THE

AMERICAN

ANNUAL CYCLOPÆDIA

AND

REGISTER OF IMPORTANT EVENTS

OF THE YEAR

1873.

EMBRACING POLITICAL, CIVIL, MILITARY, AND SOCIAL AFFAIRS; PUBLIC DOCU-
MENTS; BIOGRAPHY, STATISTICS, COMMERCE, FINANCE, LITERATURE,

SCIENCE, AGRICULTURE, AND MECHANICAL INDUSTRY.

VOLUME XIII.

NEW YORK:
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY,

549 & 551 BROADWAY.

1874.

SL 16 541

ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by

D. APPLETON & COMPANY, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.