The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1857-12-10
NO.. 80
THE GLOBE:
The Omcial Paper of COngres,

n PUBLISH NOW MY ANNUAL PROSPECTUS OF
II The 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
recommends publishing the above named papers
They have been published so lcng that most public
men know their character, and therefore deem 1t
needless to give minute account of the kind Of mat
The Daily Globe will contain report OF the De-
bates in both branches Of Congress- as take down by
reporters equal at least to any corps Of shorthand
writers in this, or In eny other country majority
of them WILL each, be able to report Verbatim, ten
thousand words hour while the average number Of
words spoken by fluent speakers rarely exceed
thousand FIVE hundred words hour. When the de-
bates Of day do not make than forty columns,
they shall appear In the Daily Globe of the next NOR
ming which will contain Also the news OF the day, to-
gether with such editorial articles rs may be suggested
by passing events.
1t is also my intention from time to time as occa-
sion may require, to publish my "Reminiscences Of the
public men with whom have been associated during
the last twenty-eisht years. Anecdotes Of General
Jackson and the leaders of the party, which he
ducted and the leading men of other parties, will,
believe, be interesting now when partzan bitterness
has abated gn
In becoming the reporter of the debates of Congress
deemed 1t proper to say that the Globe would
be partizan paper This pledge win not be forfeited
by introducing contribution to history the pareic-
traits of character which distinguish the public
men Of my time Although am, and intend to
main thorough Democrat, 1 win never obtrude my
principles in any way to make them obnoxious any
party But in regard to persons and events which
to make up history hope to make the Globe an hon
independently Of all parties.
The Congressional Globe and Appendix win contain
report Of all debates in Congress- revised by the
speakers the Messages of the President of the United
States the Annual Reports Of the Heads ofthe Execu
tive DEPARTMENTS the Laws passed during the session,
and copious indexes to ALL They will be printed
double royal Sheet in book form, royal qnarto size,
each number containing sixteen pages The whole will
make it is believed about 500 and 5000 pages, the
long session for many years between those
numbers. and the next session will be what Is termed
a "ong one" This believe is the cheapest work ev-
vlatl, int rtn%a
from manuscript copy, taking for data the average
number of words page Is 1861, consequently the
age number of words of long session Is ,290 7I3.
have sold to subscribers that number of words for
six dollars it follows that they have paid less than six
aud onealf cents for every 100000 words have fur
nished Them while have paid my reporturs $6 20 for
every 1887 words OF this work. in manuscript Has
any other bookseller, anywhere, sold book in
the first instance; while it was new so low rater
agree give to any person who shall prove the
trary, complete set of the debates running back to
s. volume An act of Congress authorizes these pa
pers to go by mal free of postage The next session
viii be, without doubt, an unusually interesting one,
il will be the first under a Administration, and
several complex questions must be discussed In it, for
example the currency, Kansas revenue, and other
questions The Globe win be- heretofore the only
source from which full debates can be obtained.
TERMS,
For copy of the Daily ,slObe.l year, $40 90
d" I" during the session, 5 90
For copy Of the Congressional Globe and APP
pendx' and the laws passed during the session. 90
Bank notes current in the section of the country
where a subscriber resides, will be received par
The whole any part of subscription may be remit
ted in postage stamps, which preferable to any
currency except gold or silver.
Apaper will not be sent unless the money accompa-
MES the order for it.
cannot afford TO exchange with all the newspapers
that desire the Globe; but win send the Daily Globe
during the session TO all who shall publish this prospec
three times before the first Moudoy of next Decem-
ber Those who may publish should send their papers
containing 1t to me, marked with pen, direct at.
tenton to it. JOHN 4. RIyES,
Washington, Oct. 81, 1851.