Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1864-01-05
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inE WEEKLY NATIONAL REPUBLICAN.

proprietors ofthe DArLf and WnnxIr NATIONAL |
RuPuurrcar, 10 make the latter more thorough |
and reliable newspaper for Families and Clubs |
throughout the country, than II has been here |
tofore. In making this statement We do not
.Sish 10 DO understood % apolcgiEing, In any
manner, for the past conduct Of the WnHKLI
REPuB1IcAH. II has been worth all that We
have charged for IL. Prosperity IN the world,
for which We are partly indebted, and exceed-
lngly thankful, 70 our numerous patrons, war
rants us in promising TO make sin better
paper the wEnKLI RurUn1IuAr In the future,
at ne same pric,, than II 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
a general way, to Indicate Ehat We propose
doing, assuring the public that we shall use
our utmost endeayors 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 RnPUBIIoAr 10 Published at WASH
ington City, the seat Of the National Govern
ment.
"a. The President OF rHn UNITED STATES
being authorized BY an act Of Congress TO select
one paper as the Official medium Of all the Ere
cutiye Departments of the Government, we take
pleasure In stating that he has done Us the
honorto select the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN under
the law Of Congress referred 10.
Sd. The Congress and the Supreme Court and
the Court Of claims Of the United statos, sever
ally sit here during each year, and we employ
. corps Of able REPORTERS, whose duty 1t V
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 e1-
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 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.
, 7th. Our Postal arrangements, so important
to the people OF every community, be II 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
several bureaus OF the Interior Department
will not be overlooked in the WEEKLY RRPUB.
LIoAN. Especially shall we keep our Agricul-
tural readers, throughout the country, posted
the Agricultural Bureau.
9th. The Patent Office, being within Ave
minutes walk Of our Office Of publication, ID
will be an easy matter, as II will be pleasure
for US to keep the Inventor and ArtiLan 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 oft
Bureaus of Art and Science TO enrich our col
for fua IF M
18th. Washington being the central city OF
the Union, the learned and influential men o
every class in society congregate here-military,
naval, and civil officers of the General aud
State, and territorial goyernmeI ts-representa
tives OF every branch Of business taxed by the
Internal Revenue Laws-1eputs.ions Of citizens
for purposes Of State, and politicians and theo-
logians of every stripe, who come In hocks,
some for ofiice, some for business, and some
for pleasure. Each and all Of these cNmeTs
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
ticelVe 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 jouT-Ll in the United States. The
highest evidence OF this, which relieves US from
the charge Of sgotism, 10 the fact witnessed all
over tho nation daily (by those who care TO db
serve I'D 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 proprietors Of those journals pay
enormous sums OF money yearly to Asso.
ciated Press'' and Especial Correspondents, -
news Of the day. We regret to cay, 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 at an ex'
pense OF four cents pr tDord, by crediting them
10 the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN, as they In JUS
tice should do. We especially think they
should credit US when they encroach so far al
TO telegraph our editorials, bodily, as being
their oWa compositions. However, we beg par
don for this complaining depression, and will
not deny that we observe, in all this unfair
ness, a compliment TO our industry on the par
of these plagiarists'
Politically the REPUBLICAN will support al
earnestly as possible the civil and military
policy OF the present Administration, while
that policy Is for FRHEDoM In its broadest and
highest sense, and against SldV ~. When n,
present, or any other GdInllstrdtiOn, pHrsues
different course on the question Of human SdVsry
zoe shall Oppose nth oar Nigh aud main, Coo
helpt,Lg as, PATRONAGE Oh NO PATRONAGE.
The domestic and personal news Of the day
will always receive prompt and careful atten
ton.
The Literary Department of the REPUBLIcA,
will be supplied with choice, selected and orr
ginal prose and poetry, from the ablest writer
In this country aud in Europe.
We shall permit nothing, knowingly, TO ente
the columns of the REPUBLIC AN that W III OtienC
the suscsptiblllties Of the most refined.
In brief, we purpose making the REPUBLIcAl
aFAMIBY Newspaper OF the highest and mos
complete order.
1t is but proper and just to our readers to sa,
that tho Publishers, Editors, and entire corp
OF Reporters engaged upon the NATIONAL RE
PUBLICAN are thorough, practical newspape
men in the broadest sonse Of the term. Tn
principal Editor, and his chief Assistant, huv
both been engaged for more than twenty year
1--WE are both young men yet y as journalist
upon the leading presses OF the country, occu
plying al times the most arduous and responsi
bic positions This may seem like "blowinJ
our own trumpet" so il is. But, good reader
we have O right 10 blow it. for we have earne,