INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



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837; notes furnished to national banks, 837; treasury and 

 compound Interest notes, 887; total amount of paper 

 money, Oct. 81, 837; question as to Its legality, 837, 889 ; 

 tabular statement of the national debt on June 80, 838 ; 

 bank note circulation at various periods, 339 ; Inflation 

 of prices, 839 ; gold balance against the country, 839 ; 

 contraction of the currency, 839, 840 ; the Secretary of 

 the Treasury on the payment of the national debt, 840, 

 841 ; table of the public debt from 1791 to 1865, 841 ; table 

 of the value of real estate and personal property In the 

 States and Territories in 1850 and 1860, 841; value of 

 farms, live stock, etc., 842; agricultural products, 842; 

 other products, 842; sales of gold coin, 842; value of 

 bullion deposited at the mint and branches, 842 ; coinage, 

 842 ; commercial intercourse with the Southern States, 

 842, 848 ; table of the annual product of manufacturing 

 industry, 843; tables of the price of gold for 1862, 844; 

 for 1S63, 845 ; for 1864, 846 ; for 1865, 847 ; prices of Gov- 

 ernment paper at New York for 1865, 848; prices of rail- 

 road shares in 1865, 348; gold and silver deposited at the 

 mint and branches since 1847, 348 ; gold and silver of do- 

 mestic production deposited, 348 ; prices in New York 

 of leading articles of commerce for eight years, 349; 

 business failures in the Northern States for nine years, 

 849. 



Fine Arts. In England, 850 ; enormous rise in the value of 

 pictures, 850 ; sale of Mr. Wallis's collection, 850 ; of Mr. 

 Blackburn's, 350 ; of Mr. Reeves's, 350 ; of Mr. Knowles's, 

 850 ; of John Leech's sketches, drawings, etc., 850 ; and 

 of those of David Eoberts, 851 ; sales of collections of 

 water-color drawings, 351 ; annual exhibitions, 851 ; 

 mural decorations of the Houses of Parliament, 351 ; 

 Church's pictures in London, 851 ; embellishments of St. 

 Paul's Cathedral, 352 ; restoration of St. Patrick's Cathe- 

 dral, 352; plastic art, 852; acquisitions of the British 

 Museum, 352; South Kensington Museum, 853; Royal 

 Academy, 853; wood engraving, 353; new method of 

 decorating pottery, 353 ; deceased artists, 353. 



In France, 853 ; sale of Count de Pourtales-Gorgier's 

 collection, 853 ; of Baron Grootelinsdt's gallery, 854 ; of 

 the Due de Moray's collection, 854 ; mural pictures at 

 the Hotel des Invalldes, 354 ; exhibitions of water-color 

 drawings, 854 ; architectural improvements, 854; plastic 

 art, 354 ; Dore's illustrated edition of the Bible, 854. 



In Germany, 855; frescoes in the new museum at Ber- 

 lin, 855 ; new method of cleaning pictures, 855 ; destruc- 

 tion of works of art at Brunswick, 355 ; statue of Prince 

 Albert at Coburg, 855. 



In Belgium, 855. 



In Italy, 855 ; works in sculpture, 855 ; American ar- 

 tists, 855 ; statue of Hercules exhumed, 855 ; discovery 

 of Raphael's "Madonna di Loreto," 855; American 

 sculptors at Florence, 356; equestrian statue of Nero 

 exhumed at Pompeii, 356; colossal s'tatue of Claudius 

 exhumed at Civita Lavinia, 856. 



In the United States, 856; development during the 

 war, 856; sale of Mr. John Wolfe's gallery, 856; large 

 importation of foreign pictures, 556; character of Ameri- 

 can pictures, 857 ; private collections in New York, 857 ; 

 National Academy of Design, 857 ; exhibition of 1865, 

 857; academicians and associates, 857; Artists' Fund 

 Society, and other exhibitions, 85S; dealers' exhibitions, 

 858 ; exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine 

 Arts, 858 ; Capitol and other decorations at "Washington, 

 858 ; polychromy, 359. 



FITZEOT, ROBEET. Birth, 859 ; naval and Parliamentary ca- 

 reer, 859 ; works, 859 ; suicide, 859. 



Florida. William Marvin appointed Provisional Governor, 

 859 ; confiscations, 859 ; pardons, 359 ; Governor's proc- 

 lamation, 860 ; proclamation ordering an election of dele- 



gates to a convention, 360-362; convention assembled at 

 Tallahassee, 862 ; message of Governor Marvin, 862 ; or- 

 dinance relative to secession, 862 ; ordinance abolishing 

 slavery, 862 ; ordinance repudiating the State debt, 863 

 ordinance denning the position of freedmen in courts of 

 justice, 868; election of Governor and State officers or- 

 dered, 868: Governor Marvin's despatch to President 

 Johnson, 863 ; despatch of Secretary Seward to Governor 

 Marvin, 863 ; election, 863 ; David 8. Walker chosen Gov- 

 ernor, 863 ; vote, 863 ; organization of the Legislature, 

 863; choice of Senators, 863; despatches of President 

 Johnson to Governor Marvin, 868 ; Governor Marvin on 

 the condition of affairs, 864 ; people impoverished, 864. 



FOSTER, LAFAYETTE S. Senator from Connecticut, 205 ; on 

 the admission of a Senator from Virginia, 275-277. 



France. Emperor, 864; five governmental divisions, 864; 

 elections, 364 ; area and population, 864 ; disinclination 

 to emigrate, 864 ; population of Algeria, 865 ; area and 

 population of colonies and protected countries, 865; 

 budget for 1866, 365 ; composition of the army, 865 ; and 

 of the navy, 865 ; Imports and exports, 865 ; movements 

 of shipping, 866 ; amount of shipping, 866 ; Papal Ency- 

 clical, 866 ; address of the Emperor to the French Cham- 

 bers, 866 ; M. Thiers on the Roman question, 867 ; MM. 

 Rouher and Schneider on President Lincoln, 367 ; letter 

 of Dronyn de Lhuys on the death of President Lincoln, 

 867; reply, 868; visit of the Emperor to Algeria, 868; 

 proclamations to Europeans and Arabs, 868 ; letter of the 

 Emperor to Prince Napoleon in relation to his speech at 

 Ajacclo, 868; restrictions on the press, 868; municipal 

 elections, 369 ; relations with Mexico, 869 ; relations with 

 the United States, 869; the Emperor on the Mexican ex- 

 pedition, 870; relations with Italy and the Danublan 

 Principalities, 370 ; diplomatic correspondence, 319-822 ; 

 topographical survey, 884 



Frankfort. Government, 870; area and population, 870; 

 religious statistics, 370; budget, 870; public debt, 870 ; 

 threatening note of Austria and Prussia, 870. 



Freedmen and, Refugees. Order of General Sherman re- 

 serving islands and rice lands to negroes, 870; Frecd- 

 men's Bureau established, 871 ; General Howard ap- 

 pointed chief commissioner, 871 ; commissioners, 871 ; 

 organization of the bureau, 372 ; General Howard's cir- 

 culars of instructions. 372-874; circular in relation to 

 abandoned lands, 873 ; tabular statement of lands held 

 and restored, 873 ; Government action in relation to 

 freedmen on the coast islands, 874 ; mission of Gen- 

 eral Howard, 874 ; lands libelled in Virginia, 875 ; em- 

 ployment, 875; schools, 875, 876; Government farms, 

 375; free transportation, 875 ; rations, 875 ; receipts and 

 expenditures of the bureau, 876 ; sickness and mortality, 

 876; tabular statement of freedmen treated by the med- 

 ical department, 876 ; white refugees received at the hos- 

 pitals, 876 ; educational statistics, 877 ; General Howard 

 on the value of the bureau, 877 ; number of freedmen 

 receiving supplies in various States, 878. 



GANSON, JOHN B. Representative from New York, 205; 



on civil prisoners, 238. 

 GABFIELD, JAMES A. Representative from Ohio, 206; on 



civil prisoners, 240. 

 GASKEL.L, ELIZABETH CLEGHORSB. Birth, 87S ; works, 878; 



death, 878. 

 Gastein. Description, 878 ; convention between Austria 



and Prussia, 878. 

 Geographical Explorations and Discote-rUs. Number of 



publications, 878 ; explorations in the arctic regions, 879 ; 



in British America, 879; California, 879; Mexico, 879; 



