INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



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NAUMANN, KARL F. Birth, 523; death, 523; mineralogist 

 and author, 523; writings, 524. 



Navy, United States. Force of, 524; cruising statistics, 

 524; appropriations, 524; estimates, 524; pensions, 

 524; geographical expeditions, 524; on the Isthmus 

 of Darien, 525; in Nicaragua, 525; the results of the 

 arctic expedition, 525, 526. 



Nebraska. Acts passed by the Legislature, 627; farmers' 

 movement, 527; resolutions of their convention, 527; 

 officers of the government, 527; Legislature, 527; 

 debt, 527; income, 528; appropriations, 528; public 

 lands, 528; valuation, 528; railroads, 528; agricultu- 

 ral resources, 528; climate, 628. 



NELATON, AUQUSTK. Birth, 528; death, 528; French 

 physician and surgeon, 528. 



NELSON, SAMUEL. Birth, 529; death, 529; career as an 

 American jurist, 529. 



NeOterlandf. Reigning house, 529; area, 629; population, 

 529; religions divisions, 529; population of towns, 

 530; colonies, area of, 530; budget, 530; navy, 530; 

 debt, 530; sinking fund, 530; army and navy, 530; 

 shipping, 530; commerce, 530; expedition to Acheen, 

 531; its defeat, 531; second expedition, 531; budget 

 for the East India colonies, 531. 



Nevada. State officers, 631; Legislature, 531; mining 

 interest, 531; product, 631; stock-range, 531; topog- 

 raphy, 532; Indian tribes, 532; Carson City, 532; situ- 

 ation, 532; railroad, 532; branch mint, 532; State- 

 prison, 532. 



NIWELL, Miss Leer LANGDON, born July 4, 1776. 

 Obituary of, 586. 



New Hampthlre. Political campaign, 532; Democratic 

 Convention, 532; nominations, 532; resolutions, 532; 

 Republican Convention, 533; nominations, 533; reso- 

 lution?, 533; Liberal Republican Convention, 533; 

 nominations, 533; resolutions, 633; election, 534; 

 choice by the Legislature, 534; question of revision 

 of the constitution, 534; female suffrage, 534; finances, 

 534; debt, 544; State bank, 535; education, 535; prison, 

 535; geological survey, 535. 



New Jersey. General railroad bill, 635; expression of 

 public sentiment, 535; important features of the law, 

 535; action of the National Company. 536; Eaeton & 

 Amboy road, 536; law relative to the taxation of rail- 

 roads, 536; Its provisions, 536; validity of the lease, 

 637; parties In the Legislature, 537; State officers, 

 537; commissioners for the revision of the constitu- 

 tion, 537; their report, 537; amendments proposed, 

 537-538; finances of the State, 539; debt, 539; taxes, 

 539; schools, 539; number of deaf, dumb, and feeble- 

 minded children, 539; insane, 539; militia, 539; State- 

 prison, 539. 



New York. Receipts and expenses, 539, 540 ; State debt, 

 540; reduction, 540; valuation, 540 ; rate of taxation, 

 540; debts of the cities, towns, villages, and counties 

 of the State, 540; causes, 540; canal debt, 541 ; time 

 of maturity, 541 ; receipts and expenditures of each 

 canal, 541; profit and loss, 542; value of transports, 

 043; steam on the canals, 542; prize offered, 542; 

 sinking fund, 542; deficit tax, 542; declared uncon- 

 stitutional, 542; opinion of the court, 543; banks, 

 543; savings-banks, 543; schools, 543; Insane asy- 

 lums, 544 ; prisons, 544 ; new Capitol, 544 ; salt-works, 

 644 ; acts of the Legislature, 544 ; veto of the " local 

 option" bill, 545; civil rights bill, 545; proposed 

 amendments to the constitution, 545; the Adiron- 

 dack Park, 547 ; Cheap Transportation Convention, 

 647; resolutions, 547; Temperance Committees' Con- 

 vention, 548 ; resolutions, 548 ; National Temperance 

 Convention, 548 ; Republican Convention, 649 ; nom- 



inations, 549 ; resolutions, 549 ; Democratic Conven- 

 tion, 549 ; nominations, 549 ; resolutions, 550 ; Liberal 

 Republican committee, 550; resolutions, 550 ; Liberal 

 Republican Convention, 551 ; resolutions, 551 ; elec- 

 tion, 551 ; Legislature, 552. 



NIBLACK, WILLIAM E., representative trom Indiana, 137 ; 

 on increased salaries, 164. 



Nicaragua. Boundaries, 552 ; divisions, 552 ; races, 652 ; 

 state officers, 552; army, 552 ; schools, 562; finances, 

 52 ; articles of export and import, 552 ; value of 

 exports, 553; tobacco - crop, 653; address of the 

 President to Congress, 553 ; projects for an inter- 

 oceanic canal, 553; advantages of the enterprise, 

 553; cost of construction, 553; railway grants, 554; 

 death of General Martinez, 554; disturbances, 91; 

 national advantages, 91. 



NICHOLS, JOHN GOUGH, F. S. A., English genealogist and 

 arclMeoIogist Obituary of, 604. 



NOBLE, LINNSUS P., antislavery leader. Obituary of, 

 560. 



NOEL, Rev. and Hon. BAPTIST W., English author. 

 Birth, 554; death, 554; education, 554; ordination, 

 654; dissents from the Church of England, 554; con- 

 nection with the Midnight Mission, 554; publication, 

 554. 



NOBTHBBOOK, Lord THOMAS GEOBGB BAKING, Viceroy 

 . of India. Birth, 872; positions, 372. 



North Carolina. Session of the Legislature, 554; changes 

 in the constitution, 554; act for amnesty and pardon, 

 555; revenue law, 656; incorporation of new towns, 

 656; inauguration of the Governor, 556; financial af- 

 fairs, 556; debt, 556; bonds issued, 556; total valua- 

 tion of real and personal property, 656; bill to adjust 

 the State debt, 557; railroads, 557. 



NOTT, HANDEL GEBSHOM, Baptist clergyman. Obituary 

 of, 570. 



NOTT, JOSIAH CLABK, ethnologist and physiologist. 

 Birth, 557; death, 657; success in his profession, 557; 

 establishment of a medical college, 557; publica- 

 tions, 557. 



OBERMIER, OTTO, M. D., medical writer. Obituary of, 

 600. 



Obituaries, American, 558. 



OMtuaries, foreign, 588. 



O'BRIEN, JOHN, secretary of Catholic Total Abstinence 

 Society of America. Obituary of, 678. 



ODILON BABROT, CAUILLE HYACINTHS, French states- 

 man. Obituary of, 605. 



OOILVIE, CHARLES A., English clergyman. Obituary of, 

 591. 



Ohio. Meeting of the General Assembly, 606 ; Govern- 

 or's Message, 606; revision of the school laws, 606; 

 provision for increasing the Agricultural College 

 fund, 606 ; modifications of the Boesel railroad law, 

 608; censure of the law increasing the pay of mem- 

 bers of Congress, 607; proposed amendment of the 

 constitution, 607; the Boesel railroad law, 607; de- 

 cision of Chief-Justice White, 607 ; nominations by 

 the prohibitionists, 608; platform of the prohibition- 

 ists, 608; nominations by the Republican State Con- 

 vention, 609; platform of the Republicans, 669; new 

 Democratic departure, 609; nominations, 609; pint- 

 form, 610; Democratic nominations, 610; platform 

 adopted, 610; result of the elections, 611 ; financial 

 affairs, 612. Indebtedness of the State, 612 ; valua- 

 tions of property, charters granted, 6 1 2 ; agricultural 

 products, 612 ; coal area, 613 ; character of Ohio coal, 



