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miles away, helped its publisher, Shepard Kollock, with "Nine Hundred Wt of old Tent Unfitt for service," and later with "Eight Hundred Three Quarters & Twelve pound old Tent Cloath," and still later, "Two Bundles Old Tent Rags w* Two Hundred One Quarter," also "One Other Bagg w* Two Hun- dred One Quarter old tent Rags"; these rags and old tents were for the manufacture of paper which Kollock so sadly needed. In addition, the army out of its scanty stores actually furnished a very large amount of white paper in order that the soldiers might have a newspaper which told of the progress of struggles in other colonies.

PHILADELPHIA PAPEKS

During the last few years of the American Revolution, the most important newspaper in Philadelphia was The Freeman's Journal; or The North- American Intelligencer. It first appeared on April 25, 1781, and was edited and printed by Francis Bailey. Its policy was thus announced editorially: " To encourage genius, to deter vice, and disrobe tyranny and misrule of every plu- mage." Its most distinct service, however, was in reporting the progress of the war. In its issue for October 24, 1781, it announced the surrender of General Charles Earl Cornwallis in lines which reached clear across the page. In addition to its patriotic news was its satire. Philip Freneau, who later achieved prominence through his editorship of The National Gazette, con- tributed to The Freeman 's Journal numerous bits of satirical verse. Another paper in Philadelphia started during the War was The Pennsylvania Evening Post, established January 24, 1775, by Benjamin Towne. During the early part of the War the paper was very friendly to the American cause, but later changed its editorial policy when the British occupied Phila- delphia. After the evacuation of that city The Evening Post again announced its devotion to the Whig principles, but was forced to suspend for want of popular support, due to its policy while the British were in the city. The Pennsylvania Journal, established December 2, 1742, as The Weekly Advertiser, or The Pennsylvania Journal, by William Bradford, was in many respects, and these the most essential, more independent in