Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-03-04
PROSPECTUS
OF TIE
UNITED STATES TIM ES,
a Weekly Newspaper TO be Published In
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A weekly Newspaper TO be published In
5aE ls Washington City.
The undersigned expecting soon 10 retire from
The position he has for some time held as sSuperin-
lendenl OF the United States Census, intends 10
devote himself 10 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
newspaper with the above title.
The material for This paper will consist, in part
OF selections or extracts from articles admitted
into the REVIEW but mainly Of other original lite
rary, educational, industrial, and miscellaneous
matters, including digests ofthe current events OF
the day, home and foreign; the proceedings OF
Congress and the acts of the Government; lite
rary and scientific sketches and essays upon
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 always 10 date
The object will be, through careful editorial
management aud arge and well selected cor
respondence, to establish at the seat Of govern
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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.
n The City of Washington from the advantages
which il presents for obtaining material of every
kind, through the action of the Smithsonian lnsti-
tuition the Patent Office and the National Agrl-
cultural Convention, etc, and the several Bureaus
aud 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
location for such journal, and ample guarantees
of its success have already been received liwl
be printed in folio Tor the convenience of binding
and similar in style 10 the New York Albion
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arrears the Review and Times together, So in
advance.
Advertisements ON accommodating terms.
In order 10 increase The usefulness OF the Re-
VIEW, which has now acquired very extensive
circulation il will be enlarged from III 10 l40 or
$50 pages, and otherwise improved by additional
editorial assistance and an able corps of contrbu
,ors. 1900, +.
MONTH istorical digest Of events will be
embraced in dis pages, valuable for future refer
ence
The subscription price of the REVIEW will re-
main at S5 per annum, but for the convenience OF
the large class of persons who may not desire
the whole work. who may only solicit in
formation upon more Of the subjects TO
which it is devoted, il is in contemplation 10 make
a separate publication Of the matter relating 10
AgrieahHre, another of that relating 10 Manayac-
t1res; third % Internal Improvements; fourth
10 Commerce. and nth 10 EdHeation and L1aters.
These publications will be but departments of the
whole work, aud may be subscribed for separately
al 81 per annum each. They will appear monthly
in handsome periodical style, of from twenty-five
10 thrtyIwo pages; constituting au annual octave
volume Of 800 pages each, showing al a single
view and in a condensed form the whole results,
within the year, in the particular department, in
our own country and abroad, the REVIEW Itself
will show them ia aH ofths departments OF indus.
try and enterprise.
The Oifice Of DeBow's REVIEW will remain az
before al New Orleans, though branch will be
located al Washington, which will be also the
main Office of the other Journals, and may be
addres, ed al all times in regard 10 them. The
particular address OF the editor, whether Wash
ington or New Orleans, will be furnished from time
10 time, in the work.
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WAsHIHsToS Nov. 20, 1854.
Ms- DEBow's INDUSTRIAL RESOURCES, three
handsomely bound volumes upon The Progress
and Wealth of the United States, l,S00 pages royal
octave, double columns, clear prlnt. library ed-
ton, may still be ordered. Price So delivered
al the expense of the sntheH
M EON AT ST. HELENA, Or
IN interesting anecdotes aud remarkable con-
versations of the Emperor during the i've and
half years of his captivity. collected from the me