The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-12-06
THE GLOBE:
The Official Paper of Congress.

I publish now my annual Prospectus of The DAILY
Gil ODE AMI The CoNGREs GLOBE AND APPENDIX,
to remind subscribers, and inform those who may de
sire to subscs ibe tina Congress will meet on the hrst
Monday of next December, wher shall resume pub
fishing the above-named papers. They have been
published so long, that most public men know their
character and therefore deem 1t needless to give
minute account of the kind Of matter they contain
The Daily q lobe win contain report of the Debates
in both branches of Congress as taken down by repor
ters equal at least to any corps OF short hapdwrers
in this, 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
spokenb fluent speakers rarely exceeds seven thou
sand five hundred words an hour. Whenthe debates
of a. day do not make more than forty.fye columns,
they wilAppear in The Daily Globe Of the next morn
ing, which will contain, also, the news OF the day,
together with such editorial articles az may be sug-
g.sted by passing events.
The Congressional Globe and Appendix viii contain
report all the Debates in Congress, revised by the
speakers the Messages the President Of the United
States the Annual Reports othe Heads OF the Execu
tive Departments the Laws passed during the session.
and copous indexes to all. They will be printed on
double royal sheet book form, roy al quarto size,
each number containing sixteen pages. The whole
viii make, tits believed, at least 900 pages. Thiss
acknow lodged to be the cheapest work ever sold in
any country whether reprint or printed from man.
uscrpt copy taking for DATA the average number OF
words it contains. 8A ~ .-g lsfaiteai
The comiI q session WILL without doubt, be an un-
usually interesting one, because the debates will In
great measure be upon the policy OF the PRESIDENT
elect and the Globe will be- as 1t has been Tor many
years past, the ons source from which hldebates OF
Congress can be obtained 40
The CONGRESSIONAL GIoBE AND APPENDIX pass iree
through the mails of the United States as will be seen
by reading the following Joint Resolution passed by
Congress the 9th of August, 1852: g--..r.si. 81
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 to the true In
depreciation thereof and TO make free the communi-
cation between the representative and constituents
bodies; $50 .fs6t4egaH 81 slssa5i ElI 8gs 81 -t
BE 1T e.soLyKp by the Senate aud House Of Repre-
entatves the United States Of America in Congress
Assembled That from and after the present session
Of Congress, the Congressional Globe and Appendix,
which contain the laws and the debates thereon shall
pass free through the mails long the same shall
be published by order of Congress: Proutded, That
nothing herein shall be construed TO authorize the err
culation Of the Daily Globe free Of postage. 8
Approved, August 8, 1852 81. +. ~ s4
For copy of THE DAILY GLOBE for four months 50 90
For copy ofthe Congressional Globe and APP -
For TWO Copies ditto, when ordered at the !.
No attention win be paid to any order unless the
money accompanyit.
where 4 subscriber resides win be received at par
The whole or any part OF subscription may be re-
mited In passage stamps, which Is preferable to airy
currency, except gold or silver.
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