American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1851, 1851-03-24

WASHINGTON |,
MONDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH "a.
10 THE PUBLIC.

out permanent success. We are, nevertheless,
induced to believe that the public interests Of
Washington and vicinity demand such a news
paper, and that the present is On suspicious
occasion to make another experiment. Large
accessions have been made to the wealth and
population of the place within the last few
years, and at no former period has this commu-
nifty, or the country at large, been blessed with
a higher degree of prosperity. The "magnii-
cent distances" for which the city was formerly
distinguished, have been gradually filing up
with shops and dwellings, some of them of a
character to do honor to the enterprise and
lberality of their owners; and troops of citizens
are now threading streets and avenues where
cattle found pasture dozen years ago. In that
length of time the population of the city has
been doubled and its wealth and business en-
HANGED in greater proportion.
These circumstances, with others which we
might recite, induce the belief, that cheap
newspaper, devoted chiefly to the interest of the
community, will receive hearty and cordial
support.
In making this remark, we by no means in
tend to discredit the several very able and eff
cient journals already in existence here. They
are all, in their several vocations, rendering
important and indispensable services to the
parties and interests to which they are at
sched but their very nature, as metropolitan
Journals, precludes the possibility Of their be-
slowing the degree of attention which even the
political journals of other cities give to local
matters. To this circumstance, and to the
high rates at which the Washington papers are
published, the penny papers of Baltimore owe
their extensive circulation amongst US. We
will add, that they eminently deserve sue
cess by their untiring industry and enterprise
in disseminating news at the cheapest rate at
which it is possible to furnish it. We will not
play the illiberal and envious part of carping
ut them for their prosperity. We shall be
proud to recognise them as powerful co-labor-
ers in the cause of civilization, and shall only
aspire to equal them in efficiency and utility.
We doubt not that the editors of those papers
have at heart the interests of our community
and by their numerous intelligent correspond
ents in Washington and the neighboring towns
of Alexandria and Georgetown, they furnish us
with the news of events that transpire at our
very DOORS Nevertheless, they cannot in the
nature of things give that seepless attention and
conspicuous place to the interests of this com
munity which newspaper of similar character
published here would do. They furnish us the
news in the morning from all parts of the
world, with the greatest promptitude; and the
Sun and Clipper have become as indispensable
as tea and coffee With this arrangement we
have no intention to interfere; it is at once
cheap, convenient, and useful What we propose
is, to furnish our community with additional in
teigence, in the afternoon, from every quarter of
the country and of the world, which we can do
by means of the telegraphic wires, together with
the local news of the day. In the nature of
things, we shall also give more minute atten
ton to the interests and wants of the commu-
nifty in which we reside, than can be bestowed
by journals published in distant city.
Although we shall refrain from entering the
arena of party politics, we have no intention to
tie our hands upon great questions of public
policy which at present or may in future interest
the public mind. Whatever affects the public
veal Of this community, and of the country at
large, win command our attention and with
out meaning to make any boastful promises, we
shall always be found advocating whatever
tends to elevate the masses of manlind-to dis
seminate education and knowledge, and liberal
principles in government and religion. While
we shall scrupulously uphold the rights of all
classes-while we cherish proper degree of
contempt and scorn for the canting demagogue-
ism which would make favor with the poor by
decrying the rich, we shall nevertheless make
it q special object Of attention to point out the
thousand ways in which the rights, interests
and welfare Of the laboring classes are neg
lected, to the detriment as much of the public
at large as Of themselves This neglect we be-
lieve to be inadvertent, in a great degree, on
the part Of the more favored classes; and we
do not, and shall not, attribute it to the pride
and selfishness which constitute the themes of
demagogues. Doubtless those qualities are ut
the bottom Of many species of wrong and neg
lect which the poor endure, and in cases where
no more charitable construction is admissible,
we shall not hesitate to speak the truth plainly.
But accustomed rs we are to look at the fairer
side Of human nature, we hope to be able to
trace the greater number Of social evils to an
cicnt usage, originating in barbarous age, be-
fore the principles of universal brotherhood and
equality were acknowledged principles in gov
eminent and religion.
However desirable it may be to "place the
best foot foremost in oil our undertakings
we regard IL as impossible to do so in the COM
mencement Of newspaper enterprise Our
exchange papers are not receivable, our cor