The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-06-29
PROSPECTUS OF THE TWELFTH VOLUME
BALTIMORE
SATURDAY VISITER,

SATURDAY VISITE
A weekly family newspaper of large size, published
every Saturday morning in Baltimore Maryland
at 81 per annum, in advance
J. EVANS SNODGRASS, Editor.
The g Vsiter" is the only literary family paper
published in the State of Maryland, and enjoys
wider circulation than any other paper IN Baltimore
The first number of the twelfth volume was ISSUED
on the 9Th of January, 1912. To those who have
found this paper welcome Vister for eleven years
il is unnecessary 10 describe it. For the benefit Of
others, we may Just hint that it is a LaRGE f.fH
lily .NEWSP.lPER devoted TO Morals, Science
Literature, and General Information, including due
quantity of Agricultural facts, CLEANED from the bes
agricultural publications of this country and Europe
II contains Foreign and Home Correspondence, Is
says, Poetry, Tales, &c, &C., written expressly fol
the paper by the pens of some of the most popular
writers in America. The productions of the abes
Authors in Europe also, viii be found in IFS pages.
| The following are among the contributors to the
"VISlTER"
CONTRIBUTORS.
Rev l.. Y. Reese, Rev Leander Kerr, Prof j. r.
w. Dunbar, Prof Edward Foreman, Prof. Chaplin A.
Harris, DIR. c. G. Cox, DIR. James Hamilton, Dr. John
Fonerden, Messrs. NJ. Topham Evans, Il. $. Arthur
author of +" The Subordinate w H. Carpenter, J
B. Jones' author OF Western Scenes" l.. T. Voigt
f. +. Colburn, j. Austin Sperry, J. +, 5. Rochester
Thomas G. Atkinson, pr J. w. Geyer, Mrs. Lydia
Jane Pierson, Mrs Amelia b. Welby, Miss Esther
yid Hoffman, ESD, n c. Brooks, AM, Messrs. @
Barbour, f. G. Squer, $. F. Glenn, NJ s Lovett, E.
Tudor Horton, George Yellot Esq, /" Milford Bard, :
Author of g The Deserted Husband,n John Smith OF
Jno,, y Author off, A Doctors MSS Sc, &c.
Besides articles from regular Contributors the Pub
Usher will be prepared to give re-publicaons of the
choicest tales, &c. from the popular foreign maya
zines as they arrive monthly. We are determined
to render the ''Viser the most useful paper in the
country To this end, we will avoid the re-publica-
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the mammoth sheets are forced to print, merely to I'LL
up in time. Such matter is untitled for the family
circle and therefore, has no business in family
Our aim is to do good not harm,
In order to render the g Nsiter' appropriate for
natives of Baltimore and others desiring to take
paper containing the city news, shall constantly
keep eye to news about town. and shall do what
the daily print cannot accomplish, viz; give full
record of all hymenal and obituary news,
PREMIUMS.
Anxious to extend their usefulness, by the extern
sion of the circulation far beyond me usual circula
ton of such papers, the publisher offers the following
enticRg premiums (Such as cannot be tran mltted
by Mail will be sent in such way the claimants
may direct) We viii send, for So postage paid one
copy of the paper and one of the Phoenix and Bud
get " monthly magazine containing the most pleas
ING and useful contents of he Nsiter " commencing
with the number for lS4l. The regular price OF this
monthly is 81 80
Five dollars will likewise secure hco copies of the
paper and tico of 'rale, from Shakespeare by the
late Charles l.amb-a prose work beautifully Illus
trated with eight fine engrayings This book would
cost 81 30 in country stores.
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one of that inesmable female treasure, Burnap's
g Lectures on the Spheres and Duties of Women, y
and one, also, of the " Widow Morrison, by the au-
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and one copy of the whole of Josephusn in one vo-
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