St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-01-07
THE GLOBE:
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TPUBLISH now my annual Prospectus ofthe
l. 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 o.
next December, when / shall recommend
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 report 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 u 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
It is also my intention, from time to time,
as occasion may require to publish my remi-
niscences of the public men with whom l have
been associated during the last twenty-eight
years Anecdotes of General Jackson, and the
leaders of the party which he conducted, and
the leading men of other parties, will, be-
lieve he 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 Il partizan paper. This |
pledge will not be forfeited by introducing as
a contribution to history the political traits of
character which distinguished the public men
of my time. Although am, and intend to
remain thorough Democrat i will never OBJ
trudc my 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
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
ments, 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 1t is believed, between
8, 800 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 long one" This ! believe is the |
cheapest work ever sold in any country, |
a reprint or printed from manuscript |
copy, taking for data the average number of
words of the long sessions since the year l848 |
The average number of papes is 8, 876, and the |
average number of words on page is 1887
consequently the average number Of words of
a long session is 8 ,29O, 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 loo, 900 words
have furnished them, while have paid my
reporters Sc, 20 for every 2 1897 words, of this
work, in manuscript Has any other book
seller, anywhere, ever sold q book in the first
instance while it was new, at SO low rate I. |
i believe not and SO strong 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 IS 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 il will be the first
under new administration, and several COM
pick questions must be discussed in it for ex.
ample, the currency, Kansas revenue, and
other questions. The Globe will be as hereto
fore, the only source from which full debates
can be obtained.
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JOHN C. RIvEs.
Washington, Oct 81, 81