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INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



Portugal. Government, 571 ; area and population, 571 ; 

 finances, 571 ; army and navy, 571 ; exports and im- 

 ports, 571 ; railroads, 571 ; financial embarrassment, 

 572; the Cortes, 572 ; 'political discontent, 572 ; proc- 

 lamation in reference to~'the Coolie trade, 572. 



PRATT, DANIEL D. Elected United States Senator from 

 Indiana, 356. 



Presbyterians. Meeting of the Old School and New 

 School General Assemblies, 573; plan for the re- 

 union of the two bodies, 573 ; concurrent declara- 

 tions of the General Assemblies of 1869, 574; recom- 

 mendation of a day of prayer, 574 ; Board of Foreign 

 Missions, 574; New School General Assembly, 575; 

 communication from the General Synod of 1868 of the 

 Reformed Church in reference to a national council 

 of evangelical churches, 575 ; final ratification of the 

 plan of reunion, 575 ; statistics of the two branches 

 for 1869, 576 ; General Assembly of the United Pres- 

 byterians, 576 ; statistics, 577 ; General Synod of the 

 Reformed Presbyterians, 577; Cumberland Presby- 

 terians. 577 ; Southern Presbyterian Church, 578. 



Prussia. Government, 579 ; area, 579 ; 'population, 579 ; 

 Diet, 579 ; speech of Bismarck, 579 ; new session of 

 the Diet, 580 ; finances, 580 ; army, 580 ; navy, 580 ; 

 sequestration of the property of the ex-King of Han- 

 over, 581 ; protest of the king, 581 ; decree of the 

 king in favor of Protestantism, 581 ; railroads, 581 ; 

 Berlin, 581. 



PRUYN, JOHN V. L. Representative from New York, 

 120 ; on the bill to strengthen the public credit, 185. 



Public Documents. Message of President Grant to Con- 

 gress at the commencement of the second session of 

 the Forty-first Congress, 582 ; inaugural address of 

 President Grant, 587 ; President Grant's proclamation 

 for the election in Virginia, 588; proclamation of 

 President Grant respecting wages of labor, 589 ; ad- 

 dress of Andrew Johnson to the people of the United 

 States, 589 ; allocution addressed in a General Congre- 

 gation before the first session of the Vatican Council 

 by Pius IX., December 2, 1869, to the bishops assem- 

 bled in Rome for the said Council, 593; apostolic 

 letter of Pope Pius IX. prescribing the general order 

 to be followed in the deliberations of the First 

 (Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, 594; allocution 

 pronounced in the Vatican Basilica at the opening 

 of the (Ecumenical Council by Pope Pius IX., 597. 



QUESADA, MANUEL. Elected commander- in-chief of the 

 Cuban forces, 212 ; address, 212. 



Eailways. Number of miles constructed in 1869, 598 ; 

 distribution of railway lines, 598 ; summary of the 

 miles of railroad in operation in each State, 5%; 

 completion of the Pacific Railroad, 599 ; Government 

 aid, 599 ; grades, 599 ; management, 599 ; report of 

 the examining commission, 600. 



RAWLINS, JOHN A. Birth, 600 ; death, 600 ; career, 600. 



RAYMOND, HENRY JABVIS. Birth, 600; death, 600; 

 early life, 600 ; career, 601 ; character, 602. 



Reformed Church. Meeting of the General Triennial 

 Synod, 602; statistics, 603; meeting of the sixty- 

 third session of the General Synod, 603 ; statistics, 

 603. 



REGXATJD, DE SAIXT-JEAN D'ANGELY, AUGUST MI'HEL 

 MARIE ETIENNE, COUNT. Birth, 603 ; death, 603 ; 

 career, 603. 



REICHENBACH, BARON KARL VON. Birth, 604 ; death, 

 - 604 ;. pursuits, 604 ; works, 604. 



REISACH, CHARLES AUGUSTS, .COUNT DE. Birth, 604 ; 

 death,' 604; pursuits, 604. ,. 



REVELS, H. R. First colored United States Senator, 462. 



Rhode Island^ Meeting of the General Assembly. 605; 

 provisions for insane poor and paupers, 605 ; estab- 

 lishment of an Agricultural School, 605 ; Republican 

 Convention, 605 ; nominations, 606 ; Democratic Con- 

 vention, 606 ; nominations, 606 ; election results, 6*06 ; 

 action on the fifteenth amendment, 606 ; resolutions 



; in favor of a State Normal School, 606 ; resolutions 

 in behalf of woman suffrage, 606 ; finances, 607. 



ROBERTSON, THOMAS J. Senator from South Carolina, 

 120 ; on the repeal of the tenure-of-office law, 179. 



ROBESON, GEORGE M. Appointed Secretary of the Navy, 

 473. 



RODAS, CABALLERO DE. Appointed Captain-General of 

 Cuba, 214 ; decree announcing his policy, 215. 



ROEBLING, JOHN AUGUSTUS. Birth, 607 ; death, 607 ; 

 pursuits, 607. 



ROGET, PETER MARK. Birth, 608 ; death, 608 ; career, 

 608; works, 608. 



Eoman Catholic Church. Pope Pius IX, 608 ; cardinals, 

 608; prelates, 608 ; the Catholic Church in the United 

 States, 608 ; in Great Britain, 608 ; preparations for 

 the Oecumenical Council, 609; application of Dr. 

 Cumming for permission to speak in the Council, 609 ; 

 letter of the Pope refusing permission, 609; proposition 

 of Merle d'Aubigne in reference to the course to be pur- 

 sued by the Protestant Churches, 610 ; the question ot 

 papal infallibility, 610 ; Bishop Maret's work against 

 the doctrine of infallibility, 611 ; case of Father Hy- 

 acinthe, 611 ; letter of the General of the Carmelite 

 order, 611 ; reply of Father Hyacinthe, 612 ; response 

 of the Superior General, 612; Catholic opinion of 

 Father Hyacinthe"s action, 613 ; letter of Bishop Du- 

 panloup, 613; Father Hyacinthe's reply, 613; opposi- 

 tion of German theologians to the doctrine of papal 

 infallibility, 614 ; publication of "the Pope and the 

 Council," 614 ; national council of the bishops of Ger- 

 many, 614; proceedings, 615; programme of the 

 ceremonial to be observed in opening the (Ecumenical 

 Council, 615 ; formal openingof the Council, 615 ; first 

 general congregation, 615 ; order of transacting busi- 

 ness, 616; schema delivered to the Council, 617; 

 second general congregation, 617; constitution on 

 the election of the Roman pontiff, 617 ; bill revoking 

 and annulling certain censures and penalties, 618 ; 

 election of a committee on matters of faith, 621 ; 

 committee on discipline, 621 ; committee on questions 

 relating to the religious orders, 621 ; beginning of the 

 discussion on the first schema, 622. 



ROUSSEAU, LOVELL H. Birth, 622 ; death, 622 ; early life, 

 622; career, 622. 



Itussia. Government, 623; area and population, 623; 

 budget, 623 ; debt, 623 ; army and navy, 623 ; com- 

 merce, 623 ; progress of the extinction of serfdom, 

 623; army reforms, 623 ; railways, 624 ; Russian in- 

 fluence in Asia, 624; railway communication with 

 Central Asia, 624; lands, 624 ; industrial measures, 624 ; 



Russian Ordnance. Results of experimental firing, 625, 

 626. 



SAINTE-BEUVE, CHARLES AUGUSTIN. Birth, 627 ; death, 



627 ; pursuits, 627 ; works, 627. 

 SALTER, WILLIAM D. Birth, 628; death, 628; career, 



628. 

 San Domingo. Area and population, 628 ; civil war, 628 ; 



