The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1860-11-22
THE GLOBE:
,EEac Gfsicia! Paper of Cor gress.

publish now my annual Prospectus Of The DAILY
GLOBE, an Tue CORNERSTONE GLOBE AND APPENDIX,
to remind subscribers, and inform those who may de
sire to subscribe, tina Congress will meet on the first
Monday OF next December when shall resume pub
fishing the ahovenamed 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 Globe will contain report Of the Debates
In both branches OF Congress taken down by repor
ters equal at least to any corps of short handv rters
in this, or any other country. majority Of them
VIII, each, be able TO report VERBATIM, ten thousand
words an hour, lille the average number Of words
spoken by fluent speakers rarely exceeds seven thou
sand five hundred words an hour. When the debates
Ola lay do not make more than forty-fiye columns,
they will appear in The Daily Globe of the next
ing, which will contain also, the news of the day,
together with such editorial articles may be sug
gtsted by passing events.
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 ofthe Heads of the Execu
tive Departments the Laws passed during the session,
and copious indexes to all. They will be printed on
double royal sheet, in book FORM royal quarto sixe
each number containing sixteen pages. The whole
will make, it believed at least 600 pages This
acknowledged to be the cheapest work ever sold In
any country, whether reprint printed from man
uscrpt copy taking for DATA the average number Of
words it contains.
The coming 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- rs 1t has been for many
years past the only from which full debates OF
Congress can be obtained
THg CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE AND APPENDIX pass free
through the mails Of the United States will be seen
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 communi
cation between the representative and constituents
bodies:
Be II RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatves OF 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 Prorided That
nothing herein shall be construed to authorize the
culation OF the Daily Globe free Of postage.
Approved, August 6, 1852.
Terms:
For copy OF TIE DAILY GLOBE for four months AZ %
For one copy of the Congressional Globe and APP
pendix, ana
For two copies ditto, when ordered at the same
time hno
No attention will be paid to any order unless the
money accompany it.
Bunk notes, current in the section of the country
where subscriber resides, will be received at par
The whole or any part of subscription may be re-
nt!ed in postage stamps which Is preferable TO any
currency, except gold or silver.
Washington, Oct. 1860. JOHN c. RIvEs