Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1817-10-02
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III s,!S AOCts ~ o't-'""e
kyHE people ot the United States are
re ,nrctlally mio.med that in Oc,u-
y uexr, there viii be Issued at the city
"A " ashlugton,a daily aud thllce q week
ewsp.psr, entitled
bias cry OF WASHINGTON GAZETTE.
f,icc, Daily, Ten Dollar, PEI annum; snd
II yh,ice L Week, wiz. Monday, Wei
na-daY and Friday Five Dollars
per aanum; To be Published eve
RI Afternoon al TWO O'CLOCK.
he size Of he sheet to ts Super-royaL
advertisements inserted at rhe
usual rates.
important public documents and state
,n,rs will be printed at full length
.mpe,ent reporter will be employed ia
k,rni,h the pro, ceilings OF Congress for
.e Gazette AMI all interesting articles
4 intelligence will be carefully selected
MI published.
PROSPECTUS.
The Editor If the WAsHINGroN City
GEgxLy GAZETTE, froai The patronage
u he has alreadv received, and the encgu-
kagement be Is promised, intends, in Oc-
kubcr next, 10 pa0lish 4 daily paper, and
!une three times a week. 10 the prOsecu-
lin OF this undertaking he has also been
y pged by other CAUSES, perhaps equally
powerful. When the extraordinary en-
rease f population in tine United States,
hui, Of course, the augmented demand
Tor infornation IRON the seat OF goverh-
h.snt, are taken into consideration, and
In. fact. that in the eastern section Of
he District of Columbia. embracing po-
NATION of near twenty thousand inhabl-
hufs. tharc Is bat one daily paper, the
eccssity and importance OF an addition
M cae must at once be obvious. What
yer NAV b. the ESTIMATION IN which
Washington is held, I to mercantile
Transactions and information, by those at
IA distance. it must be allowed, by all
Rwho know It, to be the greatest focus OF
|pp!i,ical Intelligence in the U. States
End tn. first point from which must ema-
bate all the information Of the country in
beiation 10 our ait:cal transactions.-
Much transpires that Ii lost frr the want
of Proper vehicle Of communication,
that would preserve its independence III
rayicwia5 the operations OF the govern
laent aud many measures al Importance
are p:r.it!el to slumber amid the rub
J.,,h Ut legislative business, because they
are no, duly considered Or properly dis
played. In the hurry OF, and perhaps,
we might also say, the inattenti1n some
times paid 10 legislative aflirs Of the
cluutry, it often happens that measures
Of dangerous political tendency, or, at
least, vi injurious consequences to the
nation, are adopted with but lite oppe-
siiun, because those consequences have
nut baea fully developed by the presses
al The seat Of government, and Ibis can
LIT be done BY journal issuing seldo 81
or than once day or three times week.
The one already in existence at this
lace, however well conducted, is not
sanicient far this purpose, because ,he
Eress Of pol. tical matter during the ses.
siln is so s,cat that one daily journal
cannot embrace the whole, and much
must therefore be lost.
In addition to this, it may be remark
ed, that, the columns Of the National In
telligencer ate devoted, almost exclu-
sively to the proceedings aud debates Of
the popular branch OF the national legis-
lature, whilst those of the senate are ne
elected, or forgotten. This exclusion OF
tie transactions of 20 digni6ed aud i'm.
poytaat a branch of our government, from
Inc public eye, has long been subject
# regret aud complaint TO the people #
This country, and, indeed, to tie Senate
itself. Same eIhrts have been made to
crafty the nation, by a full display Of the
proceedings oi this oraaCh Of the iesisla-
tIrc, bat thosc Efforts have uniformly
failed; and have tailed, 10. from tie
want OF proper encouragement and p
1,unase, but tlom causes it is not neces-
saIy here to dcyttopc. From TIC na;u
Ot tnings, one press, alone, cannot give
q full detail Of the debates and p,oceed-
ings al both houses Of Congress. To one,
therefore, an exclusive atteatInn has, hi
,berto been paid, TO the almost entire ne
s.cct Of the other. The Editor viii, how
eve labur 10 oJvia,e thiA Inconvenience
ana ,emrIy TINS evil, and endeavor TO
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