INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



lamatlon of Governor Walls, 453 ; action of the other State 

 officers, 458 ; meeting of the Radicals, 408 ; resolutions, 

 453 ; speech of Dr. DoHtle,454 ; proclamation of the major 

 of New Orleans, 454; meeting of the convention, 451 ; lot- 

 f General Balrd, 459; riot In New Orleans, 455; let- 

 tor* of General Sheridan, 456 ; letter of President John- 

 ton, 458; reply of Sheridan, 456; answer of the Secre- 

 tary of War, 457 ; report of the State officers and Mayor, 

 457 ; petition of Radical* to Congress, 438 ; Investigation 

 by Congress, 458 ; majority report, 458; minority report 

 453; public schools, 459; crops, 450; floods, 459. 



lubeek. Government, 459 ; area, 459 ; population, 459 , 

 commerce, 459. 



Lutherans. Numbers, 459; synods, 460; convention, 460; 

 resolutions, 460 ; report on the state of the country, 461 ; 

 other synods, 461 ; proceedings, 461 ; fundamental prin- 

 ciples of doctrines and church polity, 462 ; church in 

 Russia, 463. 



MAOMABTEH, E. D. Birth, 463; pursuits, 463; death, 463 



Magnesium. How used, 464; In solutions, 464; alloys, 464; 

 uses, 465. 



MAHONT, FBANCIS. Birth, 465; pursuits, 465; death, 465. 



Maine. Meeting of the Legislature, 465; views of the Gov- 

 ernor, 465 ; finances, 466 ; debt, 466 ; schools, 466 ; mili- 

 tary organizations, 466 ; penitentiary, 466; lumber, 466; 

 railroads, 466; burning of Portland, 467; Republican 

 Convention, 467 ; proceedings, 467 ; Democratic Conven- 

 tion, 467 ; elections, 463. 



MATES, JA.MES J. Birth, 463 ; pursuits, 463 ; death, 463. 



Maryland. Change of labor system, 463 ; Legislature, 463 ; 

 proceedings, 469; Sunday law, 469; Southern Fair at 

 Baltimore, 469 ; receipts and distribution, 469 ; the 

 Peabody donation, 469 ; finances of the State, 469 ; con- 

 tributions to the war, 470 ; extra session of the Legisla- 

 ture, 470; railroad and bank stock, 470; Democratic 

 Convention, 470; resolutions, 470 ; Unconditional Union 

 Convention, 471; resolutions, 471; election, 471; diffi- 

 culties with the police commissioners, 471, 472 ; conflict 

 of Federal and State laws, 472 ; sale of a freodman, 472 ; 

 trial of a white, 472; public education, 473; Chesapeake 

 and Ohio Canal, and Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 473. 



Mastachusetls. Organization of the Legislature, 473; views 

 of the Governor, 478; proceedings of the Legislature, 

 473; State debt, 473; expenditures, 473; revenue, 473; 

 educational returns, 474; charitable Institutions, 475; 

 industrial products, 475; savings banks, 475; cod-fish- 

 cry, 475; militia, 475; constabulary, proceedings of, 476; 

 liquor law, 476 ; registration report, 476 ; mortality, 476 ; 

 population, 476; diminishing population, 477; Hoosao 

 tunnel, 477; Republican Convention, 478; proceedings, 

 478; National Union Convention, 478; Democratic Con- 

 vention, 476; election, 479. 



MAT, HBKRT. Birth, 479 ; pursuits. 479 ; death, 479. 



MoCLART, JOSEPH W. Representative from Missouri, 1JI; 

 offers a resolution, 182 ; offers resolution relative to the 

 expenses of the war, 289. 



McDouoALL, JAUES A. Senator from California, 124; on 

 exclusion of Southern members, ISO. 



MOEU.IOOTT, JAJIM. Birth, 479 ; pursuits, 478 ; death, 479. 



MCK.KE, SAMUEL. Representative from Kentucky, 124 ; on 

 the blU to relieve officers, 21T. 



Mecklenburg. Government, 479; area, 479; population, 

 479 ; army, 479 ; commerce, 479. 



Mtgass, Preparation </ Fuel from. Its nature, 479 ; dry- 

 inz machine, 479. 



Jhniu't, Church qf the. Founder of the sect, 480; his pro- 



; points of faith, 480 ; situation new Jaffa, 



MetaU. Some points in tbe working of, 490; manufacture 

 of cast steel at Kssen, 480; Bessemer process, 481 ; con- 

 version of cast iron Into steel, 481 ; new theory of iron 

 and sUcl, 481; strengthening of Iron, 482; Iron foil, 

 432 ; preservation of copper and Iron In fresh sad sea 

 water, 482; separating cobalt from nickel, 482; on of 

 manganese, 488 ; alloys of manganese, 488 ; reduction of 

 chromium and manganese, 488; estimation of silver 

 oxide as metallic silver. 438; Improved process of sep- 

 arating lead from silver, 433; action of acids upon 

 metals, 438; action of platinum, etc., on chlorine water, 

 484 ; sodium amalgamation process, 4S4. 

 Meteoric Iron. Analysis of, from Colorado, 484. 

 Meteors and Meteorites. Unusually brilliant display, 484 ; 

 November period, 1365,484; August period, 1366,485; 

 spectra of August meteors, 485; November period, I860, 

 435 ; observations, 486, 487 ; miscellaneous, 487 ; mete- 

 orites, 488. 



Methodists. Episcopal, 488 ; members, 488 ; progress of the 

 church, 439 ; foreign missions, 489 ; colleges, 489 ; Epis- 

 copal South, 490; losses, 490; chapter of discipline, 

 490 ; report on correspondence. 490 ; do. Protestant 

 American, 491 ; convention, 491 ; proceedings, 491 ; 

 American Wesleyans, 491 ; the question of union, 491 ; 

 Primitive Methodists, 491; Free Methodists, 492; Evan- 

 gelical Association, 492 ; African Methodists, Episcopal, 

 492 ; African Methodists, Episcopal, Zion, 492 ; in Great 

 Britain and her colonies, 492. 



Metric System, The. Explanation, 493 ; basis, 493 ; unit of 

 length, 493 ; do. of measure of surface, 493 ; do. of solid 

 measure, 494; do. of liquid measure, 494; do. of weight, 

 494 ; act of Congress to authorize the system, 494; meas- 

 ures of length, 494 ; do. of surface, 494 ; do. of weight, 

 494; other resolutions and acts of Congress, 495; illus- 

 trations of the system, 496. 



Mexico. Condition of affairs at the opening of tbe year 

 498; military situation at the commencement of 1886, 

 497; Imperialists in Northern Blexlco, 497; military 

 operations there, 497; do. in Chihuahua, 49S; war in the 

 south, 498; Matamoras, 498 ; Pacific coast, 498; decline 

 of Imperialists In the north, 499 ; civil affairs at tbe com- 

 mencement of tbe year, 499; decision for removal of 

 the French, 500: change of ministry, 500; perplexing 

 questions, 501 ; speech of Maximilian, 501 ; leaves for 

 Vera Cruz, 501 ; offers of the church party, 502 ; procla- 

 mation of Maximilian, 502 ; diplomatic correspondence, 

 502; special commission from the United States, 503; 

 letter of General Sheridan, 503; arrest of Ortega, 508; 

 dispatch of Sheridan to the War Department, 503 ; mili- 

 tary situation, 504; Sheridan at Brownsville, 504 ; Sedg- 

 wlck's occupation of Matamoras, 505 ; success of Repub- 

 licans, 505; reorganization of Imperial army, 506; ad- 

 vance of the country in prosperity, 608 ; mission of Mr. 

 Campbell, 506. 



Michigan. Finances of tbe State, 507; taxes, 507; meeting 

 of tbe Republican Convention, 507 ; do. of the Demo- 

 cratic, 508; election, 508; who are negroes, etc., 608; 

 penitentiary, 608; State Reform School, 509; publio 

 schools, 509 ; colleges, 509 ; Insane Asylum, 509 ; wheat 

 crop, 609; wool do., 510; fruit da, 510; lumber trad?, 

 510; plaster, 510; salt, MO; copper, 510; Iron, 610 ; rail- 

 roads, 510; ship canal, 610 ; banging by a mob, 510 ; fish 

 In the lakes, 511. 



MIGUEL, Don MAMA E. Birth, 511 ; career, 511 ; death, 511. 



Military Committion*. Case of James Egan, 511 ; case of 



Indiana conspirators, 512; decision of the justices, 518; 



opinion of tbe Chief Justice, 518; report of the Seers* 



tary of War, 513; do. of tbe Attorney -General, 513; lot- 



