Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1853-11-24


great political party. cherished thepurpose Of |
Continuing The Consressicpal Globe, and, II pos.
slble in time. e perfect int.o full history Of
the action Of Congress, gvnS The debates accu-
rately and fully with the pr6ceedings-al stamp
ed with the yesily q q official record. From
the passage in the lettef Of General Washington,
which have quoted, it will be perceived that he
thought this Office might Be combined with that
of regular newspaper; and il is certain that the
avidty Of the public for news of the less impor.
tant kind greatly contributes to give wines 10 the
weghtier matter which may be called Congress
sonal news. M
! Having succeeded in my purpose Of perfecting
the reports OF the debates in Congress and Civ
| ing 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 twill
even anticipate the scraps OF news forwarded to
cities within two hundred and fifty miles OF
Washington by telegraph. Before the events
thus transmitted are published in the morning
papers, (or instance, of the city of New York;
the Globe 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.
l will have a corps Of sixteen Reporters in
| Congress; each in succession will take notes du-
ring 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, it 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 9 o'clock p. m.
for the South, all the proceedings 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 Cap
itol before their daily morning papers are in cir
culation.
The miscellaneous news shall be careful to
gather from remote sections Of the nountry by
! telegraph. will obtain from the Executive De-
partments, through official sources the matters
Of moment transacted in them, and, through
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 new era
in the dissemination of news from Washington.
Hitherto no newspaper has attempted to give au-
thentic accounts of things done at Washington
before the public mind at distance had received
its first Impressions from irresponsible telegraph
ic dispatches, or by letter-writers biased by Pc
culiar views.
i Washington has now become so great center
of political interest during all the year-the pro-
ceedings of the Executive Departments and the
information collected by them even during the
recess of Congress is of so much Importance to
the interests of every section of the county,
that shall continue the publication Of the daily
paper permanently, with view to become the
vehicle of the earliest and most correct intelli-
gence.
1t is part of my plan 10 reduce the price of the
daily paper 10 half that of similar daily papers;
and thus hope to extend its circulation so as to
invite advertisements | will publish advertise
+ ments of the Government. To subscribers in
the cities hope to submit such terms as will in
duce them TO advertise their business in every
village throughout the Union, where the Globe
is sent daily under the franks of members Of Con-
i, gresS, all of whom take it, and some of them @
large number of copies.
The installation of new Administration and
a new Congress portends much change in the
course of public affairs as the result of the next
session. Many vast interests which were brot'
up in the last Congress were laid over by the
Democratic majority to await the action of 9
Democratic Executive. The new modelling o
the tariff; the new land system; the question o.
giving homesteads, and making every man free
, holder who may choose to become one; the ap.
proximaton of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
by national railroad across the territory of the
Union; reform in the Army, Navy, and civil Of
fces-all these great questions, with thousand
minor ones, deeply affecting multitudes of mer
and every State in the Union, will, now beinl
3 matured by public opinion, come up for the Gov.
ernments decision. These new issues, coope.
rating with old ones, coming up to be disposed o
by new actors on the srenes at Washington will
be apt to modify greatly, if not alter essentially
the party organization of the country.
To these elements of interest another is likely
\ to be introduced by the nterposition of the ag
q tatons of Europe. After nearly forty years o
n peace in Europe there is an evident restlessnes
i that now seems fraught with tendencies threat
h ming war; and if war comes IN all Likelihood
v there will follow such universal change that tn
# United States can scarcely hope o escape its vor
v tex. Indeed from late events it is apparent tha
. our Government is already drawn into Europea
v difficulties. These circumstances are calculate
d to draw the public mind towards the next Con
!, gress with much expectation.
It The DAILY GLOBE will be printed on fine pa
IS per, double royal size, with small type, (breve
: and nonpareil,l at five dollars year.
), The CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE will also be printe
/. on double royal sheet, in book form, roys
is quarto size, each number containing sixteen pa
IS ges. The Congressional Globe proper will
N made up of the proceedings Of Congress and tn
rs running debates as given by the Reporters. Th
Iv speeches which members MAY choose to write OF
% themselves will, together with the messages
the President Of the United States, the reports
the Executive Departments, and the laws pasSe
by Congress, be added in an Appendix Forme
ly received subscriptions for the CongresSon
Globe and Appendix separately. But this HI
not been found satisfactory inaSmuch as it gay
an incomplete view of the transactions in Cor
gress; and therefore have concluded not to Sc
them apart considering that neghbors can Ia,
A. the advantage of both by clubbing in case ind
4 viduals shall find it too onerous to be at Il
- charge of both.
be To facilitate the circulation of the Congre
no sional Globe and cheaper it 10 subscribers, Co
he gresS passed last year joint resolution making
nd free of postage. | annex it, as the law may n
for be accessible to poStmasters generally:
h Joint Resolution providing for the DISTRIBUTE
of the Laws of Congress and the Debates
,r thereon
ese With view to the cheap circulation Of I
tes laws of Congress and the debates contributi
ON to the true Interpretation thereof, and to ma
,e. free the communication between the Represe
nod tative and constituent bodies:
,pe Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Re
70 resentatives Of the United States of America
lis Congress assembled, That from and after the p
sent session Of Congress, the Congressional GlC
as and Appendix, which contain he laws and
md debates thereon, shall pass free through the mi
de- so long as the same shall be published by or
of Congress; Provided, That nothing herein st
he be construed to authorize the circulation Of
Daily Globe free of postage.
Approved, August 6, 1852.
As sell the Daily Globe at half the price
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