THE PROGRESSIVE DEVELOPMENT OF MINERAL WEALTH, INCLUDING not ONLY THE PRECIOUS AND THE USEFUL METALS, BUT
COAL, PETROLEUM, AND THE VARIOUS ALKALIES AND EARTHS IN USE; THE PUBLIC LANDS, THEIR SALES IN EACH YEAR,
LAND GRANTS TO ROADS, RAILROADS, STATE, AND EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES, THEIR RAPID SETTLEMENT, THE FORMATION OF
STATES AND TERRITORIES, FOUNDING OF CITIES AND COMMERCIAL CENTERS; INTERNAL TRADE; IMMIGRATION,
ITS INCREASING TIDE AND THE REGIONS MOSTLY SOUGHT BY IMMIGRANTS; BANKING, ITS SUCCESSIVE SYSTEMS
AND CHANGES; FIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT, AND OTHER INSURANCE, WITH STATISTICS; LITERATURE AND
AUTHORS; BOOKS, PERIODICALS, AND NEWSPAPERS; THE FINE ARTS, PAINTING, SCULPTURE,
ARCHITECTURE, And Engraving; DOMESTIC LIFE, DWELLINGS, FURNITURE, FOOD, Costumes,
&c.; TELEGRAPH; EDUCATION, HIGHER AND ELEMENTARY, LIBRARIES, MUSEUMS, AND
SCIENTIFIC COLLECTIONS; BENEVOLENT AND HUMANITARIAN INSTITUTIONS, &c.

WITH

AN APPENDIX,

GIVING

THE PROGRESS OF ALL THE RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS AND SECTS, THEIR PECULIAR DOCTRINES AND ORDINANCES,
THEIR FORMS OF CHURCH GOVERNMENT, MODE OF WORSHIP, &c., &c.

THE WHOLE CAREFULLY PREPARED BY

PUBLISHED

An Eminent Corps of Scientific and Literary Men.

Superbly illustrated with over Two Hundred and Twenty-Five Engravings, executed by the most accomplished Artists in the Country,
carefully printed from Steel Electrotypes and in Chromo.

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HARTFORD, CONN.:

BY L. STEBBINS.
FRANCIS DEWING & CO., SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
1875.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, by L. STEBBINS,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

SUBJECTS AND AUTHORS.

MINING INDUSTRY OF THE UNITED STATES,

Including Gold, Silver. Copper, Lead, Zinc, Iron, Coal, Petroleum, &c., showing the Localities, Richness of Ores, Methods of Mining, Smelting, and applying the different Minerals to practical uses, with their values, &c., &c.

FUR TRADE, various kinds and values of Furs.

Of the late Pennsylvania, and other Geological Surveys; Contributor to Appleton's "New American Cyclopædia" on the same Subjects.

LAND, SETTLEMENT, INTERNAL TRADE.

Western Settlement, Population, and Land Sales, Canals and Railroads, Expenditures, Lake Cities, Reciprocity, Annual Sales of Land by the Government, River Cities, Atlantic Cities, Date of Settlement, Population, Valuation, Manufactures, Exports, Imports, Growth of New York, Express Business.

BANKS, UNITED STATES MINT, AND INSURANCE.

Bills of Credit, Government Issues, United States Bank, State Banks, Suffolk System. Safety Fund, Banks, Free Banks, Number of Banks in Each State, Aggregate Capital, Clearing Houses, Private Banking, New National System, &c., Establishment of Mint, Standard of Coins, Laws Regulating Coinage, Precious Metals in the Country, Insurance,-Fire, Marine, Life, Accident, &c.

EMIGRATION.

General Migrations, Colonies and United States, Number of Aliens arrived in the United States from 1820 to 1856, and their Nationalities, Landing in New York, Future Homes.

AUTHORS, BOOKS, NEWSPAPERS, BOOK-BINDING.

PRINTING PRESSES, TELEGRAPH.

Writers, including Theologians, Statesmen, Novelists, Historians,-Short Sketches of their Lives, their Literary Productions; Newspapers,-Dailies, Weeklies, Periodicals, Book Trade, Publishing, Jobbing, Retailing, Selling by Subscription, Book-Binding, Printing Presses, Telegraph.

By THOMAS P. KETTELL.
SOCIAL AND DOMESTIC LIFE

Domestic Architecture, Furniture, Food, Dress, Social Culture, &c.
By FREDERICK B PERKINS.

ARTS OF DESIGN.

Painters, Sculptors, Engravers, &c.

By T. ADDISON RICHARDS, Artist,

Editor of Appleton's "Railway Guide," Correspondent of "Harper's

Magazine.'

Progress of all the Religious Denominations, and Sects.
By DR. L. P. BROCKETT.

EDUCATION,

Including the History and Statistics of Free Schools, Common Schools, Grammar Schools, Academies, Colleges, Professional Schools of Theology, Law, Medicine, War, Teaching, Engineering, Agriculture, Mechanics and Fine Arts; with Special Schools for Deaf Mutes, Blind, Idiots, Juvenile Criminals, and Orphans, and Supplementary Educational Agencies and Libraries, Lyceums, Lectures, &c.

By HENRY BARNARD, LL. D.

Superintendent of Common Schools in Connecticut and Rhode Island; Chancellor of the State University of Wisconsin; and Editor of the "American Journal of Education."

ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH,
Its Inventors, and Progress,

By GEORGE B. PRESCOTT.

Electrician of Western Union Telegraph Company.

FIRE INSURANCE,

Giving in a historical form the progress and growth of Fire Insurance in the United States from the first organized Companies up to 1871, with valuable tables, showing the magnitude of the business, rates, losses, profits, &c.,

By D. A. HEALD,

Vice-President of the Home Fire Insurance Company of N. Y

LIFE INSURANCE,

Showing the progress of the business under the Stock and Mutual principles, from the first organized Company up to 1871, with valuable tables showing the immense magnitude of the business, per centage, losses, profits, &c.,

By JACOB L. GREENE,

Secretary Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company, Hartford, Ct.