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INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



Universalists. Statistics, 787; associations, 787; institu- 

 tions, 787; General Convention, 787 ; proceedings, 787. 



UPFOLD, Rt. Kev. GEORGE. Birth, 787; career, 788: death, 

 788. 



UPHAM, Rev. THOMAS C. Birth, 788; literary pursuits, 

 788; death, 788. 



Uruguay., or Banda Oriental. Area and population, 779; 

 immigration, 779; ministry, 779; army, 779; imports 

 and exports, 779; revenue, 779; receipts and expen- 

 ditures, 779; public debt, 779; railroads, 779. 



Utah (See Territories of the United States.) 



VAILLANT, JEAN BAPTISTE PHILIBERT. Birth, death, 789; 

 career, 789, 790; character, 790. 



VALMASEDA, Count, resigns captain-generalship of Cuba, 

 745. 



VANDERHORST, . Obituary, 624. 



VANDOYER, LEON. Obituary, 639. 



VAN EENSSELAER, WILLIAM P. Obituary, 633. 



VAN WINKLE, PETER G. Obituary, 613. 



Venezuela. Relations with Colombia, 111. 



Vermont. Republican State Convention for choice of 

 delegates to National Convention, 790; resolutions, 

 790; Democratic State Convention and resolutions, 

 790; Republican State Convention for nominating 

 State officers, 790; resolutions, 791; Union ticket of 

 Democrats and Liberal Republicans, 791; results of 

 the election, 791; present State government, 791; 

 meeting of the Legislature, 791; finances, 791; finan- 

 cial policy of the State, 792; charitable and reforma- 

 tory institutions, 792; report of the committee on 

 changing the site of the penitentiary, 792; affairs of 

 the Vermont Central and Vermont & Canada Rail- 

 roads, 792; mileage of the confederation, 792; report 

 of the treasurer on the condition of the company, 

 792; statistics of occupations, 793; of agriculture, 793; 

 of manufactures, 793; of newspapers and periodicals, 

 793; of libraries, 793; of churches, 793; of pauperism 

 and crime, 793. 



Vermont Central Railroad. (See Vermont.) 



Vesuvius, eruption of, 268. 



VICKERS, GEORGE, Senator from Maryland, 119; on the 

 suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, 209. 



Victoria. (See Australia.) 



VIGNERON, PIERRE-ROCH. Obituary, 649. 



VINTON, Rev. FRANCIS. Birth, death, 794; cancer, 794; 

 works, 794. 



Virginia. Legislation relating to finances, 794; new tax 

 law, 795; protest of foreign holders of bonds against 

 suspending the funding process and altering the cou- 

 pons, 795; the constitutionality of the act changing 

 the bonds tested, 795; opinion of the court, 795; dis- 

 senting opinion of Judge Staples, 796; views of the 

 Governor as to the best financial policy, 796; finances, 

 796; action of parties, 797; results of the election, 

 797; amendment to the constitution, 797; schools, 

 797; State institutions, 797; public improvements, 

 797; decision of the Supreme Court of Appeals on the 

 homestead act, 797; statistical occupations, 797, 798; 

 of agriculture, 798; of manufactures, 798; pf news- 

 papers and periodicals, 798; of libraries, 798; of 

 churches, 798; of pauperism and crime, 798. 



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WADSWORTH, CRAIG W. Obituary, 601. 



WAITE, , makes an argument as counsel of the 



United States before the Geneva Tribunal, 253. 



WALKER, A. J. Obituary, CIS. 



WALKER, ISAAC P. Obituary, 610. 



WALL, JAMES W. Obituary, 621. 



WALL, \ViLLiAM.-Obituary, 614. 



WALLBIUDGE, ARTHUR D. Obituary, 636. 



WALSHE, JOHN T. Obituary, 612. 



War Department of the United States, condition of, 698. 

 (See Army of the United States.) 



WASHINGTON, Colonel BENJAMIN F. Obituary, 604. 



Washington Territory (see Territwies of the United 

 States). Geographical discovery and explorations 

 in, 337. 



WATKINS, GEORGE C. Obituary, 635. 



WELLES, Colonel C. F. Obituary, 630. 



WELLS, Rev. JAMES. Obituary, 641. 



WELTI, Dr. E., President of the Swiss Confederation in 

 1872, 751. 



WELWITSCH, Dr. FREDERICK. Obituary, 647. 



WEST, Rev. J. J. Obituary, 645. 



WEST, W. H. G. Obituary, 623. 



West Indies. Geographical explorations and discoveries 

 in, 339. 



WESTMACOTT, Prof. RICHARD R. Obituary, 642. 



West Point Military Academy. Number of students, ad- 

 missions, and vacancies, 24. 



West Virginia. Meeting of the Legislature, 798; meeting 

 of the Constitutional Convention, 798; adoption of 

 the new constitution, 798; its chief features, 798, 799; 

 liability of West Virginia for her proportional share 

 in the public debt of Virginia, 799; ratification of the 

 Constitution, 800; composition of the Legislature, 

 800; term of office of State officials, 800; Liberal Re- 

 publicans and Liberal Democrats favor Chief-Justice 

 Chase for the presidency, 800; platform, 800; Repub- 

 lican State Convention and resolutions, 800; conven- 

 tion of the Democratic and Conservative party, 801 ; 

 nominations and platform, 801; results of the August 

 election, 801 ; presidential election, 802; finances, 

 802; University of West Virginia, 802; State institu- 

 tions, 802; adjournment of the Legislature, 802; sta- 

 tistics of occupations, 802; of agriculture, 802; of 

 manufactures, 802; newspapers and periodicals, 803; 

 libraries, 803; churches, 803; pauperism and crime, 

 803. 



WHEELER, Lieutenant, explorations in the West, 336, 

 337. 



WHELPLET, JAMES DAVENPORT. Obituary, 613. 



WHITING, JAMES R. Obituary, 609. 



WHITNEY, ASA. Obituary, 627. 



WIGGINS, W. T. Obituary, 634. 



WILLES, Rt. Hon. Sir JAMES SHAW. Obituary, 646. 



WILLIAMS, Miss BETSY. Obituary, 605. 



WILLIAMS, Mrs. CATHARINE R. Obituary, 630. 



WILLIAMS, Colonel MADISON JACKSON. Obituary, 627. 



WILLIAMS, THOMAS. Obituary, 621. 



Wilmington, Delaware, manufacturing statistics of, 234; 

 city tax, 234; bonded debt, 234; miscellaneous sta- 

 tistics, 234. 



WILSON, HENRY. Senator from Massachusetts, 119; on 

 a retrenchment committee, 129; on amnesty, 140; 

 offers amendments to amnesty bill, 147; nominated 

 for Vice-President, 780; elected, 784. 



Wisconsin. Session of the Legislature, 803; legislation, 

 803; liquor law, 803; act for the establishment of 

 free ptiblic libraries, 804; presidential election, 804; 

 finances, 804; schools, 804; Institute for the Blind, 

 804; for the Deaf and Dumb, 804; Industrial School 

 for Boys, 805; Soldiers' Orphan Home, 805; Hospital 

 for the Insane, 806; State-prison, 805; railroads, 805; 

 statistics of, 805 ; occupations, 805 ; of agriculture, 



