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tion of the currency, 260 ; statements showing a dis- 

 organization in the labor of the country, 260 ; receipts 

 of internal revenue for 1868 and 1869, 261 ; expenses 

 of collecting the revenue, 262; statistics of the reve- 

 nue department, 262; monthly range of Government 

 securities, 263; prices of articles of produce for a 

 series of years, 264 ; daily price of gold, 265 ; prices 

 of stocks, 266. 



FITZPATRICK, BENJAMIN. Birth ,267; death, 267; career, 

 267. 



FLETCHER, RICHARD. Birth, 267 ; death, 267 ; legal attain- 

 ments, 267. 



Florida. Meeting of the Legislature, 268 ; conclusion of 

 the impeachment proceedings against Governor Reed, 

 268 ; efforts to unseat Senator Gilbert, 268 ; organiza- 

 tion of a common-school system, 268 ; adjournment 

 of the Legislature, 268 ; annexation of West Florida 

 to Alabama, 268 ; reasons given by the Alabama Com- 

 missioners for annexation, 268; Florida commis- 

 sioners, 269 ; popular vote on annexation, 269 ; extra 

 session of the Legislature, 269 ; revision of the reve- 

 nue and tax laws, 269 ; legislation in behalf of rail- 

 roads, 270 ; ratification of the fifteenth amendment, 

 270 ; Republican Convention, 270 ; report on the condi- 

 tion of Florida, 270 ; resolutions, 270 ; disorders, 270 ; 

 reorganization of the Republican party, 271 ; address 

 of the Republican State Executive Committee, 271 ; 

 financial condition of the State, 271 ; penitentiary, 

 272; removal of political disabilities recommended, 

 272. 



FOLSOM, GEORGE. Birth, 272 ; death, 272 ; pursuits, 272 ; 

 publications, 272. 



FOWLER, J. S. Senator from Tennessee, 120 ; offers an 

 amendment to the fifteenth amendment, 166. 



France. Government, 272 ; area, 272; new ministry, 272 ; 

 army officers, 272 ; divisions of the army, 273 ; Ameri- 

 can minister, 273 ; minister to the United States, 273 ; 

 population, 273 ; religious statistics, 273 ; foreigners, 

 273 ; population of the colonial possessions, 273 ; bud- 

 get, 273; army, 273; navy, 274; special commerce, 

 274; shipping, 274; railroads, 274; postal statistics, 

 274 ; extent of telegraphic lines, 274 ; opening of the 

 new legislative session, 274 ; speech of the Emperor, 

 274 ; remarks of President Schneider on closing the 

 session of the Legislative Body, 275 ; abolition of the 

 service-books of working-men, 275 ; address of the 

 Emperor thereon, 275 ; text of the bill, 276 ; railway 

 communication with Belgium, 276 ; new election of 

 the Legislative Body, 276 ; excitement and disorders, 

 276; results of the election, 276 ; riotous demonstra- 

 tions in Paris and other cities, 277 ; efforts of the 

 troops to disperse the rioters, 277 ; the Emperor's 

 speech to the soldiers at the camp of Chalons, 278 ; 

 meeting of the Legislative Body for the verification of 

 powers of the new deputies, 278 ; address of the Min- 

 ister of State, 278 ; action of the Legislative Body con- 

 cerning proposed Government reforms, 278; imperial 

 message announcing the basis of the reforms, 278 ; 

 dismissal of Rouher and formation of a new ministry, 

 278 ; senatus consultum adopted by the Senate, 278 ; 

 its provisions, 278 ; manifesto of the opposition depu- 

 ties in reference to opening the regular session of the 

 Legislative Body, 279 ; imperial decree making certain 

 modifications in the relations between the Govern- 

 ment and the Senate and the Legislative Body, 279 ; 

 speech of the Emperor on opening the Legislative 

 Body, 280 ; position of political parties in the Legisla- 

 tive Body, 281 ; programme of the members of the right 

 centre, 281 ; views of the left centre, 281 ; the left, 281 ; 

 resignation of the ministry, 282 ; formation of a new 



ministry under Ollivier, 282 ; beginning of constitu- 

 tional government, 282; Yellow-book, 282; foreign 

 relations, 282. 



FRELiNGfHUYSEN, FREDERICK T. Senator from New Jer- 

 sey, 120 ; on fifteeth amendment, 150. 



Friends. Early settlement in America, 283 ; character of 

 their meetings, 283 ; America, 283 ; division in Ameri- 

 can Friends, 283 ; belief of the Orthodox Friends, 283 ; 

 doctrines of the Hicksite Quakers, 283 ; yearly meet- 

 ings, 284; schools, 284; society of Progressive 

 Friends, 284 ; yearly meeting in Canada, 284 ; Great 

 Britain and Ireland, 284 ; literary institutions in Great 

 Britain, 285; Norway, 285; Madagascar, 285; Aus- 

 tralia and Tasmania, 285. 



FTJAD, MEHMED. Birth, 285; death, 285; parentage, 285; 

 career, 285 ; literary, attainments, 286. 



GARDNER, Colonel CHARLES K. Birth, 283 ; death, 286 ; 

 career, 286. 



Geographical Explorations and Discoveries in 1869. Gen- 

 eral aspect, 286: martyrs to geographical science, 

 287 ; rumors of the death of Dr. Livingstone, 287 ; 

 explorations of C. F. Hall in the Arctic region, 287 ; 

 Arctic explorations of Dr. Hayes, 287 ; the routes to 

 the North Pole, 288; Swedish expeditions, 288; ex- 

 pedition under Dr. Petermann, 288 ; expeditions of 

 Rosenthal, 288 ; expedition of Lament, 289 ; the Pal- 

 liser expedition, 289; exploration of the Obi and 

 Yenisei Rivers, 289 ; expedition to Siberia, 289 ; the 

 fauna of Greenland, 289 ; British America, 290 ; ex- 

 ploration of the Queen Charlotte Islands, 290 ; United 

 States, 290 ; exploration of the Rio Colorado, 291 ; 

 Arizona and New Mexico, 292 ; valleys of the Mis- 

 souri and Mississippi, 292; table of the annual pre- 

 cipitation of rain at several stations in North 

 America, 292 ; table of temperature at several sta- 

 tions in North America, 293 ; Indian mounds in 

 the Mississippi Valley, 293 ; latitude and longitude of 

 principal cities in the United States, and difference in 

 time from Greenwich, 294; Mexico, 294; Central 

 America, 294 ; West Indies, 294 ; South America, 294 ; 

 Venezuela, 295 ; Brazil, 295 ; Patagonia, 295 ; Chili, 

 296; Paraguay, 296; Peru, 296; warm currents in the 

 northern Atlantic Ocean, 296 ; Europe, 297 ; measure- 

 ments of Mount ^Etna, 297 ; survey of Lake Ladoga, 

 297 ; European Turkey, 297 ; Asia, 297 ; Palestine, 297 ; 

 Turkey in Asia, 298 ; explorations of Prof. Pumpelly, 

 298 ; explorations of the French expedition up the 

 Me-Kong River, 298 ; Australasia, 299; Africa, 299. 



Georgia. Readmission into the Union, 300 ; colored 

 members expelled from the Legislature, 300; com- 

 munication of Governor Bullock to Congress in refer- 

 ence to the reconstruction of the State, 300 ; congres- 

 sional bill providing for the reassembling of the Con- 

 stitutional Convention, 300 ; conflicting reports of 

 the state of affairs in Georgia, 300 ; views of Gov- 

 ernor Bullock, 300 ; statement of Nelson Tif t, 300, 

 301 ; the State not represented in the Forty-first Con- 

 gress, 301 ; bill reported in the House of Representa- 

 tives by Mr. Butler for the reconstruction of Georgia, 

 301 ; debate on the bill, 302 ; meeting of the Legisla- 

 ture, 302 ; Governor Bullock's interpretation of the 

 reconstruction acts, 302 ; his plan for completing the 

 work of reconstruction, 302 ; proceedings of the' 

 Legislature, 303 ; encouragement of immigration, 

 303 ; act in relation to the statute of limitations, 303 ; 

 acts vetoed by the Executive, 303 ; action on the fif- 

 teenth amendment, 303 ; controversy between the 



