An Old Press

- The idntical printingpres? at whicli Ihc Printer ond Plulosopher Frnuklin worked, when in London, nbout oue luindred nnd fifty ypnr6 ngo, is now in the National Gallery nt Washington ciiy. Thp press was presentetl by Messrs. Hnrrild &. Sons to Jolm B. Mnrphy, of iNew York, in 1841. It lias iieither tympan, frisket, nor bed sione, but ík peifoct in ollier respects. Tri Frnnklm's time, two Iiundrcd nnd fif:y eheets an hour wae considercd good work . but now. to euch perfection hns tlie preefi been brouglit, that from two to five thousand : presöioiis are throwii off i tFiat poriod of' time.