GERMANY. 



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ests and resources of the State, as well as of 

 the application of chemistry to agriculture 

 and the mechanic arts. 



The movements of cotton in the State for 

 the year, as compared with the preceding 

 year, according to the Financial Chronicle of 

 New York, were as follows: 



KXPORTED FROM SAVANNAH. I 187->T8. I I871- > 7. 



The consumption of cotton in the mills of 

 the State, according to the census in 1870, was 

 24.820 bales, or 10,921,176 Ibs.; in 1873, ac- 

 cording to the Chronicle. 39,122 bales, or 17,- 

 213,790 Ibs. 



GERMANY, an empire in Europe, reestab- 

 lished January 18, 1871. The Emperor, Wil- 

 liam I., was born March 22, 1797. He is a son 

 of King Frederick William III., of Prussia, 

 and Queen Louisa, and was married June 11, 

 1829, to Augusta, daughter of the Grand-duke 

 Charles Frederick of Saxe-Weimar. The heir- 

 apparent, Frederick William, born October 18, 

 1831, has the official title of Crown-prince of 

 the German Empire, and Crown-prince of 

 Prussia. He was married January 25, 1858, 

 to Victoria, Princess Royal of Great Britain 

 and Ireland, born November 21, 1840. Off- 

 spring of the union are, three sons, Frederick 

 William, born 1859; Henry, born 1862; Wal- 

 demar, born 1868; and four daughters, Char- 

 lotte, born 1860 ; Victoria, born 1866 ; Sophia, 

 born 1870; Margaretha, born 1872. Imperial 

 Chancellor (Reichskanzler), Otto, Prince von 

 Bismarck-Schonhausen ; President of the Im- 

 perial Chancery (Reichskanzler -Amt), Del- 

 brack, Minister of State. 



The following table exhibits all the states 

 of the German Empire, the area, the popula- 

 tion, the number of representatives of every 

 German state in the Federal Council, and the 

 number of deputies who represent each state 

 in the Reichstag 



The Federal Council has nine standing com- 

 mittees: 1. For the army and fortresses; 2. 



navy ; 3. taxes, tariff, and excise ; 4. com- 

 merce ; 5. railroads, posts, and telegraphs ; 

 6. justice ; 7. accounts ; 8. Foreign Affairs ; 

 9. Alsace-Lorraine. The Emperor appoints the 

 members of the first committee, except the 

 member of Bavaria, and all those of the sec- 

 ond ; the members of the other committees 

 are elected by the Federal Council. 



The members of the Reichstag are elected 

 by universal suffrage and ballot, for the term 

 of three years. The first Reichstag, elected in 



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1871, consisted of 882 members; the second, 

 elected in 1874, was to contain also 15 mem- 

 bers for Alsace-Lorraine. 



The census of 1871 showed the religious di- 

 vision of the population composing the Ger- 

 man Empire as follows: Evangelical Church 

 (under which head the census embraces the 

 United Evangelical Church, Lutherans, and 

 Reformed), 25,581,709; Roman Catholics, 14,- 

 867,091; Greek Catholics, 2,660; Christian 

 sects of various denominations, 79,553 ; Israel- 



