The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1840-04-30
PROSPECTUS OF The
CAROLINA BEACON.
AID
.HeirOpOfifRR Omnibus.

gREIE world is constantly changing people
~ are changing, and customs, manners and
habits are changing. Tie arIs aud sciences are
striding ahead ia the way Of improvement dashing
along our mountains. through n7ers, aUd sur
mounting obstacle after obstacle i;h the speed a.
Hazcppa's stecd Ia the place the mean, ragged
dirty sheets, called newspapers, whIch were tor
merly sent forth, sc now see large C8a'ly plGtgd,
spirited hehdominals and dalies, on oil sides. II
the newspapcrial world particularly, has this i'm
proyemeul d the age been manliest-4nd the nilu.
ence Of the newspaper press IS daily growing more
powerful. Instead Of rickCty coaches and carts,
we now dash over land al the taot queer machines,
puffinp and smoking along al fearful rnic and
10 place Of barges and san boats. VIC now defy the
winds, and stem tides aud currents 81 iiie aid Of
al powerful Steam.
ia the nc&spaporial world, mighty ard won
dcriul revolution is al hand. Il has already shown
itself in some OF our principal cltics-a ic@ coun.
tfy papers have caught the charm, and It IA grad.
uany gaining ground Throughout ills mighty
country, In North Carolina, this has not yei
show itself; and the people seem content with the
uld.iashloned sleepy concerns which are yet pub
lishcd here, devoted 10, and their numbering col
umns flCd with, dirty, blacLguard, schemlng
dutaoral!zing Politics-tfeanst their attention has
not yet been directed towards that splehtly, dash
ing, independent comprehensive, go-aAead modern
style which Is nov outstrpiug every thing else
There s lack of steam about most newspaper.
now a-days,--they navigate on tae Old pIau-~.hcy
have not We, adopted modern conirigaGccs for
dashing ahead. They are behind the times, q
and the improvements Of the age.
In nelgs.matters, the " bacon viii hc prompt
and aocutate, giving the cream Of every thing that
occurs, in a pleasant, condensed shape, without
uearying the reader with dull details.
In philosophy ant scieHce we have an espccia
assistant--a most sage and crudltc parsonage
whose abilities are unsurpassed, and whose attcn
ton viii be assduously directed toward the enter
tainment and instruction Of those who read the
Beacon.
10 Politics, the Beacon will be truly iadspeHd
ent--net neutral, by any means, Understand Us.
but INDEPENpESr that is, we lolH say irh1i u,
please, neither counting favor nor fearing enmity
We bate the Loco Focos, but we do not like the
Wings better than oursCll or the people at largo
therefore we choose to 90 for A, No. / and for the
people generally in preference to any thing o.
any body else. As, however, il becomes every
good citizen TO take some interest, in the political
affairs Of his country, aDd in the result of the ap.
preaching csntcst for the Presidency, &c, We
shall devote portion Of the several numbers Of
paper lssued before the election 10 the consd.
GRAFTON of matters aud things, men aud deings.
connected herewith, After that, we shall turn
cur attention more exclusively TO literary matters,
religion, philosophy, agriculture and the fair sex
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The remission Oh twenty dollars
Raleigh, N. c., February, 1910.