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UNITED STATES. 



Tho number of members was 4,298 larger 

 than the number which was reported in 1873. 



The bishops of the United Brethren Church 

 are: The Rev. J. J. Glossbrenner, Ohurchville, 

 Augusta County, Va. ; the Rev. David Ed- 

 warda, D. D., Baltimore, Md. ; the Rev. Jona- 

 than Weaver, Dayton, Ohio ; and the Rev. John 

 Dickson, Decatur, 111. 



The general publishing-house of the United 

 Brethren in Christ is established at Dayton, 

 Ohio. The aggregate circulation of the peri- 

 odicals published by this Church, on the 1st 

 of July, 1874, was 181,500 copies. The edu- 

 cational institutions of the United Brethren 

 Church are : Otterbein University, "Westerville, 

 Ohio ; Hartsville University, Hartsville, Ind. ; 

 Westfield College, Westfield, 111. ; Lebanon 

 Valley College, Annville, Pa. ; Lane Univer- 

 sity, Lecompton, Kansas ; Western College, 

 Western, Iowa ; Philomath College, Philo- 

 math, Oregon; and the Union Biblical Semi- 

 nary, Ohio. 



UNITED STATES. Some changes were 

 made in the cabinet of President Grant during 

 the year. The resignation of Mr. Richardson, 

 as Secretary of the Treasury, was accepted, 

 and the vacancy tilled by the acceptance of 

 BENJAMIN H. BBISTOW, on June 4th. Mr. Bris- 

 tow was born in Elkton, Todd County, Ky., 

 in 1833. He became a prominent lawyer in 

 the State, and in 1861 entered the Union army, 

 as a major of the Twenty-fifth Kentucky, 

 was at the battles of Fort Donelson and Shi- 

 loh, at the latter of which he was wounded. 

 He was appointed United States District At- 

 torney about the close of the war. When the 

 office of Solicitor-General was created he was 

 appointed its first incumbent, organized the 

 office, and, during the absence of the Attorney- 

 General, performed his duties and filled his 

 place in cabinet meetings. The ability he dis- 

 played in this office increased his reputation at 

 Washington. After two years' service he re- 

 signed, to attend to his private affairs. 



On June 24th the Postmaster-General, John 

 A. J. Creswell, resigned, and the vacancy was 

 filled by the appointment and acceptance of 

 MARSHALL JEWELL, of Connecticut. Mr. Jewell 

 was born in Winchester, N. H., October 24, 

 1825. In 1847 he moved to Hartford and 

 worked for two years in his father's currier- 

 shop. He then relinquished the business and 

 learned the art of telegraphing, and, being an 

 expert operator, was engaged in the office in 

 Rochester, N. Y., from which place he went 

 to Ohio, and afterward to Columbia, Tenn. 

 After the election of General Taylor to the 

 presidency, Mr. Jewell, who was a warm sup- 

 porter of the Whig nominee, removed to Jack- 

 son, Miss., and was subsequently elected gener- 

 al superintendent of the telegraph line between 

 Nashville and New Orleans. He returned to 

 New York in 1849, and the following year en- 

 tered into partnership with his father in the 

 tanning and belting business. He visited Eu- 

 rope in 1859 and 1860, and in 1865 again went 



to Europe, extending his travels to Egypt and 

 the Holy Land. Mr. Jewell has always been 

 in sympathy with the Republican party. Al- 

 though comparatively unknown as a politician, 

 he was elected Governor of Connecticut in 

 1869, and in 1871 he was again elected to the 

 same position, and reelected the following 

 year, thus serving for three terms. On the 

 20th of May, 1873, the President nominated 

 Governor Jewell to succeed James L. Orr as 

 minister to Russia, and in this office he exhib- 

 ited marked ability. 



One of the most important acts of the last 

 Congress was the adoption of the revision of 

 the United States Statutes. The first commis- 

 sion for this purpose was appointed in 1866, 

 and consisted of Caleb Gushing, William John- 

 son, of Ohio, and Charles P. James, of the 

 District of Columbia. Little progress was 

 made by them, and after the expiration of the 

 term of their appointment three years they 

 retired. In May, 1870, Congress passed an 

 act reviving the commission, and Benjamin 

 Vaughn Abbott, Charles P. James, and V. M. 

 Barringer, were appointed the commissioners, 

 who have completed the work. After it was 

 reported by the commission it was referred to 

 the Congressional Committee on the Revision 

 of the Laws, and was by them and by Mr. 

 Thomas J. Durant, of Washington, who was 

 employed by the committee, subjected to a 

 careful review. After coming from the hands 

 of the committee the revision was patiently 

 gone over in both Houses, and was finally 

 adopted about two weeks before the adjourn- 

 ment. This revision contains the Statute Law 

 of the United States down to the present year, 

 and embraces within the limits of two volumes 

 the contents of seventeen octavo volumes. 



The decision of the Supreme Court of the 

 United States in the " Slaughter-house " cases 

 at New Orleans, is stated in the volume of 

 this work for 1873. In the recent case of 

 Bartemeyer vs. the State of Iowa, decided by 

 the same court, Justices Field and Bradley 

 took occasion to restate the grounds of their 

 dissent from the opinion of a majority of the 

 court in the Slaughter-house cases, in order 

 to correct some apparent misapprehension of 

 their views as to the fourteenth amendment. 

 Mr. Justice Field says that the judges who 

 dissented in those cases, never contended 

 that the fourteenth amendment interferes, in 

 any respect, with the police power of the State, 

 but that, on the contrary, " they recognized 

 the power of the State in its fullest extent, ob- 

 serving that it embraced all regulations affect- 

 ing the health, good order, morals, peace and 

 safety of society ; that all sorts of restrictions 

 and burdens were imposed under it, and that, 

 when these were not in conflict with any con- 

 stitutional prohibition or fundamental princi- 

 ples, they could not be successfully assailed in a 

 judicial tribunal. But they said that, under the 

 pretense of prescribing a police regulation, the 

 State could not be permitted to encroach upon 



