Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-02-14
New Series for 1857.
HOME JOURNAL.
EDITED BY MORRIS AND VILLA.
EDITED BY MORRIS AND WILLIS.

We have the pleasure to return our most crate.
full thanks to the readers of the Home Journal, for
the greatly enlarged audience with which We have
been hOnurcd in 1856, and to offer our respests,
and the promise of our continued best services, for
the year before us. With the privileged hearing
that we have now secured, at the fresides Of our
whole vast country. it is only natural that We
should feel additional responsibility, WHILE. at the
same time VIC grid up our energies for new varis.
ties OF industry and enterprise.
The paper for the coming year is to be printed
on nep type, and its ~pre-eminence of cledrn,ss and
'~egiditty. so valuable to the eye and So ne,dful fer
il family paper, is to be still more marked.
Our contents for 1857, we need scarcely say,
will be MS varied as the Life with which we keep
pace. Time and the ever changing World are the
great baskets out of which we pick Wisdom and
Amusement az we go-the exhaustless variety Of
event and novelty assuring to us and to our read.
ers, exhaustless themes and subjects of interest.
The Editors will still continue to devote their
time and abilities exclusively to the Home Jour
nal.
N. P. Willis proposes, in addition to his usual
picturings of home life and rural family sym pa
thies and interests, outdoors and.in, to give more
of the Letters 10 hrdlids, which his expeIienss
has enabled him to write. and which have been %
widely quoted; and, also, q series of Fortraits IF
Lining Characters.
George p. Morris, besides his usual constant L.
bors upon the several departments of the paper,
will make it the wool On which TO broider first the
new Sketches, Songs, Ballads, etc., suggested b.
the history and event of the passing time.
7. B. Aldrich has in preparation a Prose Poem,
to be entitled The Rose Of Gten-Lodge; and this
will be published in Numbers, from week TO week.
Besides the labors of the Editors, the Home
Journal will contain:-
The communications of q brilliant list of orig
inal contributors:
The core and history of new publications:
The floating stories, brief romanees, sparkliss
wit, fun and anecdote of the day:
Poetry, pathos and romanco:
The gossip and news of Pirisian journals:
Personal sketches of the conspicuous charss-
tiers of the time:
Tho stirring scenes of daily life:
The 'hronicle of news for theLadiost
The Fashions:
The valuable information, as to statistics, dh-
coveries and great events:
Criticisms of current Literature:
And all that can he gathered, to interest the
reader, from the Worlds constant overflow of 80
ton and intellect.
We need not remind our readers, perhaps, that
we have correspondents. wholly unsurpassed. In
the society of New York, and that, through thess
gifted and refined mediums" we keep apprjsed
of all that ocouys, new, charming or instructive,
in the brilliant circles of city life.
For the health, the moral Improvement and the
religious culture Of families. we watchfully gath
err every new suggestion, and carefully chronicle
all signs Of Progress and Utility.
BY unceasing vigilance and industry. and BY
skill acquired in long and successful practice. We
! hope still to keep the Home Journal undisputed ~
abe best family Newspaper in the porld. -,
TERNR.-For one copy, So; for three copies, =
or one copy for thfoe years s5-always in a.
MORRIS q WILLIS,
Editors and Proprietors, lot Huftsns :
New York.