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816     DOUGLASS' MONTHLY.    MARCH, 1863
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THE NEW-YORK TRIBUNE.
1863.

THE NEW-YORK TRIBUNE, first issued in 1841, now in the twenty-second year, has obtained both a larger and more widely diffused circulation than any other newspaper ever published in America.  Though it has suffered, in common with other journals, from the volunteering and departure of tens of thousands of its patrons to serve in the War for the Union, its circulation on this 6th of December, 1862, is as follows:

DAILY - 50,125
SEMI-WEEKLY - 17,250
WEEKLY - [[underlined]] 148,000 [[/underlined]]
Aggregate - 215,375

Preeminently a journal of News and of Literature, THE TRIBUNE has political convictions, which are well characterized by the single word REPUBLICAN.  It is Republican in its hearty adhesion to the great truth that "God has made of one blood all nations of men"--in its assertion of the equal and inalienable rights of all men to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"--Republican in its steadfast, earnest, defiant hostility to every scheme and effort of the Slave Power, from the annexation of Texas to the great Rebellion, to grasp the empire of the New World and wield the resources of our country for its own aggrandizement--Republican in its antagonism to the aristocrats and despots of the Old World, who fondly hail in the perils and calamities suddenly thrust upon us by their American counterpart the overthrow and ruin of the Model Republic--Republican in its hope and trust, its faith and effort, that this atrocious Rebellion must result in the single overthrow of its plotters, and the firm establishment of equal rights and equal laws throughout the whole extent of our country, wherein Liberty and Union shall indeed be "one and inseparable" henceforth and forever.

THE TRIBUNE devotes attention in calmer times, and to some extent in these, to Education, Temperance, Agriculture, Inventions, and whatever else may minister to the spiritual and material progress and well-being of mankind; but for the present its energies and its columns are mainly devoted to the invigoration and success of the War for the Union".  It special correspondents accompany every considerable army and report every import incident of that great struggle which we trust is soon to result in the signal and conclusive triumph of the National arms and in the restoration of Peace and Thrift to our distracted, bleeding country. We believe that no otherwise can a fuller or more accurate view of the progress and character of this momentous conflict be obtained than through the regular perusal of our columns. And we earnestly solicit the cooperation of all friends of the National cause, which we regard and uphold as that of Universal Humanity, to aid us in extending its circulation.
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TERMS

The enormous increase in the price of printing paper and other materials used in printing newspapers, compel us to increase the price of The TRIBUNE. Our new terms are:

DAILY TRIBUNE,

Single copy - 3 cents.
Mail Subscribers, one year (311 issues) - $8


SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE.

One Copy, one year (104 issues ) - $3.
Two Copies, one year - $5.
Five Copies, one year - $12.
Ten Copies one year - $22,50
An extra copy will be sent to clubs of twenty and over.

WEEKLY TRIBUNE.

One Copy, one year (52 issues) - $2.
Three Copies, one year - $5.
Five Copies, one year - $8.
Ten Copies one year - $15.
Any larger number, addressed to names of subscribers, $1 50 each. An extra copy will be sent to every club of ten.  
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Twenty Copies, to one address, one year, $25 and any larger number at same price. An extra copy will be sent to clubs of twenty. The clubs of thirty THE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE will be sent. To clubs of fifty the DAILY TRIBUNE will be sent gratis. 

Address:
THE TRIBUNE
Tribune Buildings, New-York

When drafts can be procured it is much safer than to remit Bank Bills. The name of the Post-Office and State should in all cases be plainly written.

Subscribers who send money by Express must prepay the Express charges, else it will be deducted from the remittance. 

THE TRIBUNE ALMANAC
for 1863
will be ready about Christmas.
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IMPORTANT FACTS.

Constant writing for six months is done cheaper with Gold Pens than with Steel Pens; therefore it is economy to use Gold Pens.

The gold pen remains unchanged by years of continued use, while the steel pen is ever changing by corrosion and wear; therefore perfect unformity of writing is obtained only by the use of the gold pen. 

The gold pen always ready and reliable, while steel pen must be often condemned and a new one selected, therefore there is great saving of time in the use of the gold pen. 

Gold is capable of receiving any degree of elasticity, so that the gold pen is exactly adapted to the hand of the writer; therefore the nerves of the hand and arm are not injured, as it is known to be the case by the use of steel pens.

Improvements made in the machinery for manufacturing gold pens, and secured to the subscriber by letters patent, have enabled him to overcome the many imperfections hitherto unavoidable in their production, and also to bring the cost within the reach of all. 

He is now selling gold pens at prices varying form 25 cents to $1, according to size, the average wear of everyone of which will far outlast a gross of the best steel pens. 

Sold by all dealers in the line throughout the country. Wholesale and retail at the store, no. 25 Maiden Lane, where all orders, inclosing cash or postage stamps, will receive  prompt attention, and a pen or pens corresponding in value, and selected according to description will immediately be sent by mail or otherwise as directed. 

Any one sending a single letter post stamp will receive a circular with fac-simile engravings of all sizes and prices. 
Address: MORTON, 25 Maiden Lane, New York
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The Future of Africa:

MISCELLANIES: BY REV. ALEX. CRUMMEL, B.A. OF LIBERIA, AFRICA
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THE UNDERSIGNED proposes to issue in a 12 mo. volume, of about 300 pages, Orations, Addresses, and other Papers, mostly prepared for National and Missionary occasion in Liberia, West Africa; and pertaining to National Life and Duty.

The following is a list of the articles:

1. The English Language in Liberia.
2. The Duty of a Rising Christian State to contribute to the World's Well-being and Civilization. 
3. Address on laying the Corner Stone of St. Mark's Hospital, Cape Palmas.

P.S. The following names have been readily obtained, within a very few days, in the city of Philadelphia, most for TEN copies:

Rt. Rev. A. Potter, D.D.
Benjamin Coates, Esq.,
Mrs. Eli K. Price,  
Rev. J.W. Cracraft,
John S. Crozier, Esq.
Hon. Edward Coles, 
Rev. B.T. Noakes,
A.R. Cope
Anthony P. Morris,
Rev. Albert Barnes
Rev S.H. Tyng, D.D.of New York
John Welsh, Esq.,
Samuel Welsh, Esq.,
Rev. T.S. Malcom,
Hon. G.W. Woodward,
John Bohlen, Esq.,
W. Parker Foulke, Esq
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TERMS OF DOUGLASS' MONTHLY,:
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Single copies, to American subscribers, $1 per year. 
" " to British " 5s. sterling. 
Subscriptions must be paid for invariably in advance
All communications, whether on business or for publication, should be addressed to
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, ROCHESTER, N.Y.

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AGENTS IN GREAT BRITAIN.

We take the liberty of using the names of the following gentlemen who will receive names and subscriptions [[/column 2]]

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for Douglass' Monthly in Great Britain:

Halifax - Rev. RUSSELL LANT CARPENTER, Milto place.

Dublin - Mr. WM. WEBB, 52, High Street, and 8, Dunville Avenue, Rathmines.

Derby - Dr. SPENCER T. HALL, Burton Road.

Glasgow - Mr. JOHN SMITH, 173, Trongate.

Leeds - Mr. ARTHUR HOLLAND, 4, Park Row; Rev CROFTS

Newcastle-on-Tyne - Mr. WALTER S. PRINGLE.

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That man, I think, is parted from his sense, who denies that the nature and intent of this government is tha scouring of equal justice and of liberty upon the basis of the natural rights of man. I know some men say that slavery is a part of our institution, and a part of the Constitution; that it was recognized, and was intercalated amongother principles, of this Constitution and these institutions. I deny it. I declare that this Union and the Constitution of this Union, were formed for justice and for freedom, explicitly and avowedly, and not for slavery at all. Was there no recognition of slavery in them? Yes. On the neck of this country was found a little wen; and there was a consultations of physicians as to whether it had better be cut off; and they concluded that it was not advisable to use the knife of owing to some delicacy on the part of the patient. But it was thought that the strength strength of the constitution and the tendencies of things were such that the wen would be absorbed; and therefore it was let alone. But so from their opinion being correct, the wen began to grow, and grow, and crown the head from one side, and declare that it was the equal of the natural organs of the body; and now it has assumed such proportions that it is proposed by politicians, for the safety of the body, to cut the head off, and make room for the wen! New England is to go out, that slavery may come in!

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FEARFUL STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM BY A SLAVE MOTHER. - The Frankfort (Ky.) corresdondent of the Cincinnati Gazette (Jan. 19) gives the following thrilling account of a slave mother's struggle for freedom:

"Some slave traders from Henderson, Ky., arrived at the Capital Hotel on Saturday, from Lexington, where they had purchases several negroes, among whom were a woman named Harriet and her infant child. The slaves were placed in a basement room for safety, as it was known that Harriet had a strong repugnance to going away, having been separated from her husband and other children.

She is a large, powerful woman, apparently about thirty years old, and possesses strong domestic instincts. About 11 o'clock, when most of the guests had retired, Harriet, with her child clasped to her bosom, dashed frantically from the basement to the hall, and finding the door locked, raised her clenched hand, and with powerful blows smashed the lights surrounding it, shivered two sections of two-inch sash, forced herself through the aperture, and with lacerated arm and hand, stereaming with blood fled as for life.

Subsequently she was found exhausted from from loss of blood, and almost frozen, crouched in the corner of a stable, whither she had been traced by her blood upon the snow. The doorsill and wall at the Capital Hotel are saturated with this slave mother's blood, mute but eloquent appeal, and there it will remain, 'for not all Neptune's ocean can wash this blood clean,' and senators and law-makers shall see it as they go and come from the legislative halls, another evidence of the instinctive and ineradciable love and aspiration for freedom."

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A REMARKABLE COMPLIMENT TO CHARLES SUMNER. - The National Intelligencer, a paper whose opinions have more weight with the conservative members of the late whig party at the North, than those of any other journal in the country, says, in an article on Mr. Sumner's recent election:

"If we are not able to concur with Mr. Sumner in certain of his opinions on questions of domestic politics, it gives us only the greater pleasure to bear our cheerful and candid testimony to the enlightened judgement and peculiar qualifications he brings to the discharge of the important duties devolved on him as Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations in the Senate. In this capacity he has deservedly won the confidence of the whole country."

There could be no stronger testimony than this on a point so often denied - Mr. Sumner's practical abilities.
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