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INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



Unitarians. Statistics, 741 ; Anniversary of the British As- 

 sociation, 741 ; Dutch Protestant Association, 741 ; Ger- 

 man Conference, 741. 



United Brethren. Annual meeting, 741 ; reports, 741 ; do- 

 mestic missions, 742 ; statistics, 742 ; contributions, 742. 



United States. Changes in the cabinet, 742 ; sketch of Ed- 

 wards Pierrepont, 742 ; Zachariah Chandler, 743 ; John C. 

 New, 743; Daniel D. Pratt, 743; Thomas W. Ferry, 743; 

 letter of President Grant to Henry White, 748; speech at 

 Des Moines, 744 ; explanation, 744 ; discussion of the 

 school question, 744; effect of the President's speech, 

 744; letter of John Y. Foster, 745; principles of the 

 order of American Union, 745 ; whiskey frauds, 745 ; 

 sketch of Secretary Bristow, 745 ; sketch of Speaker Kerr, 

 746; inflation or contraction of the currency, 746; the 

 friends of inflation, 746 ; the opponents of inflation, 746 ; 

 the National Temperance Convention, 746; resolutions, 

 746; conventions of Granges, 747; decision of the Su- 

 preme Court on the claim of the Union Pacific Eailroad, 

 747; decision on the right of females to vote, 747 ; de- 

 cision on the validity of laws of Confederate States, 747; 

 decision on lobby services, 747. 



Universalists. Various funds, 747; annual collections, 747; 

 Historical Society, 748 ; annual business meeting, 748. 



Utah. Minerals and mining districts, 748 ; value of gold, sil- 

 ver, and lead products, 748; other minerals, 748; rail- 

 roads, 748 ; value of taxable property, 743 ; finances, 748 ; 

 school statistics, 749. 



VAN ANDEN, ISAAC. Decease of, 581. 



Vermont. Extra session of the Legislature, 749 ; new Ee- 

 form School, 749; finances, 749; Green Mountain Kail- 

 road, 749; Woman's Temperance Union Convention, 

 749 ; resolutions, 750 ; State Board of Agriculture, 750 ; 

 resolutions, 750; State Grange, 750; resolutions, 750; 

 case of false imprisonment, 750 ; decision on the exclu- 

 sion of children from schools, 751. 



VINCKE, GEOBG E. F. A German statesman, 751 ; bio- 

 graphical sketch of, 751. 



Virginia. Acts of the Legislature, 751 ; grievances of the 

 colored voters, 751 ; resolutions, 751 ; Colored Educational 

 Convention, 752; results of the election, 752; general 

 condition of the State, 752 ; debt, 752; where held, 752 ; 

 revenue, 752 ; expenditures, 753 ; taxable property, 753 ; 

 public schools, 753; school funds, 753 ; colleges, 753; In- 

 sane Asylum, 753 ; boundary arbitration, 753 ; centen- 

 nial appropriation, 753 ; State officers, 753 ; election of 

 Senator, 754 ; earthquake-shock, 754 ; statue of Stone- 

 wall Jackson, 754. 



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Waday. Situation, 754 ; area and population, 754 ; divisions 



of the kingdom, 754 ; religion, 754. 

 WALDECK, JEAN F. A French traveler, 754; biographical 



sketch of, 754. 



WALKEE, AMASA. Biographical sketch of, 755. 

 Wanzer Sewing- Machine. Its features, 755 ; extent of 



manufacture, 755 ; improvements, 755. 

 WARD, JASPER D. Eepresentative from Illinois, 138 ; on the 



term of the presidential office, 208. 

 WAKREN, EDWARD A. Decease of, 577. 

 WASHBURN, WILLIAM B. Senator from Massachusetts, 138; 



on compulsory education, 178. 

 Washington Territory. Population, 755 ; Indians, 755 ; 



products, 756; shipping, 756; fisheries, 756; railroads, 



756 ; valuation of property, 756 ; ' finances, 756 ; debt, 



756; schools, 756. 



WEBBEB, JOHN. Decease of, 571. < 



WEEKS, CYRUS. Decease of, 588. 



WELLEB, JOHN B. Decease of, 581. 



WELLS, DARIUS. Decease of, 576. 



WELLS, JOHN. Decease ot; 586. 



WBLLS, SAMUEL. Decease of, 574. 



WEBNIGERODB, Count OTTO. Biographical sketch of, 655. 

 West Virginia. Eemoval of the seat of government, 756 ; 

 constitutionality of the law decided, 756 ; finances, 757 ; 

 assessed valuation of property, 757 ; school system, 757 ; 

 university, 757 ; State Hospital, 757 ; Deaf and Dumb 

 Asylum, 757 ; test of education of the institution, 757 ; 

 State-prison, 758 ; improvements of Kanawha Eiver, 758 ; 

 impeachment of the Treasurer, 758 ; reports of the com- 

 mittee of investigation, 758 ; action of the Legislature, 

 758 ; preparations for impeachment, 759. 



WHEATSTONE, CHARLES. An English inventor, 759; bio- 

 graphical sketch of, 759. 



Whiskey frauds. Report of the Commissioner of Internal 

 Eevenue, 655. 



WHITE, FRANK J. Decease of, 581. 



WHITMARSH, SAMUEL. Decease of, 575. 



WILKINSON, JOHN G. A British archaeologist, 759; bio- 

 graphical sketch of, 759. 



WILLARD, CHARLES W. Kepresentative from Vermont, 188 ; 

 on the Bureau of Education, 171. 



WILLERS, CALVIN. Decease of, 574. 



WILLIS, EGBERT. A British scholar, 759; biographical 

 sketch of, 759. 



WILSON, HENRT. Presides in the Senate, 138; biographical 

 sketch of, 759. 



Wisconsin. Session of the Legislature, 760 ; acts passed, 

 760 ; election of Senator, 761 ; finances sources of reve- 

 nue, 761 ; valuation of property, 761 ; charitable and cor- 

 rectional Institutions, 761 ; State-prison, 761 ; State 

 census, 762 ; population of cities, 762 ; acreage of crops, 

 762 ; railroads, 762 ; Eepublican Convention, 768 ; nomi- 

 nations and resolutions, 763 ; Democratic Convention and 

 resolutions, 768 ; results of the election, 764 ; sketch of 

 Governor Ludington, 764. 



WISLICENUS, GUBTAV. A German theologian, 760; bio- 

 graphical sketch of, 760. 



WOODRUFF, LEWIS B. Decease of, 582. 



WRIGHT, GEORGE G. Senator from Iowa, 217 ; resolution to 

 amend the Constitution, as to the election of President, 

 217. 



YARD, E. B. Decease of, 579. 



YEAS AND NAYS. Senate. On amendment of the specie- 

 payment bill, 152 ; on amendment on its passage, 155 ; 

 on the civil-rights bill, 169 ; on compulsory education 

 clause of the District of Columbia bill, 176, 177 ; on the 

 bill relative to counting the electoral vote for President, 

 206 ; relative to a call on the President for information 

 on Louisiana affairs, 216. 



YEAS AND NAYS. House. On the bill for the resumption of 

 specie payments, 155 ; on the civil-rights bill, 167 ; on 

 the term of the presidential office, 208. 



YEATES, JOHN L. Decease of, 580. 



YOUNG, THOMAS G. Decease of, 585. 



ZACHARIJS, HEINRICH A. A German jurist, 764 ; biographi 



cal sketch of, 764. 

 ZETLA. The port of, 264. 



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