[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] in January, 1882, the present editor and proprietor took charge of the paper. The Republican, as its name implies, has always advocated the interests of the Republican party since j this party had an existence, having previously heen an equally stanch Whig partizan sheet. It is an eight-page paper, and is issued cm every succeeding Thursday. The next paper established in Sing Sing after the Westchester Herald was the Hudson River Chronicle, the issue of which was begun in the year 1837, by Alexander H. Wells. On his being appointed, two or three years later, to the position of surrogate of the county, he was succeeded by Edmund G. Suther-land. From Mr. Sutherland's possession the paper passed into the hands of James B. Swain, afterwards city editor of the New York Tribune, and the "Leo "of the New York Times. He was followed in the position of owner and editor by Abraham G. Levy, who, in 1851,