Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-11-15
THE BOSTON JOURNAL
FOR
1868.

FOR
1868.
TNHE Popular New England, Family News
Il paper. The prospectus of the Boston Jour
nal is offered TO the public, in full confidence that
the pledges OF the proprietor last year have been
fully redeemed. The year upon which we are to
enter will no doubt be the crisis year in the his
tory of the political decade and to the newspaper
the community will look for the varied reports
which are incidental to the
PRESIDENTIAL YEAR.
The JOURNAL, as in years past, will sustain its
reputation as the most reliable medium, where
men OF both parties can find the fullest and farest
reports of those preliminary meetings and ma
tional conventions which are to shape the desti-
ny of this country. AS accuracy is essential in
making daily record of the political campaign,
the reports OF this paper will sim at the most
rigid impartiallty, reserving for IFS editorial COL
umns those criticisms which the occasion may
call forth. While we shall necessarily devote
considerable space to the
Politics of the Day,
the leading interests of the country will not be
overlooked or neglected. Our commercial rela-
lions with other countries, the development of
our mineral resources, the advancement of those
highways of traffic which ere long will connect
New England with the far off shores of the Pa
cihc, the Agricultural and mechanical interests
OF our people, will receive proper mention.
In order to meet the expectations of the thou
sands who look to The JOURNAL for their gener
al Information upon all subjects which come with
in the scope of journalism, we shall issue, as &C
siOu demands, Double Sheet and Single Sheet
Supplements, which will enable us 10 present
many original features and to furnish a newSpa-
per which, for the amount and quality of its
contents, cannot be equaled in New England.
Among the Special and Peculiar Features
which will distinguish The JOURNAL during the
coming year will be
Letters from Carleton,
who, as Special Correspondent for The JOURNAL,
will make
A Tour Around the World.
During the past year his foreign correspon-
dence has been most acceptablv received but the
fields where his fertile pen find rich material
wherewith TO instruct, entertain and eCify those
readers who know his graphic power of descrip-
ion, and his entire reliability a faithful hiStO-
rian ofpassing events, are by no means exhaust
ed. He will continue his travels, and from
Greece, Turkey, Palestine and Egypt, will send
TO THE JOURNAL the impressions of travel. Dur
ing his visit to the Holy Land he will communi-
cate series, which will be Pictures of Biblical
History. The reader will be led to those places
consecrated by the events of the past, and will
be furnished with pen pictures describing as they
appear to-day, Hebron, Bethlehem, River Jor-
dan, Jerusalem, Capernaum, Carmel, GilbOa,
Mount of Olives, Jericho, and all other points
forming guide which. combining as il will the
historical events connected with them cannot
fail to prove acceptable TO all classes.
After sojourn in the Holy Land, Carleton
will continue his trip down the Red Sea, thence
to Bombay, visiting the Gauges, and passing on
to Calcutta, Burmah, Singapoor, Canton, Shang.
haze, Pekin, thence TO Japan and across the Pa
citc Ocean to San Francisco, returning TO Boston
overland, following the route of the Pacific Rail
road to Omaha. The countries and places which
he will visit to CLEAN for the readers of TIKI
JOURNAL will afford him material which he viii
make of interest TO every class of readers. Thi:
grand tour-the first in magnitude and impor
lance ever inaugurated by New England News
paper, will be made under auspices which prom
Use the most gratifying results, and though in
volving a very heavy expenditure will certainly
| repay the readers of The JOURNAL.
Telegraphic Dispatches.
The employment of the telegraph for the early
communication of the latest intelligence will en-
able us to lay before our readers an amount OF
! varied information of great value to the commu
| nifty This We shall accomplish through GU
corps Ofresident Correspondents at the Centre
| of Intelligence. Our special dispatches will no
give us the proceedings of Congress and all mat
tiers of importance at the Capital of the Nation
hut whenever news can be procured of interest Il
| New England, the wires will be employed to an
initiate space and anticipate time. AS Boston il
| the grand business centre, which enjoys commu
ncation with all the cities and towns whcl
| border upon the lines of railroad diverging hence
| it is the aim of The JOURNAL to supply this vas
market with the latest news at the earliest posi-
| bic moment. An experience of more than thirty
| five years, and the success achieved by TIL
JOURNAL, warrants US in expressing a belief il
| our ability to meet public expectation and re
| turn full equivalent for the very liberal en-