INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



793 



FORD, ELIAKIM READ, prominent citizen. Obituary of, 

 675. 



FORSTALL, EDMOND J., banker and engar-planter. Obit- 

 uary of, 586. 



FOSTER, JOHN WILLS, American scientist and paleon- 

 tologist. Birth, 296; death, 295 ; education, 295; early 

 pursuit*. 295; niineralogical discoveries, 295; survey 

 of the Lake Superior region, 295; joins the Native 

 American movement, 295 ; archaeological researches, 

 295 ; publications, 296 ; personal character, 296. 



FOSTER, WILDEB I)., politician. Obituary of, 581. 



FOWLER, Prof. JOHN W., Presbyterian clergyman. Obit- 

 nary of, 573. 



Fox, General CHARLES RICHARD, British officer. Obit- 

 nary of, 594. 



fratux. Pieeldent and officers of the Government, 296; 

 National Assembly, 296 ; political divisions, 296; 

 area, 296; population, 296 ; religious denominations, 

 296; revenue and expenditures, 297; public debt, 

 298 ; new army law, 298 ; navy, 298 ; table of commer- 

 cial movements, 298 ; movements of shipping, 209 ; 

 railroads, 2W; post-office statistics, 299; telegraph- 

 lines, 299; rights of the President, 299; duties of tbe 

 Assembly, 299; debate on the report of the Commit- 

 tee of Thirty, 299; treaty with the German Govern- 

 ment concerning the evacuation of French territory, 

 300; debate on the protest of Prince Napoleon, 300; 

 debate on municipal administration of Lyons, 800; 

 changes in the ministry, 800; fusion of the two 

 branches of tlie Bourbon family, 300 ; position of the 

 Count de Chambord, 802; proposed extension of the 

 powers of tbe President, 802 ; new ministry, 302 ; suc- 

 cesses of the Republican party, 303; trial of Marshal 

 Bazaine, 303 ; legitimacy of Count de Chambord, 303 ; 

 Count de Paris, 303; genealogical table of the house 

 of Bourbon, 304; details of MacMahon's career, 305; 

 tbe President of tbe Assembly Buffet, 306; the Duke 

 de Broclle, 306; his career, 3C6; Influence of the 

 Church. 306; Reformed Chnrch, 806; Synod of Evan- 

 gelical Churches, 306; Protestant religious societies, 

 807; literature, 427. 



FBASCIS JOSEPH. Emperor of Austria. Birth, 62. 



FRANKENSTEIN. GODFREY N., landscape and historical 

 painter. Obituary of. 583. 



Fronting Privilege. Bill in relation to, 146 ; passed, 140. 



FBELISOHCTSEH, F. T. Senator from New Jersey, 187 ; 

 relative to the abolition of Ihe franking privilege, 147. 



FBT, Captain JOSEPH. Obituary of, 585. 







Galtetton. Its situation, 741; Its trade, 741; shipments 

 of cotton, 741; linen of steamers, 742; public build- 

 Ing., 742. 



GABFIELD. JAKES A. Representative from Ohio, 137; 

 on Increased salaries, 156-1G3; on Louisiana affairs, 

 182. 



GAHMTXCIA. Don FRANCISCO, Peruvian statesman. 

 Obituary of. 690. 



OATTT, Mr. MARGARET SCOTT, English writer. Obitu- 

 ary of, 601. 



GEART. JOHN WHITE. Birth, 807; death, 807; career as 

 a soldier and statesman, 307. 



GEBHARD. LEWIS P., M. D., medical writer. Obituary 

 of. 8RB. 



Gtographlral ErjilaraUan*. Summary of tbe year, 808; 

 denths of explorers, 309 ; literary contributions. 309; 

 deep-sea exploring expeditions, 809; coast-survey 

 work. 310: arctic discoveries, 310; Greenland, 311; 

 British America, 31 ; United States, 811-818; South 



America, 314; Europe, 815; Palestine, 315; Arabian 

 Peninsula, 317; China, 317; ancient Troy, 317; Africa, 

 318; Australia and Polynesia, 318. 



Georgia. Session of the Legislature, 3!9; acts passed, 

 319; interest bonds, 319; appropriations, 819; prod- 

 ucts, 319; meeting of Governors, 319; plan proposed 

 for cheap transportation, 320; railroads, 320; deci- 

 sions, 320; finances, 320; university, 320; movement 

 of cotton in the State, 821. 



Germany. Family of the Emperor, 321 ; states of the 

 empire, 321; area, 321; population, 321; the Federal 

 Council, 821; members of the Reichstag, how elected, 

 821 ; religious divisions of the people, 321 ; govern- 

 ernuients of tbe states, 322; professors and students 

 In the universities, 322; other universities and insti- 

 tutes, 322; budget, 322; public debt, 323; army, 323; 

 navy, 323 ; commerce, 323 ; railroads, 324 ; postal 

 statistics, 824 ; telegraphs, 824 ; opening of the 

 Reichstag, 324; speech of the Emperor, 824; postal 

 treaties, 324; coinage, 825; relations with Persia, 

 325; French indemnity, 325; the Constitution to be 

 In force in Alsace and Lorraine, 325; constitutional 

 measures of the Government, 825; relations of the 

 Emperor to the states, 326; extension of the Federal 

 jurisdiction over the civil law, 326; the conflict with 

 the Church, 356; measures adopted, 826; reply of the 

 Emperor to the Pope. 327; success of the Catholics in 

 the elections, 327; measures to strengthen I he western 

 frontier, 327; visit of Victor Emmanuel, 327; opinion 

 In Alsace-Lorraine, 327 ; relations of Germany to 

 Scandinavia, 328 ; literature of, 429. 



GIBBONS, JAMES. Obituary of, 581. 



GIBBS, GEORGE, philologist, antiquarian, and author. 

 Obituary of, 567. 



GIFFORD, ARTHUR N., member of New York Stock Ex- 

 change. Obituary of, 561. 



GILLES, Ccimmodore JOHN P., United States Navy. 

 Obituary of, 563. 



GILMOBE, SAMUEL A., presiding Judge of Fayette judi- 

 cial district, Maryland. Obituary of, 570. 



GILSET, PETER. New York alderman. Obituary of, 567. 



GLADSTONE, WILLIAM E. His career as British premier, 

 331. 



GLENDT, Commodore WILLIAM M., United States Navy. 

 Obituary of, 575. 



GOODWIN, ICBABOD JORDAN, lawyer and politician. 

 Obituary of. 562. 



GOULD, Mrs. GEOEOE, missionary. Obituary of, 588. 



GOVONE, GIUSEPPE. Birth in Italy, 328; career as a sol- 

 dier, diplomatist, and statesman, 328; death, 328. 



Grange. Explanation of the term, 329; present applica- 

 tion, 829. (See Patron* of Husbandry.) 



GRANT, JESSE ROOT, father of President Grant. Obit- 

 uary of, 573. 



GRANT, President. His message to Congress on affairs 

 In Louisiana, 195; message to Congress relative to 

 the steamer Virginius, 262; letters on the finances, 

 284; reply to the application of Governor Davis, of 

 Texas, for troops, 740; reinaugurated Piesident, 749; 

 his address, 749. 



Great Britain. Area, 329; population, 829; possessions, 

 829 ; limitation of government prerogatives, 829; 

 reigning house, 829; ministry, 830; meeting of Par- 

 liament, 330 ; disaffection of working-classes, 331 ; 

 resignation of ministers, 831; they return to office, 

 831 ; measures before Parliament, 331 ; budget, 831 ; 

 adjournment, 831 ; Gladstone's position, 831; reasons 

 for the dissolution of Parliament, 332 ; question of 

 Irish education, 332; constitution of the new Supreme 

 Court of Jurisdiction, 332, 333; abolition of tests In 



