The New York herald., 1851-12-04

he Royal Gazette, but plain fep1y N ns~spA-
per, entitled Rivimgtow's Nss0 Hvk 0szats and
ss vol in sleeps clotAing, and not nsstinS With
support, the publication OH terminaasd, and the
editorial lsbors of Rivington ended in 1883. Few
men Of his times were better qualifsd than the
editor OF the Royal Gazette, 70 publish newspaper.
keeping an eye to vindwsrd particularly after King
Sears and his men had destroyed his types, in IT'S,
ere truly remarkable. The following appeared in
the Royal Gssate Of July 10, l7s2, when there Vas
vington's shrewd and cautious style'-r
To THE PUBLIcThe publisher Of this paper sensible
that hs zeal for tho success Of bis Msjesys arms his
ssngune wshes for the good Of his country and his
friendship for iudviduas have ct tmes led him to ore
dit and circulate paragraphs without Investigating the
trusting to tS: ssiins. % s and Gepsndns on their gene
rosy he begs them to look over past and depend
nor s %
The R:ss Gs..i,s q Nv yai. . II Europe allow to
In the early part Of the revolutionary war, Riv.
ingtoA conducted his paper with as much Impair
tiality most of the editors Of that perod and it
was better printed. or more copiously furnished
with foreign intelligence. In October, l773, Ri
vington informed his readers that each impression
of his weekly Gazetteer amounted to $500 copies.
showed that it contained q, ,s76 inhabitants.
Rivipgton, who was an Englishman( (from London)
and came to scountry In l76O, as
continued his Goste sosn after the peace ofl7 his
interruptedly traded largely in books and station
cry several years Afterwards. He finally failed in
that business, and retired He died in July, 1902,
at the advanced ago of IS years.
Leaving Rivington and his interesting times, we
proceed With our list Of newspapers. In the au.
tumn of l7S3, John Holt, who had published q
patriotic paper in New York until the English took
posse Of the city, in l76 and had printed the
A,,~sv fha ak [iup \
and then at Poug ghkeepsie-comm the publ
cation, in this city, of the independent Gase or,
the M,e York Journal Revirek. After his death,
tinued by his widow, and afterwards by Oswald, .
kinsman of Mrs. Holt. Oswald had been a colonel
in the American army. In January, 1871. Eliza
beth Holt, andl Oswald, (yho died in l79o,) soli
their right in the Journal and the printing esta.
bliskment, to Thomas Greenleaf. The Journal,
under his control, opposed the administration of
Washington with great virulence. Under Mrs.
ss Holt .S Sa Pyn i had the adoption pss" %
Arlington, Massachusetts,, and was taught the trade
of printer, by the celebrated Isaiah Thomas, tho
founder Of the Antiquarian Society at Worcester.
weekly paper: under different names, was continued
by Greenleaf until his death by yellow fever, in
l19S, at the age of AZ years. After his decease his
widow published the Journal for time, but event.
ualy sold the establishment to James Cheetham,
an Englisbman, who altered the title of both the
daily and semi weekly paper The daily paper he
called the american Citizen, and the semi-weekly
bore the title of the American Watch Totcer.
Cheetham wrote with force and style that occa-
sionally closely resembled the renowned letters of
Junius The Amgitan Citizen existed from 1901
to 1870 and was decidedly democratic in its charac-
ter. In the political quarrels in the republican
party, Cheetham co-operated with Gov. George
Clinton, Dewitt Clinton, and their friends and VIC.
lently attacked Aaron Burr and his associates But,
beyond all doubt, the best democratic paper of the
times in which Cheetham hourished, was Duqne's
Amoro, published in Philadelphia file of which
is to be found in our library
In l7sS was commenced the publication of Nc.
Leans Ner York Gazette, afterwards published by
John Lang, Lang & Turner, and Lang, Turner &
Co. The Gd.dte continued to be published until
after the death of Mr.. Lang, and its subscription
list was purchased by the proprieors Of the Journal
of Comnnrce, in 1910; and thus ended the Gazdte,
after an existence Of more than half century. The
New York Eve,ing Post, by l.. Wayland and
Matthew l.. Davis, was started in 1874, but lasted
only about year. The Commercial advertiser was
established in 1897; and in 1901 was commenced
the New York Erening Post, the same establish
ment which is continued to eur own times; still
shedding the lights of wisdom, experience, and
learning upon its admirers
The following are the dates when the daily
papers published in this city or previous to the
LIST Of January, 1851, were established, viz