in New Mexico, Kanzas, and Nebraska, and donations to actua settlers therein, making 'provision for Postal Service in California, Oregon, and Washington, — to graduate and reduce the price of the Public Lands to actual settlers and cultivators, to increase the pay of the rank and file of the Army, and to carry into effect the Reciprocity Treaty between the United States and Great Britain. The tabular view of the railroads in the country is continued from the last volume: and the comparative view of the debts, property, and general financial condition of all the States, has been corrected with great care from the latest official returns. The information concerning the Individual States is as full as in former years. It is believed that nowhere else can be found such full details respecting the Executive and Judiciary, the finances, schools, charitable institutions, and pauperism and crime, of the several States. Should any one note inaccuracies or deficiencies therein, he is urgently requested to correct them. The European part of the work, revised from the best authority to late dates, gives the several States of Europe, with their form of government, the name, title, and date of accession of the reigning sovereigns, the area and population of the several countries. It also gives the Royal Family, the Ministry, and the Judiciary of England. The Ministry of France is added. A Foreign Obituary for 1853 and 1854 is given, which it is intended to continue hereafter. The obituary notices and Chronicle of Events have been prepared with care. The space is so limited, that many names and events which otherwise would be given are necessarily omitted. The thanks of the Editor are particularly due to the Heads of Department at Washington, and to his many contributors and correspondents, to whom the work is indebted for a great part of its value. A continuance of their favors is respectfully solicited. A work embracing such a multitude of facts must necessarily contain errors; persons who may detect any are earnestly requested to communicate them to the Editor. It is particularly desirable that these communications should not be anonymous. It is frequently a source of regret to the Editor, that he cannot suitably acknowledge the valuable hints and assistance of anonymous correspondents. It is a matter of some public interest, that a periodical which circulates so widely, both in Europe and America, and which is so universally trusted as a manual for reference, should be rendered as accurate as possible; and this end can be obtained only by the co-operation of many individuals. Communications should be addressed to the "Editor of the American Almanac," Boston. Boston, Mass., December, 1854. 6. Connecticut, ..................................... 7. New York,..................................................... Abstracts of Public Laws Additions and Corrections Alabama... American Obituary. PAGE 127 Engineers in Navy, Pay of.. PAGE 352 Envoys Extraordinary, &c. ........ 116, 120 American Securities held abroad ..... Apportionment of U. S. Representatives Army Officers, Pay of....... ......... 66 .......... 3 336 315 Events, General, in 1853. ..... 152 5 ...194, 195 .... 274 Army, Act to increase pay of rank & file of 141 Exports for 63 Years. .......... 112 Fixed Stars, Apparent Places of Principal 55 California Gold.. Flowering of Fruit-trees in 1854 84 .76-83 Foreign Goods imported in 1852.... 153-156 ....... 168 .... ............................... 8-31 Foreign Ministers, &c., in U. S..... 120 76-83 Imports, Value of, in 1852-53 ... 319 301 ....... 152 Coins, Fineness and value of certain foreign 217 Imports of each State for 1852-53...... 162 Collectors of Customs.... Colleges in United States. Colleges, Annual Expenses in .......... Commercial Agents in Foreign Countries 117 Supervising Inspectors of Steam-vessels. 99 Massachusetts, Railroads of............ 202 Reciprocity Treaty, Act to carry into Ef- 201 fect 142 Meteorological Information.......... 76-83 Religious Denominations Naval Officers......................................... 182 143 102 Representatives, State, No. of, and Terms 193 190 Saturn's Rings 278 School Fund of States.................... 15 ............. 236 41 195 304 Seasons, Beginning and Length of 4 160, 161 Senate of the U. S. ••••••. 116, 120 Navigation..... Navy Department. .................. Navy List ...... 180 106 Slaves in the U. S. Navy Officers, Pay of.................... ... Navy, Vessels of War in............... Navy Yards, Commanders of ........ Nebraska Territory, Act establishing.... New Jersey. New Mexico Territory ................ ....... 187 .... 99 Southern Railroads Postage on............172-178 Sun, Ephemeris of the New York.... ......... ....... ... 207 88 192 194, 195 99 64 110 96 137 243 Sun's Parallax in Altitude.......................... ........ 267 Surveyors of Land-Office........ .......... 336 Tennessee ............................ 286 283 38 Theological Schools...... Postage to Oregon and California, Foreign 174 Virginia .... 195 Young's Refractions................................................. Public Lands, Act to graduate and reduce Zodiac, Signs of the............ 172 Vessels and Tonnage from 1815-1853 163-164 108 ........ 263 89 130 |