Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-11-13
PROSPECTUS
OF THE

UNITED STATES lime
Weekly Newspaper to be PuDhshed IN
Washington City.
The undersigned, expecting soon to retire from
the position he has for some time held asSupern-
tendent of the United States Census, intends to
devote himself TO the control and management OF
the REviEw Of which, for the last nine years, he
has been the edi,or 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
into the REVIEW but mainly OF other original lite
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matters including digests Of the current events of
the day, home and foreign; the proceedings OF
Congress and the acts of the Government; hte-
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leading and popular topics; biographical sketches
of public men; digest Of official reports, State and
Federal; the state OF the markets in the several
arge ciies the progress and prospects of crops;
supply, demand, prices, ETC.; the increase OF the
country as shown by statistics, bringing down
those of the National Census always 10 date.
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management and large and well.selected cor
ment Family Newspaper which shall be adapted
to the wants of every community; imparting
musement and information, and political, only 10
the extent Of maintaining the institutions Of the
country and defending the rights and sovereignty
of the States
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which il presents for obtaining material of every
kind through the action Of the Smithsonian lnsii-
tuition, the Patent Office, and the National Agr-
cultural Convention, etc, and the several Bureaus
and Departments of Government, from its cont
guilty to the large commercial cities from the e1-
tended, exciting, and all important interests that
concentrate upon IT, is, perhaps, the most eligible
location for such journal, and ample guarantees
of it's success have already been received, twill
be printed in folio for the convenience Of binding
and similar in style to the New York Albion.
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circulation, il will be enlarged from ll2 TO lao
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.ors.
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embraced in as pages, valuable for future refer
cnce.
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the whole work, or who may only solicit in
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to time, in the work
WASHINGTON, Nov. %, 1854.
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