not probable that the paper was continued long after that date. 1801, August 11 (est)-The Intelligencer, at Natchez, by D. Moffett and James Ferrell. This was printed on a folio sheet 19x23 inches, four pages, four columns to a page. The appearance, imprint, etc., of the earliest number known are shown herewith: The Intelligencer. By D. Moffett & Co. Six Dollars Per Ann. | Uninfluenced By Party | Half Paid In Advance. We Aim To Be Just. Vol. I. Natchez, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 1801. | No. IX. The latest number known is Vol. I., No. XVII, Natchez, Tuesday, December 8, 1801. This paper was doubtless printed on the press brought from Baltimore by Mr. Green, as stated by Col. Marschalk. As in the case of the Gazette, he antedates the fact by about a year. 1802, July 26 (cir.)—Mississippi Herald, at Natchez, by Andrew Marschalk. page. Printed on a sheet 18x28 inches, four pages, three wide columns to a MISSISIPPI HERALD. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY ANDREW MARSCHALK, PRINTER OF THE LAWS OF THE TERRITORY. "It sen these things you relate, spout of them as they are...Nathing extenmute, nor sit down aught in malice." [No 44) NATCHEZ. SATURDAY, MAY 1 1803. Laws of the Missisippi Territory | lege that the buildings for the ufe or red Col POBLISHED BY AUTHORITY. En til apprinting and authorizing commiffeners Beter to the general ofembly, upon the most ad ontagious and convenient pention for a permanent feat of justice for the county of Adams. "Relord by the Bears of Truf, 191 Zetin Ordered, That Melis. Brezcal, Weft and On motion: Refolved by the board of Trustees, that the buildings for the Jefferson college thall be Sec. 1. Be it enated by the legidative council made of brick; and that a commitee of three and houfe of representatives of the Miffippi territe-members be appointed to prepare a plan of the faid ry, in finest efembly convened, and it is bereby buildings, and report the face in the board at crafted by the authority of them, That Thomas their next wsung, together With an elliusate of Wilkins, Abejah Hantha Gaillard, John Bowles, the probable expeace fi Adam Tooley, Benjamin Farrar and Ifrael Luce, be, and they are hereby appointed commiffioners, which faid faid commiffioners, or a majority of theth are bereby directed by all ways and means wishin their power, to inform thewdelves relpecting the most advantageous and couvaient pofition for a permaneat feat of juice In the county of Adams, and the faid commition. ers are hereby required to report their option, Bouching the premiles to the general afïembly at Bang &, jou Sec. a And be it further enöfted, That it fall be the duty of the faid commiffioners to affemble tagaher on the first monday in June next, at the eburt-house of the county of Adams, then and thing to comber and confolt with each other spon molt proper means of carrying into effect the dancjbra of this ac W GORDON FORMAN, Projident of the Counci Approved, March 12th, 1803 W. C. C. CLAIBORNE, PROCEEDINGS Greenville, April 115, 1803. ment. Mr. Weft from the committee appointed to propofe a plan and eftimate of the probable expence of the buildings for Jefferson College reputed as fol The committee appointed in puree of a refolution of the board of their la meeting, for the purpose of preparing plan of the buildings for Jefferfon college, refpearally fabmit the above, and alfe one for a building to be occupied by the few ard. The probable expence of thefe buildings, from the most acurate effimate the committee have been able to make, will be ten thousand dollars for the principal buildi g; four thousand for each wing; and two thoufand for the Steward's house, making in the whole, twenty thoutan dollars. As this fam far exceeds the prefent funds of the College, or any profpect of immediate fupplies to that amount, the committee takes leave to recommend (fhbaid the proposed plas meet the approbation of the board) that they commence with a contract for the erection of one wing and the rishedation for all f Board of Trufices of Jefferson College Steward's houfe, which will probably abord ac SHAKESPEARE. (VOL. 1.] of lard for the fire of Jefferfon college, and to report the sina to the nest me? EN HỘ Ordered, That Meies. Latinore, Weft, Eilin, Tooly and Burnet, be a committee for the above рагробе. On motion,That the next meeting of the board of truftees be on the firt Monday in June next, at Sulfer's town. On motion---Ordered, That the secretary of the board furnish a copy of the proceedings of the last and prefent meetings, that the fame may be printed and published (Aus) FELIX HUGHES. Secretary of the Beard FOR THE MISSISIPPI HERALD. REASON and experience prove that virtue conftitutes the fupreme happineft, not only of individuals but of nations,-and that vice and immorality operate not lefs certainly, the milet, and deftatron of the one that or the other. Virtue, therefore, at alt tims defervedly meets the higheft praife and patronage of every-well wither of the human race, hilft vice and immorality are justly the and invective. At a time when thele laft cbjects of the moralis reiterated cenfure are universally acknowledged to abound in the territory; every plaufible attempt, whether by government or patriotic indi viduals to remedy the evil, fhould excite point out a rational and complete conce our warmest gratitude, while he whỡ could tive, would deferve to b confidered foremo among the patrons of mankind.We have little doubt but This is a well-printed paper with an excellent variety of reading matNowhere appears ter, and an advertising patronage filling six columns. any statement of the terms. With a spirit of friendly toleration not common in the journalism of those days, a whole column on the fourth page is devoted to the prospectus of an intended rival of the Herald, to be called the Mississippi Republican and Natchez Advertiser, which W. H. Beaumont announced his intention of publishing. He had "been long in the habit of editing newspapers," he stated, and "if a suitable support, adequate to the undertaking," of which he does not permit himself to doubt, "is promptly received, the materials will be immediately ordered, and it is presumable, the publication will commence in September next." No copy of this paper has been found, and probably the confident hopes of its projector were never realized. With the issue of the Herald for Monday, Nov. 14, 1803, No. 16, Vol. 2, the line And Natchez City Gazette, was added under the first line of the title. We learn from No. 52, Vol. 2, Thursday, April 26, 1804, that Marschalk had attempted to issue it semi-weekly, and that it was "Published Wednesdays And Saturdays." As Marschalk was not an Irishman, of whom the perpetration of bulls could be expected, it is not easy to rec oncile this announcement with the date. The semi-weekly was reduced in size, being on a sheet 13x16 inches, four pages, two columns to a page. It would seem that this ambitious effort crippled the printer, as No. 14, Vol. III., instead of coming out on August 2, as it would in natural sequence, bears date Oct. 5, indicating an occasional intermission, if not a temporary suspension. This number shows a slight change in the heading, thus: [Vol. III.] Missisippi Herald & Natchez Gazette. Printed And Published By Andrew Marschalk, At The Corner of Third, And South First Streets. Natchez, Friday, October, 5, 1804. [No. 14.] It was now printed on a sheet 18x22 inches, four pages, four columns to a page, and, of course, only weekly. Vol. IV., No. 41, Tuesday, October 8, 1805, gives the place of publication as "North First, Near Second Street." No. 6, Vol. V., Whole No. 215, Tuesday, February 4, 1806, announces the following Terms of the Mississippi Herald. Six Dollars per annum, payable one half in advance, the remainder at the end of the year. Advertisements not exceeding fifteen lines inserted once for one dollar :-and fifty cents for subsequent insertions. Payments will be received in cotton, provisions and produce of all kind, at the market price. Such of our mechanical brethren who wish the Herald-and would prefer making payment in work, may also be accommodated. Advertising customers are particularly requested to note the number of insertions requested-otherwise they will be considered as intended for publication until counter manded No. 41, Vol. V., Tuesday, October 21, 1807, Whole No. 302, shows no change in heading or size, except that an "s" is lacking in the second group of sibilants in the title. The old files kept by Col. Marschalk are still in existence, and show that the Herald was continued by him under the following changes of title: Mississippi Herald and Natchez Gazette, 1806-7; Natchez Gazette, 1808; Washington Republican, 1813-16; Washington Republican & Natchez Intelligencer, 1816; State Gazette, 1818; Mississippi Republican, 1818-20; State Gazette, 1821-25; Mississippi Republican, 1822-23; Natchez Newspaper and Public Advertiser, 1826; Mississippi Statesman, 1827; Mississippi Statesman and Natchez Gazette, 1827; The Natchez Gazette, 1828.1 1 For this memorandum of Col. Marschalk's files the author is indebted to Thomas M. Owen, now of Washington, D. C., who made the same from a personal examination of the files in 1892. Mr. Owen adds: "In regard to Mr. Marschalk, you can say certainly that he was born in New York State, and that he died in 1839, and is buried in the city of Natchez. His wife was Susan McDonald, born in Scotland. The son to whom you refer as editing a paper in 1859 was Andrew Marschalk, Jr. The old original press of Col. Mar 1802, October 16 (est.)-The Constitutional Conservator, at Natchez, by John Wade. Printed on a folio sheet 19x23 inches, four pages, four columns to a The Constitutional Conservator. : Vol. I. By John Wade. No. 27 "But yet I say, if imputation and strong circumstance which lead Five Dollars per Annum] Natchez, Saturday, April 16, 1803. [Three Dollars 1804, September I (est.)—The Mississippi Messenger, at "Dr. John Shaw succeeded Terrell and Moffet. His paper was the The Mississippi Messenger. Published every Tuesday Morning, by John Shaw and Timothy Terrell. The Price of this Paper is Four Dollars a year, payable half yearly in advance by Sub- schalk is now in Natchez, but in bad preservation." Mr. Owen is the only Southern gentle- |