VERMONT CENTRAL RAILROAD. 



VIRGINIA. 



427 



XIII. Financial condition, 762 ; debt, 762 ; 

 the wealthiest towns, 763 ; education, 763 ; 

 Teachers' Association, 763 ; normal schools, 

 763 ; Insane Asylum, 763 ; complaints, 763 ; 

 investigation, 763 ; results, 763 ; rumors of 

 bribery, 764 ; action of the Legislature, 764 ; 

 results, 764 ; meteorological phenomena, 765. 



XIV. Financial condition, 801 ; State debt, 

 802 ; State Reform-School, 802 ; extra legisla- 

 tive session, 802 ; Republican Convention, 802 ; 

 nominations, 802 ; platform, 802 ; Democratic 

 Convention, 803 ; nominations, 803 ; platform, 

 803 ; results of the election, 803 ; congressional 

 election, 803 ; acts passed by the Legislature, 

 803. 



XV. Extra session of the Legislature, 749 ; 

 new Reform-School, 749 ; finances, 749 ; Green 

 Mountain Railroad, 749 ; Woman's Temperance 

 Union Convention, 749 ; resolutions, 750 ; State 

 Board of Agriculture, 750 ; resolutions, 750 ; 

 State Grange, 750; resolutions, 750; case of 

 false imprisonment, 750 ; decision on the ex- 

 clusion of children from schools, 751. 



VERMONT CENTRAL RAILROAD. XII. (See 

 Vermont.) 



VERNET, SMILE J. H. III. Birth, 843; 

 death, 843 ; paintings, 843. 



VERPLANCK, GULIAN C. X. Birth, 740; 

 career, 740; death, 741. 



VERPLANCK, ISAAC A. XIII. Birth, 765 ; 

 death, 765 ; career as a jurist, 765. 



VERREN, ANTOINE. XIV. Decease of, 62& 



VESUVIUS. XII. Eruption of, 268. 



VIARDOT, Madame PAULINE. XI. Obituary 

 of, 597. 



VICAT, LOUIS JOSEPH. I. Birth, 728 ; dis- 

 coveries, 728 ; pursuits, 728 ; honors, 728. 



TOILERS, GEORGE. IX. Senator from Mary- 

 land, 120; on the fifteenth amendment, 140- 

 142 ; moves an amendment to fifteenth amend- 

 ment, 166. 



XI. Senator from Maryland, 132; on the 

 bill to enforce the fifteenth amendment, 153. 



XII. Senator from Maryland, 119 ; on the 

 suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, 209. 



VICTOR EMMANUEL. X. Letter to the Pope 

 on the Roman question, 410 ; proclamation on 

 taking possession of Papal States, 414 ; speech 

 at opening of Parliament, 415. 



XIII. Visits the Emperor of Germany, 328, 

 348. 



VICTORIA. XII. (See Australia.) 



VIELE, E. L. I. Biographical notice of, 726. 



VIENNA. I. Its situation, 728 ; skirmish at, 



728. 



VIGNERON, PIERRE-ROCH. XII. Obituary, 

 649. 



VILLEMAIN, ABEL T. X. Birth, 742 ; pur- 

 suits, 742 ; death, 742. 



V1NCKE, GEORG E. F., a German statesman. 

 XV. Biographical sketch of, 751. 



VINTON, CELESTA H. IV. Birth, 807; ca- 

 reer, 807 ; death, 808. 



VINTON, Rev. FRANCIS. XII. Birth, death, 

 794 ; career, 794 ; works, 794. 



VIRGINIA. I. Movement of her Legislature 

 for a Peace Conference, 178 ; the resolutions, 

 178; boundaries, 729; population, 729; vote, 

 729 ; public sentiment, 729 ; Union meetings, 

 729 ; resolutions of New York, how received, 

 729 ; action of the Legislature, 730 ; address 

 of members of Congress, 730 ; the State Con- 

 vention, 730 ; it assembles, 731 ; organization, 

 731 ; proceedings, 731 ; on Lincoln's inaugural, 

 732; debates, 732, 733; communication from 

 Governor Pickens, 734; response to the call 

 for troops, 734 ; ordinance to repeal the ratifi- 

 cation of the United States Constitution, r735 ; 

 proclamation, 735 ; exports of grain prohibit- 

 ed, 736 ; warlike aspect, 736 ; joins the South- 

 ern Confederacy, 736 ; convention with, 737 ; 

 proceedings in Western Virginia, 737 ; muster- 

 ing troops, 738 ; military movements, 738 ; 

 bridges ordered to be burned, 738 ; debate on 

 the payment of State interest, 739; vote on 

 the secession ordinance, 739 ; paper-money, 

 740 ; military strength of Virginia, 740 ; con- 

 dition of affairs in the State, 741 ; list of bat- 

 tles and skirmishes, 741 ; counties of Accomac 

 and Northampton, 742 ; proclamation of Gen- 

 eral Dix, 742 ; prices of merchandise, 742 ; 

 passes ordinance of secession, 138; how re- 

 ceived in the Confederate States, 138. 



II. Population, 798; causes of secession, 

 798 ; election of Senators, 798 ; enrolment of 

 negroes, 798 ; message of the Governor on the 

 successes of Federal troops, 798; importance 

 of Richmond, 798 ; distillation of whiskey pro- 

 hibited, 798 ; licenses to traders, 798 ; procla- 

 mation of the Governor relative to the defence 

 of Richmond, 799 ; resolution relative to par- 

 tisan rangers, 799 ; loss of slave property, 799 ; 

 principle of emancipation, 799 ; extra session 

 of the Legislature, 800 ; resolution relative to 

 President Lincoln's emancipation proclama- 

 tion, 800 ; Governor refuses to allow con- 



