COLORADO BEETLE. 



COMMERCE, UNITED STATES. 81 



Constitution of the United States, 179; elec- 

 tions, 179 ; Executive Department, 179 ; Su- 

 preme Court, 179 ; application for admission to 

 the Union, 180 ; action of President Johnson and 

 Congress, 180 ; population, 180 ; vast mineral 

 wealth, 180 ; mining districts, 180 ; agricultural 

 interests, 180; grasshoppers, 180; irrigation, 

 180 ; sheep-raising, 180 ; new roads, 181. 



VI. Failure of the bill for admission to 

 pass Congress, 114; objection, 114; veto, 115; 

 election for delegate, 115; capital, 115; min- 

 ing interests, 115 ; views of the Governor, 

 115 ; population, 115 ; activity of its friends 

 for admission as a State, 116 ; area of the State, 

 ,,116; mining product, 116; copper and silver, 

 116; iron, 117; specimens of silver-ore, 117; 

 agriculture, 117; memorial relative to the ad- 

 mission of, 231. 



VII. Area and physical features, 126 ; min- 

 ing, 127; bill for its admission, 127; the Legis- 

 lature, 127; election, 127; finances, 127; re- 

 sources, 127. 



VIII. (See Territories.) 



IX. (See Territories.) 



XI. (See Territories.) Natural curiosity 

 in, 339. 



XII. (See Territories of the United States.) 

 Colorado River, exploration of, 337. 



XIV. Government, 140 ; climate, 140 ; 

 second climatic division, 140 ; diseases, 141 ; 

 sources of wealth, 141 ; schools, 141 ; railroads, 

 141; 



XV. Officers of the Territory, 128 ; forma- 

 tion of the Territory, 128; population and 

 valuation, 128 ; pastoral area, 129 ; irrigation, 

 129 ; mines, 129 ; coal, 129 ; prehistoric ruins, 

 129 ; grasshoppers, 129. 



COLORADO BEETLE. XV. The first appear- 

 ance, 130; description, 130; advance eastward, 

 130 ; loss sustained by its ravages, 130 ; means 

 by which to check it, 131. 



COLORED TROOPS. III. First order to enlist, 

 26 ; details of enlistment, 26. 



COLORED NATIONAL CONVENTION IN NEW OR- 

 LEANS. XII. 775. 



COLT, SAMUEL. II. Birth, 225; death, 225; 

 education, 225 ; pursuits, 225 ; inventions, 225 ; 

 enterprise, 226 ; successes, 226 ; nature of his 

 inventions, 226. 



COLTON, Rev. HENRY MARTIN. XII. Obitu- 

 ary, 619. 



COLUMBIA, DISTRICT OF. XI. Bill to cre- 

 ate a Territory passed, 168. 

 6 



COLUMBUS, Ky. I. Its situation, 103; im- 

 portance as a military position, 103 ; occupa- 

 tion by Confederate troops, 103 ; evacuation, 

 103. 



COLVER, Rev. NATHANIEL, D. D. X. Birth, 

 111; death, 111; in War of 1812, 111; tem- 

 perance and antislavery advocate, 112 ; found- 

 er of Tremont Temple, Boston, 112; estab- 

 lishes "Colver Institute " at Richmond, 112. 



COLYOCORESSES, Captain GEORGE M., U. S. N. 

 XII. Obituary, 620. 



COLWELL, STEPHEN. XII. Birth, death, 

 112; works, 112; career, ]12, 113. 



COLTER, VINCENT, XI. Indian policy in 

 Arizona, 41. 



COMBE, THOMAS, ffl. A. XII. Obituary, 647. 



COMBES, J. J. III. Letter on the relations 

 of the insurrectionary States to the Union, 

 839. 



COMET (BIELA'S). XII. Discovery of, 113 ; 

 confirmation of Schiaparelli's theory concern- 

 ing meteoric showers, 113 ; observations by Mr. 

 Poyson, 113 ; views of a writer in the Corn- 

 hill Magazine, 113. 



COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STATES. I. Its 

 character in 1861, 103 ; imports and exports 

 for seventy years, 104; domestic exports for 

 forty years, 104; imports and exports for 1861, 

 104; population, with the consumption of 

 foreign goods and the duties collected, 105; 

 table of leading articles exported in 1861, 106 ; 

 decline in Southern products compared with 

 other sections, 106 ; effect of Western railroads, 

 107; exports from the Northern section, 107; 

 grain sent from the West, 107; receipts at Chi- 

 cago, 107; exports of grain from Milwaukee, 

 107 ; grain at Toledo, 108 ; advance of freights 

 on the Western lakes, 108; tonnage of the 

 lakes, 108 ; Western produce received at Buffa- 

 lo by water, 108 ; transport of the New York 

 Central Railroad, 108 ; quantities and values 

 left at tide- water on the New York canals in 

 1861, 109 ; Western grains exported from New 

 York, 110 ; imports and exports at New York, 

 110; reversal of the trade in specie, 111; 

 decline in the price of bills, 111 ; leading arti- 

 cles of domestic export, 111 ; vessels entered 

 and cleared at New York, 111 ; coastwise ton- 

 nage, 112; exports from Baltimore, 112; do. 

 from Philadelphia, 112 ; trade of Baltimore, 

 112; tonnage of New York, 112; leading ar- 

 ticles of export, 112; trade of St. Louis, 112; 

 receipts from the interior, 113; exports of 



