sailed for England the same day that The Revolution published its first issue and shortly afterwards was jailed for supporting Irish independence. Train provided a total of only $3000 for the paper, although his business associate David Melliss provided another $7000. On May 8, 1869, The Revolution announced that its relationship with Train had officially ended. Personnel expenses were necessarily kept to a minimum. Pillsbury, a professional editor who had worked at other newspapers, was paid a small salary. Stanton received no salary at all, and Anthony received only expenses. The paper cost about $20,000 per year to operate. The number of subscribers, who paid $2 per year, reached 2000 at the end of the first year and 3000 at the end of the second. Getting new subscriptions was made more difficult by laws that gave husbands control over their families' finances: few husbands liked the idea of their wives reading a journal that called for a revolution in gender relations. Advertising brought in additional revenue but not enough to sustain the paper, forcing Anthony to borrow substantial amounts of money. Attempts were made to bring Harriet Beecher Stowe (author of Uncle Tom's Cabin) and her sister Isabella Beecher Hooker onto the editorial staff, which would have broadened the paper's appeal. Both had already published articles in the paper. Negotiations foundered, however, first over the name of the paper, which the two sisters wanted to change to The True Republic, and then over the paper's coverage of a prominent social scandal in which Stanton took the unpopular stance of supporting the woman involved. Stanton defended the newspaper's name, saying, "There could not be a better name than Revolution. The establishing of woman on her rightful throne is the greatest revolution the world has ever known or ever will know." Twenty-nine months after the paper's first issue, Anthony conceded defeat and transferred the paper to other hands. She took personal responsibility for the newspaper's $10,000 debt, which she paid off with the proceeds of her next six years on the lecture circuit. The NWSA afterwards depended on other periodicals, such as The National Citizen and Ballot Box, edited by Matilda Joslyn Gage, and The Woman's Tribune, edited by Clara Bewick Colby, to represent its viewpoint. Bullard editorship Anthony sold The Revolution for one dollar on May 26, 1870, to Laura Curtis Bullard, who became its new editor, with Edwin A. Studwell