898 APPENDIX. the Glazette. That paper was immediately enlarged^ and its columns declared free to the use of both parties. The editor says, " we shall hold our columns open to communications of all who may he disposed to engage in a liberal, dispassionate and manly discussion of such topics as may be deemed suffi- ciently interesting to engage the public attention, and shall afford every facility in our power to a free investigation of subjects of political importance.^' The second opponent of the Gazette was the Delaware Journal,'^ established and conducted under the supervision of the president and directors of the anti-masonic society. George Mason was employed to conduct and publish it. The excitement attendant upon the disappearance of Mor- gan, gradually died away, the anti-masonic society was dis- banded, and at the expiration of one year, the Delaware J our- nal closed its existence. This paper was afterwards revived by Bowne and McDonald, and after a brief existence, was again discontinued. There are at present, six weekly papers published in the county, viz. Weekly Visitor, Delaware Gazette, Delaware Ex- press, Bloomville Mirror, Deposit Union Democrat, and the Hobart Free Press, to each of which, we design giving a brief notice. For the following information, the author is indebted to S. D. Hulce, Esq., the able editor of the Deposit Union Demo- crat. THE CENTRAL SUN. The first attempt to establish a newspaper in Deposit, was in 1847, about the time, or soon after the announcement of the supposed discovery of the " Central Sun, from which circum- stance, the paper took its name.
