SPALDING, BENEDICT J. 



tween the ministry and artillery officers, 713 ; 

 abdication of King Amadeo, 713 ; proceedings, 

 713; ministry, 713 ; action of the Cortes, 713 ; 

 first ministerial crisis, 714 ; new election pro- 

 posed, 714; disturbances, 714; abolition of 

 slavery in Porto Rico, 714 ; difficulties among 

 ministers, 714 ; their action, 715 ; the Carlist 

 movement, 715 ; military operations, 715 ; 

 meeting of the Cortes, 716 ; programme of the 

 ministry, 716; reconstruction of the ministry, 

 716 ; further movements of the Carlists, 717 ; 

 movements of the extreme Republicans, 717 ; 

 Castelar, President of the Cortes, 718 ; Caste- 

 lar, President of the Republic, 718; new cabi- 

 net, 718 ; Cartagena, 718 ; investment of Bil- 

 boa, 719 ; Cuban insurrection, 719 ; no new 

 features, 719; the Spanish party, 719; affair 

 of the Virginias, 719 ; literature of, 439. 



XIV. Provinces, 773; population of colo- 

 nies, 773 ; budget, 773 ; army and navy, 774 ; 

 commerce, 774 ; railroads, 774 ; opening of the 

 Cortes, 774; coup d'etat, 774; new ministry, 

 774; dispersion of the Cortes, 774; ministry 

 under Serrano, 775 ; address to the nation, 

 775 ; fall of Cartagena, 775 ; retirement of the 

 Junta, 775 ; concentration against the Carlists, 

 775 ; military movements, 776 ; Serrano takes 

 command, 776 ; indecisive engagements, 777 ; 

 offensive operations resumed, 777 ; new crisis 

 in Madrid, 777 ; new ministry, 777 ; Marshal 

 Concha appointed commander-in-chief, 777; 

 military operations, 777; death of Concha, 

 778 ; another coup d'etat, 778 ; return of Prince 

 Alfonso and assumption of power, 778 ; Cuban 

 affairs, 778. 



XV. Ruler, 707 ; movement of population, 

 707; finances, 707; debt, 707; army, 707; 

 railroads, 707 ; proclamation of Alfonso, 707 ; 

 his reception at Madrid, 707 ; relations with the 

 Pope, 708 ; decree relative to church property, 

 708; draft of a new constitution, 708, 709; 

 new ministry, 709 ; note of the papal nuncio 

 to the bishops, 709 ; Cortes convoked, 709 ; 

 the Carlist movement, 709 ; military operations, 

 710, 711 ; defeats of the Carlists, 712 ; indem- 

 nity in the Virginius case, 712 ; insurrection in 

 Cuba, 712. 



SPALDING, BENEDICT J. VIII. Birth, 710; 

 death, 710; career, 710. 



SPALDING, H, H. XIV. Decease of, 647. 



SPALDING, IRA. XV. Decease of, 583. 



SPALDIXG, MARTIN JOHN. XII. Birth, 747; 

 career, 747 ; death, 747. 



SPRING, GARDINER. 



395 



SPALDING, RUFUS P. VII. Representative 

 from Ohio, 131 ; offers a resolution relative to 

 reconstruction, 204. 



VIII. Representative from Ohio, 124; on 

 the impeachment of the President, 138 ; on the 

 Supreme Court quorum, 187; on suffrage to 

 blacks, 185 ; offers an amendment to the bill 

 to admit Alabama, 168. 



SPARKS, JARED. VI. Birth, 688; career, 

 688 ; death, 688. 



SPARROW, WILLIAM. XIV. Decease of, 623. 



SPAULDING, ELBRIDGE G. II. Represent- 

 ative from New York, 256 ; on the legal-tender 

 Treasury notes, 316, 317. 



III. Representative from New York, 233 ; 

 on a national currency, 295. 



SPEAR, Mjgor WALLACE M., chief-engineer. 

 XIII. Obituary of, 576. 



SPECIE PAYMENTS. XV. Act for the re- 

 sumption of, 217. 



SPECTROGRAPHY. I. Definition of, and ex- 

 periments in, 657; the spectroscope, 657; dis- 

 covery of new elements by means of, 658 ; de- 

 tection of elements existing in the atmosphere 

 by means of the spectroscope, 658. 



SPEED, JAMES. V. Opinion as to the juris- 

 diction of a military commission in the case of 

 the conspirators and Captain Wirz, 568-573. 



VI. Attorney-General, 513 ; on the case of 

 Jefferson Davis, 513. 



SPEKE, JOHN H. IV. Birth, 755 ; discov- 

 eries, 755 ; death, 756. 



SPENCER, E. M. XL Obituary of, 574. 



SPIER, THOMAS J. XII. Obituary, 626. 



SPRAGUE, CHARLES, an American poet. XV. 

 Biographical sketch of, 713. 



SPRAGUE, DANIEL GREENE, Presbyterian 

 clergyman. XIII. Obituary of, 559. 



SPRAGUE, HAVILAH M. XIV. Decease of, 637. 



SPRAGUE, Judge. III. Remarks on the er- 

 ror of drawing political conclusions from the 

 decisions of Courts of Admiralty, 840. 



SPRAGUE, WILLIAM. V. Senator from Rhode 

 Island, 205; on the exchange of prisoners, 

 235 ; on the government in Louisiana, 288. 



IX. Senator from Rhode Island, 120; on 

 the public debt, 187. 



XV. Senator from Rhode Island, 138 ; on 

 compulsory education, 176 ; relative to count- 

 ing the electoral vote for President, 205. 



SPRING, RCT. GARDINER. XIII. Birth, 719; 

 death, 719; career as a clergyman and author, 

 719. 



