The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-01-18
The World Almanac.
FOR 1868
is NJ O w r e e DY.

The table Of contents given below gives an
idea of the value of the work as a convenient
Political Compendium. II is believed that the
statistics are accurate; the information valua'
Bile; uuCh of the matter not readily accessible,
and tn & the Almanac is convenient Political
Tert Book for the year.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
ASTRONOMICAL ETC.-Echpses IN ls6s; table
of sixty.Onc bright Stars conjunction OF the
planets and other phenomena occultations; the
seasons notable days and periods; the sun,
moon, earth, and bright stars oi tue year; dis.
covery of new planets; the Mohammel an, Jewish,
Positivists' calendars; new ard valuable tide
table; morning stars, evening star. aud TO as.
certain the length OF day ami nght; calendar.
(JanuaTy to UeCemOerI, with the rising and
setting Of sun and moon throughout the United
States. &c, &C.
PoLrCAL.--The Executive the Cabinet. and
the Judiciary; ministers TO foreign countries;
foreign legations in the United States: the
FOrtieth Congress; tenure OF oihce Oil and veto.
RECONsTRUCHON.- demonstration act OF the
3oth Congress: proposed I4th amendment TO tho
Consultation; supplemental act of4Jth Congress;
additional explanatory act; steps towards Testo.
ration: President Lincoln's plan; the policy of
President johnson: action of the Southern
States: the policy ofConCresS reconstruction rs.
restoration; further efforts OF the President; re.
IcOnstruction by Congress- supplemental recon-
structiOn; the military districts.
AcIs OF 18TH CoSGgESS-BankTupt law; BTG-
vets, conference OF; California: granting lands;
Congress TO meet March 4th; Congressional H..
brsry; deposit of copyrights; counterfeitng,
punishment Of; education, department of stats.
tics; habels corpus: amends act Of; Idaho, gov.
ernmcnt OF; League Island, acceptance of i'm.
prisonment for debt abolished: land claims eN
tends provisions of act; Mississippi river, bridg.
ing: Montana, government oil; Navy, amending
acts in relation to: Nebraska, admitted to the
Union; Negro suffrage, District of Columbia:
Ocean mails TO Sandwich Islands; Oregon
granting lduds; organization OF House OF Repre-
sentatives: PenitentiGries, apprOpriates money
to buihi; Pensions moneyfcr; PeOnaEe, abolish.
"a: reconstruction acts; Revenlc, amending
acts steam navigation, amends act; suffrage in
Territories; United States Courts Volunteers
Pubiis Rcselutions.-AlcohOl, removals from
bonded warehouse Atlantic Cable, medal 10 &.
W. Field; Boston Postoilice, site for; Bret sc,
Lieut.. Com. s. l.; customs; canal. Isthmus; dis.
ablcd volunteers asylum Internal Revenue;
Kansas; Lincoln, President; mails, ocean,
medals, soldiers militia, Kentucky; National
Banks; New York City Postoiiice, site for New
York Harbor: Paris Exposition; Pay, more for
clerks; Pensions; public documents; Quarter
masters stores; quarantine; repeal of certain
duties: secession sympathizers: shipwreck ser
vices: statue to General Scott; sufferers at the
South; Tennessee: West Virginia.
Appropriations.-For year ending june 30,
1865.
AcTs or 10th CeNGREss.-Atlantic Dock, an.
thorizing sale Of warehouses on; Boston harbor,
site for tort in Colorado Government of; desti.
tute soldiers, relief of; Internal Revenue, max.
ing exemption; Indiana and Ohio, reimbursed
for war money expended; Lincoln Monument
Association; Nebraska. Court provisions for;
Patent Office increasing force OF: Pennsylvania
making Chester a port of delivery; Soldiers
and sailors Orphans Home: Telegraph, Ocean
July session, 1867; Indians. Peace Commission;
tuction, explanatory act Venezuela, com
mi Ssinner To.
Public Resolutions.-Agr iCultuTai College
scrip: art. works OF: Brooklyn Navy Yard; Con.
gressiODal salaries: Canal, Erie and Ontario
Ship; Canal Falls of the Ohio Ship; Crete. sym
patty with; destitute negroes; Diplomatic uEi
forms; drafted slaves, duties, amending act: New
Mexico: Paris Exposition; Peabody, George,
gold medal; reconstruction, money for; seeds Tor
The south: Soldiers Asylum: sufferers at the
South: survey OF rivers; Tennessee, arms for
Proclamations. -Declaring Nebraskaa State:
against obstructing the execution of
the Constitution and laws extending fall par
don 10 certain persons engaged in rebellion.
Statistical.-Sational debts; National domain:
growth OF cereals In ls67; religious denominI-
tons EreemaSSnry in the world; Odd Fellow.
shin in the United States rates of foreign post.
age; gold Yield of the United States ~. Thomas;
tobacco crop of the country; cotton crop hop
sEatistics: important events In ls6si distinguish
I'd dead of 1867.
The ELECTION RETURNS in the WoRIv Al.
MANIAC will include the following:
Official returns ny counties Of the vote Of each
State and Territory in 1861.
Official returnsb 10y counties of each State for
State officers in ls66 and 1865; for Representa-
tives in Congress lss6, and for President, 1864.
Official returns by election districts OF the
yote of New York State for Secretary of State in
ls67. and for Go, erBor in lsG6.
List of the the members of the New York State
Convention Of ls6i, classified po-
iticahy. .sg -v.-- ~. --r ar.
List Of members OF the New York State Ser.
he and Assembly for 1868, classified politically,
together with the vote cast for cash Senator and.
his majority, and the vote for his
opponent or opponents.
The vote of New York city for county officers
Ia November, 1867 and for Mayor IN December.
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Names of the State officers of every State. and
Of the Governors OF every Territory. ss....
The official registration lists- by counties, Of
the Southern States whites and blacks and
the official returns of the vote ia these States
on the question OF holding State Conventions
under the socalled reeons ttuction acts
The State deht, with the civil and war debts
stated separately, OF every State.
The electoral vote for iS65 a
And n valuable collection ofpoltieal statistics
useful TO the people Of thr' country, and indis.
pensable 10 Democrats everywhere.
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