The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-01-30
PROSPECTUS.
T HI E PRE- SIS
For 1867.
With the opening Of the new year we presented
to the readers of the
DAILY PRESS.
A Paper Enlarged to the size ofshe largest
New England Dailies.

The enlargement of daily edition il equivalent
to the addition of between three and four columns to
its size. This additional space will be devoted 10 de-
tails OF important events, which have heretofore
been obliged to give in brief and to selections from
current literature, grave or gay, such as We have
lately been obliged to omit altogether.
What the character OF the paper thus enlarged will
be, its past history will show The PRESS was
tablished primarily to represent the Republican par
ty of Maine. 1t was impossible Tor the controlling
party of the State to remain voceess in this city.
The PRESS will continue to defend the principles of
the Liberal party of America. The war has closed
one great cycle in national history--the cycle
during which arstocracy at the South and democra-
cy at the North grew up side by side, period of
jealousy and conflict, resulting in appeal to arms
and the victorious supremacy of the democratic prin
cple. We have entered state Of transition, which
seems likely to prove longer than most of antic
pated. Tho PRESS will insist upon q settlement
which will secure the fruits of victory. Nothing
is settled till it is settled right. We must have de-
mocraey at the South as well as at the North-equal
rights for all secured by equal laws, freedom of
speech, freedom of the press impartial suffrage. OF
the profound convictions of the Republican party of
Maine, the PRESS will remain faithful exponent.
The present year will probably witness the extern
ton of that great enterprise will compel a change,
which has already begun, in the management OF
newspapers. The leading features of the worlds
history will be registered from day to day by the tel
egraph The expense of special dispatches from all
parts of the world will prove too great for single
newspapers, and correspondence will regain some
thing its old Importance. Newspaper associations
or agents will assume the task of furnishing
the daily dispatches, while correspondents will fur
nsh details, explanations and illustrations, by mail.
The Atlantic telegraph has already destroyed the
system by which our foreign news has for years been
furnished by steamer, and already the Tribune has
its special correspondents established in almost
every capital in Europe. We cannot rival the feats
New York journalism but must be governed by the
same considerations. f'tft - o.
We have engaged
Regular Correspondents i'm Washington,
e. New York, Boston and Augusta,
and occasional correspondents at various points
throughout the State. During the session of the
Legislature, we shall publish
Special Dispatches
from Augusta every morning. furnishing a synop-
sis of the previous days proceedings. m
who have business relations with Portland, we hope
to make the PRESS more valuable than any paper
published outside Of the State can possibly be. We
shall publish the telegraphic summary other
New England newspapers We shall not publish
special dispatches from Washington, but we shall
have regular correspondence from that point and a
Daily Summary of Maine News
which readers here would be sorry to miss. We
shall have ~ Arn# aa
Full and Accurate Market Reports,
forwarded by telegraph from al parts Of the United
States, from Canada, and from England weekly
Review of the Portland Markets,
and an accurate r
Report Of Maine Shipping,
in foreign and domestic ports, will be published as
heretofore. 1Nt 30
There will be
NO INCREASE IN THE PRICE
OF the DAILY PRESS. For "a
EIGHT DOLLARS A YEAR!
We expect to furnish a paper,
The Largest in the State ,
and as large as in other States is offered for ten or
twelve dollars year. % -a 81
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