Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1846-02-26
THE NATIONAL PRESS;
A JOURNAL FOR HOME:


A Repository at Letters; A Record Of .Art;
A Mirror Of Passing Eremts.
To be Published every Saturday, at Two Dollars
Year, in Advance.
GEORGE P. MORRIS, Editor and Proprietor.
A NUMBER of the most eminent literary per-
N sons of this country, have proposed to the un-
designed to publish, under the above title,
A REFINED AND VALUABLE NEWSPAPER,
ITpon n plan combining the highest resources of
National Talent with the best elements of extensive
nonularity, and at so trihing annual cost will
place it within the convenient reach of
ALL CLASSES OF SOCIETY.
The control and management of this publication
will form the exclusive and undivided attention of
the Editor-whose long experience, ample ia ciites
and nractised care will be exerted to select, unite
and harmonise, the various skill which is willing to
seek development under his direction. The
SCOPE, DESIGN AND CHARACTER OF THIS
PAPER
Will differ from those of any journals heretofore
established. while it will comprehend all that they
contain of importance to the community The con-
tents will be fitted to engage the attention OF the
man of business, and be source of elegant instrtc-
ton and entertainment to the
DOMESTIC FIREsIDE AND FAMILY CIRCLE.
The leading characteristics of this paper will be
as follows:
inc occurrences in Literature, Society, and Art, both
at home and abroad. ~
9 A Foreign Correspondence of tried popularity
and acknowledged merit has been engaged, and viii
he commenced with the first number
g Productions in fiction, romance and historical
narratives: Sketches of the taste and mannees of Tho
time; ESSAYS after the manner of the Tattler ane
Spectator, on subjects connected with social int
rests; biographical notices and anecdotes literary
land professional, bon-mots, epigrams, and eegan
itres of every kind; the of the day, and th
comments that float upon the conversation Of thu
lbourmaterials of this kind will form the ordinary
staple of the work
4, The department of Criticism will exhibit ;
discriminating and popular survey of the Literar.
Productions Of the day. There will be thorough
and careful chronicle of every thing of value &C
demolished in Painting and Sculpture, and candle
land patriotic estimate of the National production
lin comparison with other countries. Such eXPosl
Ition of the character and special excellencics 0
what is exhibited in Music will be constantly given
as NAV lead to the more intelligent enjoyment o
that most imaginative and delicate branch of tn
Fine Arts
5. No original papers will appear, but those Q
obvious and decided merit; and the selections (whlc
will commonly be from the foreign journals tn
least known in this country will be made with tn
utmost attention and care.
The predominant design OF the Editor is to add
the Republic of Letters Weekly Journal, distinct
iIy and decidedly national in tone and features, an
lat the same time to avoid all connection with ner
party politics. THE NATIONAL PRESS will
lin brief combine the striking and novel attraction
of the newspaper, with the more abiding interest
the higher class of periodicals. 1t will be printed
the folio form, on large and superior paper, on
new and clear type, obtained expressly for the pun
nose, and will be- in its whole arrangement and dc
tails, favorable specimen of the best tyPographica
skill Of the country. In addition to these, and a
one of its most valuable Peculiarities, it will be- j
reference to the diversity of talent that will be EN-
iployed upon it, the cheapest paper IN the Ohite
States.
! TER.MS-Two dollars year, or three copies to
five dollars, invariably in advance.
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States, to the British Provinces, done up In stron
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fourteenth of February next.
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