INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



Abyssinia. Difficulties with Egypt, 279. 



ADAMS, CHARLES FBANCIS. Views on certain points be- 

 fore the Geneva tribunal, 244; appears before the Ge- 

 neva tribunal as arbitrator of the United States, 246; 

 proposes Count Sclopis as president, 246; vote in the 

 conference, 255; action on claims for expenditures, 

 258; nominated- for the Presidency, 7&3; declines, 783; 

 letter relative to his nomination for the Presidency, 

 777. 



ADAMS, JONATHAN. Obituary, 628. 



ADAMS, RODNEY L. Obituary, 630. 



Adventists. Their belief, 1; Seventh-day Adventists, 1; 

 meeting of the General Conference, 1; statistics pre- 

 sented, 1; missionary work, 1; leading doctrines of 

 the denomination, 1; finances, 1; Evangelical Adven- 

 tists, 1; meeting of the Conference, 1; publications, 

 2; their belief, 2. 



Africa. Egypt, 2; expedition of Sir Samuel Baker, 2; 

 Barca, 2; table of divisions and subdivisions, with 

 area and population, 2^ transfer of the Dutch posses- 

 sions on the coast of Guinea to England, 3; French 

 possessions, 3; Cape Colony, 3; geographical explo- 

 ration and discovery in, 342. 



AGASSIZ, L. Exploring expedition, 333. 



Agriculture. Delay in publishing returns, 3; the charac- 

 ter of the season, 3; wheat crop, review of the, 3; 

 rye crop, 3; oats, 3; barley, 4; buckwheat, 4; pota- 

 toes, 4; sweet-potato crop, 4; hay, 4; tobacco, 4; 

 cotton, 4; estimate of the cotton crop, 4; sugar crop, 

 4; in the Southern States, 4; in the Sandwich Islands, 

 4; different kinds of sugar, 4; beet-sugar, 4, 5; flax, 5; 

 jute, 5; peas and beans, 5; grapes, apples, and pears, 

 5; live-stock, 5; agricultural results of the year, 5, 6; 

 progress, 5, 6; table showing the estimated total num- 

 ber and total value of each kind of live-stock in Feb- 

 ruary, 1872, 6; manures, 7; stock-raising and the prep- 

 aration and marketing of beef products, 7; application 

 of the signal service to agriculture, 7; experiments in 

 the culture of trees on the plains of Kansas, 7; irriga- 

 tion in Pacific States, 7 (see President's message, p. 

 702); statistics of, in the United States (see United 

 States, and the respective States). 



AGUAS, MANUEL. Obituary, 646. 



AUMET, NUNKTAR EFFENDi. Appointed head of the 

 church in Turkey, by the Sultan, 768. 



Alabama. State debt, 8; railroad bonds indorsed by the 

 State, 8; liability of the State as an indorser of rail- 

 road oonds, 8; railroad progress in the State, 8; le- 

 gislative action relating to financial affairs, 8; the 

 trouble occasioned by the failure of the Alabama and 



Chattanooga road to pay the interest on bonds in- 

 dorsed by the State, 8; the terms upon which pur- 

 chasers agreed to buy the road, 9; action of the court, 

 9; session of the Legislature, 9; bills passed, 9; pro- 

 visions of the new election law, 9; causes for contest- 

 ing the election of any candidate, 10; the text of cer- 

 tain sections containing sundry general provisions, 

 10; acts to encourage immigration, 10; establish- 

 ment of the Agricultural and Mechanical College, 10, 

 11; political campaign, 11; Democratic Convention, 

 ticket, and platform, 11; Republican Convention, 11; 

 candidates chosen, 11; substance of the resolutions, 

 11; results of the election, 11; the election returns 

 disputed, 11; two bodies claiming to be the Legisla- 

 ture, 11; action of Governor Lindsey, 12; David P. 

 Lewis declared Governor, 12; his reasons for recog- 

 nizing the Republican faction as the Legislature, 12; 

 appeal to President Grant, 12; plan for a compromise, 

 12, 13. 



Alabama Claims. (See Diplomatic Correspondence and 

 Foreign Eelations ; also President's message, p. 695) ; 

 debate concerning, in English Parliament, 358; popu- 

 lar excitement in England, 359. 



ALCORN, JAMES L. Senator from Mississippi, 119 ; on 

 the civil rights amendment, 145 ; on disturbances at 

 the South, 206. 



ALDIS, C. J. B., M. D. Obituary, 645. 



ALFONSO, DON. Commanderof the Carlists in Spain, 744; 

 his manifesto, 744. 



Algeria. Commerce of, 317. 



ALLEN, Rev. ALONZO B. Obituary, 629. 



AMADETJS, King of Spain, etc. (See Spain.) 



AMAT DI SAN FILIPPO E SORSO, LUIGI. Obituary, 649. 



America. Adjustment of questions between the United 

 States and Great Britain, 13; internal dissensions in 

 South American states, 13; termination of the Para- 

 guayo-Brazilian question, 13; sanitary condition of 

 South American states, 13; elections in Brazil, 13; 

 railways and telegraphs in South America, 14. 



AMES, JOSEPH. Birth, 14; career, 14; death, 14. 



Amnesty. Bill passed, 215; its operation, 216. (See Po- 

 litical Disabilities.) 



ANDERSON, Rev. H. T. Obituary, 626. 



ANDERSON, Rev. WILLIAM, D. D. Obituary, 645. 



Anglican Churclw. Dioceses in 1871, 14; Convocations 

 of York and Canterbury, 14, 15; subjects submitted 

 to the Convocation of Canterbury, 14; declaration of 

 the Convocation of Canterbury, 14, 15; the Athana- 

 pian Creed discussed by the Convocation of York, 15; 

 action of the Convocation of Canterbury on the Atha- 

 nasiau Creed, 15; appointment of a committee to con- 

 sider the whole aspect of the use of the Athauasian 



