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INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



resolutions of Woman's Suffrage Convention, 218 ; 

 public schools, 218 ; pillory and whipping-post, 218 ; 

 railroad improvements, 218. 



Denmark. Government, 218 ; area, 218 ; population, 219 ; 

 finances, 219 ; army, 219 ; shipping, 219 ; important 

 meeting of Scandinavians near Copenhagen, 219. 



DERBY (Earl of), EDWARD GEOFFREY STANLEY. Birth, 

 219 ; death, 219 ; education, 219 ; enters Parliament, 

 219 ; favors the reform movement in 1832, 220 ; in- 

 troduces Emancipation Bill in House of Commons, 

 220 ; leader of the Conservative party, 220 ; succeeds 

 Lord Kussell as premier, 221 ; his ministries, 221 ; 

 character, 221 ; scholarship, 221. 



Diplomatic Correspondence and Foreign Relations. Ala- 

 bama claims, 221 ; position of the Government on the 

 Cuban question, 221 ; American citizens murdered by 

 Spanish authorities, 222. 



DIXON, JAMES. Senator from Connecticut, 120 ; on the 

 constitutional amendment, 121 ; on the fifteenth 

 amendment, 135 ; offers an amendment to the fifteenth 

 amendment, 167 ; on the bill to repeal the tenure-of- 

 office law, 179. 



Dominion of Canada. Extent of the Confederation, 222 ; 

 relations with the Hudson Bay Company, 222 ; efforts 

 for the admission of Prince Edward's Island, 223 ; 

 Nova Scotia, 223 ; schools in Canada, 223 ; finances, 

 223 ; Parliamentary measures, 224 ; Legislature of 

 Ontario, 224 ; of Quebec, 224 ; population of the Do- 

 minion, 224. 



DOOLITTLE, JAMES R. Senator from Wisconsin, 120 ; on 

 the fifteenth amendment, 151-153 ; on the bill to re- 

 peal the tenure-of-office law, 178. 



DRAKE, CHARLES D. Senator from Missouri, 120 ; on the 

 fifteenth amendment, 147, 152-154, 157-160, 162. 



DUFF-GORDON, Lady LUCY. Birth, 225 ; death, 225 ; par- 

 entage, 225 ; literary pursuits, 225. 



DULCE Y GARAY, DOMINGO. Birth, 225 ; career, 225 ; 

 Captain- General of Cuba, 226 ; leaves Cuba for Spain, 

 214 ; death, 225. 



DUNGLISON, ROBLEY. Birth, 226 ; death, 226 ; pursuits, 

 226; works, 226. 



DUTTON, HENRY. Birth, 227; pursuits, 227; death, 227. 



DYCE, Rev. ALEXANDER. Birth, 227 ; death, 227 ; literary 

 pursuits, 227 ; Shakspearian studies, 228. 



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Eastern Churches. Statistics, 228; the Greek Church, 

 229 ; the Armenians, 229 ; the Nestorians, 229 ; statis- 

 tics of the Chaldean bishops, 230 ; states of the Nes- 

 toriau bishops, 230 ; works on the Nestorians, 231 ; 

 the Copts, 231 ; the Abyssinians, 231 ; biography of 

 Abuna Salama, 231. 



Ecuador. Area, 233 ; population, 233 ; exports, 233 ; for- 

 eign debt, 233 ; condition of the Government, 233 ; 

 persons banished, 233 ; policy of the dictator, Moreno, 

 233 ; National Convention, 233. 



EDMUNDS, GEORGE F. Senator from Vermont, 120 ; on 

 fifteenth amendment, 154, 157-160, 163 ; on the bill to 

 repeal the tenure-of-office law, 176 ; on repudiation, 

 181, 182, 



Egypt. Government, 233 ; establishment of an Egyptian, 

 at Cairo, 234 ; finances, 234 ; commerce, 234 ; relations 

 with Turkey, 234; letter of the Sultan to the Viceroy 

 detailing the complaints of Turkey, 234 ; reply of the 

 Viceroy to the Sultan, 236 ; speech of the Viceroy at 

 the opening of Parliament, 236 ; Suez Canal, opening 

 festivities, 237 ; distances saved, 237 ; trade of the 

 caual influence on commerce, 233 ; official regula- 



tions for navigation, 238 ; the question of the neutral- 

 ization of the canal, 238. 



ELDRIDGE, CHARLES A. Representative from Wisconsin, 

 120 ; offers amendment to the Constitution, 121 ; on 

 enforcing the fourteenth amendment, 126-131 ; in 

 counting the vote of Georgia for President, 174. 



Electricity. Electro-magnetic induction machines, 239; 

 new forms of batteries, 239 ; new frictional machine, 

 239 ; new thermo-electric pile, 240 ; whale-catching by 

 electricity, 240 ; electro-magnetic engines on ship- 

 board, 240 ; electric alarms for variation of tempera- 

 ture, 240 ; electric beacons, 241 ; a phono-electro- 

 scope, 241 ; electro deposition of copper and brass, 

 241 ; the electric light for photographing with the 

 microscope, 241 ; vegetable electro-motors, 242 ; ac- 

 cumulated magnetic power, 243 ; magnetism and the 

 casting of iron, 243 ; electro-capillary actions, 243 ; 

 experiments with a great induction coil, 243 ; dura- 

 tion of an electric discharge, 244 ; electric conduc- 

 tivity of liquids, 245 ; an explanation of polar auroras 

 and some lightning phenomena, 246. 



ELLIOTT, CHARLES. Birth, 246; death, 246; pursuits, 

 246. 



ELLIS, Sir HENRY. Birth, 247; death, 247; pursuits, 247 ; 

 works, 247. 



Europe. Political excitement in Spain, 247; the elections 

 in France, 247; disestablishment of the Anglican 

 Church in Ireland, 247 ; condition of affairs in Aus- 

 tria, 247 ; progress of the consolidation of Germany, 

 248; policy of Russia, 248; government of Turkey, 

 248 ; population and extent of the countries of Europe, 

 248. 



EXETER (Bishop of), Right Rev. HENRY PHILLPOTTS. 

 Birth, 248; death, 248; early education, 248; career, 

 249 ; character, 249. 



FELT, Rev. JOSEPH BARLOW. Birth, 250 ; pursuits, 250 ; 

 works, 50 ; death, 250. 



FERRY, ORRIN S. Senator from Connecticut, 120; on 

 fifteenth amendment, 163. 



FESSENDEN, WILLIAM PITT. Birth, 250 ; death, 250 ; po- 

 litical career, 250; eenatorial career, 251; chosen 

 Secretary of the Treasury, 251 ; financial policy, 251 ; 

 reasons for voting against the impeachment of Presi- 

 dent Johnson, 251 ; character, 252. 



Finances of the United States. Receipts and expenditures 

 for the year ending June 30, 1869, 252 ; do. for the 

 quarter ending September 30, 1869, 253; estimated 

 receipts and expenditures for the fiscal year 1870, 253 ; 

 decrease of the public debt, 253 ; excess of receipts 

 over expenditures, 253 ; sinking fund, 253 ; condition 

 of the currency, 254 ; views of the Secretary of the 

 Treasury concerning the more immediate manage- 

 ment of the public debt, 254 ; excess of receipts over 

 expenditures since the close of the war, 255 ; reduc- 

 tion of the public debt since 1865, 255 ; immigration 

 for a series of years, 255 ; increase of railroads, 255 ; 

 Southern improvement, 256 ; annual product of the 

 . United States, 256 ; statistics of manufactures, 256 ; 



"' statement of the values created by the leading indus- 

 tries, 258 ; assessed value of real and personal prop- 

 erty in six States, 258; amount of American securi- 

 ties held in foreign countries, 258 ; railway bonds and 



T shares held abroad, 258 ; recapitulation of foreign in- 

 debtedness, 259 ; movement of specie and bullion, 259 ; 

 exhibit of imports, exports, and reexports, fora series 

 of years, 259 ; remarks of the commissioner on re- 

 mittance of bonds, 2GO; effects of an excessive infla- 



