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in New York City, 589 ; trouble in the public schools 

 of Long Island City, 589 ; important decision concern- 

 ing the right of the Governor to surrender a person 

 charged with crime in a foreign state, 589 ; case of 

 Carl Vogt, 589 ; finances, 590 ; receipts and expendi- 

 tures of canals, 590; bountydebt, 590, 591; public expen- 

 ditures, 591 ; finances of the State prisons, 591 ; State 

 Reformatory, 591; rate of taxation in the State, 

 591; savings-banks, 591; insurance statistics, 592; 

 public schools, 592 ; immigration, 592 ; militia, 592 ; 

 production of salt, 592; fisheries, 592; statistics of 

 occupations, 592; of agriculture, 592; of manufac- 

 tures, 593; of newspapers and periodicals, 593; of 

 libraries, 593 ; of churches, 593 ; of pauperism and 

 crime, 593. 



New York City (see New York), condition of the na- 

 tional and State banks in, 292, 293; commerce of 

 (see Commerce of the United States). 



New Zealand. (See Australia.) 



NIBLACK, WILLIAM E. Representative from Indiana, 119 ; 

 on postal telegraphy, 122. 



Nicaragua. Area and population, 593; officers of the 

 Government, 593; imports and exports, 593; ship- 

 ping movements, 594 ; navigation of Lake Nicaragua, 

 594; alliance between the Central American Repub- 

 lics, 594 ; survey of Sapoa and Childs's routes from 

 Lake Nicaragua to the Pacific, 594 ; controversy with 

 Costa Rica concerning the interoceanic canal, 595. 



NICHOLSON, Colonel JOSEPH HOFFER. Obituary, 619. 



NICHOLSON, Commodore WILLIAM CARMICHAEL. Birth, 

 death, 595 ; career, 596. 



NORRIS, EDWIN. Birth, death, 596 ; works, 596. 



North America. Geographical explorations and discov- 

 eries in, 333, 334. 



North Carolina. Session of the Legislature, 596 pro- 

 posed amendment to the constitution, 596; act for 

 the exchange of railroad stocks, 597: new school law, 

 597 ; Republican State Convention, 597 ; nominations 

 and resolutions, 597; Democratic State Convention, 

 598 ; ticket and platform, 598; importance of the cam- 

 paign, 599; results of the election, 599; opening of 

 the Legislature, 599 ; recommendations by the Gov- 

 ernor, 599; election of United States Senator, 599; 

 executive appointment of directors in corporations 

 in which the State is a stockholder, 599 ; school sta- 

 tistics, 599; Insane Asylum, 600; statistics of occu- 

 pations, 600; of agriculture, 600; of manufactures, 

 600 ; of libraries, 600; of newspapers and periodicals, 

 600; of churches. 600; of pauperism and crime, 600. 



Norway (see Sweden and Norway) ; literature of the 

 year, 460. 



NORWOOD, T. M. Senator from Georgia, 119; on the 

 force bill, 177. 



Obituaries, American, 601. (See individual names.) 



Obituaries, Foreign, 638. (See individual names.) 



Occupations. Statistics of, in the United States. (See the 

 respective States.) 



O'CONOR, CHARLES. Nominated by Labor Reformers 

 for the presidency, 774 ; nominated at Louisville, 783; 

 declines, 783 ; total vote, 784. 



O'CONNOR, Rt. Rev. MICHAEL. Obituary, 631. 



OEHLER, Prof. Obituary, 639. 



OETTINGER, EDWARD MARIA. -Obituary, 644. 



Ohio. Finances, 651 ; war account with the United States, 

 651; crops for 1871, 652 ; production of coal and iron, 

 653 ; marriages and divorces, 654 ; births, 654 ; deaths, 

 654; naturalizations, 654; illiteracy, 654; school at- 



tendance, 654 ; pauperism, 654; prisoners and jails, 

 654 ; banks, 654 ; wealth and taxation, 654 ; incorpo- 

 rated companies, 654; manufactures, 65S; railroads, 

 655 ; penitentiary, 655 ; Lunatic Asylum, 655 ; meet- 

 ing of the Legislature, 655; election of United States 

 Senator, 655 ; adjournment of the Legislature, 656 ; 

 bills passed, 656 , Republican State Convention, 656 ; 

 nominations and resolutions, 656 ; Democratic Con- 

 vention, 656; nominations and resolutions, 656; pro- 

 hibition candidates, 656 ; results of the election, 656 ; 

 vote for President, 657. 



OLIVER, Major-General JOHN M. Obituary, 610. 



OLNET, JESSE. Birth, death, 657 ; career, 657. 



Oregon. Finances, 657; value of property, 657; peniten- 

 tiary, 657; schools, 657; Temperance Convention, 

 657; resolutions, 657; Republican State Convention, 

 658 ; resolutions, G58 ; Democratic Convention and 

 resolutions, 658 ; results of the election, 659 ; session 

 of the Legislature, 659; legislation, 659; difficulty 

 with the Modoc Indians, 659; statistics of occupa- 

 tions, 660; of agriculture, 660; of manufactures, 660; 

 of newspapers and periodicals, 660 ; of libraries, 660 ; 

 of churches, 660; of pauperism and crime, 660. 



6'RoRKE, Captain MICHAEL. Obituary, 618. 



ORR, JAMES L., of South Carolina. Withdraws from the 

 Republican Convention, 737. 



OSTRANDER, Rev. HENRY. Obituary, 633. 



OTT-TBUMPLER. Annual cotton-tables, 228. 



Palestine. Archseological discoveries and explorations in, 

 342. 



PALMER, Sir ROUNDELL (see Diplomatic Correspondence 

 and foreign delations) ; statement before the Geneva 

 Tribunal, 250; argument on question of law, 255; ac- 

 cession to the Lord High Chancellorship of England, 

 359 ; his career and character, 359. 



PALO, Rcar-Admiral. Appointed Spanish minister at 

 Washington, 742. 



Paraguay. Boundaries, 660 ; area, 660 ; commerce, 661 ; 

 transactions of the commission to settle the question 

 of boundaries and the war indemnity, 661 ; text of the 

 treaty of peace with Brazil, 74, 75; geographical ex- 

 plorations and discoveries in, 340. 



Park, Public, near the Yellowstone River, 773. 



PARKER, JOEL. Letter on the Labor Reform nomina- 

 tion, 774. 



PARTON, Mrs. SARA PATSON WILLIS. Birth, death, 661 ; 

 works, 661 ; character, 661. 



Patents. (See President' s message, p. 701.) 



PATTERSON, Rev. JONAS. Obituary, 628. 



Pauperism and Crime. Statistics of, in the United States 

 (see the respective States). 



Peace Jubilee, 504. 



PEASE, JOSEPH. Obituary, 639. 



PENNEFATHER, General Sir JOHN LTSAGHT. Obituary, 

 643. 



Pennsylvania. Session of the Legislature, 662 ; legisla- 

 tion, 662; reapportionment of the State, 662; pro- 

 vision for amending the State constitution, 662; elec- 

 tion of Henry W. Gray as State Senator, 662; his elec- 

 tion contested, 662 ; report of the committee of inves- 

 tigation, 663 ; Mr. Gray not entitled to the seat, 663 ; 

 Republican Convention, 663 ; State ticket, 663 ; reso- 

 lutions, 663; Democratic nominations and resolutions, 

 664; Labor Reform Convention, 665; Temperance 

 Convention and nominations, 665 ; resolutions, 665 ; 

 results of the election, 665; presidential election, 665; 

 assembling of the Constitutional Convention, 665; or- 



