Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1864-01-16
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TIKI WEEKLY NATIONAL REPUBLICAN,

OF the DAILY and WEEKLY NATIONAL
TO mako the latter more thorough
ana reliable newspaper for Families and ClubA
throughout the country, than Il has boon here
,ofore. In making this statement we do not
vish 70 be understood ss Hpologizing, In any
manner, for the past conduct Of the WHEKLI
RuPuA1IcAN. II has been worth all that we
have charged for IL. Prosperity In the world,
for which we arc partly indebted, and exceed.
Ingly thankful, 70 our numerous patrons, war
rants us In promising TO make a still better
paper Of the wnnKLY RnPuBLIcAH In the future,
al ~ sa,ns price, than Il has been In the past.
In making this announcement We do not in
tsnd 70 enter into an extended detail statement
OF All Che improvements We sh9ll make, but, In
. general way, 10 indicate what VIC propose
doing, assuring tho public that we shall use
our utmost endeavors 10 perform faithfully all
That we promise.
rough national newspaper are greater than are
enjoyed by the publishers OF any other Journal
In the country, for the following reasons;
1sL The REPUBLICAN Is Published at Wash
ington City, the scat OF the National Govern
mont.
Cd. TIE PnusrpENT OF TIE UNITED STATES
being authorized by an act Of Congress 10 select
ono pdpsr as the Official medium Of all the Exc
cutfve Departments oftho Government, we take
pleasure In stating that no has done us the
honor 10 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
q corps Of able REPoRTERs, whose duty Il Is
TO furnish the daily records Of those high tri-
bunala.
9Th. Washington being the Headquarters for
all the operations Of the Army and Navy OF
the United States, by virtue Of the relations ox-
isting between tho Government and the Ma
TIoNAL REPUBLICAN, referred TO above, nothing
that IA proper to publish, Of Military and Naval
Operations, can or shall escape our notice.
sen. Our "Foreign Relations" now more
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 Bblest writers
in the United States are frequently employed to
discuss the subject In the REPUBIIoAN.
7th. Our Postal arrangements, so important
10 the people Of every community, be II large
OF small, especially 10 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 REPUB,
LcAN. Especially shall we keep our Agrlcul-
tural readers, throughout the country, posted
up concerning everything OF public interest in
the Agricultural Bureau.
9th. The Patent ONCE, being within hyo
minutes walk of our Office OF publication, Il
will be an easy matter, as 1t will be pleasure
for us TO keep the Inventor and Artlzan advised
of all improvements.
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 o
every class In society congregate here-milltary,
naval, and civil officers of the General and
State, and territorial ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
tives Of every branch Of business taxed by the
Internal Revenue Laws-deputatlon OF citizens
for purposes of State, and politicians and theo-
logians Of every stripe, who come in nocks,
some for ofice, some for business, and some
for pleasure. Each and all of these c0mers
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-,
sentatiyes Of every foreign nation on tho earth
are found here, and cannot act or move unher.
aided by our active attaches.
Above, In q general form, VIC have given
tpelUe reasons why the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN
published In the City of Washington, possesses
greater facilities for obtaining all the import
ant news of tho day, OF every description, than
any other Journal In tho United States. The
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 oh
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
II al A
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, -
90 called, 10 furnish them with tho 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 at an ex-
pense Of four cents pr p0rd, by credltlng them
10 the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN, as they In JUS
tice should do. We especially think they
should credit US when they encroach so far as
70 Telegraph our editorials, bodily, as being
their o'0I 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 part
Of these plaglarists.
Politically the REPUBLICAN will support az
policy OF the present Administration, while
that policy ls for FREEDOM in Its broadest and
highest sense, and against SldVsry. WHEN the
present, or any OTHER administration, plysueS a
different course on the question Of human. SLAVERY,
W sAaH oppose NTH our Nigh. aud main, Cod
helping Us, PATRONAGE OR NO PATRONAGE.
Tho domestic and personal news of the day
viii 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 writers
In this country and in Europe.
We shall permit nothing, knowingly, to enter
the columns OF the REPUBLICAN, that will offend
the suscGptibilities Of the most refined.
In brief, we purpose making the REPUBLICAN
aFAHILY Newspaper Of the highest and most
complete order.
II 10 but proper and Just TO our readers to say
that the Publishers, Editors, and entire corps
of Reporters engaged upon the NATIONAL RE.
PUBLIOAH are thorough, practical newspaper
men In the broadest sonse of the term. The
principal Editor, and his chief Assistant, have
both been engaged for more than twenty years
tive are both young men yetO as Journalists
upon the leading presses of the country, occu-
plying at times the most arduous and response
BILE positions. This may seem like "bloWing
our own trumpet" So Il is. But, good reader,
we have right TO blow 1t, for we have earned
That right; besides Won are entitled 10 know