M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1859-12-01
THE GLOBE,
THE OFFICIAL PAPER OF CONGRESS


T PUBLISH now my annual Prospectus Of THE
l. CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE and THR CoS6REssIos.
AL GLoBE AND APPENDIX, 10 remind subscribers.
and inform those who may desire to subscribe,
that Congress will meet on the first Monday Of
next December, when shal! recommence pub
fishing the above named papers. They have
been puI lished so long that most p1blic men
know their character, and therefore deem 10
needless TO give u minute account Of the kind Of
matter they will contain
Tue 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 writer's in this, or in any other
country A majority Of them will, each, be able
20 report, rTbatim, ten thousand wO DIS an hour,
while the average number Of fwords spoken by
fluent speakers rarely exceeds seven thousand
five hundred words an hour When the debates
Of a day do not make more than forty-fye col
umns, they will appear IN the Daily Globe Of the
next morning; which will contain, alsoi the news
Of the day, together with such editorial articles
as may be suggested by passing events.
The CONGREssGONAL GLOBE AND APPENDIX will
contain report Of all the Debates in Congress,
revised by the speakers, tbs Messages ofthe Pres
ident Of the United States, the Annual Reports Of
the Heads Of the Executive Departments, the
Laws passed during the session, and eopiOus in
deXes TO all. They will bo printed on a double
royal sheet, in book form, royal quarto size each
number containing sixteen pages. The whole
will make, II is believed, between $500 and g..
900 pages, the long sessions for many years past
having ranged between those numbers and the
next session will be u long one. This believe
is the cheapest work ever sol In any country,
whether reprint, or printed from manuscript
copy, taking for data the averagenumber ofwords
Of the long session since the year ls4s. The av-
erage number Of pages Is $3.50, and the average
number OF words on page Is 1895, consequent
lY u average number of words Ofa long session
is 92SO,772. As have sold to subscribers that
number Of words for sir dOllHs it follows that
they have paid less than sir and hd! cents for
erdy 10000 'r0rdS hUTe tTRishtd them, whiIo
have paid my reporters 81 80 for every 1897 words
Of this york, In manuscript.
The coming session will, without doubt, be an
unusually interesting one, because the candidates
Of the respective parties for President and Vice
President OF the United States will be nominated
before ii closes, and, therefore, the debates will
be mostly on such political questions as, it may
be thought, will tend to influence public opinion
in regard to the persons to be supported for these
offices, and the Globe will be, as IL has been for
many yeaIspast, the only source from which the
full debates of Congress can be obtained.
THE CONGRESSIONAL CLONE AND APPENDIX pass
free through tho mails of the United States, as
will be seen by reading the following Joint Reso-
Ition passed by Congress the 9th of August,
1859:
Joint Resolution providing for the distribution o.
tho Laws Of Congress aud the Debates tlereoni
With q view to the cheap circulation of the
laws Of Congress and the debates contributing to
the true Interpretation thereof, and to m axe free
ihe communication between the representative
and constituent bodies:
BE 10 resOlred by the Senate and Houss of ReDre-
SsRtdtirts ofhe Uaitd States u Americd ia CoR-
gresS assembled, That from aud after the present
session of Congress the Congressional Globe and
Appendix, which contain the laws and the de-
bates thereon, shall pass free through the mails
so long as the same shall he published by order
of Congress: Procdei, That nothing herein shall
be construed to authorize the circu lation of the
Daily Globe free of postage.
APPROVED, August 8, 1852.