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sisted half of advertisements and half of text. Of the two col- umns devoted to news, fully one half of the column related to information about vessels dismasted. Of the three fourths of the column in which the news of Philadelphia was given, fully one half came from the naval office and told about the entries at the Port of Philadelphia inward and outward. There was a little over a stick of type about the arrival of vessels at Newburyport, Massachusetts; three sticks or thereabouts told the news of New York. The only page which did not contain an advertisement was the second; of this "The Errors of the Press," an essay re- printed from The London Public Advertiser, occupied a column and a half; the rest of the page contained some intelligence based upon European papers just received at the printing-office. The paper was simply a development of a tri-weekly sheet of the same name, save in the place of General was the word Daily in the title. The tri-weekly, "Published on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays by David C. Claypoole," had sold for six pence a copy.

SECOND DAILY IN AMERICA

The second daily in the United States was the outgrowth of the second paper to be established in Charleston after the evacu- ation of that city by the British at the close of the Revolution. At the start the precursor was called The South Carolina Gazette and General Advertiser and appeared from two to four times each week, but not regularly on the same days of the week. Its edi- tor and publisher was John Miller, an English publisher who had been forced to come to this country because of his "defy- ing and exposing the wickedness and the folly of the cursed American war." Upon reaching Philadelphia and explaining the circumstances under which he had been forced to leave Eng- land, he was invited by the South Carolina delegation, then in attendance at the Continental Congress, to come to Charleston and establish a newspaper in that city an invitation which he accepted. From irregular publication on several days of the week it was only a step to bringing the paper out daily. This was done on Wednesday, December 1, 1784. Papers in London frequently referred to Miller as "Printer to the St