Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1853-11-04
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THE CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE.

The CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE.
In surrendering my interes; in the organ oi
great political party, I cherished the pur,
pose of continuing the Congressional Globe
and if possible, 10 perfect il into fall his
tory OF the actions Of Congress, giving the de-
bates accurately and fully with The proceed
ings-all stamped with the verify of an ofi
cial record. From the passage in the letter OF
General Washington, which have quoted, ii
will be perceived that he thought this office
m'ght be combined with that OF regular
n n.wspaper; and II ascertain that the avidity OF
the public for news Of the less important kind
greatly contributes to give wings to the
weighter matter which may be called Con-
gresSional news.
Having succeeded in my purpose of per-
feeling the reports of the debates in Congrss
and giving them the official stamp, now pro-
TIE news of the DAWN such haste as shall! out
strip full and accurate intelligence sent from
the seat of Government in any other form
whatever. 1t will even anticipate the scraps
OF news forwarded to the cities winhin two
hundred and fifty miles of Washington by el-
egraph. Before the events thus transmitted
are published in the morning papers ,Qor in
stance, of the city of New York; the Globe
of that city by the Express Mail of the previ-
Gus night. The process by which this will be
effected now lay before the public.
will have corps Of sixteen Reporters in
Congress; esch in succession will take notes
during FIVE minutes, then retire prepare them
for the Press, put them slip by slip in the
hands of compositors, and thus,while debate
is going on in Congress, il will be put in type.
and in few minutes after it is ended it will
be in print. shall by this means be enabled
to send by the Express Mail of O'Clock p IN.
for the East, West, and North, and by that of
o'clock p. m. for the South, all the proceedings
of Congress up 10 the ordinary hour of ad-
journment. Thus the accurate debates Of Con-
gress will reach the cities two hundred and fif-
ty miles from the Capital before their daily
morning papers are in circulation.
The miscellaneous news shall be careful 10
gather from remote sections of the country by
telegraph. / will obtain from the Executive
Departments, through official sources, the mat
tiers of moment transacted in them, and, thro'
agents employed for the purpose, all the city
news Of consequence in sufficient time TO be
put into the Globe and mailed in the Express
Mail trains In this way hope TO create a
new era in the dissemination Of news from
Washington. Hitherto no newspaper has al
temp,ed.,o give authentic accounts of things
done at Washington before the public mind at
a distance had received its first impressions
from irresponsible telegraphic dispatches, or
by let,er-writers biased by peculiar views.
Washington has now become so great
center of political interest during all the year
the proceedings of the Executive Depart
menis and the information collected by them
even during the recess Of congress is Of so
much importance 10 the interest Of every part
of the country-that I shall continue the pub
lication of the daily paper permanently. with
a view TO become the vehicle of the earliest
and most correct intelligence.
1t is part of my plan to rednce the price
Of the daily paper TO half that of similar daily
papers; and thus hope to extend its circula-
ton so as to invite advertisements. | will pub
hsh advertisements of the Government.
The installation Of new Administration
and new Congress portends much change in
course Of public affairs as the result of the
mex, session. Many vast interests which we're
oroush, up in the last Congress were laid
over BY The Democratic majority to await the
acuoh oil Democratic Executive. The new
modelling Of the tariff; the new land system
the question of giving home-steads, and ma.
ring every man freeholder who NAV choose
to become one; the approximation Of the
Atlantic and Pacific oceans by national mil.
road across the territory of the Union; reform
IN the Army, Navy, and civil ofices-all these
great questions, with thousand minor ones,
deeply affecting mu,t,udes of men and every
s's'e IN the Union, will, now being mature by