This is a large 18" x 24" Bound Volume of a Full Year of THE (CONGRESSIONAL) GLOBE DAILY, a 4-page Newspaper Published in Washington, D.C. by Francis P. Blair & John C. Rives, and Edited by Blair. It begins with the issue for Saturday, 8 O'clock P. M. January 1, 1842, being Volume XI, No. 173, and ending with the issue for December 31, 1842. It is bound in a typical plain binding of 1/4 leather over boards. This is a scarce and important archive of 365 issues recording the daily activities of our Federal Government and containing sketches of the Debates and Proceedings of Congress. The following are some of the more important events in U.S. history in 1842:

• March – Commonwealth v. Hunt: the Massachusetts Supreme Court makes strikes and unions legal in the United States.
• March 5 – Mexican troops led by Rafael Vasquez invade Texas, briefly occupy San Antonio, and then head back to the Rio Grande. This is the first such invasion since the Texas Revolution.
• March 9 – First documented discovery of gold in California, by Francisco Lopez at Placerita Canyon in Rancho San Francisco, sparking a small-scale gold rush, mainly of Mexicans from Sonora.
• March 19 --Treaty of 1842: Wyandotte (Huron) Indian nation cedes 114,000 acres of land in Ohio and Michigan to US, in exchange for 148,000 acres west of the Mississippi
• May 19 – Dorr Rebellion: Militiamen supporting Thomas Wilson Dorr attack the arsenal in Providence, Rhode Island but are repulsed.
• June 15 -- John C. Fremont sets off from Kansas River on his first expedition of the Oregon Trail with frontiersman Kit Carson as his guide.
• August 1 – A parade in Philadelphia celebrating the end of slavery in the Caribbean is attacked by a mob, leading to the 3-day Lombard Street riot.
• August 4 – The Armed Occupation Act is signed, providing for the armed occupation and settlement of the unsettled part of the Peninsula of East Florida.
• August 9 – The Webster–Ashburton Treaty is signed, establishing the United States–Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains.
• August 14 -- Second Seminole War declared over by US Army Colonel Worth, after nearly 7 years; more than 3000 Seminole Nation survivors re-located from Florida to Oklahoma, only about 300 allowed to remain.
• August 31 -- US Naval Observatory authorized by an act of Congress
• November 15 -- Revolt of Slaves against the Cherokee Nation begins
• November 17 -- Fugitive slave George Latimer captured in Boston
• November 26 -- Mount St Helens in Washington erupts
• November 26 – The University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana is established by Father Edward Sorin of the Roman Catholic Congregation of Holy Cross.
• December 19 -- US recognizes independence of Hawaii
• December 20 – The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina is established.

 The Congressional Globe

Beginning in 1833, a newspaper type publication, the Congressional Globe, began daily coverage of congressional proceedings, with bound cumulative volumes being published at the end of a session. Published by Francis Preston Blair and John Cook Rives, coverage continued to 1873 (the 23rd to the 42nd Congress). The Globe, at least initially, was not considered a verbatim account, but, according to its early subtitle, provided only "sketches of the debates and proceedings". In contrast to the Register, the Globe was thought to be more partisan with many members claiming to be misrepresented or not reported at all. Members could, however, submit a copy of the full text of their speeches to be included in an appendix to be published at the end of a congressional session. Like the Register appendices to the Globe also contained presidential messages, certain executive department reports, and the text of public laws, but not congressional committee reports or hearings.By the middle of the 19^th century, due to improvements in shorthand and in congressional willingness to pay for the salaries of reporters and for copies of their reports, the Globe became a more verbatim account of congressional debates, and complaints against its reporters became fewer.

The Congressional Globe is organized by congressional session and arranged in consecutively numbered pages, with three columns per page. Although each Congressional Globe volume represents one congressional session, after volume 14, covering the second session of the 28^th Congress (1844-1845), volume numbers were no longer noted, or noted inconsistently, in the text of the Globe and were replaced by the phrase "New Series". However, many libraries have manually appended volume numbers to the spines of the bound edition of the Globe according to congressional session sequence based on the table found in the Checklist of United States Public Documents: 1789-1909, 3rd ed., Vol. 1B, pp. 1466-69. Citations to the Globe, however, should normally be by congress and session instead by volume number.

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