Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-09-25
PROSPECTUS
OF THE
DAILY PROG RESS.

COMMERCIAL BUSINESS NEWSPAPER TO BE PUBLISHED
THE TowS OF NEwBERN.
An Appeal to the Citizens of Newbern.
A T THE REQUEST of many of your business men |
"A have made the necessary Arrangements to commence,
between the Goth of August and the lst of September
THE ATtiY PRO GKESS will be devoted exclusively to |
interest and the interest of the citizens of the State
Will you sustain in this important and indispensable
enterprise to your commercial posperty9 oan
possess all the and energy requisite give you
independent useful and interesting paper; but without
nothing and must fail shall rely then upon your gener
aid and with strong to assist me and
so the enterprise through to success and make it
of the permanent fixtures of the place dear ALL
1t is unnecessary to point out to the necessity of
other commercial the adjoining States for
the trade of the West. Your interest demands it.
T people p of , % Htsf NHr
their daily papers Will you longer suffer them to possess
this important advantage you? The West has now
been brought by rairod to very doors and is there
knocking with her rich productions, for sdmttance The
natural and inevitable of are
advance in commercial and general importance, and inn
prove its religious moral and social character continu-
You will rise fall the great contest for the Western
trade You certainly cannot expect to maintain your
Er"und unless You are as well PREPARED as t
when thrown upon their own resources, often develope
prosperity far in advance of those which rely upon advan
titions natural advantages There is reason why
Newbern should not again crowd her wharves with the
products of foreign countries which, in times gone by
There is why schools should rise up among
you ard colleges flourish in your midst But your
still and witness these things You connot, you should
rely the Journals Of other towns to advertise your
goods-O inform the people of the West that you can,
that you oU with them equal if better ad
vantage than other market because you to
facility and less expense than others can You cannot rely
upon the Journals of other towns to point out and the
which must and will spring into existence they
are properly and erergeticaly advocated. ~
identified with your community and with you intend to
sink swim But in the publication of this Journal,
while shall all honorable to gain your appro-
baton and give satisfaction both citizen and as
edtr shall endeavor to do justice to neighbours, and
at all times and under all look to the COM
welfare of the GOOD Old North State"
Now to you, people of Newbern commit this enterprise,
persuaded that you will the necessity for powerful eff
fort in this matter Henceforward, for veal
sss
make paper that will meet wants, and one to
which citizens Of Nswbs ina; point win WI th
ments of l determined to do my part, and
confidently expect enWs' You to 9 do yours YOU ;.,,
on a press and will be of respectable size.
Gentlemen into whose hands copy OF this prospectus
may fall friendly the enterprise will please procure all
proprietor by the goth OF August at which time or soon
thereafter the first number of the paper will be issued
Now 1t is expected that every business in the town
of Newbern will take especial interest in procuring sub
expected until the paper is successfully under way
|
Newbern two hundred subscribers and the possibility
of failure removed The editor feels confident OF being
able Il very respectable circulation in the Western
Counties by his exertos But being personally un-
acquainted with of the citizens he to those IN
terested especially those who do know him. to ex
| ert themselves.
TERMS:
| Daily Paper One Year, in adyancs, Sc 90
Daily PAPER Six Months, 8 90
| ADvERrsEMENTs will be inserted on reasonable terms.
~ Merchants Mechanics, Manufacturers and others
are respectfully requested hand in their advertisements
by the of August, that they may appear 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 me to
fulfil certain specified advertising and subscription
tracts where he had received advance
| J. L. PENNINGTON.
| Newbern, N. c.. July Is, 1858. ~ So
JOB WORK-Havng arranged the Office and procured
the services good wokmen all orders for Job Printing
be attended to. Work executed promptly and in
good STYLE and cheap the be done elsewhere
Orders solicited.
Office Pollock St the Post Office, in the building
where the Express was formerly published.