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which is nearly equidistant from the northern and southern boundaries of the 

 state, were then organs of the north ; and there were four newspapers printed in 

 the region Avest of Onondaga, where now more are pubHshed than in 1810 

 supplied the whole state. 



The number of newspapers now published within this state is upwards of 

 three hundred, being an hundred times more than were printed in the state at 

 the close of the revolution, and eight times the number printed in the United 

 States at that period. The more important publications are, in the city of New- 

 York, the Courier and Enquirer, by James Watson Webb ; the Journal of Com- 

 merce, by Hale and Halleck ; the New- York Express, by Brooks and Town- 

 send ; the Standard, by John I. Mumford ; and the New-Era, by Jared W. Bell ; 

 morning papers : the Commercial Advertiser, by William L. Stone ; the Even- 

 ing Post, by William C. Bryant ; and the American, by Charles King ; evening 

 papers, published upon the old system for regular subscribers : the New- York 

 Tribune, by Horace Greely ; the Sun, by Moses Y. Beach ; and the Plebeian, 

 by Levi D. Slamm, published upon the new plan of selling indiscriminately for 

 cash : in the city of Albany, the Albany Daily Advertiser, formerly the Albany- 

 Gazette ; the Albany Argus, by Edwin Croswell ; and the Albany Evening 

 Journal, by Thurlow Weed : in the city of Troy, the Troy Daily Whig and 

 Troy Budget : in the city of Utica, the Oneida Observer and the Oneida Whig : 

 in the city of Rochester, the Rochester Democrat and Rochester Daily Adver- 

 tiser ; and in the city of Buffalo, the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser and the 

 Mercantile Courier. 



There is scarcely more resemblance between the press as it now exists, and 

 that institution as it was at the close of the revolution, than between the present 

 aspect of our inland regions and the forest garb they wore while inhabited only 

 by the Iroquois. Then the art, employed chiefly in printing the colonial statutes, 

 almanacks, occasional sermons, and volumes of devotional psalmody, and publish- 

 ing a semi-weekly record of events, was only auxihary, in the hands of its 

 managers, to the more important object of selling books, pamphlets, stationery, 



