PRINCIPAL DIPLOMATIC OFFICERS. ENVOYS EXTRAORDINARY AND MINISTERS PLENIPOTENTIARY. .Henry W. Hilliard, Georgia Salary. App'd. $12,000..1877 12,000..1877 10.000..1877 Chili... China ... Great Britain. France... Germany Yodo.. Lima. ..... Mexico..........John W. Foster, Indiana............ 12,000..1873 MINISTERS RESIDENT. Argentine Republic......Buenos Ayres..Thomas O. Osborn, Illinois.... Belgium Central American Brussels.........Ayres Phillips Merrill, Mississippi. ...La Paz..........S. Newton Pettis, Pennsylvania". StatesGuatemala.......George Williamson, Louisiana. Hawaiian Islands... Liberia.. Netherlands. Sweden and Norway. Turkey.. Venezuela.. Eogota. .Ernest Dichman, Wisconsin.. CHARGES D'AFFAIRES. Copenhagen. ....M. J. Cramer, Kentucky. .Lisbon........... .Berne. Uruguay and i araguay Montevideo.....John C. Caldwell, Maine............ CONSULS-GENERAL. 7,500..1874 7,500..1876 George F. Seward, New-York...... 12,000..1870 ..Paris........... Edward F. Noyes, Ohio... George P. Marsh, Vermont... 17,500..1877 17.500..1878 17,500..1877 12,000..1861 12,000..1873 Principal Judicial Officers of the United States. Tille of Once. JUDGES OF THE SUPREME COURT. Name and State. No. of Cir. When and by whom app'd. Salary. Chief Justice-MORRISON R. WAITE, Ohio... Fourth....1874....U. S. Grant.......$10,500 Associate-Justice-Nathan Clifford, Me.......First... 44 66 1858....James Buchanan.. 10,000 Noah H. Swayne, Ohio...Sixth 1862....Abraham Lincoln. 10,000 Samuel F. Miller, Iowa...Eighth .1862....Abraham Lincoln. 10,000 Stephen J. Field, Cal.....Ninth. 1863....Abraham Lincoln. 10,000 William Strong, Penn....Third.. 1870.. .U. S. Grant......... 10,000 Joseph P. Bradley, N. J..Fifth 187. 10,000 U. S. Grant..... Ward Hunt, N. .Second.....1872. .U. S. Grant........ 10,000 John M. Harlan, Ky......Seventh....1877....R. B. IIaves....... 10,000 The First Circuit consists of Maine, New-Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Rhode Isl and; the Second, of New-York, Vermont, and Connecticut; the Third, of Pennsylvania, New-Jersey, and Delaware; the Fourth, of Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina; the Fifth, of Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas; the Sixth, of Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, and Tennessee; the Seventh, of Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin; the Eighth, of Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Nebraska, and Colorado; the Ninth, of California, Oregon, and Nevada. First Circuit (Maine, Massachusetts, New-Hampshire, Rhode Island)--Vacant. Fifth Circuit (Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Sixth Circuit (Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee)-John Baxter, Tenn. $6.003. Seventh Circuit (Illinois, Indiana. Wisconsin)-Thomas Drummond, Ill., $6,000. Eighth Circuit (Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota) John F. Dillon, Iowa, $6,000. Ninth Circuit (California, Nevada, Oregon)-Lorenzo Sawyer, Cal., $3,C03. DISTRICT JUDGES. Alabama-John Bruce, Montgomery, Fifth Circuit, $3,500. Arkansas (E. D.)-Henry C. Caldwell, Little Rock, Eighth Circuit, $3,500. Illinois (N. D.)-Henry W. Blodgett, Chicago, Seventh Circuit, $3,500. Kansas-Cassius G. Foster, Atchison, Eighth Circuit, $8,500. Kentucky-Bland Ballard, Louisville, Sixth Circuit, $3,500. Louisiana-Edward C. Billings, New Orleans, Fifth Circuit, $4,500. Maryland-William F. Giles, Baltimore, Fourth Circuit, $4,000. Michigan (ED.)-Henry B. Brown, Detroit, Sixth Circuit, $3,500. Michigan (W. D.)-Solomon L. Withey, Grand Rapids, Sixth Circuit, $3,500. Missouri (E. D.)-Samuel Treat. St. Louis, Eighth Circuit, $3,500. Missouri (W. D.)-Arnold Krekel, Jefferson City, Eighth Circuit, $3,500. New-Ham pshire-Daniel Clark, Manchester, First Circuit, $3,500, New-Jersey John T. Nixon, Trenton, Third Circuit, $4,000. New-York (N. D.)-William J. Wallace, Syracuse, Second Circuit, $4,000. New-York (E. D.)-Charles L. Benedict, Brooklyn, Second Circut, $1,000. Pennsylvania (W. D.)-Winthrop W. Ketchum, Pittsburg, Third Circuit, $4,000. Chief-Justice-DAVID K. CARTTER, Ohio.. 46 Salary $4,500. Justice David C. Humphreys, Ala., $4,0 0. Arthur MacArthur, W18., $4,000. UNITED STATES COURTS IN THE TERRITORIES. ARIZONA-Chief-Justice: C. G. W. French. Associates: Charles Silent, De Forest Porter. TRADE AND COMMERCE. MERCHANT FLEETS OF THE WORLD. We learn from the Bureau Veritas that the total number of sailing ships in the civilized world at the end of 1877 was 51,912, and that the total number of steamships was 5,471 as follows: IRON AND STEEL STATISTICS. [From the Report of the Iron and Steel Association, July 15, 1878.] 29,260 34.786 36,328 39,401 3 1,382 40,430 21,490 25,031 11,294 Crucible cast steel, net tons.... Total. Iron Shipbuilding in the United States. 1868. 1869. 1870. Kind of Vessels. 1871. 2,067 Tonnage Tonnage Tonnage No. Tonnage No. Tonnage No. Tonnage None. None. 20 13,412 20 12,766 26 26,548 8,281 20 15,479 20 12.766 26 26,548 None. 1.039 No. Tonnage No. Tonnage No. Tonnage No. Tonnage No. Tonnage * Trade dollars. $9,162.900; tractional silver, $19,387,035. Trade dollars, $11,378,010; standard silver dollars, $8,573,500; fractional silver, $8,339,315 50. THE SILK INDUSTRY. Value of Products, Classified by Articles, manufactured in the United States in the years ending December, 1877, 1876, 1875, 1874 and 1873. Total.. $21,411,436 $26,593,103 $27,158,071 $20,082,482 $19,894,874 Imports of Silk Manufactures at the Port of New-York. Total....... 5.511 $19.922,741 $1.192.386 $23.168,118 $23,292,561 $24.379,322 Per Cent of Collections on Spirits, for Years named, for Certain States. 1878. .9197 10,316 421,791 2,312,654 3,689 476,561 3,876,952 699,967 4,064,077 3,897 31.8768 |