Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-03-06
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OF rHE
UNITED STATES TIMES. !.
Weekly Newspaper TO he published In

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/ A Weekly Newspaper 10 nc puoiished M
| Washington City.
The undersigned, expecting soon 10 retire from
the position he has for some time held as asSuperin
| iendent of the United States Census, intends to
devote himself 10 the control and management Of
the REVIEW, OF which, for the last nine years, ne
| has been the editor and proprietor, and 10 the
publication in the City of Washington OF weekly
newspaper with the above title. a@
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| of selections or extracts from articles admitted
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the day, home aud foreign; the proceedings OF
| Congress aud 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 cities; the progress and prospects OF crops;
| supply demaud, prices, etc; the increase OF the
| country as shown by statistics, bringing down
those ofthe National Census always TO date
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| management and .arge and well selected cor
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ment a Family Newspaper which shall be adapted
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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 lnstl-
tuition, the Patent Office, and the National Agri-
cultural Convention, etc, and the several Bureaus
and Departments Of Government, from It's cont
guilty to the large comnergial cities from the ex-
tended exciting, and all Important interests that
concentrate upon it, is, perhaps, the most eligible
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ercu lation, il will be enlarged from liz TO l40 or
l5O pages, and otherwise improved by additional
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,ors
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ence.
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the large class of persons who may not desire
the whole work, or who may only solicit in
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our own country aud abroad, as the REvIEw iiseli
will show them IN all ofI.s departments of indus
try and enterprise.
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address, 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
to time, in the work.
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WAsHINeToN Nov. %, 1854.
ne- DEBow's INDUSTRIAL RESOURCES, three
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