The Arkansas banner., 1847-02-17

be more useftaIiy emuoved than in condensina and again spreading abroad the indulgence cf our free country, tending to such happy results thrphgh our almost miFaea.oasly adjusted State and Natonalin- stitutions.
 vancinn the usefulness of Congress by pahIishing all and impartial reports, and having large mass of the Congressional Globe and Appendix, issued during the last twelve years, which would De im- paired in value to us and ufits to the public, iii the work were discontinued. VI have double mc- tive to prpupt us 10 extend t through anew series We are resolved. hpossibse, to give t tpsrmansnre and to hand it down 10 successoFs as 2 standard Work, worthy of being msintdned aAd improved. We shall Ssszs eron es nere undertaking without being distracted or bnrdened by shy associate aiois of the press and, thnsanenedmbcfed, shall hope to make the new series . step in advance of the for. mer in all points of execution. Witha view foac- compish this, we shall be tche or theother) in st tendance on Congress.
 The reports will not be affected by party biss. We believe that every member of Congress will bear witness that our reports are full and fair The Congressional Globe is made up of the daily proceedings Of the two Houses of Congress. and printed on snperhns double royal paper, with small type, fbrever and ncnparel,) in quafto form, each pumber containing sixteen royal quarto pages.--- The speeches cf the members, in this form, con
 densed--the full report of the prepared speeches being reserved in the Appendix All resolutions,
 motions, and other pfocHediugs, are given in the 1 form Of the Journals, with the yeas and nays on every important question:.
 1 The Appendix is made up of the Presidents An
 nuai Message, the reports of the principal officers 1 of the Government tkat accompany it, and all speeches Of members of Congress, written out and 1 revised by themselves. It is printed in the same form as inc Congressional Globe. and usually makes about the same number of pages during session. During the last month or six weeks of a session Al. l.. l~n two numbers week--one ol the Congressional Globe and one of the Appendix; but during the Te- mander of session. there IS usually sufficient mat ter for two or three numbers of each every week The next session will be unusually interesting; therefore we calculate the Congressional Globe and Appendix together will make near 1900 large quar- to pages printed in small type--brcyicr and nonpa- riel We furnish complete indexes to both at the end of a session.
 We have on hand the Congressional Globe and Appendix for the last Is sessions of Congress, ma king together l5 large quarto volumes, which we sell, unbound, for S4l, or bound with Russia backs and corners, for S5G Those Uho want the back volumes should apply for them immediately, they are in demand. Congress subscribed for 34I com plete sets during the two last sessions The pro- ceedngs of Congress forsthe last nine years cannot be procured from any other source--tsales and Sea ton having stopped printing their Register of Des bates in ls37
 We will endeayor to print sufficient number of surplus copies to supply all that may be mscarried lost in the mails but subscribers should be very particular to file their papers carefully for fear that we should not be abfe tc supply cii the lost mum beIs.
 TERMS:
 For one copy of the Congressional Globe, $l co For one copy of the Appendix, l o0 1 For six cot,ies of either. or part of both, % The money may be remitted by mail at our risk. Our prices for these papers are So low that we
 cannot afford to credit them out therefore, per
 son need consume his time in writing for them ua- less he sends the money.
 BLAIR & RIvES.
 Washington, oct. l5, 1si6