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 HISTORY OF BEAVER COUNTY PAPERS. 'Argus?' Why this anxiety to destroy me? Since my talents are not of that superior order as to excite envy, much less excite svich a combination of talent against me. Yet a little while and all these petty quarrels of puny mortals shall be silenced forever, and although Beaver county in the estimation of Mr. Henry is too contracted a space for us both to breathe in, yet less room vi'ill serve us in that land of cessation,' vrhere 'the vricked cease from troubling and the vrearj are at rest.' The editor of the 'Argus' has causelessly provoked this quarrel. He is welcome now to do his worst. 'Lay on M'Duff,' and if we do not apply the lex talionis, it will be our own fault." In the issue of February 26, 1829, the publishers are given as James Logan and James Sharp, and May 5, 1833, A. Logan is named as editor and proprietor. The paper carried the name of Andrew Jackson as the Democratic- Republican candidate for President. Joseph Conrad and Andrew Logan were applicants for postmaster at Beaver, and the "Argus" referring to the applicants for the office, in its issue of April 27, 1832, had this scathing editorial : "All parties have confidence in the integrity and uprightness of intention of the former — in the latter there are but few of any party that have that confidence. But he is a Jackson printer who stops at nothing, and will no dovibt receive his reward." When Mr. Logan received the appointment of postmaster the "Argus" gave him an editorial warming up, characteristic of the times in newspaper writing. In the same issue the "Argus" refers to Mr. Phillips, one of the editors of the "Pitts- burg Manufacturer," as connected at one time with A. Logan in printing the "Eepublican." In the issue of the "Eepublican" of March 12, 1834, the following article appeared, .which showed the lack of friendly feeling between the two Democratic papers: "To our patrons — On Friday evening last we lent our subscription book to Dr. Barker, who promised faithfully