Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-11-29
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UNITED STATES TIM ES,
Weekly Newspaper to be published II
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Weekly Newspaper to be published IN
Washington City.
The undersigned, expecting soon 10 retire from
the position he has for some time held Superin-
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 aweekly
newspaper with the above title.
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of selections or extracts from articles admitted
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Congress and the acts Of the Government; lite
rary and scientific sketches and essays upon
leading and popular topics; biographical sketches
OF pubic men digest of official reports, State and
Federal; the state of the markets in the several
arge cities; 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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ment a Family Newspaper which shall he adapted
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country and defending ,bs rights and sovereignty
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kind through the action Of the Smithsonian lnsti.
tuition. the Patent Office, and the National Agrl-
cultural Convention, etc. and the several Bureaus
and Departments of Government, from its cont
guilty 10 the large commercial cities, from the ex-
tended exciting, and all important interests that
concentrate upon il. is, perhaps, the most eligible
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