CANDIDATES FOR

PRESIDENT AND

VICE-PRESIDent,

15TH ADM.

For Pres.

From. For Vice-Pres. From. Politics.

Ulysses S. Grant, Ill., Schuyler Colfax, Ind. Republican. Horatio Seymour, N. Y., Francis P. Blair, Mo. Democrat.

Second Term.

Ulysses S. Grant, Ill., Henry Wilson, Mass. Republican. Horace Greeley, N. Y., B. Gratz Brown, Mo. Liberal.

Popular and Electoral Vote.-15th Administration. Thirty-four States voting, Va., Miss., and Texas had no vote. They had not been re-admitted since the Rebellion. Whole number of Electors, 294.

For President.

U. S. Grant, 3,015,887 votes;

Electoral votes, 214.

Horatio Seymour, 2,703,249 votes; Electoral votes, 80.

Second Term.-Thirty-seven States voting. Whole number of Electors, 360.

For President.

U. S. Grant, 3,592,984 votes; Electoral votes, 300. Horace Greeley, 2,833,847 votes. Would have received 74 Electoral votes. He died before Electoral College met.

Important Events During 15th Adminis

tration.

1869 March 4. U. S. Grant inaugurated President. Death of George Peabody.

Nov. 4.

1870 Oct. 12.

1871 Jan. 26. March 5.

cisco.

Death of Gen. Robert E. Lee.
Congress repeals the income tax.

Great riot (Chinaman's) in San Fran

July 12. Orange Riot (attacked by Catholics) in
N. Y.

Oct. 7-9. The great Chicago fire.

66 8. Great forest fires in Wis. and Mich.

"26.

Wm. M. Tweed and others arrested for

frauds on N. Y. city.

1872 March 26. Great earthquake and loss of life in Cal.

June 17. The World's Peace Jubilee (Gilmore's) in Boston.

Nov. 9-10. The great Boston fire.

Barnum's Museum destroyed by fire in New York. 1873 Jan. 20. U. S. troops defeated by Modoc Indians. April 11. Gen Canby and Rev. Dr. Thomas murdered by Modoc Indians.

Sept. 18.

Failure of Jay Cooke & Co., and others on Wall street, followed by panic of 1873.

Oct. 3. Capt. Jack and other Modoc Indians ex-
ecuted.

Nov. 19. W. M. Tweed convicted for defrauding
City of New York.

1874 March 11. Death of Charles Sumner.

May 16. Mill River (Mass.) Reservoir Disaster.
Fearful loss of life.

Nov. 1. Arrival of Kalakana, King of Hawaiian
Islands.

1875 Jan. 23. East River spanned by an Ice Bridge; and pedestrians cross from Brooklyn to New York.

April 19.

100th Anniversary of the Battles of

Concord and Lexington.

June 17.
Nov. 22.

Nov. 24.

Centennial Celebration of Bunker Hil. Death of Vice-President Henry Wilson Death of William B. Astor. Aged 84. The wealthiest man in America; estimated at $150,000,000.

June 26.

Gen. Custer and 311 United States troops defeated and killed by Sioux Indians, led by Sitting Bull.

August 14.

East River spanned by the first wire in the construction of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge.

1876 March 2.

April 10. Death of A. T. Stewart, the Merchant
Prince.

April 15. Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil, visits
New York.

May 10. Grand Opening of the World's Exhibition
at Philadelphia.

CABINET OFFICERS, 15TH ADMINISTRATION-1869-1877. Secretary of State-Hamilton Fish, N. Y.

Secretaries of the Treasury-B. H. Bristow, Ky.; Lot M. Morrell, Vt.

Secretaries of War-Wm. W. Belknap, Iowa; J. D. Cameron, Pa.

Secretary of the Navy-Geo. M. Robeson, N. J.

Secretary of the Interior-C. Delano, Ohio; Z. Chandler, Mich.

Attorney-General-Edwd. Pierrepont, N. Y.

Postmasters-General-J. A. Creswell, Md.; Marshall Jewell, Conn.; Joseph N. Tyner, Ind.

NATIONAL EXPENSES AND Debt, 15тн ADMINISTRATION.