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agriculture, Interesting foreign and domestic publica-
tions, and essays (here he pledged himself to reject,
"instructed by youthful errors ... pieces which con-
tain invectives against private citizens, or reflec-
tions that might in any manner injure their reputations,
as well as all religious discussions".)¹⁹

However, the day of successful triweekly publica-
tions in Baltimore seemed to be over. Two daily papers
were flourishing in the city, Yundt and Patton's
Federal Intelligencer and Edwards's Baltimore Daily
Advertiser, and during the 1790's no newspaper of less
frequency seemed to meet with any degree of success.
It is regrettable, but by no means surprising that, on
the following January, this announcement appeared:

J. Hayes presents Ms respectful compliments
to his friends and patrons, who were so kind as
to set their names to his late proposal for a
newspaper, and informs them, that not procuring
a sufficient number for its support, he has
been induced to decline the same - But their
encouragement on this occasion, though unsuc-
cessful, will ever bo gratefully remembered.²⁰

With this defeat, Hayes gave up newspaper publish-
ing, but perhaps not all his ambitions in the periodical
field, for on December 27, 1796 there appeared an
advertisement that "Subscriptions for the Magazine of
Knowledge, by Wilmer and Hayes, will be received at

19 Federal intelligencer, October 31, 1794.

20 Ibid. January 17, 1795.