St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-01-21
THE GLOBE:
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PUBLISH now my annual Prospectus OF 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 recommehce
publishing the above named paper. lhev
have been published so long that most public
men know their character, and therefore
deem it needless to give a minute account OF
the kind C matter they will contain.
Tur DAILY GLCeE will contain areport OF the
Debates i'm both branches Of Congress, as taken
down by reporters. equal, at least, :" any corps
of short hand writers in this or any V'"et
country. A majority OF them VIII, each, ne
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
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also. the news of the day. together with such
editorial articles Us may be suggested by pass
ing events.
1t is also nv intention. from time to time,
as occasion may require, to publish my reml-
riscenccs of the public men with whom have
been associated during the last twenty-eight
wears 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 abatcd
In becoming the reporter of the debates OF
Congress deemed it proper to say that the
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a contribution to history the political traits OF
character which distinguished the public men
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; trudc nv principles in way to make them
obnoxious to any party. But in regard to
persons and events which go to make up
history | hope to make the Globe an honest
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!, revised by the speakers, the Messages of the
r President of the United States, the Annual
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mcnts. the laws passed during the session and
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/ whether a reprint or printed from manuscript
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V The average number of papcs is 1876, and the
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l. consequently the average number Of words o
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six and half cents for every 100 600 word
d | have furnished them, while | have paid IN,
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work, in manuscript. Has any other book
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bates running back to the year 1888, making
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volume An act of Congress authorizes thes
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IL next session will be, without doubt. an TN
st usually interesting one, as it will he the frs
I under new administration, and several com
$ pick questions must be discussed in it; for cA
ample the currency, Kansas, revenue, an
other questions. The Globe will be as hereto
fore the only source from which full debate
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it. JOHN C. BIvEs.
Washington, Oct q, 81.