The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1861-02-06
THE GLOBE:
The Official Paper of Congress.

publish now my annual Prospectus of The DAILY
GLOBE, and The CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE AND APPENDIX,
remind subscribers, and inform those who may de
sire to subscribe that Congress win meet the first
Monday of next December, when shall resume pub
fishing the aboye-named papers. They have been
published long, that most public men know their
character, and therefore deem it needless to give
minute of the kind of matter they contain.
The Daily Globe will contain report of the Debates
in both branches of Congress as taken down by repor
ters equal at least to any corps of short hand writer's
in this, any other country. majority of them
words hour, While the average number of words
spoken by fluent speakers rarely exceeds seven thou
sand five hundred words an hour. When the debates
Of day do not make more than forty five 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-
gested by passing events.
The Congressional Globe and Appendix viii contain.
report of all the Debates in Congress- revised by the
speakers the Messages of the President of the United
States, the Annual Reports ofhe Heads of the Execu-
tive Departments the Laws passed during the session.
and copious indexes to ALL They will be printed on
a double royal sheet in book form, royal quarto size,
each number containing sixteen pages. The whole
will make, tits believed at least 1000 pages. This is
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 comirg session will, without doubt, be an un-
usually interesting one because the debates WILL in
great measure, be upon the policy of the President
eject and the Globe will be- as it has been for many
past the only from which full debates OF
THE CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE AND APPENDIX pass free
through the mails of the United States will beseen
by reading TIE 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 communi
cation between the representative and constituents
bodies:
BE IT 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 so long as the same shall
be published BY order of Congress Procided, That
nothing herein shah be construed TO authorize the cir
cuaton of the Daily Globe free Of postage.
Approved, August 6, 1852.
Terms:
For copy Of TIE DAILY GLOBE for four months 50 90
For one copy of the Congressional Globe and APP
pendiX, 800
For two copies ditto, when ordered at the
time 800
No attention will be paid to any order unless the
money accompany 1t.
Bank notes, current in the section of the country
where a subscriber resides, will be received at par
The whole any part of subscription may be re-
mtted In postage stamps, which is preferable to any
currency, except gold or silver.
Washington, Oct. 1860 JOHN c. RINES.