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ALVORD, CORYDON A. 



AMERICA. 



ALVORD, CORYDON A. XI Y. Decease of, 659. 

 AMADEUS, Prince, Dnke of Aosta. X. Elect- 

 ed King of Spain, 279, 415. 



XII. King of Spain, etc. (See Spain.) 



XIII. Abdication, 258 ; marriage, 383. 

 AMALGAMATION. VI. Progress made in the 



art, 15; amalgamation of gold from quartz, 

 15 ; improvements in details, 15 ; loss of gold, 

 15 ; discovery of Prof. Wurtz, 15 ; statement 

 of Prof. Silliman, 15, 16 ; principles of the dis- 

 covery, 16 ; practical results of using sodium, 

 16 ; state of the gold-ores in pyrites, 16 ; their 

 amalgamation, 1 6 ; effects of the great improve- 

 ments in desulphurizing pyrites, 17 ; amalga- 

 mation of silver-ores, 17 ; necessity of roasting 

 the ore, 17; the chemicals used in the mills in 

 Nevada, 18; the process of amalgamation, 18; 

 Hepburn pan, 18 ; description, 18 ; processes in 

 Hungary, 18. 



AMAT DI SAN FILIPPO E SORSO, LUIGL XII. 

 Obituary, 649. 



AMERICA. III. Political subdivisions, 8 ; im- 

 portant events, 8 ; Central America, 8 ; Co- 

 lombia, 8; Venezuela, 8; encroachments of 

 European powers, 9; France, 9; American 

 continental alliance, 9 ; changes in relation to 

 slavery, 9. 



IV. Mexico, 11 ; confederation of British 

 America, 11; Congress of South American 

 states, 11; Spanish aggression in Peru, 11; 

 San Domingo affair, 1 1 ; revolution in Ecuador, 

 12 ; civil war in Uruguay, 12 ; Chili, 12 ; rail- 

 roads, 12 ; Hayti, 12. 



V. Close of the war in the United States, 

 21 ; reconstruction, 21 ; emancipation, 21 ; 

 British- American Confederation, 21; war in 

 -Mexico, 21; Juarez, his term of office, 22; 

 Dominicans, success of, 22 ; Jamaica, disturb- 

 ances in, 22 ; difficulties between Spain and 

 Peru, 22; do. with Chili, 22; insurrection in 

 Uruguay, 22 ; Paraguay declares war, 22 ; Bra- 

 zil, war with Paraguay, 22 ; Congress of South 

 American states, 22 ; alliance formed, 22. 



VI. Reconstruction in the United States, 

 19 ; confederation scheme in British America, 

 19 ; war in Mexico, 19 ; war of Chili and Peru 

 against Spain, 19 ; between Paraguay and Bra- 

 zil, 19; population, 19. 



VII. Changes in territorial divisions, 39 ; 

 treaty with Russia, 39 ; purchase by United 

 States of Danish West India islands, 39 ; pop- 

 ular opinion in favor of independence in Cuba 

 and Porto Rico, 39 ; annexation movement in 



Pacific British provinces, 39 ; withdrawal of 

 French troops from Mexico, 89 ; capture and 

 execution of Maximilian, 39 ; Peru proposes 

 confederation with adjacent republics, 39 ; war 

 of Brazil against Paraguay, 89 ; war between 

 Spain and allied republics on Pacific coast, 39 ; 

 insurrection in Peru, 40; arrest and banish- 

 ment of Mosquera, President of Colombia, 40 ; 

 insurrection in Hayti, 40 ; insurrection in Ar- 

 gentine Republic, Venezuela, and Santo Do- 

 mingo, 40 ; reconstruction in the United States, 

 40 ; consolidation of Canadian provinces, 40 ; 

 population, 40. 



VIII. Transfer of the Russian possessions, 

 23 ; war of Brazil and Argentine Republic, 23 ; 

 civil wars in Spanish America, 23 ; Indian 

 wars, 23 ; line of steamers to Japan and China, 

 23 ; reconstruction in the United States, 23 ; 

 area and population of each of the independent 

 American states, 24. 



IX. Scheme for annexation of St. Thomas and 

 St. John, 16; San Domingo, 16 ; war in Cuba, 16; 

 consolidation scheme in British North Amer- 

 ica, 16; war in Paraguay, 16; civil wars in 

 South America, 16 ; Pacific Railroad, 16 ; trans- 

 atlantic cables, 16 ; immigration from Europe, 

 17 ; census in Mexico and Argentine Republic, 

 17; population, 17. 



X. Area and population of divisions, 20; 

 annexation of San Domingo, 21 ; civil wars, 21 ; 

 peace conference between Spain and the South 

 American republics, 21. 



XI. Geneva tribunal of arbitration, 18; 

 outrages in Corea, 18 ; territorial government for 

 District of Columbia, 18 ; suppresson of polyg- 

 amy among the Mormons, 18; suspension of 

 habeas corpus in South Carolina, 18 ; reduction 

 of United States debt, fires in the West, 18; 

 armistice between Spain and South American 

 republics, 18 ; Brazil, abolition of slavery and 

 compulsory education in, 18 ; slavery in Span- 

 ish West India Islands, 18 ; Bolivia, Chili, Co- 

 lombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, San Salvador, 

 Venezuela, Argentine Republic, 18 ; Cuban 

 struggle, 18; San Domingo, 18; Hayti, 18; 

 cannibalism in, 95. 



XII. Adjustment of questions between the 

 United States and Great Britain, 13; internal 

 dissensions in South American states, 13 ; termi- 

 nation of the Paraguayo-Brazilian question, 1 3 - 

 sanitary condition of South American states, 13 ; 

 elections in Brazil, 13 ; railways and telegraphs 

 in South America, 14. 



