INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



Abyssinia. Area, 1 ; population, 1 ; character of the 

 country, 1 ; towns, 1 ; difficulty between England 

 and King Theodore, 2 ; details, 2 ; correspondence, 

 3 ; map of the country, 3 ; reason given by the king, 

 4 ; pretexts, 4 ; landing of troops, 4 ; their march, 5 ; 

 movements of Theodore, 6 ; approach to Magdala, 5 ; 

 attack on the fort, 5 ; official reports of its capture, 

 and the death of Theodore, 5, 6 ; result, 7 ; further 

 proceedings, 7 ; effect of Theodore's death, 8; Abys- 

 sinian politics, 8. , 



ADAMS, CHABLES FRANCIS. Resigns as minister to Eng- 

 land, 329. 



ADLER, GEORGE J. Birth, 8 ; pursuits, 8 ; death, 8. 



Africa. Suez Canal, success of, 9; states of northern 

 Africa, 9 ; famine in Algiers, 9 ; do. in Morocco, 9 ; 

 Tunis, 9 ; Madagascar, 9 ; Cape Colony, 9 ; Transvaal 

 Republic, 10; area and population of the principal 

 divisions of Africa, 10 ; advance of Christianity, 10. 



Agriculture. Statistics of 1867, 10 ; crops of 1868, 11 ; 

 maize, 11 ; wheat, 11 ; rye, 11 ; oats, 11 ; barley, 11 ; 

 buckwheat, 11 ; potato, 11 ; tobacco, 11 ; hay, 11 ; 

 cotton, 11 ; wool, 11 ; sorghum, 12 ; hops, 12 ; flax, 

 12 ; peaches, 12 ; grapes, 12 ; quantities and aggre- 

 gate value of crops in 1867, 12 ; yield per acre, 12 ; 

 ramie-plant, 13 ; waste of sewage, 13 ; pests, 14 ; 

 means of destruction, 14. 



Alabama. General Meade assigned to the command, 

 15 ; 'Gen. Hayden also assigned to command, 15 ; 

 order forbidding military organizations, 15 ; first 

 acts of Gen. Meade, 15; his order explaining the 

 relations between the civil and military authorities, 

 15 ; opposition to the new constitution, 15 ; ad- 

 dress of the convention, 15 ; resolutions, 16 ; pe- 

 tition to the lower House of Congress, 16; order 

 relative to newspapers, 16 ; vote on the new con- 

 stitution, 16 ; choice of Governor, 16 ; bill, for admis- 

 sion of the State, before Congress, 16 ; reason, 16 ; 

 minority report, 16 ; meeting of the Legislature, 16 ; 

 address to the Senate, 16 ; object and necessity of the 

 session, 16; proceedings annulled by the subsequent 

 action of Congress, 17 ; difficulty between the mili- 

 tary and judiciary, 17 ; trials by military commission, 

 17 ; convention to choose delegates to the New York 

 Convention, 17 ; resolutions, 17 ; admission of the 

 State by Congress, 17; Governor ann^nes the Legis- 

 lature, 17 ; message, 17 ; order of Gen. Meade recog- 

 nizing the civil authority, 18 ; Fourteenth Amend- 

 ment to Federal Constitution ratified, 18 ; views of 

 the Governor, 18 ; order of Gen. Meade resigning the 

 direction of affairs, 18; protest of late State officers, 

 18 ; proceedings of the Legislature, 19 ; veto of the 

 Governor, 19 ; registration, 19 ; political canvass, 19 ; 

 finances, 19 ; cotton crop, 19 ; a bill to admit, 168. 



Alaska. Execution of the treaty, 20 ; boundaries and pop- 

 ulation, 20 ; influence of the ocean currents, 20 ; course 

 of the stream, 20 ; forest-trees, 20 ; shore-line, 20 ; 

 temperature and rainfall, 20 ; climate for a series of 

 years, 21 ; value of the territory, 21. 



ALLEN, WILLIAM. Birth, 21 ; pursuits, 21 ; literary ca- 

 reer, 22; death, 22. 



Alliance, Evangelical. Meeting in Amsterdam, 22 ; invi- 

 tation to meet in New York, 22 ; resolutions adopted, 

 22. 



America. Transfer of the Russian possessions, 23; war 

 of Brazil and Argentine Republic, 23 ; civil wars in 

 Spanish America, 23 ; Indian wars, 23 ; line of steam- 

 ers to Japan and China, 23; reconstruction in the 

 United States, 23 ; area and population of each of the 

 independent American States, 24. 



Amnesty. Proclamations of President Johnson, 753, 754. 



ANDERSSON, CHARLES JOHN. Birth, 24 ; pursuits, 24 ; 

 death, 24. 



Anglican Churches. Number of clergymen, parishes, 

 etc., in the United States, 24 ; summary, 25 ; its board 

 of missions, 25 ; "proceedings, 25 ; dioceses of the 

 Church of England, 26; triennial convention at New 

 York, 26 ; new dioceses, 26 ; bishops elected, 26 ; 

 canon relative to the formation of new dioceses, 26 ; in- 

 tercommunion with the Eastern Churches, 27 ; canon 

 on divorce, 27 ; commission to revise the psalms and 

 hymns, and report to the next convention, 27 ; dis- 

 establishment of the Church in Ireland, 27 ; proceed- 

 ings in England, 27 ; Christian Union question,"28 ; 

 new project, 28 ; union of Anglicans and Wesleyans, 

 28 ; proceedings, 28 ; the ritualistic controversy, 28 ; 

 proceedings of the Royal Commission in England, 

 29; details of their decision, 29 ; the case of MacCono- 

 chie, 29 ; decision of the judicial committee, 29 ; mo- 

 nastic institutions in England, 30 ; in New York, 30 ; 

 the Colenso case, 30; report of a committee, 31. 



AnMlt. Area, 30 ; population, 30 ; religions, 30 ; public 

 debt, 30. 



Argentine Republic. Area and population, 31 ; revenue 

 and expenditures, 31 ; army, 31 ; imports, 31 ; elec- 

 tion of a new president, 32 ; votes of electors, 32 ; 

 war with Paraguay, 32 ; message of the President, 32 ; 

 Congress, 32. 



Arkansas. Judicial proceedings, when to be suspended, 

 32 ; orders of Gen. Gillem relating thereto, 33 ; prepa- 

 rations for a new State constitution, 33 ; Conven- 

 tion, 33; speech of the negro delegate Cypert, 33, 

 34 ; free negroes not represented is the mistake of 

 the past age, 34 ; their votes, 34 ; intermarriages, 34 ; 

 the new constitution, 35 ; bill of rights, 35 ; franchise, 

 35 ; education, 35 ; mode of ratification, 35 ; provi- 

 sions for the election of members of the Legislature, 



