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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 320 320 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 206 206 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 68 68 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 46 46 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 34 34 Browse Search
Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 32 32 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 22 22 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies 21 21 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 2 20 20 Browse Search
Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 18 18 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: December 17, 1860., [Electronic resource], Secession movement at the South. (search)
rling (or fifteen million dollars,) per annum. This is independent of the vast sums contributed by British capital for works of development and improvement. With the exception of one Canadian regiment, which is said to have cost more than a regiment raised in the mother country, they do not contribute even in men to the general military strength of the kingdom. Some of them do not even raise a local militia. Other European nations derive considerable revenues from their dependencies. In 1857, the surplus revenue paid by the Dutch Colonies into their national exchequer, after defraying all their military and naval expenses, was about £2,000,000, and the surplus revenue from the Spanish Colonies for the last year was £1,150,000. At the same time it is admitted there may be considerable indirect advantages resulting from extended colonial possessions. In this connection, the writer demurs to the idea, founded on the commerce of the United States with Great Britain, that the trade
The Daily Dispatch: December 17, 1860., [Electronic resource], The Ups and Downs of business life. (search)
The Ups and Downs of business life. --A merchant of this city whose net profits during the Crimean war amounted to at least one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, passing safely through the crisis of 1857, and who was reputed a year or two since to be worth a quarter of a million, failed a few days ago with liabilities to the extent of two hundred thousand dollars, of which it is estimated he will be able to pay only about fifty per cent. A few weeks since a business man of Boston, who heretofore has been remarkably lucky in all his operations, made purchases of sugar to a very large amount, upon which his losses, it is estimated, will reach at least sixty thousand dollars.--Boston Traveller.