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 THE EARLY PAPERS OF BEAVER. The Crisis and Beaver Gazette. The "Crisis and Beaver Gazette" was started June 10, 1813. It has been claimed by some that this paper was a consolidation of the "Crisis" and the "Beaver Gazette," but the fact that both of these papers were being pub- lished two or more years later than this time, seems to render that theory untenable. All three papers were published by one or both of the Logan brothers, and it is possible that the names were applied variously at differ- ent times, as it suited them, without regard to continuity of name. Three copies of the "Crisis and Beaver Gazette" are known to be in existence, one dated Septem- ber 30, 1815, Volume 3 No. 17, and the last one April 18, 1816, Volume 3 No. 45, all bearing the name of A. Logan as publisher. The last one had the same motto as the "Beaver Gazette," "Free but not Licentious." When James Logan on September 1, 1818, began the publication of the "Western Argus," the successor of these three papers, he announced in his salutatory that he "sent on the first number (of the 'Western Argus') to the patrons of the 'Beaver Gazette,' " giving as a reason that he had not had time to prepare a new list for the new paper. This would show that the "Beaver Gazette" was the paper then in existence, and the im- mediate predecessor of the "Western Argus," and not the "Crisis and Beaver Gazette." The last issue of the latter known to be in existence is dated April 18, 1816, while the last issue of the "Beaver Gazette" yet in existence, was dated April 4, 1818.