The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1869-05-04
The American Yearbook for 1869.


The American Yearbook and Nations
al Register, published by o. d. Case &
Co., Hartford, condenses into 824 pages
a large amount of important information
respecting our own land and other coun.
tries.
Besides very full and complete calen-
dar tables, it includes all the i'm
portant celestial phenomena for 1869 /;
tables Of Latitude and Longitude, and
difference of time for 375 Of the most inn
portant places on the globe list Of the
presidents, vice-presidents, members Of the
cabinet, judges, &C., since 1883 and of
the Governors of the states and territories
from their organization.
There is an account of each departmen
Of the General Government, with its but
reaus, and chief officers and their duties.
In the state department under the head
of Intercourse with Foreign Nations, there
and consular officers, with their official
residences embracing all the places at
which our government is represented /;
is full list of ministers, diplomatic agents,
and of the legations in the United States
is full list of ministers, diplomatic agents,
with the consuls Of foreign countries, and
their places Of business, including, in nll,
more than fourteen hundred names.
The full account Of the Treasury De-
partment, Coast Survey and Light House
Districts; the Army and Navy, the mli-
tary and navel academies, with lists of
army and naval officers the operations
of the Post Office Department the pao
tent Office and the Land Bureau; the
Departments Of Agriculture and Educa.
ton the lists of colleges, collegiate in-
sttutions, medical, law and normal
schools, will be of interest to many who
have not access to large number of
public documents, and who could the in.
formation only by long and laborions
investigation.
There il condensed account Of the
proceedings of Congress, including the
Impeachment Trial, Reconstruction in the
Southern States, and other important
matters the national 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 given Of
State and territory, with list of the ex-
ecutivc and Judicial officers; the number
and term Of service Of members Of the
legislatures an account Of the finance,
state debt, educational, charitable and
penal Institutions and the population,
wealth and industry Of each, There is
also a summary of all the foreign govern-
ments, with the rulers, expenditures, rev.
enue, army and navy, and other impor-
tant facts regarding each country.
The statistics of the religions of the
world give not only the general classifica-
ton of different nations, but detailed
account Of the number connected with
each denomination in each state, and in
other portions of the civilized world.
There are miscellaneous essays up n
Agriculture Currency and Finance
Mining Literature, and the Literary In.
fuence Of the day and full tables of
Presidential election returns with the vote
in each county for Electors since 1885,
More than 80 pages are occupied with
the Record of Important Events in 1865,
and the Obituaries include notices Of 40
of Of the most eminent persons deceased
1868.