Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1859-11-09
THE GLOBE:
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T PUBLISH now my annual PROSPECTUS OF THE DAILY
i GIoRg and THE CONGRESSIONAL LoBE AND APPENpIx
to remind subscribers, anH inform those who NAV
desire to subscribe that Congress will meet on the
nrst Monday of next December, when shall recon
mence publishing tie above named papers. They
have been published long that most public men
know their character, and therefore deem it need
less TO give minute account Of the kind Of matter
they will contain.
TIM nAuY GIoBx will contain report Of the De-
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Of them will each be able to report rcbdtiBI, ten
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of words spoken by fluent speakers rarely exceeds
seven thousand i've hundred words an hour. When
the debates Of day do not make more than forty
FIVE columns 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 suggested by passing events
The CONGRESSIONAL GIOFE APPENnIN will con-
report of all the Debates IN Congress, revised
BY the speakers the Messages 81 the President Of the
United States, the Annual Reports Of the Heads of
the Executive Departments, the Laws passed during
the session, and copous indexes 10 ALL They will be
printed "A double royal sheet, IN book firm, royal
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The whole will make is beiieN ed, between $500
and 200 pages, the long sessions for many wears
past having ranged between those numbers, and The
next session VIII be a long one 1his believe Is
the cheapest work sold in any country, whether
reprint. or printed from manuscript copy, taking
for data the average number Of words Of the long
since the year lS4S. The average number of
pages is 1917, consequently the average number 81
words uf a long session is ,290, T72 As hav" sold
tn subscribers thai number Of words for dollars
il follows that they have paid less than sir aud
half cents for ereTy 1905 ioOTdS hare furnished
them while have paid my reporters So 20 for every
1897 words, of this ok, an manuscript
The coming fession viii, without "onbt, be an
unusually intei esting one, because the candidates
of the respective parties Tor President and Vice
President OF the United States will be nominated be
fore ii closes, and, therefore, the debates will be
| mostly on such political questions MS, II may -,
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| by Congress the 9th OF August, 1852:
JOINT RESOLUTION PROVIDING FOR TnE DISTRIBUTION o
The LAWS oF CONGRESS AND THE DEBATES THEREON
With view to the cheap cir culttion Il the Law O
Compress snd the debates contributing 10 the true in
terprettion thereof, and TO make free the commuii
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tditues Of the United State Of america Congress Is
semLled That from and alter the present session o
| Congress, the CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE and APTENpix
| which contains the laws aud the debates theT con
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| Approved, August 2, 1882.
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with pen TO direct my attention To- IT,
JOHN c. RIVES.
| WASHINGTON. October 27. 1883. uOY4-3t