The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1861-01-30
THE GLOBE:
The Official Paper of Congress.

publish now my annual Prospectus Of The DAILY
GLOBE, AMI The CoNGREssIoHAL GLOBE AND APPENDIX.
to remind subscribers and inform those who may de
sire to subscribe thai Congress viii meet the first
Monday of next December, when shall resume pub
fishing the above-named papers. They have been
published so long, that most public men know their
character, and therefore deem it needless to give
minute account of the kind of matter they contain.
The Daily Globe will contain report fthe Debates
in both branches of Congress taken down by repor
ter equal at least to any corps of short handwriters
in this, or 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 seven thou
sand FIVE hundred words an hour. When the debates
ola day do not make more than forty five columns,
they will appear in The Daily Globe of the next morn.
ing which will contain, also, the news of the day,
together with such editorial articles may be sUg
z. 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 copious indexes TO all. They will be printed on
double royal sheet In book FORM quarto size,
each number containing sixteen pages. The whole
will make, it is believed, at least 900 pages. This is
acknowledged 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 il contains fa
The comir 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, 1t has been for many
years past the only from which full debates of
Congress can be obtained.
The CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE AND APPENDIX pass free
through the mails OF the United States, will he
by reading the following Joint Resolution passed by
Congress the 9th of August, 1852
Joint Resolution providing 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 to the true in
depreciation thereof and to make free the communi-
cation between the representative and constituents
bodies:
BE RESOLVED by the Senate and House Of Repre-
senaves of the United States Of America i'm Congress
Assembled, That from and after the present session
of Congress- the Congressional Globe and Appendix,
which contain the laws nd the debates thereon shall
pass free through the mails long the shall
be published by order of Congress Prorided 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 TIE DAILY GLOBE for four months % 90
For one copy ofthe Congressional Globe and APP
pendiX, 500
For two copies ditto when ordered at the same
time 500
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
mitted in postage stamps, which preferable to any
currency except gold or silver.
Washington, Oct. 1860. JOHN G. RIVES.