Sometimes a whole page or a whole form drops through, and falls into what printers call _pi_--that is, a mass of all sorts of letters, stops, marks, points, spaces, forming a jumble of everything--and involving the dire necessity of assorting over the whole mass, letter by letter. In isolated printing houses, where they have but few workmen, and assistance is not near, such a catastrophe is a serious matter. An instance of this kind, which happened many years ago in the county of Oneida, is in point. An editor was putting his paper to press (for in the country, editor and printer are often combined) when down fell his form--a wreck of matter and a crush of words. There was no other printing office nearer than Albany, and it was impossible for him to rearrange his types for the paper that week. But his paper must come out at all hazards, on account of the legal advertisements on the first side. He therefore hit upon the expedient of publishing his paper with a blank page, inserting in large letters, '_Omitted for want of room_!' But, after all, when it is considered of how many separate and minute pieces of metal a book form or the page of a newspaper is composed, the wonder is that errors of the press are not far more numerous than they are. A single page of one of our largest papers cannot contain less than 150,000 separate pieces of metal, each of which must be nicely adjusted in its own proper place, or error and confusion will ensue. But to return from this long digression of the early newspaper press of New York. A paper called the _New York Chronicle_ was published during the years 1761-'62, and then died. The _New York Pacquet_ was next published, in 1763, but how long it lived is not known. In 1766, Holt established the _New York Journal, or General Advertiser_, which in the course of the year was connected with Parker's _Gazette_, the _Journal_, however, being printed as a separate paper. John Holt edited the first Whig paper published in New York; nor, as in the case of Hugh Gaine, did his patriotism come and go as danger approached or receded from the city. In 1774, Holt discarded the King's arms, and took that engraving from the title of his paper, substituting in place of it, a serpent cut in pieces, with the expressive motto, 'Unite or Die.' In January, 1775, the snake was united and coiled, with the tail in its mouth, forming a double ring: within the coil was a pillar standing on Magna Charta and surmounted with the cap of liberty: the pillar on each side was supported by six arms and hands, figurative of the colonies. On the body of the snake, beginning at the head, were the following lines: 'United now, alive and free, Firm on this basis Liberty shall stand; And thus supported, ever bless our land, Till Time becomes Eternity.'