and Major-General U. S. Volunteers, 1861. His notable order on the eve of the civil war, Jan., 1861, to a Treasury official at New Orleans "If any man attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot"-is still quoted. April 28. At Washington, Rush Clark, Iowa Representative in Congress, aged 45. April 30. At Philadelphia, Mrs. Sarah J. B. Hale, long editor of Godey's Lady's Book, born 1795. May 5. In Dublin, Isaac Butt, M.P., distinguished "Home Rule" leader, aged 63. May 15. Jacob Staempfli, ex-President of Switzerland, born 1820, arbitrator at Geneva under Treaty of Washington. May 17. In Philadelphia, Judge Asa Packer, eminent capitalist, railroad and coal-mine operator, aged 74. He left public bequests of over $2,000,000. May 24. In New York, Wm. Lloyd Garrison, earliest noted abolitionist, born at Newburyport, Mass., Dec. 12, 1804. Founded the Liberator at Boston, 1831, which continued publication to the close of 1865. May 26. James Grant, English journalist and author of "A History of the Newspaper Press," aged 74. June 1. At Ottumwa, Iowa, Gen. James Shields, veteran soldier of two wars, and Senator in Congress from three States, aged 69. June 3. At London, Baron L. Nathan de Rothschild, head of English branch of the great banking house, aged 71. June 10. Commodore Foxhall A. Parker, Supt. U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, aged 58. June 20. Prince Louis Napoleon, only son of Napoleon III., killed in South Africa by Zulus while volunteer aid in the British army, aged 23. July 11. Near Chillicothe, William Allen, of Ohio, ex-Governor and exSenator, aged 72. July 22. Chas. Landseer, historical painter, aged 80. Aug. 5. At Richland, Pa., Charles Fechter, the actor, aged 55. Aug. 14. At Burlington, N. J., Rev. Wm. H. Odenheimer, D.D., Bishop of Northern New Jersey, aged 62. Aug. 25. At Mount Holly, N. J., John C. Ten Eyck, ex-U. S. Senator, 1814. Aug. 27. In London, Sir Rowland Hill, author of the penny postage reform, aged 84. Interred in Westminster Abbey. Aug. 31. At New Orleans, Gen. John B. Hood, Confederate army, of yellow fever, aged 48. Sept. 7. Wm. M. Hunt, artist, of Boston, aged 55, committed suicide at the Isles of Shoals. Sept. 18. At Paris, Eugene E. Viollet-le-Duc, French architect and author, aged 65. Sept. 18. At New York, Dan'l Drew, railway speculator and former millionaire, aged 82. Sept. 20. At Berlin, Rev. Joseph P. Thompson, D.D., American author and preacher, aged 60. Sept. 22. At New York, Robert Goelet, capitalist, whose possessions were estimated at twenty-five millions. Oct. 6. At New York, Wm. H. Powell, painter, aged 56. Oct. 13. Prof. John Wise, aeronaut, who made an ascension in an imperfect balloon, with one companion, lost his life, as is supposed, in the waters of Lake Michigan. Oct 13. At Philadelphia, Henry C. Carey, political economist, a copious writer upon all economic and financial questions, aged 86. Oct. 14. Prof. Le Moyne, the American apostle of cremation, died at 81 years of age, and his body was converted into ashes at Washington, Pa. Oct. 17. At West Orange, N. J., Rev. W. R. Whittingham, Bishop of Maryland, aged 74. Oct. 20. At Frankfort, Ernst von Bülow, German Minister of Foreign Affairs, aged 64. Oct. 31. At New York, Major-General Joseph Hooker, of the U. S. Army, aged 65. Oct. 31. At Farmington, Me., Rev. Jacob Abbott, writer of multitudinous books of biography, fiction, &c., aged 76. Nov. 1. At Chicago, Zachariah Chandler, U. S. Senator, of Michigan, and Secretary of the Interior Gen. Grant, 1875-'77, aged 66. Dividends, Earnings, and Surplus of all the National Banks of the United States, 1870 to 1879. [Condensed from the Report of the Comptroller of the Currency, December, 1879.] $ $ 1870. 1871. 1872. 1873. 1,852 1874. 1,971 1875. 2,047 1876. 2,081 1877. 2,072 1,601 425,317,104 91,630,620 42,559,438 55,810,819 10.12 Average annual production of the precious metals in the world by periods from 1701 to 1875. [Estimated by Dr. Adolf Soetbeer, the German Statistician.] As to the much-controverted question of the amount of the precious metals mined which is to be deducted from the circulation on the account of use in the arts, the Director of the Mint, after careful and extended inquiries, in 1879, came to the conclusion that the annual consumption of gold and silver, in all forms, in the United States, is not less than $7,000,000 of gold and $5,000,000 of silver. The balance of exchanges in the precious metals, which had been steadily against the United States ever since 1861, has been changed during 1879. The imports of gold and silver coin and bullion at the port of New York alone, from July 1st to November 1st, amounted to the sum of $52,187,174. Brief History of the Standard Silver Dollar. Authorized to be coined, Act of April 2, 1792. Weight, 416 grains, standard silver; fineness, 892.4: equivalent to 3714 grains of fine silver, with 4434 grains alloy of pure copper. Weight changed, Act of January 18, 1837, to 412% grains, and fineness changed to 900, preserving the same amount of pure silver- 3714 grains, with all. Coinage discontinued, Act of February 12, 1873. Total amount coined, from 1792 to 1873, $8,045,838. Coinage revived, two million dollars per month required to be coined, and issue made legal-tender for all debts, public and private, Act of Feb'y 28, 1878. Total amount coined, February 28, 1878, to Nov. 1, 1879, $45,206,200. 23 19 Rutherford B. Hayes Mar. +Willie P. Mangum.... May 31, 1842 11 George M. Dallas.. +William R. King. +Thomas W. Ferry. July 11, 1850 5, 187719 William A. Wheeler... March 5, 1877 *The heavy-faced figures in this column mark the terms held by the Presidents, and are referred to in succeeding tables. The smaller figures indicate the numerical order or sequence of individual officers from the first. † Acting Vice-President and President pro tem. of the Senate. SECRETARIES OF STATE. March 4, 1845 March 5, 1849 March 4, 1853 April 18, 1853 Dec. 5, 1854 14 John C. Breckinridge.. March 4, 1857 March 4, 1861 March 4, 1865 +Lafayette S. Foster. April 15, 1865 +Benjamin F. Wade.. March 2, 1867 17 Schuyler Colfax.. March 4, 1869 March 4, 1873 Nov. 22, 1875 March 5, 1821 10 9 Henry Clay. March 7, 1825 20 11 10 Martin Van Buren. .March 6, 1829 20a 11 Edward Livingston. May 24, 1831 12 12 Louis McLane... May 29, 1833 21 13 John Forsyth. June 27, 1834 22 March 4, 1837 23 27 William M. Evarts. Mar. 12, 1877 66 April 15, 1865 Mar. 11, 1869 25 E. B. Washburne.. Mar. 5, 1869 26 Hamilton Fish The heavy-faced figures mark the Presidential term in which each Cabinet Officer held his appointment, as shown by the table of Presidents preceding. NAME. SECRETARIES OF THE TREASURY. 12 3 3 Samuel Dexter 4 4 Albert Gallatin. Jan. 1, 1801 May 14, 1801 4, 1809 4, 1813 9, 1814 6, 1814 15 17 18 19 75 Geo. W. Campbell.. Feb. 6 Alexander J. Dallas. Oct. 7 Wm. H. Crawford..Oct. 22, 1816 Mar. 5, 1817 APPOINTED. Thomas Ewing.... April 6, 1841 15 Walter Forward. Sept. 13, 1841 16 John C. Spencer... March 3, 1843 17 George M. Bibb.. June 15, 1844 18 Robert J. Walker. March 6, 1845 19 Wm. M. Meredith. March 8, 1849 20 Thomas Corwin... July 23, 1850 21 James Guthrie March 7, 1853 22 Howell Cobb. March 6, 1857 23 Philip F. Thomas. Dec. 12, 1860 24 John A. Dix... Jan. 11, 1861 25 Salmon P. Chase.. March 7, 1861 26 Wm. Pitt Fessenden July 1, 1864 27 Hugh McCulloch.. March 7, 1865 April 15, 1865 28 George S. Boutwell March 11, 1869 29 Wm. A. Richardson March 17, 1873 30 Benj. H. Bristow.. June 4, 1874 31 Lot M. Morrill. July 7, 1876 32 John Sherman.. March 8, 1877 66 Mar. 4, 1813 Mar. 7, 1837 23 John Bell.. 66 April 6, 1841 Oct. 12, 1841 19 John C. Spencer. 20 James M. Porter March 8, 1843 21 William Wilkins Feb. 15, 1844 22 William L. Marcy. March 6, 1845 23 Geo. W. Crawford. March 8, 1849 24 Charles M. Conrad Aug. 15, 1850 25 Jefferson Davis.... March 5,1853 26 James B. Floyd March 6, 1857 27 Joseph Holt. 28 Simon Cameron.. 29 Edwin M. Stanton. 66 66 Jan. 18, 1861 March 5, 1861 Jan. 15, 1862 March 4, 1865 April 15, 1865 U.S.Grant,ad inter. Aug. 12, 1867 L. Thomas," Feb. 21, 1868 30 John M. Schofield. May 28, 1868 31 John A. Rawlins.. March 11, 1869 32 Wm. W. Belknap. Oct. 25, 1869 March 4, 1873 33 Alphonso Taft March 8, 1876 34 James D. Cameron. May 22, 1876 35 Geo. W. McCrary. March 12, 1877 136 Alex. Ramsey. Dec 10, 1879 SECRETARIES OF THE NAVY. 31 Benjamin Stoddert. 66 2 Robert Smith 66 5 3 J. Crowninshield.. 6 4 Paul Hamilton.. Jan. 12, 1813 15 March 4, 1813) 6, 1841 13, 1841 24, 1843 George E. Badger.. April 14 Abel P. Upshur. Sept. 15 David Henshaw... July 16 Thomas W. Gilmer Feb. 15, 1844 17 John Y. Masor March 14, 1844 18 George Bancroft... March 10, 1845 John Y. Mason. Sept. 9, 1846 19 William B. Preston March 8, 1849 20 William A. Graham July 22, 1850 21 John P. Kennedy July 22, 1852 22 James C. Dobbin.. March 7, 1853 23 Isaac Toucey March 6, 1857 24 Gideon Welles March 5, 1861 March 4, 1865 April 15, 1865 Francis Granger... April 6, 1841 11 Chas. A. Wickliffe. Sept. 13, 1841 12 Cave Johnson. Mar. 6, 1845 13 Jacob Collamer.... Mar. 8, 1849 14 Nathan K. Hall. July 23, 1850 15 Sam'l D. Hubbard. Aug. 31, 1852 16 James Campbell.. Mar. 5, 1853 17 Aaron V. Brown.. Mar. 6, 1857 18 Joseph Holt.. Mar. 14, 1859 19 Horatio King.. [Feb. 12, 1861 20 Montgomery Blair. Mar. 5, 1861 21 William Dennison. Sept 24, 1864 Mar. 4, 1665 April 15, 1865 22 Alex. W. Randall July 25, 1866 23 John A. J.Creswell Mar. 5, 1869 Mar. 4, 1873 24 Marshall Jewell... Aug. 24, 1874 25 James N. Tyner... July 12, 1876 26 David McK. Key.. Mar. 12, 1877 66 66 66 ATTORNEYS-GENERAL. John J. Crittenden April 6, 1841 18 Hugh S. Legare... Sept. 13, 1841 19 John Nelson... July 1, 1843 20 John Y. Mason... Mar. 6, 1845 21 Nathan Clifford. Oct. 17, 1846 22 Isaac Toucey. June 21, 1848 23 Reverdy Johnson.. Mar. 8, 1849 John J. Crittenden July 22, 1850 24 Caleb Cushing... Mar. 7,1853 25 Jeremiah S. Black. Mar. 6, 1857 26 Edwin M. Stanton. Dec. 20, 1860 27 Edward Bates.. Mar. 5, 1861 T.J. Coffey,ad int. June 22, 1863 28 James Speed. Dec. 2, 1864 Mar. 4, 1865 April 15, 1865 66 66 29 Henry Stanbery. July 23, 1866 30 William M. Evarts. July 15, 1868 31 E. Rockwood Hoar Mar. 5, 1869 32 Amos T. Akerman. June 23, 1870 33 George H.Williams Dec. 14, 1871 Mar. 4, 1873 34 EdwardsPierrepont April 26, 1875 35 Alphonso Taft... May 22, 1876 36 Charles Devens.... Mar. 12, 1877 66 |