Year: 1867

a pauer Enlarged 10 the size Ofthe largest


New England Dailies.


The enlargement of daily edition is equivalent
to the addition of between three and four columns to
its sze This additional space will be devoted TO de-
tails of important events, which We 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 es-
tabshed primarily to represent the Republican par
ty of Maine. 1t impossible for the controlling
party of the State to remain voiceess 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 our national history-the cycle
during which aristocraey at the South and democra-
cy at the North grew up side by side, period of
jealousy and conflict resulting in an appeal to arms
and the victorious supremacy OF the democratic prn
cipe. We have entered stale Of transition which
seems likely to prove longer than most of antie
pated The PRESS will insist upon settlement
which will secure the fruits of our victory. Nothing
is settled till it is settled right. We must have de-
mocracy at the South 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
sion of the telegraph round the world. The compile
ton of that great enterprise will compel 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 OF its old Importance. Newspaper associations
or news agents will assume the task of furnishing
the daily dispatches while correspondents will fur
nish details, explanations and illustrations, by mail
The Atlantic telegraph has already destroyed the
system by which 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


We have engaged


Regular Correspondents in WasLingte


New Work, 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.


To the people of Maine, and especially to people
who have business relations with Portland, we hope
to make the PRESS more valuable than any paper
published outside of the State possibly be. We
shall publish the telegraphic summary other
New England newspapers. We shall not publish
special dispatches from Washington, but we thall
have regular correspondence from that point, and
Daily Summary of Maine News
which readers here would be sorry to miss. We
shall have


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


Report of Maine Shipping,
in foreign and domestic ports will be published
heretofore.


There will be


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