INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



Abystinia. Area, 1 ; population, 1 ; how ruled, 1 ; treaty 

 with Great Britain, 1 ; correspondence of the emperor, 

 1 ; his wrath, 2 ; incarceration of British consul and 

 others, 2 ; efforts of the British to effect a release, 2 ; let- 

 ter from one of the prisoners, 2 ; history of the emperor 

 Theodore, 8 ; his faith, 8 ; concessions to foreigners, 8 ; 

 his wars, 4 ; great battle at Axoum, 4 ; details, 4. 



Africa. Change in the Government of Egypt, 4; the order 

 of succession, 4 ; Suez Canal, 4 ; Abyssinia, 4 ; Madagas- 

 car, 4; treaty with Great Britain, 4 ; provisions relative 

 to religious worship, 4 ; other provisions, 4 ; officers of 

 state, 4 ; close of the war between the Basutos and the 

 Orange Free State, 5 ; English Cape Colony, 5 ; the Gov- 

 ernment occupies the unclaimed guano islands, 5 ; expe- 

 dition against the Moraboos, 5 ; area of Africa, 5 ; conn- 

 tries and population of Eastern Africa, 5 ; do. South Af- 

 rica, 6 , population of Islands in the Indian Ocean, ; do. 

 in the Atlantic Ocean, 6 ; countries and population on 

 the northern coast, 6 : Mohammedan kingdom of Cen- 

 tral Soudan, 6; of Western Soudan, 6; equatorial terri- 

 tory, 6. 



African Methodist Church, See Jfethodists. 



Agriculture. Crops unfavorable, 6 ; rains, floods, 6 ; esti- 

 mate of the wheat crop, 6 ; crop of the eleven Southern 

 States, 6 ; wheat on the Pacific coast, C ; total crop of the 

 country, 6; rye crop, 6; estimate, 6; barley crop, 6 ; es- 

 timate, 6; oat crop, 6; increase, 6; estimate, 6; hay 

 crop, 7 ; estimate, 7 ; corn crop, 7 ; decrease, 7 ; estimate, 

 7 ; cotton crop, 7 ; estimate, 7 ; rains, worm, floods, 7 ; 

 potato crop, 7; average, 7; estimate, 7; tobacco crop, 

 T; estimate, 7; buckwheat,?; estimate,?; sorghum, 7; 

 average crop, 7 ; live-stock, 7 ; number in the different 

 States for the yean 1860 to 1866, 8 ; compared with the 

 principal countries of Europe, 9. 



Alabama. Beassembling of the Legislature, 9; address of 

 the Governor, 9 ; acts of the Legislature, 9 ; inquiries 

 into the dispositions of the people in the various coun- 

 ties, 9 ; bonds, 9 ; artificial limbs for soldiers, 9 ; report 

 of the committee on Federal relations, 9; resolutions, 

 10; action of the Legislature, 10 ; stay laws, 10; general 

 State amnesty granted, 10 ; finances of the State, 10 ; 

 effects of the stay law, 11 ; banks, 11 ; tax on cotton, 11 ; 

 insane hospital, 11 ; penitentiary, 11 ; university, 11 ; 

 schools, 11 ; land grants to railroads, 11 ; negro sum-aga- 

 in the Legislature, 11 ; revised code, 11 ; views of the 

 Governor on the Federal Constitutional Amendment, 

 11,12; action of the Legislature, 13; destitution, 12; 

 aids to the suffering, 12 ; census of 1866, 12 ; table of 

 population, 18 ; legislation relative to freedmen, 18 ; legal 



effect of secession in Alabama, 14; dcclucn of Jadge 

 Henry, 14. 



ALLEX, HEXBY WATKIS8. Birth, 14; career, 14,15; death, 

 15. 



Amalgamation. Progress made in the art, 15 ; amalgama- 

 tion of gold from quartz, 15 ; improvements in details, 

 15; loss of gold, 15; discovery of Professor Wurtz, 15; 

 statement of Professor Silliman, 15, 16 ; principles of the 

 discovery, 16; practical results of using sodium, 16; 

 state of the gold ores In pyrites, 16; their amalgamation, 

 16 ; effects of the great improvements in desulphurizing 

 pyrites, 17 ; amalgamation of silver ores, 17 ; necessity 

 of roasting the ore, 17 ; the chemicals used In the milk 

 in Nevada, 18 ; the process of amalgamation, 18 ; Hep- 

 burn pan, 18 ; description, 18 ; processes in Hungary, 18. 



America. Reconstruction in the United States, 19 ; confed- 

 eration scheme in British America, 19 ; war in Mexico, 

 19 ; war of Chill and Pern against Spain, 19 ; between 

 Paraguay and Brazil, 19 ; population, 19. 



Anglican Churches. Statistics of the Protestant Episcopal 

 Church, 19, 20 ; movement for a reunion of Southern dio- 

 ceses, 20 ; annual meeting of the Board of Missions, 20 ; 

 agitation in the Church of England, 21 ; Colenso case, 

 21 ; convocation of Canterbury, 21 ; questions consid- 

 ered, 21, 22 ; ritualism, 22 ; proceedings, 22 ; opposition of 

 the Archbishop of Canterbury, 28 ; memorial of friends 

 of ritualism, 23; monastery of the "English Order of 

 St. Benedict," 28 ; efforts for closer union, 28 ; corre- 

 spondence with Cardinal Patrlzi, 28 ; Eastern Church As- 

 sociation, 24 ; arrival of an Eastern bishop in England, 

 24; Increase of the number of bishops, 24; English 

 Church Society, 24 ; united Church of England and Ire- 

 land, 34 



AnhalL Area, 25 ; population, 25; capital, 25. 



AXTHOKT, HEXBT R, Senator from Bhode Island, 124; on 

 the appointment of a reconstruction commute*, 183, 

 184 ; offers a resolution, 140. 



Argentine Ktpublic. Government, 25; area, 25; popula- 

 tion, 25 ; war with Paraguay, 25 ; progress of the repub- 

 lic, 25; convention to reform the constitution, 25; wool- 

 clip, 26; finances, 26; Immigration, 26; consequence*, 

 26. 



Arkansas. Election, 26 ; votes, 26 ; who were voters, 26 ; 

 meeting of the Legislature, 36 ; its acts, 36 ; approval of 

 President Johnson, 26; sympathy for Jefferson Davis, 

 37; action relative to the amendment of the Federal 

 Constitution, 27 ; views of the amendment, 2T ; public 

 sentiment, 37 ; views of the Legislature on the action of 

 the State in her legislative aovlty daring the war, 88 



