St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1857-12-17
THE GLOBE:
The Official Paper Of Congress.

i PUBLISH now my annual Prospectus OF tne
i DAILY GLOBE, and the CONGRESSIONAL
GLOBE AND APPENDIX, to remind subscribers,
and inform those who may desire to subscribe,
that Congress will meet on the first Monday of
next December, when / shall recommence
publishing the above named paper. They
have been published so long that most public
men know their character, and therefore
deem it needless to give minute account Of
the kind of matter they will contain,
THE DAILY GLOBE will contain areport of the
Debates in both branches of Congress- as taken
down by reporters. equal, at least to any corps
of shorthand writers in this or any other
country. A majority of them will, each, be
able to report, verbatim, ten Thousand words
an hour. while the average number of words
spoken by fluent speakers rarely exceeds seven
| thousand five hundred words an hour. When
the debates of day do not make more than
! forty columns, they shall appear in the Daily
Globe the next morning, which will contain,
also, the news of the day, together with such
editorial articles as may be suggested by pass
| ing events.
1t is also my intention, from time to time
as occasion may require, to publish my remi-
niscences of the public men with whom / have
been associated during the last twenty light
years. Anecdotes of General Jackson, and the
leaders of the party which he conducted, and
the leading men of other parties, will, be-
lieve be interesting now, when partizan bitter
ness has abated.
In becoming the reporter of the debates OF
Congress, deemed it proper to say that the
Globe would never be partizan paper. This
pledge will not be forfeited by introducing as
contribution to history the political traits OF
character which distinguished the public men
of my time. Although ! am, and intend to
remain, a thorough Democrat, l will never OBJ
trude my principles in way to make them
obnoxious to any party. But in regard to
persons and events which go to make up
history, l hope to make the Globe an honest
memoir and with that view ! am resolved to
speak independently of all parties.
The Congressional Globe and Appendix will
contain report of all the debates in Congress,
revised by the speakers, the Messages OF the
President of the United States, the Annual
Reports of the Heads of the Executive Depart
mcnts, the laws passed during the session, and
copious indexes to all. They will be quarto
size, each number containing sixteen pages.
The whole will make, it is believed, between
$500 and 3, 800 pages, as the long sessions for
many years have ranged between those
numbers, and the next session will be what is
termed q long one" This believe is the
cheapest work ever sold in any country,
whether reprint or printed from manuscript
copy, taking for data the average number of
words OF the long sessions since the year 1913.
The average number of papes is 3, $40, and the
average number of words on q page is 1851,
consequently the average number Of words Of
long session is 9,200,772. As have sold to
subscribers that number Of words for six dol
lars, it follows that they have paid less than
six and onc-half cents for every l00.0 600 words
have furnished them, while j have paid my
reporters ST, 90 for every 1887 words, of this
work, in manuscript Has any other book
seller, anywhere, ever sold book in the first
instance, while it was new, ut SO low rate !?
I believe not and so ST ong is my belief that
l hereby agree to give to any person who shall
prove the contrary, a complete set of the de
bates running back to the year 1888, making
| forty-three qtarto volumes, which sell for So a
volume. An act of Congress authorizes these
papers to go by mail free of postage. The
next session will be, without doubt an un
usually interesting one, as it will be the frs
under new administration, and several com
plex questions must be discussed in it; for ex.
ample, the currency, Kansas, revenue, and
other questions. The Globe will he as hereto
fore, the only source from which full debates
can be obtained.
i TERMS:
For copy Of the Daily G.obo one yeIr,......sl0er
For copy OF the Daily Globe six months ..., 8 OC
For copy OF the Daily Globe during the session &C
For copy Of the Congressional Globe and appen.
dix and the laws passed during the session g ot
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gold or silver.
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accompanies the order for it,
JOHN c, RlvEs.
| Washington. Oct. o. 81