newspaper

[English news, and paper.] A printed paper published at interval of hours, days, or weeks, containing intelligence of past, current, or coming events; and at the option of the con ductors presenting also expre ions of opinion by editorial and other contributors and the busine announcements of advertisers. The prototypes of the newspaper are supposed to be the journals called Acta Diurna, which were the bulletins sent from Rome, several centuries before the Christian era, in which accounts were given of the progre of the Imperial arms. These journals were com sults of the Mexican war, and in 1850 was organized municated by the generals who received them to as a Territory. The surface is generally mount he officers under their command, and thus their tainous, being traversed from N. to S. by the Rocky contents became known throughout the army. The mountains and their continuations, which form its Acta Diurna seem, however, to have recorded other principal watershed and divide it into two great than military matters, e . g., trials, punishments, basins. It is rich in minerals, and has a vast area deaths, sacrifices, prodigies. The Pekin Gazette, of irrigable agricultural and grazing lands. Princithe oldest daily in the world, was first i ued about pal cities. Santa Fé, the capital; Albuquerque, Las Vegas, Silver City and Socorro. -ne .]