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INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



Congress, 440; message of President Juarez, 440; 

 honors to ex-Secretary Seward, 441 ; outbreak of dis" 

 eensions, 441 ; insurrections, 441 ; circular of the 

 Minister of Finance in reference to goods shipped to 

 Mexican ports, 442. 



Michigan Election of judges, 442 ; ratification of the fif- 

 teenth amendment, 442 ; proposed amendments to the 

 State constitution, 442 ; proceedings of the Legislature, 

 442; condition of the treasury, 442; condition of the 

 bonded indebtedness of the State, 443 ; payment of 

 bonds, 443 ; amount received from taxation, 443 ; pay- 

 ments made during the year for the several State in- 

 stitutions, 444; trust fund balances, 444; appoint- 

 ment of immigrant agents, 444; newspapers, 444; 

 State geological survey, 444; agricultural products, 

 444; production of salt, 444; pine-lumber, 444; the 

 iron-mines of the Lake Superior region, 445 ; copper- 

 mining, 445; fish culture, 445; school statistics, 446 ; 

 State University, 446 ; number of convicts in the State 

 Prison for a series of years, 446 ; receipts and expen- 

 ditures of the State Prison, 446 ; criminal statistics, 

 447 ; report of the commissioners on prison discipline, 

 447 ; State Keform School, 447. 



Minnesota. Meeting of the Legislature, 448; character of 

 the legislation, 448 ; act for the payment of the State 

 railroad bonds, 448 ; passage of a bill for the removal 

 of the seat of government, 448; veto of the Governor, 

 448; St. Paul, 448; population of the State, 449 ; culti- 

 vated lands, 449 ; agricultural products, 449 ; produc- 

 tion of timber, 449 ; mineral resources, 449 ; encour- 

 agement of immigration, 450 ; laws favorable to immi- 

 grants, 450 ; property exempt from execution for debt, 

 450; internal improvements, 450; lands donated by 

 the Federal Government for the construction of rail- 

 roads, 450 ; railroad progress, 451 ; finances, 451 ; pub- 

 lic schools, 451 ; school fund, 451 ; normal schools, 

 451 ; State University, 451 ; Hospital for the Insane, 

 451 ; Institution for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind, 451 ; 

 Soldiers' Orphans' Home, 452 ; State Reform School, 

 452 ; Republican Convention, 452 ; nominations, 452 ; 

 resolutions, 452 ; dissensions in the Republican party, 

 452 ; meeting of the Democratic Convention, 452 ; res- 

 olutions, 452; nominations, 453; organization of a 

 State Temperance party, 453; unsuccessful attempt 

 to form an alliance with the Republican or Democratic 

 party, 453 ; convention of the Temperance party, 453 ; 

 resolutions, 453 ; nominations, 453; the People's party, 

 454; election, 454; candidates chosen, 454; Legisla- 

 ture for 1870, 454. 



Mississippi Condition of the State at the beginning of 

 the year, 454 ; rejection of the constitution framed 

 under the Congressional acts of 1867, 454 ; Congress is 

 urged to declare the adoption of the constitution, 454 ; 

 the case before the Reconstruction Committee, 454 ; 

 proposed plan for completing the reconstruction of 

 the State, 454 ; views of the Democrats, 454 ; report 

 of the Reconstruction Committee to the House, 455 ; 

 change of military commanders, 455; resolution 

 passed by Congress providing for the removal from 

 office of those unable to take the test-oath, 455 ; mili- 

 tary order for the enforcement of the resolution, 455 ; 

 message of President Grant to Congress recommend- 

 ing that an election be held in Mississippi, 455 ; pas- 

 sage of a bill for this purpose, 455 ; provisions of the 

 bill, 455 ; the State under military rule, 455 ; order of 

 General Ames making colored persons competent to 

 serve on juries, 455 ; spirited political canvass, 456 ; 

 the parties, 456 ; formation of the Conservative Re- 

 publican Party, 456; views of ex-Governor Brown on 

 the state of affairs, 456 ; Judge Dent the leader of the 



new party, 456 ; circular calling a meeting of those in 

 sympathy with the new movement, 456 ; meeting of 

 the convention, 457; the resolutions, 457; address 

 issued to the people and a call for a State Nominat- 

 ing Convention, 457 ; Judge Dent consents to stand 

 as candidate for Governor, 457 ; President Grant does 

 not sympathize with the Conservatives, 457 ; his let- 

 ter to Judge Dent, 457; reply of Judge Dent, 457; 

 meeting of the Nominating Convention, 458; pro- 

 ceedings, 458 ; nominations, 458 ; meeting of the radi- 

 cal Republican Convention, 458 ; the platform, 458 ; 

 address to the people, 458; the nominations, 458; 

 course of the Democrats, 458 ; address to the people 

 urging cooperation with the Conservative Republi- 

 cans, 459 ; views of the Democrats, 459 ; action of the 

 Democratic Executive Committee, 459; convention 

 of a small minority of the Democratic party-resolu- 



tions, 459 ; character of the canvass, 459 ; proclama- 

 tion of President Grant fixing the day of election, and 

 specifying the sections of the constitution to be sub- 

 mitted to a separate vote, 459 ; military order con- 

 taining directions for the conduct of the election, 460 ; 

 power of the Board of Registrars, 460; detailed regu- 

 lations for conducting the election, 460 ; results of the 

 election, 461 ; military order of General Ames appoint- 



ing State officers, 461 ; General Alcorn declines the 

 position of provisional Governor, 462 ; meeting of the 

 Legislature, 462; ratification of the fourteenth and 

 fifteenth amendments, 462 ; election of United States 

 Senators, 462; adjournment of the Legislature, 462; 

 readmission of Mississippi into the Union, 462 ; case 

 of Edward M. Yerger, 462 ; decision of Chief-Justice 

 Chase, 463 ; material interests, 463. 



Missouri. Natural advantages, 463 ; population, 463 ; en- 

 couragement of immigration, 463 ; value of taxable 

 property, 463; financial condition, 463; railroad 

 bonds, 464; correspondence between the fund com- 

 missioners and the Attorney-General as to the pay- 

 ment of the interest on railroad bonds, 464 ; advance 

 in the value of State bonds, 464 ; railroad improve- 

 ments, 464; public instruction, 465; public and pri- 

 vate schools, 465 ; school fund, 465 ; school lands, 465 ; 

 charitable institutions, 466 ; law for the suppression 

 of prize-fighting, 466 ; restoration of the original seal 

 of the State, 466 ; correspondence concerning the 

 same between ex-Lieutenant-Governor Reynolds and 

 Governor McClurg, 466; ratification of the fifteenth 

 amendment, 466 ; question as to the validity of the 

 game, 466 ; recommendation of the Governor for an 

 extension of the elective franchise to negroes, 467 ; 

 also a removal of political disabilities from all citi- 

 zens, 467 ; legislation in reference to the liability 

 of stockholders in private corporations, 467 ; the 

 question of a constitutional convention, 467 ; the 

 administration of the registration laws denounced, 

 467. 



Moravians. Meeting of the General Synod, 468 ; compo- 

 sition thereof, 468; subjects considered, 468; chief 

 points of Moravian doctrine as revised by the Synod, 

 468; church statistics, 468; mission stations',' 469; 

 theological seminaries and schools, 469 ; condition of 

 the church funds in the British provinces, 469 ; Brit- 

 ish societies, 469. 



MORTON, OLIVER P. Senator from Indiana, 120 ; on the 

 fifteenth amendment, 138, 150 ; offers an amendment 

 to the fifteenth amendment, 167, 168 ; offers an 

 amendment to the appropriation bill, 180; on the 

 public debt, 189 ; on reconstruction, 199. 



MOUSTIEK, LEONEL, Marquis DE. Birth, 469 ; death, 469 ; 

 career, 469. 



