Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-05-08

from outright distraction over these cCregious
blunders by observing worse ones elsewhere.
The "fress-blown noses," for roses has been
eclipsed by an eastern paper undertaking to
state the number of clprgymen sprnlletl in in
fancy, when, to the editors horror, his COM
positor had it spanked in infancy"
THE AMERICAN YEAR Book FOR 1S60.-The
American Yearbook and National Register,
published by o. d. Case 6 Co., Hartford, con-
denses into 1924 pages large amount of i'm
portant information respecting our own land
and other countries. Besides very full and
complete calendar tables it includes all the
important celestial phenomena of 1869; tables
of latitude and longitude and difference of
time 375 of the most important places on the
globe; list of the Presidents, Vice Presidents,
members of the Cabinet, Judges, &c, since
| 1883; and the Governors of the States and
Territories nom their organization. There is
an account of each department of the General
Government, with its bureaus, and chief Off
GERS and their duties. In the State Depart
ment under the head of Intercourse with For
eign Nations, there is full list of ministers,
diplomatic agents, and consular officers, with
their official residences, embracing all the
places at which our Government is repre-
sented; and of the foreign legations in the
United States, with the censuls of foreign
countries, and their places of business, incud-
ing, in all, more than 400 names
The full account of the Treasury Depart
ment Coast Survey and Light House districts;
the Army and Navy; the Military and Naval
Academies, with lists of army and naval Off
cersS the operations of the Post-ofIice Depart
luent; the Patent Office and the Land Bureau
the Departments of Agriculture and Educa-
tion; the lists of colleges, collegiate institu-
tions, medical, law and normal schools, will
he of interest to many who have not access to
a large number of public documents, and who
could gain the information only by long and
laborious Investigation.
There is condensed account of the pro-
ceedings of Congress, including the Impeach-
ment Trial, Reconstruction in the Southern
States, and other important matters; the ma.
uonal debt at different periods; receipts and
expenditures of the Government sales of
merchandise; National Banks, and abstracts
of the Public Laws.
| A brief historical notice Is riyen of each
State and Territory, with a list of the execu.
tive and judicial officers; the number and
term OF service of the members of the Lpgis.
laturcs; an account of the finances, State debt.
educational, charitable and penal institutions
and the population, wealth and industry OF
each.
| There is also summary OF ali the foreign
governments, with the rulers, expenditures,
revenue, 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 diff.
ferent nations, but detailed account of the
number connected with each determination in
each State, and in other portions of the civil.
iEed world.
There are miscellaneous essays upon Agri-
culture; Currency and Finance; Mining; Lit
erature, and the Literary Influences of the day
and fnll tables of Presidential election returns,
with the vote In each county for electors since
1856 More than 80 pages are occupied with
'he Record of Important Events in 1868. and
the Obituaries include notices of 15O of the
most eminent persons deceased in 1868.
sueil compendium of useful, and often in
dispensable, Information, compiled with SO
much discriminating judgment, SO far as we
are aware. is not to be found. 2.a' ao'a.i
Canvassing Agents wanted Immediately for
the above work, in every county. Application
Tor territory in Ohio should be made o. b.
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