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APPENDIX. 403 per week, and lias, at a fair estimate, twelve thousand weekly readers. I copy the following appropriate remarks from the speech of the Hon. D. S. Dickinson, at Delhi, to the National Demo- crats, February 29th, 1854 : " It is said you have no press : remember this is not without a remedy. When the arid plains of Israel had become parched and heated by a long continued drought, so that all nature was burned and withered under the scorching rays of an eastern sun, at the invocation of the prophet there appeared upon the dis- tant horizon, a little cloud no bigger than a man's hand, which gave out signs of abundance of rain, and its refreshing influ- ences fertilized the earth, and gladdened the hearts of the people. And when the hot breath of sectional discord has withered and blasted the beauty of old Delaware's political verdure, when her sons have become thirsty for a return of the refreshing showers which formerly blessed them, they may de- scry in the distance a little cloud to cheer old Delaware, a little cloud (Bloomville Mirror,) which, though scarcely bigger than a man's hand, gives promise of copious streams of healing waters, which will cure all political diseases, and preserve the healthy from contagion." WEEKLY VISITOR. The Weekly Visitor" was established by George W. Reynolds, at Franklin, Delaware county, N. Y. The editor published his prospectus, March 28th, 1855. He says : ^' The ^ Visitor' will be printed on a sheet twenty-four by thirty-six inches, containing twenty-eight columns of matter, and in point of type and workmanship will be equal to any news-journal in this region. " As a sheet of useful, entertaining, and instructive household