MILITARY DEPARTMENTS AND DISTRICTS. The following military nominations were made by the President, and confirmed by the Senate on the 5th of March: Lieutenant General W. T. Sherman to be General of the army; Major General P. H. Sheridan to be Lieutenant General, vice Sherman, promoted; Brigadier General J. M. Schofield to be Major General, vice Sheridan, promoted; Colonel Christopher C. Auger to be Brigadier General, vice Schofield, promoted. The following changes in the command of the Military Departments and Districts were made in accordance with an order issued from the Army Headquarters on March 5: Brigadier and Brevet Major General A. H. Terry was assigned to the Department of the South. Major General George G. Meade was assigned to the command of the military Division of the Atlantic, headquarters at Philadelphia. Lieut. General P. H. Sheridan was assigned to the command of the Department of Louisiana. Major General W. S. Hancock was assigned to the command of the Department of Dakota. Brigadier and Brevet Major General E. R. S. Canby was assigned to the command of the First Military District. Brevet Major General J. J. Reynolds, Colonel of the 26th Infantry, was assigned to the command of the Fifth Military District. By another order, issued on the 16th of March, the following additional changes were made: Lieut. General P. H. Sheridan was assigned to the command of the Military Division of Missouri. Major General H. W. Halleck was assigned to the command of the Military Division of the South, to be composed of the Departments of the South, Louisiana, the Fourth Military District, and the States composing the present Department of the Cumberland; head-quarters at Louisville. Major General George H. Thomas was assigned to the command of the Military Division of the Pacific. Major General J. M. Schofield was assigned to the command of the Department of the Missouri; Illinois, and Fort Smith, Arkansas, were transferred to this Department. Brigadier and Brevet Major General O. O. Howard was assigned to the command of the Department of Louisiana. The Department of Washington was discontinued, and merged in the Department of the East. The First Military District was added to the Military Division of the Atlantic. (See page 124). FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS.-STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE SENATE. Foreign Relations. Messrs. Sumner (chairman), Fessenden, Cameron, Harlan, Morton, Patterson, and Casserly. Commerce. Messrs. Chandler (chairman), Corbett, Kellogg, Spencer, Conkling, Buckingham, and Vickers. Finances. Messrs. Sherman (chairman), Williams, Cattell, Morrill, Warner, Fenton, and Bayard. Manufactures. Messrs. Morton (chairman), Yates, Robertson, Boreman, and McDonald. Agriculture. Messrs. Cameron (chairman), Robertson, Tipton, Gilbert, and McCreery. Appropriations. Messrs. Fessenden (chairman), Grimes, Wilson, Cole, Sprague, Sawyer, and Stockton. Military Affairs. Messrs. Wilson (chairman), Howard, Cameron, Morton, Thayer, Abbott, and Schurz. Naval Affairs. Messrs. Grimes (chairman). Anthony, Cragin, Nye, Drake, Scott, and Stockton. Judiciary. Messrs. Trumbull (chairman), Stewart, Edmunds, Conkling, Rice, Carpenter, and Thurman. Post Offices and Post Roads. Messrs. Ramsey (chairman), Pomeroy, McDonald, Harlan, Cole, Gilbert, and Thurman. Public Lands. Messrs. Pomeroy (chairman), Williams Tipton, Osborn, Warner, Sprague, and Casserly, Private Land Claims. Messrs. Williams (chairman), Ferry, Sawyer, Kellogg, and Bayard. Indian Affairs. Messrs. Harlan (chairman), Ross, Corbett, Thayer, Buckingham, Pool, and Davis. Pensions. Messrs. Edmunds (chairman), Tipton, Spencer, Pratt, Brownlow, Schurz, and McCreery. Revolutionary Claims. Messrs. Yates (chairman), Pool, Fowler, Brownlow, and Saulsbury. Claims. Messrs. Howe (chairman), Willey, Scott, Sprague, Robertson, Pratt, and Davis. District of Columbia. Messrs. Hamlin (chairman), Patterson, Sumner, Rice, Harris, Pratt, and Vickers. Patents. Messrs. Willey (chairman), Ferry, Carpenter, Osborn, and Norton. Public Buildings and Grounds. Messrs. Morrill (chairman), Trumbull, Ferry, Cole, and Stockton. Territories. Messrs. Nye (chairman), Cragin, McDonald, Schurz, Howard, Boreman, and McCreery. Pacific Railroad. Messrs. Howard (chairman), Sherman, Ramsey, Stewart, Wilson, Harlan, Drake, Rice, Abbott, Fenton, and Scott. Mines and Mining. Messrs. Stewart (chairman), Chandler, Anthony, Yates, Ross, Saulsbury and Fowler. Revision of the Laws of the United States. Messrs. Conkling (chairman), Sumner, Carpenter, Pool, and Bayard. To Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate. Messrs. Cragin (chairman), Ed. munds, and Davis. Printing. Messrs. Anthony (chairman), Harris, and Casserly. Library. Messrs. Cattell (chairman), Howe, and Fessenden. Enrolled Bills. Messrs. Thayer (chairman), Patterson, and Abbott. Engrossed Bills. Messrs. Ross (chairman), Buckingham, and Norton. Education. Messrs. Drake (chairman), Morrill, Pomeroy, Sawyer, and Corbett. COMMITTEES OF THE HOUSE. Ways and Means. Messrs. Schenck (chairman), Hooper, Allison, Maynard, Kelley, Brooks, Blair, McCarthy, and Marshall. Appropriations. Messrs. Dawes (chairman), Beaman, Kelsey, Washburn, (Wis.), Lawrence, (Ohio), Sargent, Dickey, Niblack, and Beck. Banking and Currency. Messrs. Garfield (chairman), Lynch, Judd, Coburn, Smith, (Vt.), Packer, (Penn.), Lash, Cox, and Jones, (Ky.) Judiciary. Messrs. Bingham (chairman), Davis, (N. Y.), Butler, (Mass.), Cook, Peters, Mercur, Loughridge, Eldridge, and Kerr. Claims. Messrs. Washburne (Mass.), (chairman), Hotchkiss, Holman, Cobb, Stokes, Ela, Dockery, Stiles, and Moore. Reconstruction. Messrs. Butler (Mass.), (chairman), Farnsworth, Beaman, Paine, Ward, (N. Y.), Julian, Poland, Whittemore, Beck, Woodward, and Morgan. Foreign Affairs. Messrs. Banks (chairman), Orth, Judd, Wilkinson, Sheldon, Willard, Ambler, Wood, and Swann. Reorganization of the Civil Service. Messrs. Hotchkiss (chairman), Jenckes, Armstrong, Maynard, and Kerr. On Ninth Census. Messrs. Stokes (chairman), Garfield, Banks, Allison, Laflin, Cullom, Wilkinson, Haldeman, and Schumaker. Pacific Railroad. Messrs. Wheeler (chairman), Logan, Morrill, (Penn.), Van Horn, (Mo.), Hopkins, Buffinton, Lynch, Palmer, Roots, Van Trump, Voorhees, Axtell, and Wilson, (Min.) Commerce. Messrs. Dixon (chairman), O'Neill, Ingersoll, Sawyer, Finkelnburg, Bennett, Conger, Holman, and Potter. Public Lands. Messrs. Julian (chairman), Ketchum, Townsend, Fitch, Hawley, Winans, Smyth, (Iowa), Wilson, (Min.), and McCormick. Post Offices and Post Roads. Messrs. Farnsworth (chairman), Ferry, Hill, Twitchell, Boyd, Tyner, Fitch, Smith, and Adams. Manufactures. Messrs. Morrill (Penn.), (chairman), Ames, Sawyer, Smith, (Vt.), Sanford, Upson, Morrill, (Me.), Cleveland, and Rice. Agriculture. Messrs. Wilson (Ohio), (chairman), Loughridge, Fisher, Smith, (Tenn.), Dyer, Benton, Crebs, Axtell and Reeves. Indian Affairs. Messrs Clark (chairman), Van Horn, Shanks, Taffe, Bailey, Deweese, Armstrong, Mungen, and Trimble. Territories. Messrs. Cullom (chairman), Ward, Taffe, Dyer, Pomeroy, Moore, (Ohio), Duval, Hambleton, and Cleveland. Revolutionary Pensions. Messrs. Deweese (chairman), Willard, Knapp, Gilfillan, Winans, Butler, (Tenn.), Rice, Rogers, and Smith, (Oregon.) Invalid Pensions. Messrs. Benjamin (chairman) Benton, Wilson, (Ohio), Hay, Phelps, Bowen, Strickland, Bird, and Sweeney. Roads and Canals. Messrs. Ingersoll (chairman), Ames, Cobb, (N. C.), Smith, (Ohio), Prosser, McGrew, Wells, and Winchester. Mines and Mining. Messrs. Ferris (chairman), Sargent, Hawkins, Strickland, Pomeroy, Duval, Roots, Dickinson, and Briggs. Military Affairs. Messrs. Logan (chairman), Cobb, (Wis.), Negley, Packard, Stoughton, Witcher, Asper, Morgan, and Slocum. Militia. Messrs. Shanks (Ind.), (chairman), Clarke, Smythe, Boles, Donley Moore, (Ohio), Trimble, Reading, and Beck. District of Columbia. Messrs. Cook (chairman), Welker, Williams," (Ind.), Gilfillan, Boles, Hamilton, Cowles, Stone, and Knott. Revolutionary Claims. Messrs. Boyd (chairman), Ambler Prosser, Stoughton Witcher, Jones, (N. C.), Negley, Morrissey, and McNeeley. Public Expenditures. Messrs. Coburn (chairman), Sawyer, Wilson, (Ohio), Hawkins, Knapp, Donley, Jones, (N. C.), Getz, and Hamill. Private Land Claims. Messrs. Orth (chairman), O'Neil, Dixon, Welker, Maynard, Washburn, (Wis.), Swann, Knott, and Potter. Naval Affairs. Messrs. Scofield (chairman), Ferry, Stevens, Ketcham, McCrary, Hale, Archer, and Haight. Freedmen's Affairs. Messrs. Dockery (chairman), Shanks, (Ind.), Bailey, Tillman, Hawley, McGrew, and Moffatt. Education and Labor. Messrs. Arnell (chairman), Beatty, Hoar, Townsend, Hamilton, (Fla.), Burdett, Tyner, McNeeley, and Rogers. Revision of Laws. Messrs. Poland (chairman), Ferris, Blair, McCrary, Hoar, Finkelnburg, Upson, Voorhees, and Johnson. Coinage, Weights and Measures. Messrs. Heaton (chairman), Kelley, Hooper, Hill, Davis, Shober, and Griswold. Patents. Messrs. Jenckes (chairman), Stevens, Smith, (Ohio), Tillman, Moore, (Ill.), Johnson, Sanford, Van Auken, and Calkin. Public Buildings and Grounds. Messrs. Hopkins (chairman), Beatty, Smith, (Tenn.), Tanner, and Getz. Mileage. Messrs. Hawkins (chairman), Mercur, Packard, Stevenson, and Fox. Accounts. Messrs. Cake (chairman), Arnell, Buffinton, Kelsey, and Golladay. Expenditures in the State Department. Messrs. Bailey (chairman), Hale, Twitchell, Styles, and Archer. Expenditures in the Treasury Department. Messrs. Allison (chairman), Wheeler, Lash, Randall, and Briggs. Expenditures in the War Department. Messrs. Williams (chairman), Tanner, Cessna, Cobb, (N. C.), and Burr. Expenditures in the Navy Department. and Reeves. Messrs. Lynch (chairman), Cowles, Dickey, Hamill, Expenditures in the Post Office Department. Messrs. Moore (N. J.), (chairman), Bingham, Hay, Benjamin, and Mayham. Expenditures in the Interior Department. Messrs. Ela (chairman), Bennett, Packer, Strader, and Adams. Expenditures of Public Buildings. Messrs. Churchill (chairman), Ela, Phelps, Hoag, and Hambleton, On Rules. The Speaker (chairman), Messrs. Banks, Ferry, Garfield, and Brooks. GENERAL INDEX. A. ABDUL-AZIZ, Sultan of Turkey, 590. ABYSSINIA, chief town, 598; area and popula- ADJUTANT General's Department, 111. AFRICA, 598; divisions and subdivisions, with AGRICULTURE, department of, 183; commis- AGRICULTURAL, exchanges, 184; museum, 184; ALABAMA, Governors of, 64; U. S. Senators of, Capital, 275; area, 275; population, 275, Capital, 482; area, 482: population, 482, ALDEBARAN, Occultation of, 19. ALEXANDER II., Emperor of Russia, 582. AMERICA, area, 523; population, 523; ANAM, area and population, 592; divisions, 503; States and Territories, see under each, also see ARIZONA TERRITORY, Governors of, 69; dele- | Capital, 484; area, 484; population, 484, 71, 262 Representatives in Congress, 74, Capital, 281; area, 281; population, 281, ARMENIAN CHURCH, 615. ARMY LIST, 111; general officers, 111; Adjutant ARMORIES AND ARSENALS, 123. ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT, 227. ASSESSORS of Internal Revenue, 99. ASTEROIDS, 14, 47. ASTRONOMICAL DEPARTMENT, 9; eras, 9; Jew- ish calendar, 9; Jewish year, 9; Jewish ASTRONOMICAL DEPARTMENT— 10; seasons, 10; rising and setting of Mer- AUSTRIA, capital, 540; area, 540, 541; popula- B. BADEN, capital, 566; area and population, 566; BATTLE, LORENZO, president of Uruguay, 133. 564; districts, 564; emigration, 564; reign. |