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INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



form School, 185; Industrial School, 186; State Prison, 

 186; Legislature, 136; Constitutional amendment rati- 

 fied, 186 ; riots occasioned by the news of President Lin- 

 coln's death, 186 ; newspaper offices sacked, 186 ; explo- 

 rations, 879. 



CASNON, WILLIAM. Birth, 186; political career, 186; death, 

 186. 



CARDWKI.L, EDWABD. Correspondence with Gov. Eyre In 

 relation to the Insurrection in Jamaica, 450-453. 



CATRON, JOHN. Birth, 186 ; legal and political career, 137 ; 

 death, 187. 



Cattle Plague. Origin, 137 ; ancient ravages, 137 ; In the 

 ninth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries, 187 ; fatality 

 in Europe In the eighteenth century, 188 ; permanent on 

 the steppes of Asia, 188 ; comparative mortality In 

 western Europe, 188 ; descriptions of the disease, 189 ; 

 highly contagions, 139 ; results of experiments with in- 

 oculation, 189, 140; first appearance in England, 140; 

 probably Imported from Hungary through Holland, 140 ; 

 ravages in London, 140; orders In council, 140; royal 

 commission, 140 ; action of the commissioners, 141 ; 

 methods of disinfection of premises, 141 ; Improvements 

 In stables and cattle-sheds, 141 ; transportation to mar- 

 ket, 142 ; number of cases in England, 142 ; estimated 

 number and value of cattle In the United Kingdom, 142; 

 sheep, goats, and swine affected, 142 ; homoeopathic 

 remedies ineffectual, 142 ; Importation of cattle Into the 

 United States prohibited, 142. 



Central America. Guatemala : president and ministry, 142 ; 

 area and population, 142; capital, 142; finances, 142; 

 army, 142; imports and exports, 142. San Salvador: 

 president and ministers, 142 ; area and population, 142 ; 

 capital, 142 ; finances, 142 ; army, 142 ; Imports and ex- 

 ports, 142. Honduras: president and ministers, 142; 

 area and population, 142 ; capital, 142 ; Government re- 

 ceipts, 142. Nicaragua : president and ministers, 142 ; 

 area and population, 142 ; finances, 142 ; capital, 142. 

 Costa Rica: president and ministers, 143; area and 

 population, 143 ; capital, 143 ; government receipts, 143 ; 

 revolutionary movement of Gen. Barrios, 143 ; death of 

 Barrios, 148 ; death of Rafael Can-era, 148 ; explorations, 

 880. 



CHANDLER, ZAOHARIAH. Senator from Michigan, 205 ; offers 

 resolution relative to ships destroyed, 206. 



CHASE, Salmon P. Letter to negroes In New Orleans, 515 ; 

 Speech at Charleston, 8. C. 765. 



Chemistry. Elements, 148 ; allotropic States, 148, 144 ; allo- 

 tropic conditions of iron, 143; allotropic silicium and 

 carbon in cast-iron, 143 ; an application of plastic sul- 

 phur, 144; compounds, 144-146; solubility of gold in 

 acids, 144; new nitrogen compounds, 144; new com- 

 pounds, apparently allied to ammonia, 144; solution of 

 metallic oxides in fused caustic alkalies, 144 ; properties 

 of liquefied carbonic acid, 144; properties of liquefied 

 hydrochloric acid gas, 145; synthesis of organic com- 

 pounds, 145 ; acetic and caprolc acids, 146 ; substitutions 

 among alcohol radicals, in their compounds, 146 ; phys- 

 ico-chemical phenomena and principles, 146-148; per- 

 meability of heated metals to gases, 146 ; dissociation 

 of elements of compound bodies by heat, 146 ; crystal- 

 logenic force, 147 ; beautiful arborizations, 147 ; min- 

 eral arborizations in solutions of alkaline silicates, 148 ; 

 efflorescence of crystals, 148; theoretical chemistry, 148- 

 150; saturability as distinct from equivalency, 148; me- 

 chanical energy of chemical action, 149 ; constitution of 

 ammonium amalgam, 150; applications of chemistry, 

 150-155; processes for obtaining oxygen, 150, 151; ex- 

 tracting iodine, 151 ; nitrogen, etc., 151 ; electro-chemi- 

 cal separation of metalloids, 151 ; a very sensitive reac- 

 tion for iron, 151 ; Ozouf s process for carbonic acid, 152; 



OzouTs process for white lead, 152 ; preparation of pot- 

 ash, 152 ; preparation of nitre, 152 ; preparation of alum, 

 152 ; detection of explosive gases in mines, 152, 153 ; ap- 

 plications of bisulphide of carbon, 153 ; extraction of 

 vegetable oils by means of volatile hydrocarbons, 153 ; 

 preparation of clay with glycerine, for modelling, 153 ; 

 linoleum and its applications, 154; aniline black, 154; 

 new solvent for aniline dyes, 154, 155; reviving the 

 writing of old documents, 155; Smithsonian Institution, 

 155; recent publications and papers, 155, 156; new works 

 on chemistry, 156. 



Chili. President and ministers, 156 ; Legislature, 156 ; area 

 and, population, 156; government expenditures, 156; 

 army and navy, 156 ; imports and exports, 156 ; move- 

 ments of shipping, 156 ; number and tonnage of vessels, 

 156 ; difficulty with Spain, 156-158 ; causes of complaint 

 on the part of Spain, 156 ; demands of Admiral Pareja, 

 157 ; reply of the Chilian minister, 157 ; position of the 

 Chilian Government, 157 ; protest of the diplomatic 

 corps against the threatened action of Admiral Pareja, 

 157 ; declaration of war, 157 ; the Spanish blockading 

 fleet, 158 ; blockade confined to six ports, 158 ; warlike 

 measures of Chili, 158 ; capture of the Covadonga by the 

 Esmeralda, 158 ; capture of a Spanish launch, 158 ; sui- 

 cide of Admiral Pareja, 158 ; blockade confined to Val- 

 paraiso and Caldera, 158; alliance with Peru, 158; dis- 

 covery of mines of coal and gold, 158 ; additional 

 privileges granted to Protestants, 159 ; explorations, 

 882. 



China. Estimated population, 159 ; proposition of the Taip- 

 ings to the treaty powers, 159 ; evacuation of Changchow, 

 159 ; fate of Burgevine, 159 ; insurrection in Western 

 Tartary, 159 : insurrection of the Nein-fei, 159 ; Pekin 

 threatened, 160 ; increase of piracy, 160 ; Prince Kung 

 degraded, 160 ; concession in favor of foreign shipowners, 

 160; treaty with Holland, 160; progress of Catholicism, 

 160; number of Protestant missionaries, 160; postal 

 communication between Kiakhta and Tientsin, 160. 



Cholera, Asiatic. History, 160-163; place of origin, 161; 

 ravages in Asia, 161 ; at Jessore, 161 ; at Orenburg and 

 Astrachan, 161; at Moscow and St. Petersburg, 161; at 

 Mecca and Cairo, 161 ; in England in 1831-'82, 161 ; at Que- 

 bec and Montreal, 162 ; at New Tork, Philadelphia, Cin- 

 cinnati, New Orleans, etc., 162 ; number of cases and 

 deaths in Great Britain and America in 1831-'82, 162 ; spo- 

 radic cases, 162; at Karracheo and Teheran In 1S46, 162 ; 

 ravages in Europe in 1843, 162; in America in 184S-'49, 

 162; in California, 163; in the Crimea in 1855-'56, 163; 

 at Mecca, In 1865, 163 ; at Alexandria and Cairo, 163 ; 

 checked at Constantinople by a great fire, 168 ; in Italy, 

 France, and England, 163 ; arrival of the A talanta with 

 cholera on board in the lower bay of New York, 163 ; 

 ravages in the island of Guadaloupe, 163; statistics of 

 cholera, 163 ; mortality in various countries, 163 ; remote 

 and proximate causes, 168, 164 ; not contagious, but port- 

 able, 164; Dr. Snow's theory of the disease, 164; how 

 disseminated, 164 ; mortality among medical attendants, 

 164; virulence of cholera poison illustrated, 165; a rigid 

 quarantine and thorough cleanliness imperative, 165; 

 pathology, 165, 166 ; symptoms, 165; course, 165; dura- 

 tion, 166; treatment, 166-169; Dr. Hamlin's mode of 

 treatment in Constantinople, 167 ; modes of English and 

 French physicians, 168; first stage easily manageable, 

 168; opium, 168; injections, 163; chloroform, quinine, 

 laudanum, camphor, and calomel, 168; treatment by 

 missionaries at Constantinople, 169 ; investigations of 

 Dr. Davies, 169 ; Dr. Chapman's mode of treatment, 169 ; 

 failure of homoeopathy, 169 ; immunity of the copper 

 mining region of Eio Tinto, 169 ; sulphate of copper, 

 169 ; importance of sanitary measures, 169. 



