The New era. [volume] ([Portsmouth, Va.]) 1845-1847, 1847-03-06
PROSPECTUS t.II[
ESTERN CONTINENT.

WESTERN CONTINENT,
a Southern Family Newspaper Of the largest
size. Published erery Saturday in the City
Of Baltimore, by Samuel Smith s. Co. Ed
tied by W. L. Thompson. author Of" Major
Jones Courtship," g Chronicles Of Pine
rance
NTE have long regarded il most humiliatng
w reflection upon the south, that no piroiesscdly
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 that the pa
pcrs of this class published in the large Northern
cities possess advantages those OF the country,
which, IN n measure, defy competition. But here
the is different. Baltimore andng as does
the frontier of the Southern States, is near
hf S.g e boz bs dgS
hood of great American cities, and to enjoy all the
advantages as radiating point, which are 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 literature of the day, foreign
and domestic, that are enjoyed by the journals of
| the Northern cities. The w gsTERN CONTINENT is
as large, as cheap and can be better adapted TO The
,cants and tastes of Southern readers than those Nor
thcrn papers which now draw so large amount
of their patrona gre from the Southern public.
Entertaining these views, 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 it's publication
with firm conviction that all that is necessary to
secure for it circulation equal to that OF it's North
crn contemporaries, is faithful and energetic de-
votion our best abilities make it useful and
entertaining Family Journal. 1t is our design to
make the WESTERN CoNTINENT cmphatcally
Southern family paper, that may be read with in
tcrest and profit by every member of Southern
| family. With this view, we shall dI aw for our lit.
crary department. from the best sources such mat
ter will interest and entertain the mind with
out offending the taste or corrupting the morals Of
our readers.
Pains will be taken TO give the latest intelligence
on all subjects OF 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 weeklies
OF the North In word, though we shall endea-
to make paper interesting to all. our chief
aim shall be to adapt it to the wants and tastes OF
the people of the South and South est, upon
whom, and those of our city who arc disposed
| to sustain such journal, we must mainly depend
RELYING more upon the intrinsic merits of our pa.
per, than any promises mi ght make in pros
pectus will close by appealing to the readers of
the South and West Tor share of that patronage
wecklies of the North.
| TERms-The Western Continent is printed on
mammoth sheet of 80 by ID inches, on fair type,
and securely mailed to subscribers, at Two Dor
LAns ANNUM ADVANCE. Three copies will
be SCI for So, or Seven copies for $40
All letters the business of subsc ri ptons to be
~ ~ ' ' wy w. +. THOMPSON.
SAMUEL SMITH,.
Baltimore, August, ls46-oct6
CPICES! SPICES 1.-THE subscriber ha Just
| - received lot of FRESH SPICES, such as
| Mace White Mustard Seed
Ginger White Black 90 do
Alspice Long Pepper
Gloves Black do
| Cinnamon Garlic &C., Sc,
suitable for Picking, to which he invites the atten
Aug IS p Corner Of High and M i'd Tests
! GENUINE POPULAR MEDICINES
| VI Just received full supply Of the following
valuable and genuine Preparations. We warrant
every article sold by us Ia be the genuine, and di-
rect from the hands OF the Proprieors =
Sands Sarsaparilla, Bristol's Sarsaparilla
| Hungarian Balsam Life Bull Sarsaparilla
Syrup Tar and Naphtha DIR. Jayne's Preparations
! Iarranps APerient Doctor Swaynes Syrup
Sugar Coated Pills Wild Cherry
Ali. Healing Ointment Crimson letter Wash
Indian Vegetable Pills Lucina Cordial
Dandclon and Tomato Swaim's Panacca
! Panacca Fahuestock's Vermifug &c
Houck's Panacea Briackcrhon's Medicine
Sure Cure Ague and Fe- Barnes Pile Lotion
yer Pills Hays Eminent for Piles
Wistar's Baisam Wild c. GARDENERS Linimcnt,
Cherry &c, &c.
With general assortment of Pure and Genuine
DRUGS, MEDICINES, PAINTS OILS, GLASS,
&c, &C., which will be sold at the very lowest pri
ces. CHAS. II. HEINITSII, Agent,
Member of tho Philadelphia College of
Octl Pharmacy and Chemistry.
DRIME RED GLOVER SEED.-wc have
Of PRISONS %smg good
sound Seed will please call early. For sale at the
Drug Store, Sign Of the Big Mort .,Tr..,, 80.
| Oct % CHAS. H. HEINlTSH, Agent.
IN IFEOF MAJOR GENERAL ZACHA-
! - RY TAYLOR; with an account of his bril-
liant achievements on the Rio Grande and else
where, including the defence of Fort Harrison and
the Battle of Okcc-Cbo Bee Also sketches of the
livcs and heroic acts of Maj. Riugold, Mai. Brown,
Col. Cross, Capt. Montgomery, Capt May. Capt.
! Walker, Lieut.. Ridgcley, Blake. Jordan, SC,
by G. Frank Powell, illustrated with Portrait Of
Gen. Taylor price only % cents. Call quick if
| you want a copy.
i AugS w. II. H. HODGES & CO.
| A CARD.-Thcre is an impression prevalent
IN here that another person is connected with the
business of this shop. ] would beg leave most re-
spcctfully to say, that il is not so. am my
own hook, " mako or break" and shall cDdcavoT
by close attention and low prices to merit liberal
share Of public patronage. -
DANIEL s. CHERRY.
| Tin and COppcrsmitb,
| I,I rpJc I,c Old Dominion nficc.D