The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1861-01-02
THE GLOBE:
The Osficiai PAPER of COHgrcSs

publish now my annual Prospectus of TIE DAILY
GLOBE, and The CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE AND APPENDIX,
to remind subscribers and inform those who may de
sire to subscribe, thai Congress will meet the first
Monday of next December, whep 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 Of the Debates
in both branches of Congress taken down by repor
ters equal at least to any corps of short handwriters
in this, 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 an hour. When the debates
ola day do make more than forty Fl We columns,
they will appear in The Daily Globe of the
ing, which will contain, also, the 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 quaro size,
each number containing sixteen pages. The whole
will make, tits believed, at least 1000 pages This is
acknowledged to be the cheapest work sold in
any country, whether reprint or printed from man
uscrip copy, taking for DATA the average number of
words it contains.
The comr session will, without doubt, be an I'M
usually interesting one because the debates will In
great measure be upon the policy of the President
elect, and the Globe will be, it has been for many
years past the only source from which full debates Of
THE CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE AND APPENDIX pass free
through the mails of the United States win
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 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 long the shall
be published by order of Congress Propided, Tha.
nothing herein shall be construed authorize the cir
culation Of the Daily Globe free Of postage.
Approved, August 6, 1852.
Terms:
For one copy ofthe Congressional Globe and APP
pendix, 500
Fortwo copies ditto, when ordered at the same
time 90
No attention will be paid to any order unless the
money accompanyit.
Bank notes, current in the section Of the country
where subscriber resides, will be received at
The whole or any part Of subscription may be re-
mited in postage stamps, which is preferable to any
currency, except gold or silver.
Washington, Oct. 1860. JOHN c. RIVES.