The New era. [volume] ([Portsmouth, Va.]) 1845-1847, 1847-01-07
PROSPECTUS
THE
WESTERLY ENT.

"A Southern Family Newspaper Of the iarge,t
size. Published erery Saturday in The City
OF Baltimore. by Samuel Smith & Co. Ed.
lied by W. r. Thompsd8. author Of, Major
jones Comtship," :. Chronicles Of Pine.
uiIle, Sc, Sc. Terms, Tuo Dollars IN adj
Uance
WE have long regarded it most humiatng
w reflection upon the south, that no ptofesscdly
neutral family journal has yet been sustained with
in her borders. We have tested the experiment
whether such paper could not be supported at the
Immediate South, and though not wholly unsuc-
cessful our experience has taught us that the pc.
pers of this class published in the large Northern
cities possess advantages over those of the country
which, in measure, defy competition. But here
the case is different Baltimore, standing as it does
on the frontier of the Southern States, is yet near
enough 10 the great commercial, literary and pc.
Utica emporium, to be included in the neighbor
hood of great American cities, and 10 enjoy all the
advantages, as radiating point, which pos.
sessed by either PHILADELPHIA, Boston or New York
paper Issued from Baltimore has all the facilities
for obtaining the latest literary intelligence, as
well as the current tera ture of the day, foreign
and domestic, that arc enjoyed by the journals of
the Northern cities. The WESTERN Continent is
as large cheap, and can be better adapted to HE
1oans and tastes Of Southern readers than those Nor
thern papers which now draw so large amount
of their patronage from the Southern public.
Entertaining these view VS., we have looked with
confidence to the success of the CONTINENT. Eight
months experience has tended to strengthen that
confidence, and now we enter upon its publication
with firm conviction that all that is necessary to
for it circulation equal that OF its North
contemporaries, Is faithful and energetic de-
voton OF our best Abilities TO make II uscfu and
entertaining Family Journal. II is design TO
make the WESTERN Continent emphatcaIly
Southern family paper, that may be read with in.
tcrcst and profit by every member of Southern
family. With this view we shall Oh aw for lit.
crary department, from the best sources, such mat
ter will ,rrest and entertain the mind with
out offending tho taste or corruptng the ais OF
our readers.
Pains will be takerio give the estintelligence
on all subjects o interest to the general reader
the exclusion of the vast amount OF local matte.
such as personal gossip, police reports, theatrical
and other criticisms, which make up so large pOr
ton OF the staple of some OF the popular wecklic
OF the North. In word though we shall endca
vor to make paper interesting to all. our chiel
aim shall be to adapt it to the wants and tastes OF
the people of the South and South West, uror
whom, and those of our own city who disposed
to sustain such journal, must mainly depend
for support
Relying more upon the intrinsic merits of our pa.
per, than on any promises we ight make in pros
pectns, we will close by appealing to the reader If
the South and w est Tor share of that pa ronagc
which they so liber ally bestow upon the overgrown
weckies of the North.
TERMs-The Western Continent is prnted OF
mammoth sheet of 80 by ID inc hes, on fair type,
and securely mailed to subscribers, at Two Dot
LARS Err ANNUM IN ADVANCE. Three copies will
be sent for s5 or Seven copies for $40.
All letters the business of subsc riptions to be
| addressed, post paid to the editor.
W.T.THOMPSoN.
SAMUEL SMITH.
Baltimore, august, lSd6-Oct6