February 18, 1861; The Charleston Mercury
There was quite a throng of visitors at our press room last night, to witness the working of the new and splendid press just erected, and with which our paper is printed for the first time today. All hands united in giving praise to the able, ingenious and indefatigable chief of the press department, Capt. J. W. McMILLAN, to whose energy and industry THE MERCURY’S readers are mainly indebted for the celerity with which this complicated machine has been put in operation, and by which their papers will be furnished earlier and more certainly.