Abyssinia.-Area, 1; population, 1; character of the country, 1 towns, 1; difficulty between England and King Theodore, 2; details, 2; correspondence, 3; map of the country, 3; reason given by the king, 4; pretexts, 4; landing of troops, 4; their march, 5; movements of Theodore, 5; approach to Magdala, 5; attack on the fort, 5; official reports of its capture, and the death of Theodore, 5, 6; result, 7; further proceedings, 7; effect of Theodore's death, 8; Abyssinian politics, 8.

Alaska.-Execution of the treaty, 20; boundaries and population, 20; influence of the ocean currents, 20; course of the stream, 20; forest-trees, 20; shore-line, 20; temperature and rainfall, 20; climate for a series of years, 21; value of the territory, 21.

ALLEN, WILLIAM.-Birth, 21; pursuits, 21; literary career, 22; death, 22.

Alliance, Evangelical.-Meeting in Amsterdam, 22; invitation to meet in New York, 22; resolutions adopted,

22.

ADLER, GEORGE J.-Birth, 8; pursuits, 8; death, 8. Africa.-Suez Canal, success of, 9; states of northern

Africa, 9; famine in Algiers, 9; do. in Morocco, 9; Tunis, 9; Madagascar, 9; Cape Colony, 9; Transvaal Republic, 10; area and population of the principal divisions of Africa, 10; advance of Christianity, 10. Agriculture.-Statistics of 1867, 10; crops of 1868, 11; maize, 11; wheat, 11; rye, 11; oats, 11; barley, 11; buckwheat, 11; potato, 11; tobacco, 11; hay, 11; cotton, 11; wool, 11; sorghum, 12; hops, 12; flax, 12; peaches, 12; grapes, 12; quantities and aggregate value of crops in 1867, 12; yield per acre, 12; ramie-plant, 13; waste of sewage, 13; pests, 14; means of destruction, 14.

Alabama.-General Meade assigned to the command, 15; Gen. Hayden also assigned to command, 15; order forbidding military organizations, 15; first acts of Gen. Meade, 15; his order explaining the relations between the civil and military authorities, 15; opposition to the new constitution, 15; address of the convention, 15; resolutions, 16; petition to the lower House of Congress, 16; order relative to newspapers, 16; vote on the new constitution, 16; choice of Governor, 16; bill, for admission of the State, before Congress, 16; reason, 16; minority report, 16; meeting of the Legislature, 16; address to the Senate, 16; object and necessity of the session, 16; proceedings annulled by the subsequent action of Congress, 17; difficulty between the military and judiciary, 17; trials by military commission, 17; convention to choose delegates to the New York Convention, 17; resolutions, 17; admission of the State by Congress, 17; Governor convenes the Legislature, 17; message, 17; order of Gen. Meade recognizing the civil authority, 18; Fourteenth Amendment to Federal Constitution ratified, 18; views of the Governor, 18; order of Gen. Meade resigning the direction of affairs, 18; protest of late State officers, 18; proceedings of the Legislature, 19; veto of the Governor, 19; registration, 19; political canvass, 19; finances, 19; cotton crop, 19; a bill to admit, 168.

of Brazil and Argentine Republic, 23; civil wars in Spanish America, 23; Indian wars, 23; line of steamers to Japan and China, 23; reconstruction in the United States, 23; area and population of each of the independent American States, 24.

Amnesty.-Proclamations of President Johnson, 753, 754. ANDERSSON, CHARLES JOHN.-Birth, 24; pursuits, 24; death, 24.

Anglican Churches.-Number of clergymen, parishes, etc., in the United States, 24; summary, 25; its board of missions, 25; proceedings, 25; dioceses of the Church of England, 26; triennial convention at New York, 26; new dioceses, 26; bishops elected, 26; canon relative to the formation of new dioceses, 26; intercommunion with the Eastern Churches, 27; canon on divorce, 27; commission to revise the psalms and hymns, and report to the next convention, 27; disestablishment of the Church in Ireland, 27; proceedings in England, 27; Christian Union question, 28; new project, 28; union of Anglicans and Wesleyans, 28; proceedings, 23; the ritualistic controversy, 23; proceedings of the Royal Commission in England, 29; details of their decision, 29; the case of MacConochie, 29; decision of the judicial committee, 29; monastic institutions in England, 30; in New York, 30; the Colenso case, 30; report of a committee, 31. Anhalt.-Area, 30; population, 30; religions, 30; public debt, 30.

Argentine Republic.-Area and population, 31; revenue and expenditures, 31; army, 31; imports, 31; election of a new president, 32; votes of electors, 32; war with Paraguay, 32; message of the President, 32; Congress, 32.

Arkansas.-Judicial proceedings, when to be suspended, 32; orders of Gen. Gillem relating thereto, 33; preparations for a new State constitution, 33; Convention, 33; speech of the negro delegate Cypert, 33, 34; free negroes not represented is the mistake of the past age, 34; their votes, 34; intermarriages, 34; the new constitution, 35; bill of rights, 35; franchise, 35; education, 35; mode of ratification, 35; provisions for the election of members of the Legislature,

35; pay of the convention, 35; adjournment, 35; protest of members, 36; their address to the people, 36; removal of municipal officers of Little Rock, 37; the correspondence, 37; order for the disposition of troops, 37; polls kept open-frauds, 37; constitution ratified, 38; votes, 38; report of commanding officer, 38; meeting of the Legislature, 38; public buildings closed against them, 38; forcibly opened, 38; the State admitted to representation in Congress, 39; jurisdiction turned over to the civil authorities, 39; orders of Gen. Gillem, 39; disturbances, 39; proclamation of the Governor, 39; martial law in ten counties, 40; action of the Legislature, 40; finances, 40; assessments, 40; taxes, 40; vote for President, 40; bill to admit, 169; protest, 175.

Army of the United States.-Progress of its reduction, 40; its strength, 41; expenses of the Department, 41; do. Ordnance Department, 41; do. Commissary, 41; bounties, 41; cost of reconstruction at the South, 41; Quartermaster's Department, 41; Inspection Bureau, 41; Freedmen's Bureau, 41; expenses, 41; cadet corps, 42; artillery school, 42; military telegraphy, 42; changes of military districts, 42; troops, how employed, 42; at the South, 43; dropping officers, 43; gathering the remains of soldiers, 43; "grand reunion," 43.

Asia.-War between Russia and the Khan of Bokhara, 43; progress of British India, 44; Wahabees, 44; China-commerce and treaties, 44; Japan, its government, 44; area and population of Asia, 44. Astronomical Phenomena and Progress.-The total solar

eclipse, 44; efforts of the French, English, and German Governments, 44; reports of observations of various parties, 45; the Austrian expedition, 45; the English expedition, 46; the North-German expedition, 46; report of Commander Perrin, 47; do. of another commander, 47; the lunar crater Linné, 47; other supposed changes in the moon, 48; new variable spot on the moon's surface, 48; heat given out by the moon, 49; solar and planetary tables, 49; secular variations of the elements of the earth's orbit, 49; distance of the sun, 50; asteroids, 50; observations of nebulæ, 51; suspected change in a nebula, 52; stellar spectra, 52; a new comet, 52; spectrum of comet II., 1868, 52; colors of Saturn, 53; color of the moon and stars, 54; fall of rain as affected by the moon, 54; the Melbourne telescope, 54. Australia.-Population of the five English colonies, 55;

Australian trade, 55; extent of Australia, 55; popu lation of New South Wales, 55; imports, 55; gold yield, 55; Victoria, its population, 56; details, 56; Western Australia, 56; Queensland, its population, 56; Tasmania, 56; New Zealand, population, 57; details, 57; statistics, 57; outbreak, 57. Austria.-Government, 57; area, 57; provinces and population, 58; religious statistics, 58; ministry, 58; Parliament, 58; budget, 58; army and navy, 59; circular of the ministry, 59; second do., 59; laws of Parliament relating to civil rights, and restricting the church influence, 59; opposition of the bishops, 60; reply of Baron von Beust to the Allocution of the Pope, 60; agitation in Bohemia and Moravia, 61; riots at Prague, 61; Galician Diet, 61; Tyrolese Diet, 61; new commercial treaty, 61.

B

Baden.-Government, 62; population, 62; ecclesiastical

statistics, 62; debt, 62; army, 62.

State laws, 62; national banks, 63; organization and capital, 63; banks of New York city, 63; condition of the national banks, 63; savings-banks in Massachusetts, 63; do. in Rhode Island, 63; do. in Connec ticut, 64; do. in Vermont, 64; recapitulation, 64; relative number of depositors to the inhabitants, 64; savings-banks of New York, 64; increase of deposits in New York State, 64; the clearing-house, 64. Baptists.-Meaning of the collective name, 65; regular Baptists, 65; etatistics, 65; anniversaries of the societies, 65; details, 66; Free-will Baptists, 66; statistics, 66; societies, 66; colleges, 66; General Conference, 66; missions, 66; Liberal Baptists, 67; numbers, 67; other Baptist denominations, 67; statistics, 67; Baptists of Great Britain, 67; do. on the Continent of Europe, 67; missions in Asia, 68; do. in Africa, 69.

BAUGHER, HENRY L.-Birth, 69; pursuits, 69; death, ✪. Bavaria.-Government, 69; population, 69; religious denominations, 69; army, 69; finances, 69. BAVARIA, Louis I., ex-King.-Birth, 70; career, 70; 13erality, 70; death, 70.

BEACH, MOSES YALE.—Birth, 70; pursuits, 70; death, 70. BECK, JAMES B.-Representative from Kentucky, 124; on the impeachment of the President, 138; on a minority report on reconstruction, 163. Belgium.-Government, 71; population, 71 ; ministry, 71; budget, 71; army, 71; imports and exports, 71; shipping, 71; elections, 71; active army, 71. BELL, HENRY H.-Birth, 71; public services, 71; death, 72.

BELL, SAMUEL DANA.—Birth, 72; pursuits, 72; death, 72. BENJAMIN, JOHN F.-Representative from Missouri, 19; offers resolutions relative to reconstruction, 149. BERRYER, PIERRE ANTOINE.-Birth, 72; career, 73; death,

73.

BETTS, SAMUEL R.-Birth, 74; judicial services, 4; death, 74.

BINGHAM, JOHN A.-Representative from Ohio, 134; ou reconstruction, 150; reports a bill relative to reconstruction, 160-162.

BLAIR, FRANK P.-Letter previous to the Democratic Convention, 746.

Bolivia.-Limits, 74; population, 75; army, 75; expendi

tures, 75; new Congress, 75; rights of citizenship, 75; contract with the National Bolivian Navigation Company, 75.

BOUTWELL, GEORGE S.-Representative from Massachu setts, 124; on the impeachment of the President, 130; on the republican State guarantee, 165; reports a joint resolution relative to the electoral college, 194.

BRADBURY, WILLIAM B.-Birth, 75; pursuits, 76; death,

76.

Brazil.-Government, 76; new ministry, 76; area, 76:

revenue, 76; imports and exports, 76; shipping, 7; commerce of Santos, 77; speech of the Emperor to the General Assembly, 77; difference with the ministry, 77; passage up the Paraguay River refused to American gunboat Wasp, 78; remonstrance, 78; apal ogy, 78; emancipation, 78; war, 78. Bremen.-Government, 78; area, 78; population, 78; debt, 78; commerce, 78.

BREWSTER, Sir DAVID.-Birth, 78; career, 79; death, 19. Bridges.-Quincy Railway bridge, 79; railway bridge at

India Point, Providence, 80; bridge over the Alleghany, 80; bridge strains, 81; method of determining, 81.