Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1856-12-17
NEW SERIES FOR 1857.
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WYE have the pleasure toreurn our most grateful
w thanks TO the readers of the HOVE JoURyAL,fo
the greatly enlarged audience with which have beer
honored in 1885, and to offer our respects and th,
promise of continued best services for the year be
fore u.s. With the privileged hearing that we have
now secured of THE rlREslDEs Of our whole vast coun
try it is only natural that we should feel addtiona
responsibility while at the time, we grid up ou
energies for new varieties of industry and enterprise
The paper for the coming year is to be printed or
NEW TYPE and Its pre-enlinence Of ce0rness and qJn
ill., so valuable to the eve and so needfu for family
paper, is to be still more marked
Our contents for 1857, we need scarcely say, will b;
varied as the Life with which we keep pace. Time
and the everchangng World are the great baskets ou
of which we pick Wisdom aud Amusement as we go
the exhaustess variety of event and novelty assuring
to us and TO our readers exlauscss themes and sub
ects of interest
The Editors will still continue to devote their time
and abilities Exclusively to the Home Journal.
\. p. WILLIS proposes in addition to his usual pic
turings of home fife and rural family sympathes and
interests, out-doors-andin, to give more of the
LETTERS TO INYALIDS,
which his experience has enabled him 10 write, and
which have been so widely quoted; and also, series
u PORTRAITS OF LIVING CHARACTERS.
GEORGE p MORRIS, besides his usual constant abors
upon the several departments of the paper will mako
it the wool on which 10 broider first the new
SKETCHES, SONGS. BALLADS, ETC,
suggested by the history ana event Oh passing tHle
4. b. ALDRIcH has in preparation PROSE POEM to
THE ROSE OF GLEN-LODGE;
and this will be published in numbers, from week to
week.
Besides the labors of the Editors, the Home Journal
will contain
The communications of brilliant list of original
contributors.
The core and history Of new publications.
The floating stories. brief romances, sparkling wit,
fun and anecdote, the day.
Poetry, pathos and romance.
The gossip and news of Partisan journals.
Personal sketehas of the conspicuous characters OF
the time.
The stirring scenes of daily life.
The chronicle of news for .he Ladies.
The Fashions.
The valuable information, to statistics discover
les and great events.
Criticisms of current Literature.
And all that can be gathered to interest the reader
from the Worlds constant overflow Of action and in
teect
We need not remind our readers, perhaps, that we
have correspondents wholly unsurpassed, in the soc
ETY. of New York. and that, through these gifted and
refined mediums we keep apprised fall that occurs
new charming instructive in the brilliant circles OF
city life.
For the health moral improvement and the religious
culture of families we watchfully gather every new
suggestion, and carefully chronicle all signs of Prog
ress and Utility.
By unceasing vigilance and industry, and by skill
acquired in long and successful practice we hope still
to keep the Home Journal undisputed as the best
family Newspaper in the World.
TERMs:-For oae copy, 50; for three copies, s5-or
copy for three years. MoRRs Wits
Editors and Propretors, lO7 Fulton.st, New York.
Nov 90 1874