Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1863-12-16
Pr O g P e G T U 8
THI WEEKLY NATIONAL REPUBLICAN,

nis the present purpose OF the undersigned,
proprietors ofthe DAILY and WEEKLY NATIONAL
Ruyu~IaoAS, 10 mako the latter more thorough
and reliable Newspaper for Families and Clubs
throughout the country, than IL has been here
tofors. In making this statement we do not
wish to DO understood IS npologizng, In any
manner, for the past conduct OF tho WEEKLY
REPUBLICAN,. II has been worth all that We
have charged for 1t. Prosperity In the world,
for which We are partly indebted, and exceed
iugly thankful, to our numerous patrons, war
rants US In promising TO make still better
psper Of the WEEKLY REPUBLICAN in tho future
at tts sans price, than It has been in the past.
In making this announcement We do not In
tend to enter into an extended detail statement
of all the improvements VIC shall make, but, in
general way, to indicate what We propose
doing, assuring the public that we shall use
our utmost endeavors to perform faithfully all
that we promise.
The facilities afforded US to produce tho
rough national newspaper are greater than are
enjoyed by the publishers of any other journal
In the country, for the following reasons:
LIST. The REPUBLICAN Is published at WASH
ington City, the seat of the National Govern
mcnt.
I'd. THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
being authorized by an act of Congress to select
one paper as the official medium Of all the Exc
cutive Departments ofthe Government, we take
pleasure In stating that he has done us the
honor to select the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN under
the law of Congress referred to.
Sd. The Congress and the Supreme Court and
the Court Of claims of the United States, sever
ally sit here during each year, and we employ
a corps Of able REPoRrnRs, whose duty It Is
to furnish the daily records Of those high tri-
bunals.
.4th. Washington being the Headquarters for
all the operations OF the Army and Navy of
the United States, by virtue of the relations ex-
listing between the Government and the Ma
TloSAL REPUBLICAN, referred to above, nothing
that Is proper TO publish. of Military and Naval
operations, can or shall escape our notice.
9Th. Our "Foreign Relations,'' now more
important than ever, will be the subject Of our
constant and paternal care.
9th. The Finances Of the Government, which
always affords an ample field for the journalist,
shall meet with the most careful attention Of
the undersigned. Some Of the ablest writers
IN the United States are frequently employed to
discuss the subject in the RKPUBLIcAN.
7th. Our Postal arrangements, SO important
to the people OF every community, be II large
or small, especially 10 those who can read and
write, are duly noted in the several changes to
which they are subject during the year.
sth. The great interests represented by the
several bureaus Of the Interior Department
will not be overlooked In the WEEKLY REPrB.
LIcAS. Especially shall We keep our Agricul-
tural readers, throughout the country, posted
up concerning everything OF public interest in
the Agricultural Bureau.
9th. The Patent Once, being within five
minutes walk Of our office of publication, 1t
will be an easy matter, as 1t will be pleasure
for us to keep the Inventor and Artizan advised
of all improvements.
10Th. The Smithsonian Institute, established
In Washington, having already become one of
the highest scientific institutions in the nation.
we shall avail ourselves of the advantages of its
Bureaus OF Art and Science to enrich our COL
umns for the instruction Of our readers.
18th. washington being the central city OF
the Union, the learned and influential men
every class In society congregate here--military,
naval, and civil officers of the General and
State. and territorial ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
tives Of every branch Of business taxed BY the
Internal Revenue Lsws-ieput,tion of citizens
for purposes Of State, and politicians and theo-
logians Of every stripe, who come in aocks,
some Tor office, some for business, and some
for pleasure. Each and all of these owners
and goers increase our labors, and contribute
TO enhance the value Of the columns Of the RE-
PUBLICAN In some manner.
18th. The official, civil, and uncivil repre-
sentatives OF every foreign nation on the earth,
are found here, and cannot act or move unher-
aided by our active attaches.
Above, In q general form, We have given
tuelve reasons why the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN.
greater facilities for obtaining all the import
ant news OF the day, Of every description, than
any other Journal III the United States. The
highest evidence Of this, which relieves us from
The charge OF sgotlsm, is the fact witnessed all
over the nation daily (by those who care to oh
Serve it) thzt the leading, widest circulated,
and most influential journals In the United
states gather the most important Departmental
news, especially of our military and naval
operations, Official and otherwise, from the
fhA A 1N DK,.V
Is true in face OF the well known fact thai
many OF the proprietors Of those journals pay
enormous sums of money yearly to "Assc-
ciaied Press" and Especial Correspondents, ,,
so called, to furnish them with the current
news of the day. We regret to saw. In mis-
connection, that those correspondents do not
always inform their employers that they mr..
not the authors OF many Of the most inDnr7anI
dispatches they send over the wires at nm eN-
pehse OF Jour cents pr word, by crediiing them
% Inc NATIONAL REPUGILCAS, MS they in ius-
tice should do. We especially him; iLcy
should credit us when they encroach so far "a
20 telegraph our editorials, bodily. as being
2teir oici compositions However, We beg par
don Tor III ; complaining dlgression, and will
not deny that we observe, in all this unfair
ness, compliment to our industry on the part
@. these plagiarists.
Politically tho REPUBLICAN, will support az
earnestly as possible this civil and military
policy of the present Administration, while
That policy Is Tor FhEEDOM in Its bToadest and
highest sense, and against Siaysrv. When the
present, or any Other administration, p,.rsu1s a
different course on the question Of human SLAVERY,
IRE shall oppo" nth our might and main, God
helping us, PATRONAGE on NO PATRONAGE.
The domestic and personal news of the day
will always receive prompt and careful atten-
ton.
The Literary Department of the REPUBLICAN
will be supplied with choice, selected and orr
ginal prose and poetry, from the ablest writer's
In this country and in Europe.
We shall permit nothing, knowingly, to enter
the columns of the REPUBLICAN that " in offend
the suscsptibilities of the most refined.
In brief, we purpose making the REPUBLICAN
FAMILY Newspaper OF the highest and most
complete order.
1t is but proper and Just to our readers TO say
that the Publishers, Editors, and entire corps
OF Reporters engaged upon the NATIONAL RE-
PUBLICAN are thorough, practical Newspaper
men IN the hroadest sonsc of the term The
principal Editor, and his chief Assistant. have
both been engaged for more than twenty years
1--WE are both young men yet , as journalists
upon the leading presses Of the country, occu-
pying at times the most arduous and responsi-
DIG positions. This may sssn like "blowlpp
our own trumpet 20 II ia Rut t,nnd r.adar