Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-06-12
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UNITED STATES TIM ES,
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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 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 10 the
publication in the City of Washington Of a weekly
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Congress and the acts of the Government; lite
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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 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 Away. 10 date.
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ment Family Newspaper which shall be adapted
10 the wants OF every community; impartng
musement and information, and political, only TO
the extent Of maintaining the institutions OF the
country and defending the rights and sovereignty
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tuition, the Patent Office, and the National Agrl.
cultural Convention, etc, and the several Bureaus
and Departments of Government, from its cont
guilty to 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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VIEW, which has now acquired very extensive
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our own country and abroad, as the REviEw Itself
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