The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1853-11-24
The DAILY GLOBE
Tie CnNGRESSIONAL GLnnE

The DAILY GLOBE
AND
THE CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE
In surrendering my interest in the organ
of great political party, | cherished the
purpose of continuing the Congressional
Globe, and, if possible, in time, TO perfect it
into a full history of the action of Congress,
giving the debates accurately and fully with
the proceedings-all stamped with the verify
Of an olIirial record. From the passage in
the letter of General Washington, which !
have quoted, it will be perceived that he
thought this office might be combined with
that Of regular newspaper; and it is certain
that the avidity of the public for uews of the
less important kind greatly contributes to
give wings TO the weightier matter which
may be called Congressional news.
Having succeeded in nay purpose OF per
fecting the reports ofthe debates in Congress
and giving them the official stamp. now
propose TO send them abroad, in connection
with the news Of the day, in such haste as
shall outstrip full and accurate intelligence
sent from the seat Of Government in any
other form whatever. 1t will even antici
pate the scraps OF news forwarded to cities
within two hundred and fifty miles Of Wash
Ington by telegraph. Before the events thus
transmitted are published in the morning
papers, Qor instance, Of the city of n. York;
the Gobe containing them will have reached
The post office of that city by the Express
Mail of the previous night. The process by
which this will be effected | now lay before
the public.
viii have a corps of sixteen Reporters
in Congress each in succession will take
notes during FIVE minutes; then retire, pre-
pare them for the Press, put them slip by
slip in the hands of compositions; 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 5 o'clock p. m. for the
East, West, and North, and by that of 8 o.
clock p. N. for the South, all the proceed
ings of Congress up TO the ordinary hour Of
adjournment. Thus the accurate debates Of
Congress will reach the cities two hundred
and fifty miles from the Capitol before their
daily morning papers are in circulation.
The miscellaneous news | shall be care
! lu 10 gather from remote sections of the
country hy telegraph. | will obtain from
| The Executive Departments, through official
| sources, the matters Of moment transacted
in them, and, through agents employed for
the purpose: all the city news Of conse-
quence in sufficient time to be put into the
the Globe and mailed in the Express Mail
trains. In this way hope to create new
era in the dissemination of news from
Washington. Hitherto no newspaper has
attempted TO give authentic accounts OF
things done AZ Washington before the pub
lie mind al a distance bad received It's first
| impressions fom irresponsible Geographic
dispatches, or by letter writer's biased by
peculiar views.
Washington has now become so great a
center Of political interest during all the
| year-the proceedings Of the Executive De
partments and the information collected by
them even during the recess Of Congress Is
cf SO much importance to the interests c.
every section of the cOuntry-ihat l shall
continue the publication of the daily paper
permanently, with a view TO become the
vehicle Of the earliest and most correct in
telligence.
1t is part Of my plan 10 reduce the price
OF the daily paper to half that Of similar pa.
pers and thus hope to extend its circula
tion so as 10 invite advertisements. | viii
! publish advertisements Of the Government
| To subscribers in the cities hope TO sub
nit such terms as will induce them to ad
verlise their business in every village
throughout the Union, where the Globe i,
sent daily under the franks Of members o
| Congress, all Of whom take it, and some 0
them a large number Of copies
| The installation Of a new Administration
and new Congress portends much change
in the course OF public affairs as the resUl
Of the next session. Many vast interest,
which were brought pin the last Congress
were laid over by the Democratic majority t,
await the action Of a Democratic Executive
/ The new modelling Of the tariff; the new
land system; the question OF giving home
steads, and making every man freeholde
who may choose to become one; the approx
lma,Ion Of the Atlantic an1 Pacific ocean
by a national railroad across the territory o
the Union, reform in the Army, Navy, ant
civil offices-all these great questions, wit
a thousand minor ones, deeply affecting
muti!udes of men and every State in tn
Uuion, will, now being matured by public 0
piniOn, come up for the Governments deCis
ion. These new issues, cooperating wit
old ones, coming up TO be disposed Of b
new actors on the scenes at Washington
will be apt to modify greatly, if not alter es
senlially, the party organizations Of III
country.
!, TO these elements of interest another
likely to be introduced by the interposilio
Il of the agtations of Europe After nearl
forty years of peace in Europe there is a
evident restlessness that now seems fraugh
with tendencies threatening war; and if wa
comes, in all likelihood there will follow
, such universal change that the Unite
States can scarcely hope to escape its vor
tex. Indesd, from late events it is apparen
that our Government! is already drawn int
European difficulties. These circumstance
are calculated 10 draw the public mind to
wards the next Congress with much exPec
tatiOn.
The Daily Globe will be printetaon fin
paper, double royal size, with small type
(bfevler and nonpareil,) at five dollars
year.
The Congressional Globe will also be prr
led on a double royal sheet in book form