Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-05-15
PROSPECTUS
OF THE


UNITED STATES TIMES,
Weekly Newspaper to be published In
Washington City.
The undersigned, expecting soon to retire from
the position he has for some time held as sSupern-
tendeni Of the United States Census, intends 10
devote himself to the control and management OF
the REVIEW, of which, for the last nine years, he
has been the editor and proprietor, and TO the
publication in the City of Washington of weekly
newspaper with The above title.
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Of selections or extracts from articles admitted
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the day, home and foreign; the proceedings OF
| Congress and the acts Of the Government; lite
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Of public men; digest Of official reports, State and
Federal; the state Of the markets in the several
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supply, demand prices, etc.; the increase of the
country as shown by statistics. bringing down
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