The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1859-11-16
THE GLOBE:
The Official PAPER of Congrass.

PUBLISH now my annual Prospectus of The DAILY
L GLoBs, and The CoNeREsSIoNAL GLOBE AND
APPENDIX, to remind subscribe and inform those who
may desire to subscribe that Congress will meet on the
first Monday Of next December, when 1 shall recon-
have been published long, that most public men
know their character and therefore it needless
to give minute account Of the kind Of matter they
The DAILY GLOBE will contain q report of the De-
bates In both branches of Congress taken down by
reporters equal at least, to any corps OF short hand
writers in this in any other country majority of
them will, each be able to report rtrbati ten thou
sand words an hour, while the average number of
words spoken by fluent speakers rarely exceeds seven
thousand five hundred words an hour. When the de-
bates OF day do not make than forty-fye col
umns they will appear in the Daily Globe Of the next
morning. which will contain also the news of the day
together with such editorial articles may be suggest
ed by passing events.
The CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE AND APPENDIX will
contain report Of all tho Debates in Congress- reyls-
ed by the speakers the Messages the President Of
the United States the Anuu Reports Of the Heads of
the Executive Departments. the Laws passed during
the session, and copious indexes to all They will be
printed a double royal Sheet in book FORM royal
quarto size each number containing si teen pages
The whole will make, it is believed between 500 and
5000 pages, the long sessions for years past hay
ing ranged between those numbers and the next ses
sion will be long This believe is the cheapest
work ever sold in any country, whether reprint, or
printed from manuscript copy, taking for data the
number Of words of the long sessions since the
YER ls4s. The average number Of pages 49, and
the average number OF words oh page Is 397 con-
scqucntly the average number OF words long ses
sion Is $3.50 772 As have sold to subscribers that
number Of words for sir dollars, it follows that they
have paid Tess than str and half cents for eperv
1000 900 wo'ds haze furnished them, while I have
paid my reporters SO 20 for every 397 words of his
work, in manuscript.
| The coming session will, without doubt, be an unu
suay interesting one, because the candidates of the
respective parties for President and Vice President of
the United States will be nominated before il closes
and therefore, the debates will be mostly on such po-
litical questions it may be thought will tend to in
huence public opinion in regard to the persons to be
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has been Tor many years past. the only source from
which the full debates OF Congress can be obtained.
tbs CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE AND APPENDIX pass
free through the mails Of the United States will be
by reading the following Joint Resolution passed
by Congress the 9th Of August, 1852:
Joint Resolution providing for the distribution of the
Laws OF Congress and the Debates thereon.
With view to the cheap circulation of the laws of
Congress and the debates contributing the true
depreciation thereof and to make free the communca-
on between the representative and constituent bodies
Best resolved by the Senate and House Of Represen-
tatues Of the United States Of america in Conoyess
assembled That from and after the present session Of
Congress, the CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE AND APPENDIX,
which contain the laws and tho debates thereon shall
pass free through the mails long the same shall
be published by order OF Congress Provided, That
nothing herein shall be construed to authorize the
| culation Of the DAILY GLOBE free Of postage.
TERMS.
For copy Of The DAILY GLoBz, during the
session, IS 90
| For one copy of the CoNGR EssIoNAL GLegs AND
| APPENDIX, during the session, SO 90
time, $40 90
No attention will be paid to any order unless the
| money accompany
Bank notes. current IN the section of the country
whore subscriber resides, will be rcceiv par. The
whole or any part of u subscription may be RENTED
in postage stamps, which is preferable to any
| cy. except gold or silver.
cannot afford to exchange with all the newspa pers
that desire the Globe; but will send the Daily Globe
during the session to the editors Of these papers who
publish this Prospectus three times before the first
Monday Of next December aud send to me one num-
Der Of their paper containing it, marked with pen to
| direct my attention to it. JOHN c. RIvES.
| Washington, October q, lss9w3 8