John Vance, who is said to have worked twelve years without a vacation, left the _Sun_ about that time because Mr. Beach refused to name him as editor-in-chief. Vance was a good writer, but he and Beach were often at odds over the _Sun’s_ policies. It probably was Vance’s influence that kept the paper in line for Douglas in the Presidential campaign of 1860--a campaign in which the _Sun_ was run for two months by Beach and for three months by the Morrisonites. Vance, in spite of his leaning toward Douglas, was an intimate friend of Elihu Burritt, the Learned Blacksmith, who was an Abolitionist and an advocate of universal brotherhood. On Beach’s return to the _Sun_ he set out to recover its lost advertising and to restore some of the livelier news features that had been suppressed by the Morrison group. Early in the summer of 1862 he began to shift advertising from the front page, to make room for the big war head-lines that had been run on the second page. He also used maps and woodcuts of cities, ships, and generals. The _Sun’s_ pictures of the Monitor and the Merrimac were printed in one column by deftly standing the gallant iron-clads on their sterns. It was in this summer that Beach reduced expenses and speeded up the issue of the paper by adopting the stereotyping process, one of the greatest advances in newspaper history: About a week ago we commenced printing the _Sun_ by a new process--that of stereotyping and printing with two presses. We are much gratified to-day in being able to say that the process has proved eminently successful. From this time forth we may expect to present a clean face to our many readers every day. We have completed one stereotype within seventeen minutes and a quarter, and two within nineteen minutes and a half. That was rapid work for 1862, but the stereotypers of the present day will take a form from the composing-room, make the papier-mâché impression, pour in the molten metal, and have the curved plate ready for the press in twelve minutes. The new process saved Beach a lot of money as well as much precious time. Before its coming, when the paper was printed directly from the face of the type, the _Sun_ had to buy a full new set of type six or eight times a year, at an annual cost of six thousand dollars. The war played havoc with newspaper finances. The price of news-print paper rose to twenty-four cents a pound. All the morning papers except the _Sun_ raised their prices to three or four cents in 1862. The _Sun_ stayed at its old penny. On January 1, 1863, in order to meet advancing costs and still sell the _Sun_ for one cent, Beach found it necessary to “remove one column from each side of the page”--a more or less ingenuous way of saying that the _Sun_ was reduced from seven columns to five. The columns were shortened, too, and the whole paper was set in agate type. The _Sun_ then looked much as it had appeared twenty years before.