The story of the Sun, New York: 1833-1928 / by Frank M. O'Brien ; with an introduction by Edward Page Mitchell ...

22 THE STORY OF "THE SUN"
that John Quincy Adams had accepted a nomination from
the Anti-Masons-was on an inside page. What was possibly of more interest to the readers, it was announced
that thereafter a ton of coal would be 2,000 pounds instead of 2,240-Lackawanna, broken and sifted, $6.50
a ton.
On Saturday, September 21, when it was only eighteen
days old, the Sim adopted a new headline. The letters
remained the same, but the eagle device of the first issue
was supplanted by the solar orb rising over hills and
sea. This design was used only until December 2, when
its place was taken by a third emblem-a printing press
shedding symbolical effulgence lupon the earth.
The Sut's first book notice appeared on September
23, when it acknowledged the sixtieth volume of the
Family Library (Harper), this being a biography of
Charlemagne by G. P. R. James. "It treats of a most
important period in the history of France." The Sun
had little space then for book reviews or politics. Of
its attitude toward the great financial fight then being
waged, this lone paragraph gives a good view:
The Globe of Monday contains in six columns the
reasons which prompted the President to remove the
public deposits from the United States Bank, which
were.read to his assembled cabinet on the 18th inst.
Nicholas Biddle and his friends could fill other papers
with arguments, but the Sun kept its space for police
items, stories of authenticated ghosts, and yarns about
the late Emperor Napoleon. The removal of William
J. Duane as secretary of the treasury got two lines on
a page where a big shark caught off Barnstable got three