Appletons Annual Cyclopaedia And Register Of Important Events Of The Year 1875 Vol 15 PDF Download

Excerpt from Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1875, Vol. 15: Embracing Political, Civil, Military, and Social Affairs; Public Documents; Biography, Statistics, Commerce, Finance, Literature, Science, Agriculture, and Mechanical Industry In the United States peace has everywhere prevailed. The difficulties in Louisiana, in Arkansas, and in Mississippi, were soon adjusted, and the public attention has been engrossed by the embarrassed state of commercial affairs, with preparations for a Centennial Exhibition, and the numerous other measures appearing at the entrance upon a new career. The details Of American affairs embrace the finances of the Federal Govern ment; the results Of its systems of revenue and taxation; the banking system; the currency, and the effects of irredeemable paper money; the commerce, manu factures, and general state of the country; the finances of the States; their debts and resources; their educational, charitable, and reformatory institutions; the various political conventions assembled during the year, with their nomi nations and platforms; the results of elections; also, commercial and financial conventions and their proceedings; the important questions before Congress, such as specie payments, expansion or contraction, presidential elections, etc., with debates and decisions of that body; the proceedings Of State Legislatures on the various local matters of importance - the extension of railroads and tele graphs, and all those improvements involved in the rapid progress of the coun[ try. These are contained, with ample details, in these pages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.