Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-01-24
PROSPECTUS
UNITED STATES TIMES,
Weekly Newspaper to bo published I'm

Weekly Newspaper to bo published In
Washington City.
The undersigned expecting soon 10 retire from
the position he has for some time held as Superin-
tendent of the United States Census, intends TO
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 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 Of the 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
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 vii! be, through careful editorial
management and .arge and well selected cor
respondence, 10 establish at the seat of govern.
to the wants of every community; imparting
musement and information, and political, only 10
the extent of maintaining the instilu ulons Of the
country and defending the rights and sovereignty
of the States.
The City of Washington, from the advantages
which il presents for obtaining material of every
kind, through the action Of the Smithsonian Insti-
tuition, the Patent Office, and the National Agri-
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 iIpportanr interests that
concentrate upon it. is perhaps, the most eligible
location for such journal, and ample guarantees
of its success have already been received 1t will
be printed in folio for the convenience of binding,
and similar in style TO the New York Albion
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VIEW, which has now acquired very extensive
circulation, il will be enlarged from liz TO l40 or
$50 pages, and otherwise improved by additional
editorial assistance and able corps Of contribu
,ors.
A month"; istorcal digest of events will be
embraced in as pages, valuable for future refer
ence
The subscription price of the REVIEW will re-
main al SIS per annum, but for the convenience OF
the large class of persons who may not desire
IL, ho ol,c;t in
formation upon one or more Of the subjects TO
which il is devoted, it is in contemplation to make
a separate publication OF the matter relating 10
Agricuhurs, another of that relating 10 Manutac-
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10 Commerce; and a filth 10 Education and Letters.
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our own country and abroad, as the REvIRw itself
will show them in all ofths departments of indus
try and enterprise.
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particular address of The editor, whether Wash
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10 time, in the work
]. ID. B. DEBOW.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26, 1854.
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