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s, Perm vow. Birth, 958; artltic career, 259 ; 

 death, 258. 

 Cotton. Decrease In production, 850; total pro<! 



the year, 859 ; exports to foreign porta, MO ; consnmp- 

 tion in I'niti (1 states, 900; prices, MO; production lit 

 itrles, 360; consumption of, in Knropo, 960; 

 on tax, 960; report of committee appointed at 

 \* Exposition on the fiiluro supply of cotton, 901. 

 >n. Birth, 361 ; literary career, 261 ; works, 

 Ml ; death, Ml. 



COWAV Ivan la. 131 ; moved 



an anu'iidiurnt to suffrage bill of District of Columbia, 



136; on the reading qualification for voter*, 1 ; >, 



Ml ; on suffrage In Nebraska, 101; on removals from 



office, 190, 196. 



CCMMIWOS, D. H. Trial for refusing take the test oath in 

 Missouri, 598. 



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DAVIS, ADMIRAL CHARLES H. In command of South At- 

 lantic squadron, 528. 



DATIB, GABRETT. Senator from Kentucky, 131 ; on fe- 

 male suffrage, 188. 



DATIB, JEFFERSON. Petition of, for writ of habeas corpus, 

 507. See Military Commission*. 



DAT, JEREMIAH. Birth, 262 ; educational career, 263, 263 ; 

 death, 202. 



DE Bow, JAMES DTOWOODY BROWNSON. Birth, 263 ; ed- 

 itorial labors, 263 ; death, 263. 



DELANO, COLUMBUS. Representative from Ohio, 131 ; on 

 suffrage in' Nebraska, 167. 



Delaware. Development, 264; acts of the Legislature, 

 264 ; public whipping, 264 ; education, 264 ; agriculture, 

 264 ; suffrage, 264 ; Equal Rights Convention, 264 ; reso- 

 lutions, 264 ; decision in the Court of Sessions In refer- 

 ence to the Civil Rights Bill, 265 ; political standing of 

 the Legislature, 265. 



DELVIO, HERB VON. Connection with railroads in Rus- 

 sia, 687. 



Denmark. Reigning sovereign, 265; heir-apparent, 263; 

 area, 265 ; population, 265 ; budget, 265 ; public debt, 

 265; army, 265; navy, 265; commerce, 265; present 

 Constitution, 265; Rlgsdag, 965; religion, 265; free- 

 dom, 265 ; titular, privileges, 285 ; treaty with United 

 States for sale of West India possessions, 965; efforts 

 to obtain retrocession of Schleswig from Prussia, 

 266. 



DEWET, CHESTER. Birth, 266; education, 266; acquire- 

 ments and labors, 966 ; character, 266 ; death, 206. 



Diplomatic Correfpondenct. Alabama claims, 267 ; Secre- 

 tary 8e ward's letter to Mr. Adams, 267; Lord Stan- 

 ley's Instructions to Sir Frederick Bruce on the ques- 

 tion of arbitration, 270; Secretary Seward's reply, 

 271 ; views of the British Government on Mr. Howard's 

 dispatch, 271 ; failure of the proposal to arbitrate, 

 272; Mr. Seward's dispatch to Mr. Adams, 272; Mr. 

 Adams's reply, 272; the Spanish-American war, 272; 

 propositions of Government at Washington to South 

 American states, 272; purchase of Danish West In- 

 dia Islands, 272; France and Mexico, 272; letter of 

 Minister Dix to Secretary Seward. 27-J. 



Disciples of Christ. Number of preachers and me'mbers, 

 273; denominational institutions, 273; periodicals, 

 273; foreign churches, 278 ; income and expenditures, 

 273. 



District of Columbia. BUI to regulate suffrage in, passed, 

 147. 



DIXON, JAMES. Senator from Connecticut, 131 ; moves a 

 VOL. vii. 60 



:ing and writing amendment to the inffrage bill in 

 the District of Columbia, 189. 



DODGE, WILLIAM E. Representative -from Hew York, 

 131 ; on reconstruction, 919. 



Dominion of Canada. Organization, 278 ; local govern- 

 ments, 274 ; important political change* and remit*, 

 274; meeting of Colonial Conference In London, 774; 

 delegates, 974 ; proceedings, 974, 975; royal proclama- 

 tion, 975; inauguration of tin; union, 275; political find* 

 aud animosities, 275 ; formation of provincial govern- 

 ments, 276 ; result of th :7'i ; meeting of Par- 

 liament, 276; speech of the Governor-General, 976; 

 pro. Parliament, 977; resignation of Mr. 

 Gait, Minister of Finance, 277 ; failure of the Commer- 

 cial Bank, 977 ; Parliaments of Ontario and Quebec, 

 277 ; changes in local government, 278 ; area and pop- 

 ulation, 278 ; commerce and tonnage, 978 ; finances, 

 278. 



DOOLITTLE, JAMES R. Senator from Wisconsin, 131 ; on 

 female suffrage in the District of Columbia, 189 ; on re- 

 construction, 925, 230 ; on suffrage in Nebraska, 153. 



EAMES, CHARLES. Birth, 279 ; public career, 279 ; death, 

 979. 



Eastern Churches. Armenians, 279 ; Nestorians, 889 : 

 Jacobites, 280 ; Copts, 880; Abyssinians, 281. 



Ecuador. President, 281 ; area and population, 281 ; ex- 

 ports, 281 ; movements of shipping, 281 ; dissatisfac- 

 tion with the administration, 281 ; resignation of the 

 cabinet, 231 ; do. of the President, 281 ; reconstruction 

 of the cabinet, 281 ; acts of Congress, 282. 



EDMUNDS, GEORGE F. Senator from Vermont, 181 ; on 

 suffrage in Nebraska, 161 ; moves an amendment to 

 the Nebraska Bill, 106, 169 ; moves an amendment to 

 the Colorado Bill, 170 ; on removals from office, 187, 

 189, 193, 197. 



Education and Educational Progress. Rapid advance in 

 education, 282 ; progress of female education, 282 ; en- 

 dowments to literary institutions, 982; polytechnic 

 schools, 282 ; agricultural colleges, 283 ; professional 

 education, 283 ; higher education of women, 283 ; prog- 

 ress of public school education, 285 ; establishment 

 of the Department of Education by Congress, 284 ; pub- 

 lic schools in the Southern States, 234 ; education of 

 ' poor whites and freedmen, 284 ; perversion of school 

 funds, 284 ; efforts of the Freedmen's Bureau, 284 ; 

 Mr. Peabody's donation, 284 ; trustees of the donation, 

 284; organization of the board, 2%; regulations for 

 the disbursement of the fund, 285 ; educational funds 

 of the Western States, 285. 



Egypt. Government, 286; area and population, 2SC: 

 finances. 286 ; army, 286 ; tonnage, 286 ; commerce, 886 ; 

 Intercourse of the Pacha with civilized nations, 286; 

 slave-trade, 286; recall of troops from Crete, 287; in- 

 tervention in behalf of English captives in Abyssinia, 

 887; troops sent to Abyssinia, 287 ; Suez Canal, 887. 



Electricity. Conversion of dynamic Into electrical force, 

 287; self-augmentation of the power of a magnet, 

 288; another form of the dynamo-magnetic machine, 

 288; the electrical condition of the earth, 889; polar- 

 ization of the electrodes, 290 ; improvements of bat- 

 teries, 290; new electrical apparatus, 291 ; a new Tol- 

 talc pile, 291; self-registering electric thermometer, 

 291; electric clocks, 999; cost of the electric light, 

 : electric light regulator, 893 ; electric light for 

 buoys, 293 ; engraving by electricity, 993 ; separating 

 silver from lead by electricity, 894 ; other useful ap- 



