The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1861-01-23
THE GLOBE:
The Official Paper of Congress

publish now my annual Prospectus of The DAILY
GLOBE, AMI THE CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE AND APPENDIX.
to remind subscribers and inform those who may de
sire to subscribe that Congress will meet the first
Monday of next December, when shall resume pub
fishing the above-named papers. They have been
published 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 viii contain report Of the Debates
in both branches OF Congress taken down by repor
ters equal at least to corps of short hand writers
in this, or 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
spoken by fluent speakers rarely exceeds thou
sand FIVE hundred words hour. When the debates
of day do not make more than forty five columns,
they will appear in The Daily Globe of the
ing, which will contain, also, the news of the day,
together with such editorial articles may be sug-
gested 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
double royal sheet, in book form, royal quarto size
each number containing sixteen pages. The whole
will make, 1t is believed at least 600 pages This IL
acknowledged to be the cheapest work sold In
any country, whether reprint or printed from man
uscript copy taking for DATA the average number O
words il 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 viii be, it has been for many
years past, the only from which full debates
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| The C0SGRgssioSAL 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 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 commune
cation between the representative and constituents
bodies:
BE 1T RESOLVED by the Senate and House Of Repre-
senttives 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 Progided, That
nothing herein shall be construed to authorize the cir
culation of the Daily Globe free Of postage.
Approved, August 6, 1852.
Terms: &
For copy of THE DAnY GLOBE for four months f3 0C
For one copy the Congressional Globe and APP
pendx, 300
For two copies ditto, when ordered at the same
/ time sec
No attention will be paid to any order unless the
money accompanyit.
Bank notes, current in the section Of the country
where subscrber resides, will be received at par
The whole or any part OF subscription may be re-
mtted i'm postage stamps which Is preferable to any
currency, except gold or silver.
Washington, Oct. 1860 JOHN q. RINES.