Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-02-09
PROSPECTUS
UNITED STATES TIMES,
A Weekly Newspaper to be published I'm
Washington City.
OF THE

UNITED STATES TIMES,
A Weekly Newspaper to be Published n
Washington city.
| The undersigned expecting soon 10 retire iron
the position he has for some time held as Superin
tendent Of the United States Census, intends L
devote himself TO the control and management o
the REVIEW, of which, for the last nine years, h'
has been the editor and proprietor, and 10 III,
publication in the City of Washington of week..
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 dgests OF the current events o
the day. home and foreign the proceedings o.
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 shown by statistics, bringing down
those of the National Census always to date
The object will be, through careful editorial
management and 'arge and well selected cor
respondence, 10 establish al the seal OF govern
ment Family Newspaper which shall be adapted
10 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.
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. aud the National AgrI-
cultural Convention, etc, and lhe several Bureaus
aud Departments of Government, from its cont
guilty TO the large commercial cities from the ex-
tended, exciting, and all important interests that,
concentrate upon it, is, perhaps, the most eligible
location for such journal, and ample guarantees
of its success have already been received. II will
be printed in folio for the convenience of binding,
and similar in style to the New York Albion.
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arrears, the Review and Times together, IS in
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Advertisements on accommodating terms.
In order to increase the usefulness of the. RE.
VIEW, which has now acquired very extensive
circulation, it will be enlarged from liz TO 14O or
$50 pages, and otherwise improvedaby additional
editorial assistance and an able corps of contribu
,ors.
MONTH istorical digest of events will bs
embraced in us pages, valuable for future refer
ence.
The subscription price of the REvIEw will re-
main al S5 per annum, but for the convenience OF
the large class of persons who may not desire
the whole work, or who may only solicit in
formation upon one more of the subjects to
which il is devoted, ii is in contemplation make
separate publication of the matter relating 10
Agriculture, another ofthat relating TO Mamnfac-
tures; a third % Internal Improvements; fourth
TO Commerce; and fifth to Education and Letters.
These publications will be but departments of the
whole work, and may be subscribed for separately
at S per annum each They will appear monthly
in handsome periodical style, Of from twenty-five
TO thirtytwo pages constituting annual octave
volume of $50 pages each, showing at a single
view and in a condensed form the whole results
within the year, in The particular department., in
our own country and abroad, as the REVIEW itself
will show them in all ofthe departments OF indus.
try and enterprise.
The Office Of DeBow's REVIEW will remain as
before at New Orleans, though branch will be
located at Washington, which will be also the
main Office OF the other Journals, and may be
addressed at all times in regard 10 them. The
particular address OF the editor, whether Wash
lnston or New Orleans, will be furnished from time
TO time, in the work.
j. ID. B. DEBOW
WASHINGTON, Nov. %, 1854.
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