He was then again cowskinned by Mr. Bryant of the _Post_, and was most unpoetically flogged near the American Hotel. He has always been the slave of avarice, cowardice, and meanness.... The next time he sees fit to attack the penny press we hope he will confine himself to facts. A month later the _Sun_ went after Colonel Stone again: The colonel ... for the sake of an additional glass of wine and a couple of real Spanish cigars, did actually perpetrate a most excellent and true article, the first we have seen of his for a long time past. Now we have serious thoughts that the colonel will yet become quite a decent fellow, and may ultimately ascend, after a long course of training, to a level with the penny dailies which have soared so far above him in the heavens of veracity. It must be said of Colonel Stone that he was a man of literary and political attainments. He was editor of the _Commercial Advertiser_ for more than twenty years. The colonel did not reform to the _Sun’s_ liking at once, but the feud lessened, and presently it was the _Transcript_--a penny paper which sprang up when the _Sun’s_ success was assured--to which the _Sun_ took its biggest cudgels. One of the _Transcript’s_ editors, it said, had passed a bogus three-dollar bill on the Bank of Troy. Another walked “on both sides of the street, like a twopenny postman,” while a third “spent his money at a theatre with females,” while his family was in want. But, added the _Sun_, “we never let personalities creep in.” The New York _Times_--not the present _Times_--had also started up, and it dared to boast of a circulation “greater than any in the city except the _Courier_.” Said the _Sun_: If the daily circulation of the _Sun_ be not larger than that of the _Times_ and _Courier_ both, then may we be hung up by the ears and flogged to death with a rattle-snake’s skin. The _Sun_ took no risk in this. By November of 1834 its circulation was above ten thousand. On December 3 it published the President’s message in full and circulated fifteen thousand copies. At the beginning of 1835 it announced a new press--a Napier, built by R. Hoe & Co.--new type, and a bigger paper, circulating twenty thousand. The print paper was to cost four-fifths of a cent a copy, but the _Sun_ was getting lots of advertising. With the increase in size, that New Year’s Day, the _Sun_ adopted the motto, “It Shines for All.” which it is still using to-day. This motto doubtless was suggested by the sign of the famous Rising Sun Tavern, or Howard’s Inn, which then stood at the junction of Bedford and Jamaica turnpikes, in East New York. The sign, which was in front of the tavern as early as 1776, was supported on posts near the road and bore a rude picture of a rising sun and the motto which Day adopted.