The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-12-02
PR0sP ECTUs
For publishing Monthly Periodical in Wash
ingtOn. d. c., called
THE NATIONAL RECORDER
OF RELIGIOUS AND LITERARY INT


By l.. ID. JOHNSON
7NAE National Recorder will contain sixteen quartz
i pages with single or double cover, for dollar
year
Whilst giving due attention 10 the miseo laneous read
ing usually found in periodicals. OF this kind will BE-
mainly devoted to the following Objects:
First give Information of all that may be done The
Legislative aRd Executive Departments OF the Geners
Government relating to the interests OF Religion. E
In the Legislative Department il will embrace the
spirit OF all that may be done in Congress this subject
Senate, with brief sketches OF the that may
delivered efore Congress
In The Executive D. parimeni il will embrace all thai
relates the Chaplain service in The Army and Navy
At Military Posts, during Campaigns, al Military and
Nays SCHOOLS, IN sragog vessels and receying ships
Homes OF Asy lus By the fates for oh aiming nor.
the departments Washington, and by cores
pondence with ChsplalHs, We shall be enabled to
duce much that is interesting TO the public
The second object will be collect Statistical inlor.
mstiOn, aud publish under the head Of each STATE and
Territory aithat ates to the general interests oil ke
giOn. This will embrace the number of officially recug-
number of church edess aud church members, together
b ile humber added annually 10 each distinct church
organization. We shall enter upon such plan OF cor
respondence will enable us 10 reach this information
with more than approximate accuracy, together with
many ether facts and statistics relating 10 religions mat
which never enter IhiO the schedules OF the
United States census.
The third object will he 10 notice all that is new and
Interesting in Literature aud Science, emitting be-
STOW special attention upon the series OF Lectures
ally delivered and the scienlihc developments made
known ri the SmhsOn institution also at the Coast
Survey Office, tn National Observatory and OF the Sci
entIhc Arts" The Patent Ofee. We shall furnish
OF literary Conventions and Teachers
and also Of such books and periodicals. intended
10 promote popular education.
II will adlly thai the whole praciica al value
this work lies in The complete Accomplishment Of
objects proposed To eject this shall need the Kindly
&C operation Of three classes menedItors, eleTgymem
and lhe respected heads OF all the nstntons OF science
learning the United States, and for each class
have a distinct proposition. ... 49,. /.
The first number ofIhe Recorder A." will be dated Jan
uaTy 1859 but, will among other things
important memorial 10 Congress- which should FIRST
placed the hands OF every clergyman OF every (0E
this periodical will be neither seclaTlan political IN
It's eharaceF1 earlier date intend 20 issue the
first number early ian December next We therefore
spectfnly propose To all c eTgymen who will send
with their address dollar will send them
Recorder Two yraTs, numbers for year,
the first number only all who viii enclose four lete,
stamps -s..... 81
70 the editors of all periodicals and newspapersex
cepng those which only political and uar-yvhO
number containing IL WI propose advertise the
and locality OF their paper ihrOugh one
year. For Presidents Principals of all Literary Insii-
uiions who erbe To- the Recorder we will insrri
tic name and place OF their institution, proposed TO
editors. .-.
Address National recorder, Washington d. C."
rHR RkIIGIoUs REcoRDER-We can freely commend
10 toe patronage OF the religious public the paper OF
which the prospectus appears IN another column, the
cditOr DR. johnson, having been from
of them the reporter aHd writer of The week SabbG
Reris'cs which have appeared in the IategtneeT Tor
several years past and both his character and talents
are highly appreciated by the class of ey
as we'll as by ourselves--NG Ir1HigeHer. GO