Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1863-12-30
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THE WEEKLY NATIONAL REPUBLICAN.

| ~ IN INT ptoteut puTiVsc VI tnc unucrsiRntu
proprietors orlhe DAILY and WEEKLY NATIONAL
REPUBLICAN, to make the latter more thorough
aud reliable newspaper for Families and Club,
! throughout the country, than II has been here
toforo. In making this statement we do moi
wish to be understood as apologiz!ug, In any
manner. for the past conduct of the WEEKLY
REPUBLICAN. It has been worth all that W
have charged for II. Prosperity In the world
for which we are partly indebted, and exceed
lngly thankful, to our numerous patrons, war.
rants US in promising to make q still better
paper of the WEEKLY REPUBLICAN In the future,
at he same price, than II has been In the past.
In making this announcement we do not in.
tend to enter into an extended detail statemer.
OF all the Improvements we shall make, but, In
a general way, to indicate what We propose
doing, assuring the public that we shall use
our utmost endeayors to perform faithfully all
that We promise.
The facilities afforded US 10 produce q tho.
rough national newspaper are greater than are
enjoyed by the publishers of any other journal
In the country, for the following reasons:
lst. The REPUBLICAN, "a published at Wash
ington City, the seat Of the National Govern
ment.
cd. THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
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one paper as the official medium Of all the Exc.
cutve Departments ofthe Government, we take
| pleasure in stating that he has done us the
honorto 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 REPORTERS, whose duty It is
to furnish the daily records of those high tr-
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.
TIoSAL REPUBLICAN, referred to above, nothing
that Is proper to publish, of Military and Naval
operations, can or shall escape our notice.
9th. Our "Foreign Rrlations,n now mere
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 REPUBLICAN.
eth. Our Postal arrangements, so important
TO the people OF every community, be 1t large
or small. especially to 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
will not he overlooked in the WEEKLY RgPUB.
LICAS. Especially shall W. keep our Agricul.
tural readers, throughout the country, posted
up concerning every thing oil public interest in
the Agricultural Bureau.
9th. The Patent Office. being within five
minutes walk Of our office Of publication, it
will be an easy matter, as II will be pleasure
Tor Us TO keep the Inventor and Artizan advised
Of all improvements.
lDth. 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 AIT and Science to enrich our col
umns for the instruction of our readers.
llth. Washington being the central city OF
the Union, the learned and influential men o
every class in society congreg ate here military,
naval, and civil officers of the General and
state, and territorial governments Representa-
lives of every branch of business taxed by the
internal Revenue Laws-1cputations of citizens
for purposes Of state, and politicians and theo-
lugians of every stripe, who come in focks,
sons for Office, some for business, and some
for pleasure. Each and all of these c ners
and goers increase our lahors. and contribute
20 enhance the value of the columns of the Re.
PUBLICAN in some manner.
l2th. The official. civil. and uncivil repre-.
sentatives OF every foreign nation on the earth
are found here. and cannot act or move uuher-
aided by our active iHdchr'.
Abovc, in general form, we have given
'lreipe reasons why the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN,
published in the City Of Washington. ses
greater facilities for obtaining all the import.
ant news Of the Fay, OF every description, than
any other jour al in the United States. The
highest evidtuL- of this, which relieves VS. from
the charge o. sgotism. is the fact witnessed all
over tue nation daily (by those who care to oh
serve it) tat the leading, widest circulated,
aud 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
columns of the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN. This
is true In face of the well known fact that
many Of the proprietors of those journals pay
enormous sums of money yearly to "AssO.
ciated Press" and Especial Correspondents
so called, to furnish them with the current
news Of the day. We regret to say, In this
connection, that those correspondents do not
always Inform their employers that they are
not the authors OF many OF the most Important
dispatches they send over the wires al an ex-
pense OF four ccHts n r IgOrd, by crediting them
TO the NATIONAL KgPU BLICAN. as they In JUS
tice should do. We especially think they
should credit us when they encrOach so far as
TO telegraph our editorials, bodily, as being
their own compositions. However, we beg par.
don for this complaining digrussion. and will
not deny that we observe, In all this unfair
ness, compliment 10 our Industry on the part
Of these plagiarists.
Politically the REPUBLICAN will support as
earnestly as possible the civil and military
policy of the present Administration, while
that policy is for FKEEDUM In It's bruadest and
highest sense, and diaird Sldp r. Wien The
present, or any other adm n,strdfion, purSues a
different course on the question Of human slayerv,
we shall oppose il Nth orr Nigh and m4u, G0d
helping us, PATRONAGE OR 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 aud In Europe.
We shall permit nothing, knowingly, to enter
the columns OF the REPUBLICAN, that will offend
the suscsptibilitics of the most rcdued.
In brier, we purpose making the REPUBLICAN
a FAMILY Newspaper of the highest and mort
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 broadest sunse Of the term. The
Editor, and his chief Assistant, have
both been engaged tor more than twenty wears
Eve are both young men yet , as journalist,
upon the leading presses Of the country, occu-
plying at times the must artluUus and ruspnnsi-
BILE positions. This may seem like ''bluwiuC
our own trumpet" SO II 10. But, good reader,
we have right TO blow II, for We, have ..ruej