Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1864-02-03
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Thu WEEKLY NATIONAL REPUBLICAN,

REPUBLICAN, TO make the latter more thorough
and reliable newspaper for Families and Cluba
throughout the country, than II has been here
tofore. In making this statement we do not
wish TO be understood as apologizing, in any
manner, for the past conduct Of the WHKKLI
REPUBLICAN. It has been worth all that We
have charged for It. Prosperity in the world,
for which we are partly indebted, and exceed
ingly thankful, to our numerous patrons, war
rants US in promising TO make still better
paper Of the WEEKLY REPUBLICAN In the future,
at he Sdms price, than II has been In the past.
In making this announcement we do not in
tend 10 enter into an extended detail statement
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 endeavors 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 is published at WASH
Ington City, the seat Of the National Govern
ment.
Cd. The President OF THE UNITED sTLTEs
being authorized by an act Of Congress to select
one paper as the oflcial medium OF all the Exc
cutfve Departments ofthe Government, wet take
pleasure In stating that he has done US the
| honorto select the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN under
the law Of Congress referred 10.
3d. 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
q corps Of able REPoRTHRs, whose duty Il y
to furnish the daily records OF those high tri-
bunala.
4th. Washington being the Headquarters for
all the operations Of the Army and Navy OF
the United States, BY virtue Of the relations ox-
listing between the Government and the Ma
TIoNIL 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 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 Geld 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 10
discuss the subject in the REPUBLICAN.
7th. 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.
9Th. The great interests represented by the
several bureaus OF the Interior Department
| Will not be OVeflOOkcu III tub W nhFUh'
iIcIN. 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 Eve
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
tivcs Of every branch OF business taxed by the
Internal Revenue Laws-deputations of citizens
for purposes Of State, and politicians and thco-
logians Of every stripe, who come In hocks,
some for office, some for business, and some
for pleasure. Each and all Of these corners
and-goers increase our labors, and contribute
to enhance the value OF the columns OF the Re-
PUBLICAN In come manner.
18th. The Official, civil, and uncivil repre-
sentatves of every foreign nation on the earth,
, are found here, and cannot act or move unher-
aided by our active attaches.
Above, in a general form, we have given
. t,OeIUe reasons why the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN,
published in the City OF Washington, possesses
greater facilities for obtaining all the import.
ant news Of the day, OF every description, than
any other Journal In the United States. The
highest evidence Of this, which relieves US from
the charge Of sgotism, 10 the fact witnessed all
i over the nation daily (by those who care to OBJ
serve it) that 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
columns OF the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN. This
is true in face OF the well known fact that
= many Of the proprletorS OF those journals pay
enormous sums Of money yearly 10 "Asso.
ciated Press" and Especial Correspondents, u
90 called, to furnish them with the current
! news of the day. We regret to say, In this
q connection, that those correspondents do moi
ID always inform their employers that they are
of not the authors OF many OF the most important
dispatches they send over the wires at an eI
e pense Of four cents per word, by creditlng them
X 10 the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN, as they In JUS
tice should do. We especially think theN
h should credit us when they encroach so far al
to telegraph our editorials, bodily, as beInI
In their otnI compositions. However, we beg par
ii don for this complaining depression, and will
I'd not deny that we observe, in all this unfair
le ness, a compliment to our industry on the par
~ OF these plagiarists.
Politically the REPUBLICAN will support a
at earnestly as possible the civil and militar.
l. policy Of the present Administration, Will
that policy Is for FRRKDoM in It's broadest ant
" highest sense, and a0diHst SlaV,ry. Whsn u
nd present, or any other administration, purFSI
n. different course on The question Of human slavery
Id we shall oppos Nth our might and main, 90,
aS helping US, PATRONAGE OR NO PATRONAGE.
n The domestic and personal news OF the da
q, will always receive prompt and careful atten
e. ton.
no The Literary Department Of the REPSBLICL
Ss will be supplied with choice, selected and orr
be ginal prose and poetry, from the ablest writer
In this country and in Europe.
ed We shall permit nothing, knowingly, to ente
- the columns OF the REPUBLICAN that will often
y the suscsptibllitles Of the most refined.
ais In brief, we purpose making the RHPUBLIcL
i'd, a FAMILY Newspaper of the highest and moi
,N complete order.
u.s. It's but proper and Just to our readers to sa
, , that the Publishers, Editors, and entire corp
Of Reporters engaged upon the NATIONAL Ri
for PUBLICAN are thorough, practical neWspapt
70 men In the broadest sonse OF the term. III
'"' principal Editor, and his chief Assistant, hay
DO. both been engaged for more than twenty year
1--WE are both young men yet y as journalist
The upon the leading presses Of the country, occI
'e ca pylng at times the most arduous and respons
,S' bic positions. This may seem like "bloWin
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