New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-01-04
THE TRIBUNE ALMANAC FOR 1870

THE TRIBUNE ALMANAC for 1875 will be for
sale at our publication Office Mt 2 o'clock this
afternoon, and may be obtained at the same
hour at the news stands in the principal towns
and cities. We have been compelled to delly
its publication since the 31st Of December
last, i'll order to ill advance orders. We
can confidently recommend the number for
this year as superior in value to its pre-
decessors. The accuracy of the election
returns will be found to sustain the severest
tests, and in every case hero practicable
the vote is given in juxtapOsltiOn with
the returns of previous years. We have given
the vote Of all the towns Of this State at three
successive elections and the pages devoted to
the returns will afford the politicians ample
food for study and reflection during the long
evenings of the remaining Winter months.
But THE TRIBUNE ALMANAC is by no means
exclusively intended for politicians. large
space is given to a comprehensive exhibit OF
the foreign trade of tho United States, Great
Britain, and Canada. The statistical informa-
ton given under this head is not simple re-
production of tables from official dOcu-
ments, but has been labOriOusly compiled
from official reports covering long series of
years. In two OF three instances the compiler
was obliged to apply to DR.. Edward Young,
the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, for the
desired information, and we cheerfully ac-
knowledge the courtesy with which such appll-
cations were responded to by that capable and
efficient officer. Tie tables to which we refer
will furnish to those classes of the community
who interest themselves in tracing effects to
their causes ample illustrations of the changes
in our foreign trade which precede and follow
a commercial crisis.
The recent great decline in the value of
wheat-happily not attended by an equal de-
preston in the prices of other agricultural
productions-is shown by an elaborate statis-
teal review Of the English wheat market for
the last twenty years to be In strict accord
ance with former experience and the laws of
demand and supply. The pages given to the
discussion of this important subject also furnish
information showing the progress of Russia, the
United States, and other countries as producers
of grain for the supply of the British market,
and also the extent of the market afforded by
other countries than England for the surplus
of wheat produced by the United States. We
have also reproduced the tables given last year
to illustrate the competition between the New
roads for the transportation of agricultural
products, extending them by the addition of
the results Of another years business.
Wehave had compiled for THE ALMANAC from
The Congressional Record the votes given by
each Senator and Representative of the pres
ent Congress on six test questions involving
Initiation. From this compilation it appears
that decided majority Of the Senators and
moro than twO-thirds Of the Representatives
were downright lnflationists only six months
ago, and our knowledge of this lamentable
fact has compelled us to give the questiOna-
bic measure which has already passed the
Senate and is about to be acted on by the
House o very close inspection. Several other
features of THE ALMANAC, which tend to
make it of permanent value for refer
ence. such as the monthly record of the gold
premium since 1862, the full abstract of the
Constitutional Amendments, the summary of
appropriations, abstract OF important laws, in
Guiding the full text of Messrs. Dawes and
Blanes "IIappy Adjustment compromise
with the InhatOnsts, the usual lists OF Sena-
tors and Representatives, Sheriffs, County Clerks,
&C., and a full chronological record of the
events of the year just ended: we have not
space to notice further, being certain that the
reader will speedily provide himself with a
copy of so useful work. There is, exclusive
of the advertisements, an increase of fifty per
cent in the reading matter over that contained
in THE ALMANAC of last year, without any
addition to the price, which remains at 20 cents