Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-10-23
PROSPECTUS
DAILY PROG RESS.
COMMERCIAL BUSINESS NEWSPAPER TO BE PUBLISHED
Town OF NEwBERN.

COMMERCIAL BUSINESS NEWSPAPER TO BE PUBLISHED
THE Town NEwBERN.
An Appeal to the Citizens of Newbern.
4 THE REQUEST of many of your business men 1
"A have made the arrangements to commence,
is5s the publication of DAILY JOURNAL in your town
THE DAILY PROGRESS will be devoted exclusively
Will you sustain in this important and indispensable
enterprise commercial prosperity? can undertake
it, and pledge to YOU in advance what abilities
and all the zeal and energy requisite you
independent useful and interesting paper but without
your cordial cooperation and support can accomplish
aid and with your strong to assist me can and
s carry the enterprise through to success and make it
of the permanent fixtures of the place dear to us ALL
1t is unnecessary to point out to you the necessity of
Daily Journal to enable you to compete successfully with
the trade of the West Your interest now demands it.
The people of Wilmington, Charleston Norfolk, Peters
their daily papers will you longer suffer them to possess
this important advantage you? The West has
been brought by railroad to very doors and is there
knocking with her rich productions for admittance The
natural and inevitable consequences of procrasnaon
already being felt No town stand sit must either
it's ad
ally must decline Now it is for say whether
you will rise or fall in the great contest for the Western
ground unless you well prepared your neighbors
Experience proves that towns. sometimes like individuals
when thrown upon their own resources, often develope
prosperity far in advance of those which rely upon advan
titious natural advantages There is reason why
Newbern should again crowd her wharves with the
products of foreign countries which, in times gone by
would given exchange for the products of the
There is why schools should not rise up among
you and colleges flourish in your midst But your expe
rence your intelligence tells you that you cannot stand
still and witness these things You connot you should not
goods-o inform the people of the West that you can,
that you o trade with them equal if not to better ad
vantage than Oher Market because to
them transport goods and produce with greater
facility and less expense than others You cannot rely
upon the Journals of other to point and urge the
possessed by Newborn for Factories and Schools,
which must and will into existence as soon as they
are properly and energeticaly advocated.
All the worldly interest have is, will be,
identified with your community and with you intend
sink swim. But in the publication of this Journal,
while shall all honorable gain your appro
baton and give you satisfaction both citizen and
editor shall endeavor to do justice neighbors and
at all times and under all circumstances look to the
mon welfare of the "Good Old North State"
Now you, people Of Newbern commit this enterprise
fort in this matter. Henceorward veal woe am
with you. Having practical knowledge of the printing
having n been for
make paper that will meet your wants, and one to
which as citizens Of Newbern may point with some
ments of success am determined to do my part and
confidently expect ct you t to 2e. do yours your
on a press, and will be of respectable size.
Gentlemen into whose hands copy of this prospectus
the responsible they can and the to the
proprietor by the goth of August at which time
the 5 t % be
of Newben will take especial interest in procuring sub
scrbers The subscription money will not be demanded
expected until the paper is successfully under Let
Newbern raise hundred subscribers and the possibility
failure is removed The editor feels confident of being
able to very respectable circulation in the
Counties by his exertOns But being personally
acquainted with of the citizens he appeals to those
teresed and especially to those who do know him. to
| ert themselves.
TERMS:
| Daily Paper One Year. in aduance, $6 90
| Daily Paper Six Months, 90
ADyERT1sENENTs will inserted reasonable terms.
t3y~ Merchants, Mechanics, Manufacturers and others
arc respectfully requested hand in their advertisements
by the of August that they may appear in the first
number of the paper.
In connection with the above would that C.
G. Davenport, late editor of the Express newspaper
formerly published in Newbern has arranged with to
fulfil certain specified advertising and subscription
tracts where he had received advance
far specified, promise to fulfil.
J. L. PENNINGTON.
Newbern, n. c., July 15 1858. So
JOB WORK.-Having arranged the Office and procured
the services Of good workmen all orders for Job Printing
be attended to. Work executed promptly and in
good STYLE and cheap the be done elsewhere
Orders solicited. .=-- -
Office on Pollock st. near the Post Office in the building
where the Express " was formerly published
: SOUVENIRS OF TRAVEL, BY MADAME OC-
- TAVIA WALTON LEVERT,
W. POMEROY.
Raleigh, Dec. Is. 1l2-