Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1869-05-13


The American Yearbook and National
Register, published by o. D. Case & Co.,
Hartford, condenses into 1924 pages a large
amount of important information respecting
our own land and other countries.
Besides very full and complete calendar
tables, it includes all the important celestial
phenomena for 1869; tables of Latitude and
Longitude, and difference of time for 375 Of
the most important places on the globe; q
list of the presidents, vice-presidents, mem
bers of the cabinet, judges, &C., since 1889
and of the Governors of the states and terri
tories from this organization.
There is an account Of each department Of
the General Government. with its bureaus,
and chief officers and their duties. In the
state department, under the head of Inter
course with Foreign Nations, there is full
list of ministers, diplomatic agents, and
consular officers, with their official resi-
dences, embracing all the places at which
our government is represented and of the
foreign legations in the Urited States with
the consuls of foreign countries, and their
places of business, including, in all, more
than fourteen hundred names.
The full account of the Treasury Depart
ment, Coast Survey and Light House Dis
tricts; the Army and Navy, the military and
naval academies, with lists of army and ma
val officers, the operations of the Post Office
Department the Patent Office and the Land
Bureau the Departments of Agriculture and
Education the lists of colleges, collegiate
institutions, medical, law and normal schools,
will be of interest to many who have not
access to large number of public docu-
ments, and who could gain the information
only by long and laborious investigation.
There is condensed account of the pro-
ceedings of Congress, including tho I'M
parchment Trial, Reconstruction in the
Southern States, and other important mat
tiers; the national debt at different periods !;
receipts and expenditures of the govern
mcnt sales of merchandise; National Banks,
and Abstracts of the Public Laws.
A brief historical notice is given OF each
state and territory, with list of executive
and judicial officers the number and term
of service of the legislatures; an account OF
the finances, state debt, educational, char
table and penal institutions; and the pop
ulullOl, Wtdith anu inuuotiy VI OaShs ihSit
is also summary of all the foreign govern
mcnts, with the rulers, expenditures, reye-
nue., army and navy, and other important
facts regarding each country.
The statistics of the religions of the world
give not only the general classification OF
different nations, but detailed account
of the number connected with each de-
nomination in each state, and other por-
tions of the civilized world.
There arc miscellaneous essays upon Agri-
culture; Currency and Finance; Mining
Literature, and the Literary Influences ol
the day; and full tables Of Presidential cleo
tion returns with the vote in each county
for Electors since 1886. More than 80 pages
are occspied with the Record of Important
Events in 1868, and the Obituaries include
notices of l4O of the most eminent persons
deceased 1868.
This is really a most excellent work, and
SO valuable that every body should have a
copy. 1t will be sold only by subscription,
and parties desiring to act as agents have
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