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

REPUBLICAN, to m AXE the latter more thorough
and reliable newspaper for Families and Clubs
throughout the country, than It has been here
tofore. In making this statement we do not
wish to be understood as apologlzing, in any
manner, for the past conduct Of the WEEKLY
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 same price, than It 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 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 to produce a tho
rough national newspaper are greater than are
enioyed by the publishers OF any other journal
In the country, for the following reasons:
LIST. The REPUBLICAN is published at Wash
lngton City, the seat of the National Govern
ment.
I'd. TUE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
being authorized by an act of Congress to select
one pdper as the official medium Of all the Exc
cutive Departments ofthe Government, wetake
pleasure in stating that he has done us the
honorto select the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN under
the law of Congress referred to.
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
. a corps Of able REPORTERS, whose duty II X
to furnish the daily records OF those high trl-
bunals.
4th. Washington being the Headquarters for
all the operations OF the Army and Navy of
the United States, by virtue OF the relations cx
Isting between the Government and the Ma
TIoNII REPUBLICAN, referred to above, nothing
that lie 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 ablcst 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 aud
: 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'
IIcAN. 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 Office, being within five
minutes walk Of our office of publication, 1t
will be an easy matter, as It will be a pleasure
for us to keep the Inventor and ArtiZan advised
of all improvements.
lOth. 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 herc-mlitary
naval and civil officers of the General and
State, and territorial representa-
tives of every branch of business taxed by the
Internal Revenue LRws-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 somC
for pleasure. Each and all of these c'meri
and goers increase our labors, and contribute
to enhance the value of the columns OF tho 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 unher
aided by our active attaches.
Above, in a general form, we have giyet
iiSslps reasons why the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN
published in the City OF Washington, pOssessc
greater facilities for obtaining all the import
ant news of the day, OF every description, THAI
any other Journal In the United States. tn
Ia highest evidence of this, which relieves US from
the charge of cgotism, is the fact witnessed al
over the nation daily (by those who care to Of
serve iO that the leading, widest circulated
and most influential journals In the Unitet
IL. States gather the most important Departmental
news, especially Of our military and nava
operations, official aud otherwise, from tn
, columns Of the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN. Thi
u is true in face of the well known fact tina
many of the proprietors of those journals pa
enormous sums Of money yearly to " AssO
ciated Press" and Especial Correspondents
80 called, to furnish them with the curren
news of the day. We regret to say, In TIL
connection, that those correspondents do No
Nc always inform their employers that they ar
+ mot the authors of many of the most impOrtan
- dispatches they send over the wires at an ca
D pense of four cents per iGOrd, by credltng thel
TO the NATIONAL REPUBLICAN, as they In ju'
tice should do. We especially think the
should credit US when they encroach SO far a
TO telegraph our editorials, bodily, "a bcin
their otgn compositions. However, we beg pa
don for this complaining depression, and wi
not deny that we observe, iu all this uula
ness, a compliment to our industry on the pa
of these plagiarists.
Politically the REPUBLICAN will support I
eE. earnestly al possible the civil and militia
'n' policy of the present Administration, viii
that policy Is for FREEDOM In Its broadGst au
highest sense, and against SIdU ~. When
present, or any other administration, IJirrNeS
different course on TIE question Of human SLAYER
L. zoe shall oppose Il i0ih our NIGH anil main, q,
l. h,lplig liS, PATRONAGE OR NO PATRONAGE.
mp The domestic and personal news of the d.
'rt- will always receive prompt and careful atte
md ton.
ing The Literary Department Of the REPUBLIC
w will be supplied with choice selected and o.
OF ginal prose and poetry, from the ablest write
ub- In this country aud In Europe.
~ NJ We shall permit nothing, knowingly, to ent
Her the columns Of the REPUBLICAN that will Otel
.lu- the susceptibilites of the most refined.
les- In brief, we purpose making the REPUBLIC
tSiE' a FAMILY Newspaper of the highest aud INT
de- complete order.
TO It is but proper and just to our readers to s
4 OF that the Publishers, Editors, and entire cor
pre- OF Reporters engaged upon1ho NATIONAL
o"S PUBLICAN are thorough, practical nrwspaI
Arh men In the hrOadest sOnse OF the term. 7
ma principal Editor, and his chief Assistant, la
any both been engaged for more than twenty YET
me Eve are both young men YETI as jOurnai
OH upon the leading presses oil the country, UcC
pyug at times the most arduOus aud TuspOn
BILE positions. This may seem like "blOwi
r. our own trumpet" 80 il II. But, good read
We have u right To blow 1t, for we have earn
-. , that riThl; hrsidrs, YOU are entitled to I'm