PROSPECTUS OF THE

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A WEEKLY family newspaper, de
IA voted to the promotion of TEMPE
RANCE, EDUCATION, LITERATURE, AGRIcUL
TURE, and institutions Of improvement
generally, IN New Orleans. Louisiana
and the Southwest, is published in this
city, (New Orleans at the low price o
two dollars and fifty ce nts per annum, in
varlably in advance; printed in quarto
form, on fine paper and clear type.
The lime has arrived when such pa
per is imperiously demanded by The pc.
cuIiar exigencies of reform and improve
ment in the South Wes, and we are de.
termined to make bold and vigorous eff
fort 10 meet the demand.


The paper will advocate, with modera-
tlon and liberality, but with frmness and
decision, the pure and lofty principles of
Total abstinence from all intoxicating
drinks, in health; a complete and
radical reform in our system of Educa-
ton, or,rather, it will urge the establish
ment Of thorough one in the Library
and Agricultural! Societies, and all enter
prses, public or private, calculated 10 ell.
evate, enlghton and stimulate the great
mass Of mind throughout our section OF
.counlry--a section than which, there is
none richer or more advantageuusIy and
salubriously situated for the develope-
ment Of lis wealth, Oh the face of the
globe.


1t will labor to kindle q love for the re-
fined, the useful; and neither pains nor
expense will be spared to render it all
that the friends Of the cause, in which it
is embarked, could desire; alike tho ad-
vocale OF great and practical principles
OF Temperance, Morals, and Improve.
ment, and the social and attractive com
panlon of the parlor and family circle
On the one hand it will avoid the destruc-
tive Charybdis oF being confined excIu-
sively to one subject, and the fatal ScyIla
of attempting to grasp ecery thing on the
other.


Whilst drawing, whenever it may
think proper, upon the exhaustless and
ennobling principles of Chriaianity-as
such, it will carefully shun sectarian re-
Iigions, as well aspurty politics.


With this exposition of the course we
intend to pursue, the appeal to the fEiends
Of the cause is made.


STEVENS & ARMS.


New Orleans, Feb, 1845,