Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-08-21
PROSPECTUS
OF THE
DAILY PROG RESS.

A COMMERCIAL BUSINESS NEWSPAPER, PUBLISHED
IN THE Town NEwBERN.
An Appeal to the Citizens of Newbern.
A THE REQUEST of many of your business men
IA have made the necessary arrangements to commence,
1855, the publication of DAILY JoURNAL in yourtown
THE DAILY PROGRESS will be devoted exclusively to
will you in tFs important indispensable
enterprise to your commercial prosperity? undertake
and al the and requisite you IN
independent useful and interesting paper but without
nohing and must fail shall rely then upon your
aid and with your strong to assist me and
sDU the enterprise through to success and make it
of the permanent fixtures Of the place dear ALL
Daily Journal to enable to compete successfully with
' the trade of the the Vest Your interest ss now demands it.
The people Of Wilmington. Charleston, Norfolk, Peters
their daily papers Will you longer suffer them to possess
this important advantage over you? The West has
1 snd there
already being felt No town can stand s-it must either
in it's religious moral and social Character continu
ally decline Now it is for you say whether
| trade You certainly cannot expect maintain your
ground unless well prepared your neighbors
when thrown upon their resources often develope
prosperity far in advance of those which rely upon advan
or na er mo
products of foreign countries which, in times gone
would be given in exchange for the products Of the West
There is why schools should not rise up among
you and colleges flourish your midst. But your
rence your intelligence tells you that you stand
still and witness these things You conuot should not
rely upon the Journals of other towns to advertise your
goodsto inform the people of the West that you
vantage than any other market you
them ana can goods and produce with greater
the Journals Of other towns to point out and urge the
by for and Schools
which must and will spring into existence as they
| Onorlv nd oppro pficaIv adv atp6
All the worldly interest have now is or soon will be,
identified with your community and with you intend to
sink swim. But in the publication of this Journal,
while shall all honorable means to gain your appro
baton and give you satisfaction both citizen and
at all times and under all circumstances look 10 the COM
mon welfare of the " Good Old North State"
persuaded that will the necessity for powerful e
fort in this matter. Henceforward for veal or woe am
Susnss @ and having been for years Of
life upon daily and weekly a.ter myself that
which you, as citizens Of Newben may poin; with
degree Of satsacon ncessant toll be one OF the e'e
ments Of success am determined to do my part and
The DAILY PROGRESS will be printed with new type
| on a new press, and will be Of respectable size
Gentlemen into whose hands copy OF this prospectus
may FALL friendly to the enterprise will please procure s
responsible they and return the same to the
proprietor by the goth of August at which time or soon
thereafter the first number of the paper viii be issued
Now 1t is expected that every business man in te town
scrbers The subscription will not be OF
expected until the paper is successfully under way Let
Newbern raise two hundred subscribers and the possibility
of failure is removed The editor feels confident of being
able very respectable in the Western
Counties by his exerOds But being personally un-
acquainted with the citizens he appeals those
tees!ed and especially to those who do know him. to
ert themselves .'" . .-.
TERMS: $50 r*.- -
Daily Paper, One Year, in oduaHes, $6 90
| Daily Paper. Six Months. 800
ApvERrsExENrs will be inserted reasonable terms.
| - Merchants, Mechanics Manufacturers aud others
respectfully requested to hand in their advertisements
by the 18th Of August that they may sppear in the 6
| number of the paper >, 1@a
In connection with the above would announce that c.
G. Davenport late editor of the Express" newspaper
formerly published in Ncwbern has arranged with me to
fulfil certain specified advertising and Subscription
tracts where he had received advance
| far as specified, promise to fulfil. =,
Newbern, N. c.. July Is. 1858. 81
JOB wORK-Havng arranged the Office and procured
the services of good workmen ill orders for Job Printing
be attended to. Work executed promptly and in
good style and cheap the same be done esewher
Orders solicited : !, !: ,....,s
Office Oh Pollock St near the Post Ocs in the baiding
where the Express was formerly published
| GxOUEENIRs or TRAvKL,. BIZ MADANEaOC-
- TAVIA WALTON LEVERT, te5ss q ~
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