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INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



Connecticut. Its situation, 376; civil officers, 376 ; census re- 

 tarns, 376 ; institutions, 376 ; census statistics, 377 ; pro- 

 ceedings of the Legislature, 877 ; debt of the State, 377 ; 

 troops furnished, 877. 



Conscription in Confederate States. Act recommended by 

 President Davis, 242 : its adoption, 243 ; features, 243 ; 

 constitutionality, 243; opposition at the South, 243; 

 correspondence of the Governor of Georgia, 244 ; opin- 

 ion of the Supreme Court of Georgia, 245; opposition 

 in Alabama, 245 ; desertions, 246 ; debate in Congress, 

 268. 



CBITTENDEN, Gen. GEOBGE B. Address to the people of 

 Kentucky, 27. 



CURTIS, Gen. Address to the people of the southwest, 54 ; 

 correspondence with Gen. Van Dorn, 57 ; appointed to 

 command the department of Missouri, 53. 



DAVIS, President JEFFERSON. Message on the capture of 

 Fort Donelson, 85; message to Confederate Congress, 

 78 ; address to the army after the battle of Fair Oaks, 

 118; after seven days 1 battles, 134; message to Confed- 

 erate Congress on despatch of Gen. Lee, 135 ; his inau- 

 guration at Richmond, 241 ; his views, 241 ; recommends 

 a conscription law, 242; on its constitutionality, 243; 

 letter to Gen. Lee respecting retaliatory measures, 715 ; 

 his inaugural address, 732 ; message at the first session 

 of the permanent Congress, 784 ; do. at the second ses- 

 sion of the permanent Congress, 785; retaliatory procla- 

 mation, 736. 



Decatur. Its situation, 378 ; military movements at, 878. 



Delaware. Its situation, 378 ; State election, 878 ; census 

 statistics, 378; troops sent to the war, 378. 



Deserters, provost marshals to arrest, 21. 



Diplomatic Correspondence of the United St&tes. "With 

 Great Britain, 879 ; case of the British consul at Charles- 

 ton, 879 ; the right to obtain coal at Nassau, 379 ; steam 

 gunboat Oreto, 380; proceedings relative to, 380; case 

 of the Alabama, 881 ; proceedings relative to, 882 ; the 

 charge of furnishing assistance to the Confederates, 3S3 ; 

 duty to suppress them, 384 ; letter of Mr. Adams explain- 

 ing his position, 885; belligerent rights accorded to the 

 Confederate States, 885; case of the Emily St. Pierre, 

 886 ; treaty for the suppression of the slave trade, 387 ; 

 correspondence with France, 887; anxiety for cotton, 

 387; condition of the manufacturing districts, 8SS; uni- 

 formity of policy, 388 ; conversation relative to media- 

 tion, 888; proposition of France to England and Russia, 

 839; mediation proposed by France to the United States, 

 889 ; reply of Mr. Seward, 390 ; correspondence with 

 Spain, 392 ; reference to the treaty surrendering the 

 right of search, 392. 



Drun/8 Bluff, its position, 893 ; attack on, 398. 



DUPONT, Com., commands expeditions on Florida coast, 49. 



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Earth. Relative sunshine of different zones, 893 ; extent of 

 the earth's atmosphere, 893 ; thickness of the earth's 

 crust, 393 ; excentrality of the earth, 394 ; earthquake 

 waves, 895. 



Education. Its diffusion in the'United States, 395 ; pri- 

 mary education. 396 ; scholars and expense of schools in 

 the United States, 896; secondary instruction, 896; 

 higher education, 896; universities and colleges, 396; 

 total expenditures in the United States, 397; object 

 teaching, 397 ; origin, 398 ; progress, 398 ; Comenius, 

 898; Pestalozzi, 398; his views, 899 ; pupils and assist- 



ants, 899 ; the system in the Canadas and the United 

 States, 400 ; books published, 400 ; method of teaching, 

 401 ; results, 401. 



Electricity. Measures of electric resistance, 402 ; Mathie- 

 son's unit of resistance, 402 ; Weber's proposed absolute 

 standard, 402 ; electro-motive force of voltaic piles, 402 ; 

 measures of electrical quantities, 403 ; proposed stand- 

 ard of electrical resistance, 403 ; influence of temperature 

 on the conducting power of metals, 404 ; mechanical ef- 

 fects of powerful tension, 404 ; study of the electric 

 spark by the aid of photography, 404 ; production of vi- 

 brations and musical sounds by electrolysis, 405; new 

 experiments in electro-magnetism, 405; electricity de- 

 veloped during evaporization and effervescence, 405; 

 experiment with the crural nerve of a frog, 406 ; elec- 

 trical phenomena of Vesuvius, 406 ; Ritchie's electrical 

 machines, 406; conducting power of pure and alloyed 

 copper, 407; electric lights for lighthouses, 408; Way's 

 electric light with mercury, 409 ; improvement in 

 Holmes' magneto-electric light, 409 ; Serrin's electric 

 light regulator, 410 ; Baker's apparatus for electric lights, 

 410; present desideratum in electric lights, 410 ; electric 

 light signals, 410 ; application of electric light to mining 

 purposes, 411 ; engraving by electricity, 411 ; electric 

 despatch, 411 ; electric sounding apparatus, 411. 



ELLET, CHARLES, jr. Birth, 412; education, 412 ; pursuits, 

 412; death, 412. 



Exhibition, British Industrial. Results, of the first opened, 

 412; disposal of the profits, 412 ; plan of that of 1862, 

 413 ; laying out of the works, 413 ; progress of the build- 

 ing, 413; the building, 414; the interior, 415 ; construc- 

 tion, 415 ; decoration of the building. 415 ; exhibition 

 opened, 417. 



Objects and articles exhibited, 41S; mining, quarry- 

 ing, and metallurgy, 418 ; chemical substances and phar- 

 maceutical processes, 419; coal tar and lichen dyes, 420; 

 . substances used for food, 420 ; Indian products, 420 ; ma- 

 chinery, 421 ; traction engines, 421 ; Toung's type com- 

 posing machine, 423 ; folding, pressing, and stitching 

 machine, 423; agricultural machines and implements, 

 423 ; civil engineering, architecture, and building con- 

 trivances, 424 ; models, weapons, 424 ; new cartridge, 

 425; marine engines, 425; gas engineering, 426 ; pho- 

 tography and photographic apparatus, 426 ; clocks and 

 watches, 427; electric telegraphs and electrical appa- 

 ratus, 427; surgical instruments and appliances, 428; 

 sanitary appliances, 428; musical instruments, 428 ; mis- 

 cellaneous machinery, 429; American machinery, 429 ; 

 sewing machines, 431 ; flax and hemp, 431 ; silk and vel- 

 vet, 432 ; woollen, worsted, and mixed fabrics, 432 ; tap- 

 estries, 432 ; printed and dyed fabrics, 432 ; lace making, 

 433; furs, feathers, and hair, 434; India rubber manu- 

 factures, 434; leather, including saddlery and harness, 

 435 ; paper making and stationery, 435 ; printing, 436 ; 

 bookbinding, 436; educational works and appliances, 

 436 ; furniture and upholstery, 437 ; iron manufactures, 

 437; forged iron, 438; welding, 433; rolled iron, 433; 

 sheet iron, 438; bars, rails, and girders, 439; armor 

 plates, 439 ; Canadian iron, 439 ; iron in India, 439 ; 

 Swedish boat plates, 440 ; galvanized metals, 440; Here- 

 ford screen, 440; chandeliers, gaseliers, and lamps, 441; 

 locks and safes, 441 ; steel manufactures, 442 ; Krupp's 

 cast steel, 442 ; Bessemer steel, 442 ; work in the pre- 

 cious metals, 443; aluminium articles, 443; jewelry, 

 443 : glass, stained and fancy, 443 ; pottery, 445 ; sub- 

 stances used in manufactures, 445 ; British colonies, 445, 

 446, 447; Australian cdlonics, 447; French colonies, 449; 

 South American States, 449; Japan, 450; China, 450: 

 Egypt, 450 ; fine arts, 450 ; foreign paintings and sculp- 

 ture, 450; review, 451. 



