Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1856-01-31
PROSPECTUS
UNITED STATES TIM ES,
A Weekly Newspaper 10 be pabltshed I'm
Washington City.
OF THE

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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 te
devote himself to the control and management o
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 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
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 viii be, through careful editorial
management and arge and welLselecled cor
respondence, TO establish at the seat of govern
TO the wants of every community; mparting
musement and information, and political, only 10
the extent of maintaining the institutions of the
country and defending the rights aud sovereignty
of the States.
The City of Washington. from the advantages
which i, 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
and Departments of Government, from its cont
guilty TO the large commercial cities, from the
tended, exciting, and all important interests that
concentrate upon il, is, perhaps, the most eligible
location for such journal, and ample guarantees
OF lis 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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SIS in advance
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arrears, the Review and Times together Sc 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 il will be enlarged from liz 10 l40 or
$50 pages, and otherwise improved by additional
editorial assistance and able corps of contribu
tors
month"; istorical digest OF events will bs
embraced 10 rs 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
the whole work, or who may only solicit in
formation upon one more Of the subjects 10
which it is devoted, ii is in contemplation TO make
a separate publication of the matter relating 10
Agriculture, another of that relating 10 Mannfae-
tlres; a third % Internal Improvements; a 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 ST per annum each. They will appear monthly
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TO thirtyIwo pages; constituting an annual octave
volume of 800 pages each, showing at 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 cfths departments Of indus
try and enterprise.
The Office Of DeBow's REVIEW will remain as
before nj New Orleans, though branch will be
located at Washington which will be also the
main Office of the other Journals, and may be
addres, ed at all times in regard TO them. The
particular address Of the editor, whether Wash
ington or New Orleans, will be furnished from time
10 time, in the work
J. d. B. DEB0W.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 20 1854.
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