The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the Year 1857

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ...his term ends 1851. The salary of the judges of the Superior Court, and of the Court of Common Pleas, and that of the District Attorney, Surrogate, Recorder, and City Judge, is $5,000. George T. Maxwell is. Clerk of the Superior Court, and Benjamin H. Jarvis of the Court of Common Pleas, salary $2,500 each. Albert A. Thompson is Judge of the Marine Court, vice Phillips. Sidney H. Stuart, City Judge, has resigned. Pages 205, 334.--The newspapers say that the Board of Canvassers in Wisconsin have declared William A. Barstow to be elected Governor of Wisconsin, vice Coles Bashford. THE AMERICAN ALMANAC REPOSITORY USEFUL KN11WLEDGE, FOR THE YEAR 1857. BOSTON: CROSBY, NICHOLS, AND COMPANY. LONDON: TRUBNER AND COMPANY, 12 Paternoster Row. SAMPSON LOW, SON, & CO., 47 Ludgate Hill. PARIS: HECTOR BOSSANGE. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by George P. Sanger, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. CAMBRIDGE! METCALF AnD COMPAnY, PRInTERS TO THE UnIVERSITY. PREFACE. The twenty-eighth volume of the American Almanac, being the eighth volume of the third series, is now offered to the public. Unwearied pains has been taken to collect full, authentic, and varied information concerning the complex affairs of the general and State governments; and a mass of official documents and private correspondence has been digested relating to the government, finances, legislation, public institutions, internal im Frovements, and resources of the United States, and of the several States. t is hoped that the present volume will be found equal to its predecessors in fulness and accuracy, and that it will sustain the high character of the American Almanac as a trustworthy manual for reference and a full...