Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1864-01-06
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TIKI WEEKLY nY / MINYIoaE REPUBLICAN,

and reliable newspaper for Families and Clubs
throughout the country, than Il has been here
tofore. In making this statement we do not
wish to be understood as apologlzing, In any |
manner, for tho past conduct Of the WEEKIr
REPuB1loAx. II has boon worth all that we
have charged for Il. Prosperity in the world,
for which we arc partly Indebted, and exceed
ingly thankful, to our numerous patrons, war
rants us In promising to make still better
paper of the wEEEII RIrrHticAs in the fnture,
al De came price, 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 snsil make, ont, IN
q 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. -d'rEIE NlIll
The facilities afforded rs 70 produces tho
rough national newspaper are greater than are |
enjoyed by the publishers Of any other journal
In he country, Tor the following reasons.
LIST. The RKPuBIIcAris publlshed at Wash
ington City, the seat Of The National Govern
ment. "a SD 100 Oh III LlsIsI
"a. Tnn President or Tnn UNITED STATES
being authorized by an act Of Congress TO select
one paper as the oflicial medium Of all the Exc
outiye Departments OF tho Government, We take
pleasure In stating that he has done us the
honortc select the NATIONAL. REPUBLICAN, under
the law OF Congress referred 10.
Sd. Tho Congress and the Supreme Court and
the Court Of clalms OF the United States, sever
ally sit here during each year, and we employ
n corps Of able REPoRrERs, whose duty Il "
to furnish the daily records OF those high tri-
bunalf. a. fT-'
4th. Warrington being the Headquarters for
all the operations Of the Army and Navy Of
the United States, by virtue Of the relations en-
istlng 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 Relstions," now mere
important than ever, viii be the subject Of our
constant and paternal care. on.
9th. The Finances Of the Government, which
always affords an ample field forthe 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 RRPUBLicAE. 2
9Th. Our Postal arrangements, so important
TO the people OF every community, be 1t large
or small, especially 10 those who can read and
write, arc duly noted in the several changes to
which they are subject during the year
Sth. The great interests represented by the
several bureaus of tho Interior Department
will not be overlooked in the WEEKLY REPUB.
LIoAS. Especially shall we keep our Agricul-
tural readers, throughout the country, posted
up concerning everything OF public interest In
the Agricultural bureau. p n ~.
minutes walk of our office Of publication, Ii
will be an easy matter, as II viii be pleasure
for us to keep the Inventor and Artlzan advised
OF all Improvements.
10th. Tho 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
umns for the instruction Of our renders. 'f
18th. Washington being the central city OF
the Union, the learned and influential men
every class In society congregate here-milltary,
naval, and civil officers Of the General and
State, and territorial ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
tiyes of every branch OF business taxed by the
Internal Revenue CHARACTERIZATION Of citizens
for purposes Of State, and politicians and theo-
logians OF every stripe, who come in hocks,
some for office, some for business, and some
for pleasure. Each and an OF these Gamers
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 unclvn repre-
Bentatlyes OF every foreign nation on the earth,
are found here, and cannot act or move unher-
aided by our nctiye attaches.
Above, in q general form, we have given
tIoelVe reasons why the NATIONAL REPUmIoAn,
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. Tho
highest evidence of this, which relieves US from
the charge Of egotism, Is the fact Witnessed all
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 fact OF the wen known fact that
many OF the proprietors Of those journals pay
enormous sums of money yearly TO "Asso-
ciated Pressn and Especial Correspondents, %
so called, to furnish them with tho current
news Of the day. We regret TO say, in this
connection, that those coresponaents 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 cord, by credlting them
to the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN, 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 otsll compositions. However, We beg par
don for this complaining depression, and viii
not deny that we observe, In all this unfair.
ness, a compliment TO our Industry on the part
Of these plagiarists. gr-r ..L... III.
earnestly as possible the civil and military
policy Of the present Administration, while
that policy Is for FREEDOM in Its broadest and
highest sense, and Gadirst SldV'rg WHEN he
present, or any other administration, PITslieS a
different oOurse on he question Of hunlda sldOeTn
zoe slaH oppose q 0ih our NIGH aud main, God
hslpiR1 rs, PATRONAGE OR NO PATRONAGE.
The domestic and personal news Of the day
will always receive prompt and careful atten.
ton. ....r. ... ... I'd
The Literary Department Of the REPUBLIcAS
will be supplied with choice, selected and orr.
ginAl prose and poetry, from the ablest writer
In this country and In Europe, ..... ,
We shall permit nothing, knowingly, TO enteI
the columns Of the REPUBLICAN that wiz offend
the susc0ptibilities Of the most refined.
In brief, we purpose making tho REPUBLICAN,
FAMILY Newspaper Of the highest and InosI
complete order.
IL Is but proper and Just to our readers to say
that the Publishers, Editors, and entire corps
of Reporters engaged upon the NATIONAL He
PUBLICAN are thorough, practical newspaper
men in the broadest sonso of the term. The
principal Editor, and his chief Assistant, hav'
both been engaged for more than twenty year.
TIVE are both young men yetO as Journalists
upon the leading presses OF the country, occu
plying at times the most arduous aud responsl
BILE positions. This may seem like "bloWinG
our own trumpet" So Il is. But, good reader
we have right 70 blow it, for we hAyo carmel
that right besides, you are entitled 10 know
whether the RHPUBIICAS 10 conducted by expe
rienced or inexperienced men. =
M. H., 20.