The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1861-01-16
THE GLOBE:
The Official Paper of COngres

publish now my annual Prospectus of The DAILY
GLOBE, and The CONGRESSIONAL GLoBE AND APPENDIX,
to remind subscribers and inform those who may de
sire to subscribe thai Congress viii the first
Monday Of next December, when shall resume pub
fishing the aboye-named papers. They have been
published so long, that most public men know their
character, and therefore deemit needless to give a
minute account of the kind ofmatter they contain.
The Daily Globe will contain report the Debates
in both branches of Congress taken down by repor-
tiers, equal at least to any corps of short
in this, any other country. majority Of them
will EACH be able to report. VERBATIM, ten thousand
words an hour, while the average number of words
spoken by fluent speakers rarely exceeds thou
sand five hundred words an hour. When the debates
ofa day do not make more than forty five columns,
they will appear in The Daily Globe of the xt morn
ing, which viii contain, also, the of the day,
together with such editorial articles may be sUg
e sted by passing events.
The Congressional Globe and Appendix win 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 copous indexes to all. They will be printed
double royal sheet, in book FORM al quarto size
each number containing sixteen pages. The whole
will make il is believed at least 1000 pages. This Ii
acknow lodged to be the cheapest work ever sold In
any country, whether reprint or printed from ma
uscrpt copy, taking for DATA the average number OF
words it contains
The comirg session win, 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- 1t has been for many
years past the only from which full debates
Congress can be obtained. a#
THE 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 a 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 1T RrsoLyEDty the Senate aud House Of Repre-
sentatves OF the United States of erica in Congress
Assembled, That from and after the present session
OF Congress- the Congressional Globe and Appe ndix
which contain the laws and the debates thereon shall
pass free through the mails long the shall
be published by order Of Congress: Pr0rided, That
nothing herein shall be construed to authorize the cir
culation Of the Daily Globe free Of postage,
Approved, August 8, 1852.
Terms:
For copy of The DAILY GLOBE for four months 80 90
For one copy ofthe Congressional Globe and APP
For two copies ditto, when ordered at the same
time SEA 500
No attention will be paid to any order unless the
money accompany tat - ~ gs
Bank notes. current in the section Of the country
where a subscriber resides win be received at par
The whole or any part Of a subscription may be re-
mitted in postage STAMPS, which preferable to any
currency, except gold or silver.
Washington, Oct 1860. JOHN c. RIyEs.