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INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



year ending June 30, 1867, 293; action of Congress rela- 

 tive to the internal revenue, 298. 



Operation of the tariff system. 299; imports, exports, 

 and duties for a series of years, 299 ; reasons for a change 

 in existing rates, 299; consequences of abnormal and 

 unusual occurrences existing in other departments of 

 social affairs, 299 ; influence of a paper currency, 299 ; 

 advance in the prices of leading articles of consumption 

 and rents, 299; advance in the cost of manufacturing, 

 299 ; details of advance in various branches, 299 ; wages, 

 800 ; effect of the increase of prices to cause a decrease 

 of production and consumption, 800; tabular illustra- 

 tions, 800 ; effect on competition in the home and foreign 

 markets, 800; possession of home markets interfered 

 with, 800 ; foreign restricted to a few articles, 800 ; de- 

 crease of exportation in a series of years, 301 ; decline of 

 the shipping interest. 301 ; dividends of some manufac- 

 turing companies, 302; clamors for an advance in the 

 rates of duty, 3C2; three remedies suggested for the ab- 

 normal condition of the country, 802. 



Measures suggested by the Secretary of the Treasury 

 on the condition of the country, 803; suggestions of tho 

 chairman of Ways and Means in the lower House of 

 Congress, 804 ; aspect of affairs, 804 ; public debt in June 

 and October, 18G6 ; estimates for the fiscal year ending 

 June 30, 1867, 805; range of prices of Government secu- 

 rities in 1866,805; range of prices of some important 

 railroad shares, 806; coinage of the United States mint 

 and branches, 806 ; gold and silver of domestic produc- 

 tion, 306; deposits at the mint, 806; daily highest and 

 lowest price of gold at New York in 1866, 307 ; treasure 

 received at New York from California and foreign ports, 

 808. 



FISCK, WILLIAM E. Representative from Ohio, 124; on the 

 constitutional amendment, 186. 



Pine Arts. History in the United States, 308; steady prog- 

 ress, 308 ; auction sales in New York of works of art, 

 SOS ; first public exhibition in 1866, 309 ; Academy of 

 Design, 310 ; applications for admission, 310; exhibition 

 of etchings, 310 ; exhibition of the Artists' Fund Society, 

 810 ; gallery of art of the Historical Society, 810 ; exhibi- 

 tions of single works and groups of works, 311 ; repre- 

 sentation at the Exposition in Paris in 1867, 311 ; Brady's 

 photographic collection of war views, 312 ; less activity 

 in other cities, 812; Boston, 812; New Haven, 813; 

 Philadelphia, 318 ; Cincinnati and other cities, 313 ; plas- 

 tic art, 313; embellishment of the New York Central 

 Park, 814; exhibition of statuary. 814; monument to 

 President Lincoln, 815 ; other monuments, 315 ; monu- 

 ments to Lincoln and Douglas, 816; art in Great 

 Britain, 317 ; prices, 817; exhibitions, 318 ; Eoyal Acad- 

 emy, 818 ; other exhibitions, 318 ; National Gallery, 819; 

 mural paintings in the Houses of Parliament, 819 ; plas- 

 tic art, 820 ; art in France, 821 ; art in Germany, 822 ; 

 Italy, 828. 



FITZPATRICK, JOHN BEEXAKD. Birth, 828; pursuits, 323; 

 death, 823. 



Florida. Transfer of the civil authority to the Governor 

 elect, 823; judges of Supreme Court, 323; school fund, 

 823 ; direct tax levied by Congress, 824; memorial of the 

 Legislature to Congress, 824; acts of the Legislature rela- 

 tive to colored persons, 824; resolution relative to the 

 pardon of Jefferson Davis, 824; act forbidding persons 

 of color to carry fire-arms, 825; question of constitu- 

 tionality, 325; remarks of tho Governor on the amend- 

 ment to the Federal Constitution, 825 ; report of a com- 

 mittee of the Legislature, 826; State debts, 826; mili- 

 tary trial closed by the restoration of civil authority, 

 826; announcement by the Governor, 826; the labor 

 system, 827 ; immigration, 827. 



FOOT, SOLOMOX. Birth, 327; career, 327; death, S27. 



FOSTER, LAFAYETTE S. Senator from Connecticut, 124 

 President pro tern, of the Senate., 124. 



France. Government, 828 ; area, 328 ; population, 823 ; In- 

 crease, 328; budget, 323; receipts from indirect taxa- 

 tion, 828; army, 328; navy, 829; commerce, 329; speech 

 of the emperor to the Legislature, 829 ; address in reply, 

 830; the German question, 830 ; speech of the emperor 

 at Auxerre, 330; letter of the emperor on the attitude 

 of France during the German-Italian war, 831 ; Franco 

 asks the cession of a part of the Rhine provinces, 831 ; 

 the emperor accepts the transfer of Venetia, 832 ; circular 

 to the diplomatic agents of France regarded as an aban- 

 donment of a war policy, 832; abolition of tonnage dues, 

 834 ; treaty with Spain, 834 ; Algeria, 834 ; plan for the 

 military organization of the empire, 334; correspondence 

 relative to the gold medal presented to Mrs. Lincoln, 

 835 ; foreign policy of Franco in Mexico, 335. 



Frankfort. Area, 836; taken possession of by Prussia, 386. 



Freedmen. Amendment to the act establishing the bureau, 

 836; General Howard commissioner, 836; wages, how 

 determined, 836 ; a division of claims, 836; transportation 

 336; rations issued, 336; recommendation to stop the 

 issue, 836 ; expenses of managing the freedmen, 837; ad- 

 ditional funds necessary, 837; reports of Gens. Fuller- 

 ton and Steedman, 337; injustice to freedmen by officers 

 of the bureau, 837 ; schools, 837 ; present condition, 888. 



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GABFIELD, JAMES A. Representative from Ohio, 124; offers 

 a resolution relative to slavery in Mexico, 133. 



Geographical Explorations and Discoveries in 1866; prog- 

 ress of geographical science, 838; facts appertaining to 

 general geography, 838; distribution of vegetation of the 

 earth, 888; temperature and gravity of the principal 

 oceans and seas, 339 ; Arctic America, 339 ; United States, 

 840 ; Mexico, 341 ; Central America, 842 ; South Amer- 

 ica, 343 ; Peru and Bolivia, 843 ; Brazil, 843 ; river Purus, 

 344; EloSan Francisco, 845 ; Buenos Ayres, 345; Chilt, 

 845; Atlantic Ocean and its islands, 346; Great Britain, 

 847; France, 847; Austrian Alps, 848; Persia, 848; 

 Siberia, 349 ; Japan, 349; Siam, 349; Africa, 349. 



Georgia. Finances, 350; debt, 350; assets of the State, 850 ; 

 valuation, 850; decrease since 1860, 860; four-fifths of 

 the wealth destroyed, 850; university of tho State, 350; 

 appropriations of corn for the poor, 350; decrease of 

 laborers, 350 ; mortality of t'oo negroes, 351 ; maimed 

 persons, 851 ; Governor's views of the frcodmen, 851 ; acts 

 passed by the Legislature relative to, 351 ; proclamation 

 of the Governor on the restoration nf civil rights, 851 ; 

 stay law, 851 ; digest of the school laws, 852 ; remarks 

 of the Governor on the amendment of the Federal Con- 

 stitution, 852 ; reports in the Legislature, 852; is Georgia 

 a State of the Union ? 852 ; action of the Legislature 

 on the report, 353; other acts of tho Legislature, 854; 

 resolutions relative to Jefferson Davis, 854 ; crops, 854 ; 

 charitable institutions, 354. 



German-Italian War. Difficulties between Austria and 

 Prussia, 854; arming of the parties, 355; negotiations, 

 856 ; declaration of war, 856 ; military strength of Prus- 

 sia, 856, 357 ; needle gun, 853 ; military force of Austria, 

 358; Italian army, 853; force of the minor German 

 States, 359 : beginning of the war, 859 ; occupation of 

 Saxony, Hesse-Cassel, and Hanover by Prussian troops, 

 859 ; opening of the Austrian-Italian war, 80 ; battle of 

 Custoza, 362; Garibaldi on the frontier of Southern 

 Tyrol, 860; Italian fleet, 362; war in Bohemia, 362; ad- 

 vance of the three Prussian armies, 364 ; battle of Sa- 

 dovra, 864 ; losses, 305 ; war in Northeastern Germany 



