Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1863-12-17
p R os 4 G T U s
THE WEEKLY NATIONAL REPUBLICAN,

It IL the present purpose Of the undersigned,
proprietors of the DAILY and WExKLr NATIONAL
R,prn,IcAs, 10 mako the latter more thorough
and reliable newspaper for Families and Clubs
throughout the country, than 1t has been here
tofore. In making this statement we do not
wish 10 he understood as apologizing, In any
manner, for the past conduct Of the WEEKLY
RRpup1Icas. II has been worth all that we
hsye charged for It. Prosperity in the. world,
for which we are partly indebted, and exceed
ingly thank full, to our numerous patrons, war
rants US In promising to make still better
paper Of the WEEKLY REPUBLICAN in the future,
at the same price, than 1t 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 we 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.
rough national newspaper are greater than are
endowed BY the publishers OF any other journal
in the country, for the following reasons:
1st. The REPUBLICAN is published at Wash
ington City, the seat OF the National Govern
ment.
"a. TIE President or THE UNITED STATES
being authorized by an act of Congress to select
one paper as the official medium OF all the Exc
cutive Departments of the 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
corps Of able REPoRTBHs, whose duty II 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
TIoNAL 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 aud paterhal 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 writer's
in the United States are frequently employed to
discuss the subject in the REPUBLICAN.
9Th. Our Postal arrangements, so important
to the people of every community, be 1t large
or SMALL especially to those who can read aud
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 he overlooked in the WEEKLY REPUB.
LICAN. 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 Office, being within i've
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 ofthe advantages ofits
Bureaus Of Art and Science to enrich our col
umns for the instruction Of our readers.
llth Washington being tue central city OF
the Union, the learned and influential men o
every class in society congregate here--milltary
naval, and civil officers of the General ant
State, and territorial ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
tives of every branch of business taxed by tn
Internal Rev ne s--ieputations OF citizen
for purposes of State, and politicians and thoo
logians of every stripe, who come in focks
some for office, some for business, and SOM
for pleasure. Each and all of these meri
and goers increase our labors, and contrlbut,
10 enhance the value OF the columns of the Re
PUBLICAN in some manner.
18th. The official, civil, and unclvil repre-
sentatives of every foreign nation on the earth
are found here and cannot act or move unher
aided 10y our active attaches
Above, in q general form, we have giver
f,ceve reasons why the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN
published In the City Of Washington, possesse
greater facilities for obtaining all the Import
ant news Of the DAY, OF every description, thai
any other Jour AL in the United States. Tn
highest evidence of this, which relieves vs. from
the charge % egOtism, Is the fact witnessed al
over the nat.Jn daily (hy those who care to o
serve ~ tLAt the leading, widest circulated
aud most influential journals in the Unite
States gather the most important Departments
news especially of our military and navi
operations, official and otherwise, from tn
columns of the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN. ThI
is true in face of the well known fact thG
many of the proprietors Of those journals pa
enormous sums of money yearly to "Asst
cia,ed prcss' and Especial Correspondents,
so called, to furnish them with the currel
news of the day. We regret to say, 10 III
connection, that those correspondents do NJ
always inform their employers that they al
not the authors of many of the most lmpOrtai
dispatches they send over the wires at an e!
pense of four cents rord, by creditlng thel
to the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN, as they in ju
tice should do. We especially think thu
should credit US when they encroach so far
TO telegraph our editorials, bodily, as beir
their oorn compositions. However, we beg pa
don for this complaining depression. and wi
not deny that we observe, in all this unfai
ness, a compliment to our industry on the pa
OF these plagiarists.
Politically the REPUBLICAN will support
earnestly as possible the civil and militaI
policy Of the present Adm Illustration, viii
that policy is for FREEDOM in its broadest an
highest sense, and dgdulst Sidy ~. When d
present. any other adm Strdtiop, J,ursues
d.tcrrn. course on the question Of hmndm slaper
We hnN Gppo" il "1h Dnr migh and main, ID
MlpHD ms, PATRONAGE OR NO PATRONAGE.
The domestic and personal news of the da
will always receive prompt and careful attel
ton.
The Literary Department Of the REpuBIIcA
will he supplied with choice, selected and or
glnal prose and poetry, from the ablest write
in this country aud In Europe.
We shall permit nothing, knowingly, TO ent
the columns of the REPUBLICAN that will offer
the susceptibilities OF the most refined.
In brief, We purpose making the REpUfILCi
aFANlLY Newspaper of the highest aud mo
complete order.
1t is but proper and Just to our readers TO s.
that the Publishers, Editors, and entire cor
of Reporters engaged upon the NATIONAL X
PUBLICAN are thorough, practical ncwspap
men IN the broadest sonsc Of the term. 7
principal Editor, and his chief Assistant, Ia
both been engaged for more than twenty yea
TIVE are boil. young men yetD rs Journals
upon the leading presses OF the country, occ
pyiug al times the most arduOus and rrspOn
bic POSITIONS. This may seem like "bluwll
pur "a tru - Sp ia Rut /,