Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-11-22
THE GLOBE F:
The Official Organ of Congress and News
paper for the People.

| address my annual circular 10 the public, up
prisiDg il thatthe Globe will renew its reports OF
The Congressional Debates at the next session OF
Congress. Ii is hardly necessary 10 say that the
proceedings of the next Congress will be of vast
import 10 the country. The issues which have
been made in relation 10 slavery, connected with
The great interest which is always taken in Con-
gress in relation 10 the nomination OF presidential
candidates, will give intense excitement TO the
ucxt session, which will be communicated 10 the
public. Whatever is debated in Congress will be
debated everywhere. The importance of official
reports cannot, therefore, be TOO highly estimated.
The country will pass upon the proceedings OF
Congress n they progress, and pnblic opinion, II
properly informed, will have u salutaly Influence
upon the result.
royal sheet at eleven O'Clock every morning, ex-
cept Sunday, and will contain all the messages OF
the President OF The United States; the reports OF
the Executive Departments; the entire proceed
ings of Congress; the laws passed during the
session and the news by telegraph and from
other sources up 10 the hour of going 10 press.
The debates in Congress frequently fill thirty,
forty, fifty, and sometimes more than a hundred
columns a day. Whenever they make more than
twenty-eight columns a day, extra sheets are
printed.
TUESDAYS CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE will be pub
lshed every Tuesday morning, and contain the
proceedings Of Congress in condensed form the
current news of the day, and such editorial com
ment upon the times as may be deemed suitable
10 the character of the paper. When the debates
OF a week cannot be condensed into twenty
columns, and leave eight columns oil The sheet
Tor other matter and advertisements, an extra
sheet will be printed.
The CoNGREssIoNAL GLOBE will be The revised
edition of the proceedings contajned in the Daily
Globe, and the laws passed during the session,
printed Ia book form on a royal quarto page, and
Will. probably, make four volumes of niue HUI.
bred pages each. The last volume OF The four
will be an APPENDIX, which will contain such
speeches as are written ont by the members them.
selves, with such deferred proceedings as neces-
sarily accompany them. Complete indexes will
be made ont and forwarded 10 subscribers soon
after the end of the session. ia subscriber shall
lose any numbers, they will be supplied at the
rate Of three cents for sixteen pages.
Ii is admitted by every cons etent Judge whose
opinion | have heard expressed on the subject,
that the debates of Congress are better reported.
and sold lower than those of any other Legislative
body. n calculation which ] made for the Senate
Of the United States in April, 1854, shows that
Congress pays ne for reporting and publishing
It's debates in the Daily Globe, and then in the
Congressional Globe and Appendix, only one
esUsnM the rate charged in England for publish.
ing the debates of Parliament, and about one
Seuenth the average rate paid by the States of
Pennsylvania, Maryland. and Kentucky, (Which
are all the States in which the prices paid had
thea been ascertained) for publishing their de-
bates in book form only. The debates Of Con-
greSs are off rcd To subscribers, IN this Prospcc-
tus, for about one half The price paid for them by
Congress-the expense OF reporting, and then
publishing them in the Daily Globe to enable
members 10 revise their remarks for the Congress
sional Globe and Appendix, are all paid for by
Congress, aud do not form any pan Of the So
which an individual pays for them. Calculations
showing the prices paid for debates IRE printed on
The fourth page Of the paper.
To Facilitate the circulation ofthe Cougrcsstonal
Globe and cheaper il TO subscribers, Congress
passed q joint resolution making II free Of postage.
| annex il. as the law may not be accessible 10
postmasters generally:
"Joint Resolution proUiding for the distribution Of
The Lars Of Congress and fhs Debates thereon
with a view TO the cheap circulation OF the
laws Of Congress and the debates contributing 10
the true Interpretation thereof aud 10 make free
the communication between the representative
and constituent bodies:
Be IL resolped 6y The Senate and HoUss Of Repre-
sentatiVes Of ths United States Of America ~ Con-
gress assembled. That from and AFTER the present
session Of Congress, the Congressional Globe and
Appendix, which contain the laws and the debates
thereon, shall pass free through the mails so long
as the same shall be published by order Of Con-
gress: PyoUided, That nothing herein shall be
construed TO authorize the circulation Of The daily
Globe free Of postage"
| commenced publishing the Congressional
Globe and Appendix in 1888 They now make
thtrty.seven volumes. The first edition Of many
Of them il exhausted, and ! am now reprinting
and siereotyping them. They cannot be afforded
for less Than 81 80 a volume. Should any sub.
scriber wish the back numbers, they will be fur.
nished, well bound, at that rate.
TERMS
DAILY GLOBE, one SO 90
" during the session. ....... 6 90
WEEKLY GLOBE, one year............. 2 90
during the session...... 90
CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE AND A~PrENDIx, dur.
ing the sessions, q 90
Two copies Of The CoNeREssiuNAL GLOBE
AND APPENDIX will be sent for......... 10 90
Payments required in advance, Invariably.
Bank notes, current where y subscriber resides,
received at par. The whole or any part of a re-
miitance may be made in postage stamps. The
money should be- in this city by the first Monday
IN next December, the day fixed for the meeting
Of Congress.
Heretofore | have sent the Daily Globe 10 those
papers that published my Prospectus, cannot
afford 10 do so any longer, a. the papers sent for
several years past cost me more than all / received