INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



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Baden. Government, 52; session of the Diet, 52; aboli- 

 tion of the special ministry of war, 52; area and pop- 

 ulation, 52 ; districts, 52 ; population of principal 

 cities, 52; budget, 52; debt, 52; army, 52. 



BAGSTER, JONATHAN. Obituary, 644. 



BAKER, CHARLES M. Obituary, 605. 



BAKER, JEREMIAH. Obituary, 616. 



BALTA, Colonel JOSE. Death, 52; his administration, 52; 

 career, 52, 53. 



BAMFORD, SAMUEL. Obituary, 642. 



Banks. Tax income from, 292; increase in the aggregate 

 capital, 292; capital of State banks, 292; deposits of 

 savings-banks in New England and New York, 292; 

 condition of the national banks for four years, 292; 

 number of banks, capital, circulation, specie, legal 

 tender and deposits, by months, in 1871 and 1872, 

 292; condition of the national banks of New York 

 City, 293; condition of the State banks of New York 

 City at different periods in 1871, 293. 



Baptists. Statistics of the denomination throughout the 

 world, 53; statistics of the regular Baptist churches 

 in the United States, 53; growth of the Baptist de- 

 nomination in the United States, 53; statistics for 

 Great Britain, 53; meeting of the American Baptist 

 Missionary Union, 54; report of the Burmah Baptist 

 Missionary Convention, 54; plan for the reorganiza- 

 tion of the Missionary Union, 54; receipts and ex- 

 penditures of the Union, 54; statistics of Baptists in 

 Asia, 54; German missions, 54; French missions, 54; 

 statistics for Europe, Asia, and Africa, 54; proceed- 

 ings of the American Baptist Bible and Publication 

 Society, 54; proposed plan for the reorganization of 

 the Society, 54; reasons for the failure of the nego- 

 tiations to unite the American and Foreign Bible 

 Society and the Bible and Publication Society, 55; 

 work of the American Baptist Home Missionary So- 

 ciety, 55; work among the freedmen, 55; work in 

 Mexico, 55 ; proposition for the reorganization of the 

 Society, 55; meeting of the National Baptist Educa- 

 tional Convention, 55; adoption of a constitution, 55; 

 papers read, 55; details of the constitution adopted, 

 55, 56; income and library of the Baptist Historical 

 Society, 56; National Sunday-school Convention, 56; 

 meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention, 56; 

 missions in Liberia, China, and Italy, 56; Indian 

 missions, 56, 57; receipts of the Sunday-school Board, 

 57; debate on a motion to continue the Board, 57; 

 letter and resolutions from the Baptists of Great 

 Britain, 57; the consolidated Baptist Convention, 57; 

 English Baptist Union, 57; spring meeting, 57; au- 

 tumn meeting, 57; resolution adopted by the Union 

 in response to the action of the non-conformist con- 

 ference on the separation of Church and state, 57; 

 scheme for the settlement of denominational disputes 

 by arbitration, 57; Seventh-day Baptists, 58; meeting 

 of the conference, 58; proceedings of the same, 58; 

 academies, 58; Six-Principle Baptists, 58; General 

 Baptists, 58; Mennonites, 58. 



Bavaria. Government, 58; area and population by dis- 

 tricts, 59; population of chief cities, 59; budget, 59; 

 debt, 59; army, 59; ministerial crisis, 59; conflict in 

 the Diet between the Patriots and the National Lib- 

 erals, 59; Old Catholic organizations, 60; failure of 

 the Dachauer banks, 60. 



BAYARD, THOMAS F. Senator from Delaware, 139; on 

 retrenchment committee, 136. 



BEACONSFIELD, Mrs. MART ANNE DISRAELI, Viscountess 

 of. Obituary, 650. 



BEAL, ABRAHAM. Birth, death, 59; efforts in behalf of 

 prisoners, 60; becomes general agent of the New 



York Prison Association, 60; extent of his work, 60; 

 his influence, 60; his philanthropy, 60; officer of the 

 New York Port Society, 0. 



BEAMISH, Lieutenant-Colonel. Obituary, 642. 



BEAUGE ET DE MELGUEIL, Madame ULRICU. Obituary, 

 645. 



BECK, JAMES B. Representative from Kentucky, 119; 

 offers a resolution relative to Betting aside the Iiabcas 

 corpus, 119. 



BEDFORD, WILLIAM RUSSELL, Duke of. Obituary, 643. 



BEEBE, GILBERT JUDSON. Obituary, 637. 



BEECHER, LADY WRIXON. Obituary, 647. 



BEERS, WILLIAM F. Obituary, 620. 



Beet-sugar, 4, 5. 



Belgium. Government, 61; ministry, 61; area, 61; public 

 debt, 61 ; growth of Belgian commerce, 61 ; movement 

 of shipping, 61; budget, 61; imports and exports, 61; 

 merchant navy, 61; telegraph-lines, 61; post-offices, 

 62; riotous demonstrations at Antwerp, 62; occa- 

 sioned by the arrival of C9unt de Chambord. 62; Bel- 

 gian minister with the Pope retained, 62 ; elections 

 for members of the Chamber of Deputies, 62 ; muni- 

 cipal elections, 62; success of the Liberal party, 62; 

 strikes among the laboring-classes, 62; population, 

 and density of population, 287; ecclesiastical statis- 

 tics, 287; nationalities, 287; literature of the year, 452. 



BELLOGUET, Baron ROGET DE. Obituary, 650. 



BENEDICT, JESSE W. Obituary, 613. 



BENNETT, JAMES GORDON. Birth, death, 62; early life 

 and education, 62; emigrates to America, 63; first 

 employment, 63; goes to Charleston, 63; opens a 

 school, 63; lectures, 63; becomes connected with 

 several newspapers, 63; his letters written to the 

 Enquirer, 63; becomes connected with the Psnnsyl- 

 vanian, 63; founds the New York Herald, 63; charac- 

 ter of the Herald, 64; its growth, 64; the first money 

 article, 64; advertises for a business partner, 64; 

 enterprise of the Herald, 65; character of Mr. Ben- 

 nett, 65; his personal appearance, 65, 66. 



BERGEN, Rev. JOHN G., D. D. Obituary, 604. 



BERMINGHAM, Very Rev. T., D. D. Obituary, 620. 



BESSEMER, HENRY. His improvement in boats running 

 between Calais and Dover (see International Commu- 

 nications), 



BETHUNE, Very Rev. , D. D. Obituary, 645. 



BIDWELL, MARSHALL S. Obituary, 631. 



BINGHAM, JOHN A. Representative from Ohio, 119 ; on 

 the enforcement amendment, 195. 



BISHOP, Rev. ARTEMUS. Obituary, 636. 



BISMARCK, Prince VON. Relieved from the position of 

 Prussian Prime Minister, 694. 



BLACK, JOHN. Obituary, 614. 



BLAIR, FRANK P. Senator from Missouri, 120; relative 

 to affairs in South Carolina, 120; offers a resolution 

 relative to Cuba, 125; on disturbances at the South, 

 203-206. 



BOCOCK, Rev. JOHN HOLMES, D. D. Obituary, 623. 



BOGUE, Rev. HORATIUS PUBLIUS. Obituary, 603. 



Bolivia. Boundaries, 66; departments, with areas, popu- 

 lations, and capitals, 66; character of the population, 

 66; aboriginal tribes, 66; government, 66; govern- 

 ment officers, 66; army, 66; commerce, 66; imports 

 and exports, 66; internal trade, 66; commerce with 

 Great Britain, 67; budget, 67; debt, 67; railways and 

 telegraphs, 67; conspiracy against the Government 

 frustrated, 68; Morales elected President, 68; conflict 

 between Morales and the Congress, 68; shooting of 

 Morales, 68; boundary question with Argentine Re- 

 public and Chili, 102; geographical discoveries in, 340. 



BOND, JOHN, R. S. Obituary, 637. 



