D HANDBOOK OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND GUIDE TO EMIGRATION; GIVING THE LATEST AND MOST COMPLETE STATISTICS OF THE GOVERNMENT, ARMY, NAVY, DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS, FINANCE, FURNISHING ALL THE NECESSARY INFORMATION CONCERNING THE COUNTRY, FOR THE SETTLER, THE BUSINESS MAN, THE MERCHANT, THE FARMER, THE IMPORTER & THE PROFESSIONAL MAN. COMPILED BY L. P. BROCKETT, M. D., GEOGRAPHICAL AND STATISTICAL EDITOR OF JOHNSON'S CYCLOPEDIA. COPYRIGHTED, 1889, BY GAYLORD WATSON, PUBLISHED BY GAYLORD WATSON, 278 PEARL STREET (NEAR BEEKMAN, NEW YORK. CHICAGO: TENNEY & WEAVER, 88 LAKE STREET. 1883. PREFACE. THE MANUAL which is now offered to purchasers in a new dress, has been published for the last ten years, solely as an accompaniment to Watson's New Railroad Map of the United States, and has never been offered to the general trade, though often sought for. The Publisher has at length determined to comply with the demand for its more general circulation, and at the same time adapt it to a new class of customers, those who are seeking homes for themselves in our country, and especially in the West and South. In order to render it more worthy of the large patronage which it is certain to command, the publisher has obtained the services of an eminent Statistician, and while retaining all those Facts and Statistics which have proved so valuable in former editions, correcting them up to date, so as to make it more acceptable than before to all those who have hitherto been interested in it, he has added all the necessary information in regard to the landed States and Territories, to enable any intending settler to decide which is the best region for him to select, how he may get there most comfortably and economically, what steps he must take to secure a perfect title to his lands, and what are in each case the best crops for him to raise, or the best business to pursue. No Manual or Treatise of ten or twenty times the cost of this, has ever contained a quarter of the information here offered, for the intending settler, or for the enterprising mechanic or working man, who desires to make himself a new home beyond the Mississippi; and as every pains has been taken to make it perfectly accurate, and neither publisher, editor or any one else concerned has any axes to grind, or any pet project or speculation to promote in or by this work, it may be received as standard authority in all the matters of which it treats. THE PUBLISHER CONTENTS. PAGE The General Government:-President-Vice-President-State Department. Legislative Branch of the Government-Congressional Districts.. Presidents under the Federal Constitution-Vice-Presidents-Chief-Jus- Financial and Economic Transactions of the United States, from March, 1877, to |