the Legislature, 516; its action, 517; troops in the Fed-
eral service, 517; instructions to Commissioners to the
Peace Conference, 564.

Newport News, its situation, 517; encampment, 517.
New York, its boundaries, 517; population, 517; taxable
valuation of the State, 518; freight of railroads and
canals, 518; vote of the State, 518; the Legislature, 519;
Message of the Governor, 519; deflant resolutions of the
Legislature, 519; action of the people, 519; other memo-
rials, 520; action relative to the Peace Conference, 520;
public meeting in New York City, 520; meeting at Al-
bany, 521; its resolutions, 521; petitions, 521; seizure
of muskets by the police, 522; letter of Governor
Brown, of Georgia, 522; letter of Governor Morgan,
522; further correspondence, 522; number of volun-
teers furnished by the State, 523; ordnance and small
arms, 523; money and men advanced by New York,
524; instructions to Commissioners to Peace Confer-
ence, 564.

New York City, its importance, 524; population, 525;
value of property, 525; changes in the population, 526;
city railroads, 526; lots improved and unimproved, 527;
tenant houses, 527; number of dwellings, 527; property,
tax, and population, 528; tax of, in 1861, 529; debt of, 529;
loans for war purposes in 1861, 529; political bias of, 529;
patriotism of, 530; Mr. Seward's speech in, Dec. 22, 1860,
580; effort for compromise in, 530; patriotic excitement
of, after the fall of Sumter, 580, 531; Mayor Wood's
proclamation, 531; departure of the Seventh Regiment
from, April 19, 1861, 531; mass meeting in Union Square,
April 20, 581; meetings of the Chamber of Commerce
and the New York Bar, 582; departure of the Sixth,
Twelfth, and Seventy-first Regiments N. Y. S. M. on
the 21st April, 532; the churches of, on the 21st, 532;
departure of the Eighth, Thirteenth, and Sixty-ninth
Regiments on the 22d April, 583; table of regiments
passing through, April 19th to June 29th, 538; money
and men for the war furnished by, 533, 534; arrivals of
foreign emigrants at, 534; statistics of crime and inci-
dental police duties in, 534; supply of meat for, 534;
flour and domestic produce delivered in, 1860-61, 534;
City Inspector's report for 1861, 585; dispensary returns
in, 535; monthly return of marriages and births in, 585.
NICHOLSON, A. O. P., Senator in Thirty-sixth Congress, 166;
on the complaints of the South, 187; revolution has
suspended the relations between the Federal Govern-
ment and the seceded States, 220.

Norfolk, Va. description of, 585; navy yard opposite to,
535; vessels in, 535; destruction of navy yard, 536; old
Fort Norfolk, with its ammunition, taken by the Vir-
ginia authorities, 536; collector of prohibited from ac-
cepting drafts of United States, &c., 536; small notes
issued by City Council of, 536; arrival of Confederate
troops at, 536, 587.

North Carolina, description of, 537; action of Legislature
of, 537; resolution of inhabitants of Pasquotank County,
537; Forts Caswell and Johnston seized, but restored by
Governor J. W. Ellis, 587; Governor Ellis' Letter to
President Buchanan, Jan. 12, 1861, 537, 538; reply of
Secretary of War, 588; passage of convention bill, 538;
appointment of commissioners to Peace Conference at
Washington, 588; vote of on Convention or no Con-
vention, 538; Governor Ellis' reply to the President's
call for troops, 588, 539; Pasquotank resolutions of April
23d, 539; Governor Ellis's proclamation, 539; the Gov-
ernor calls for the enrolment of 30,000 men, 539; special
session of Legislature of, May 1, 1861, 539; Governor's
message, 539; call of convention, 539; other action of
Legislature, 539, 540; seizure of Federal forts, mint, and
arsenal, 540; ordinance of secession of, 540; ordinance

assenting to Constitution of Provisional Government of
Confederate States, 540; delegates elected to Confed.
erate Congress, 540; flag of, 540; Senators from, to Con-
federate Congress, 540; loan of one million dollars au-
thorized, 540; sending forward of troops from, 540;
Union movement in Hyde County, 540, 541; Union Con-
vention in Hyde County, 541; repair and manufacture
of fire-arms at Fayetteville, 541; contributions of the
State for war purposes, 541; number of troops sent
from to Confederate army, 541; representatives from
in Confederate Congress, 541; tea raised in, 541; battles
and skirmishes in, 541.

Obituaries, American, 541-546; Foreign, 547–556.
Ocracoke Inlet, the fortification abandoned by Confed.
erate troops, and destroyed by Federal troops, 289.
Ohio, description of, 556; Governor Dennison's message
to Legislature of, 566; extra session of Legislature of,
556; joint resolutions of Legislature of, Jan. 12, 1861,
556; detention of arms at Cincinnati, 556, 557; militia
laws of, passed April 12th and 18th, 557; Governor Den-
nison's proclamation, 557; war laws passed by Legis.
lature April 17, 18, and 26, and May 7, 557; lease of pub.
lic works authorized, 557; general order for organization
of militia, 558; arrival of Ohio troops in Washington,
May 23, 558; organization and number of Ohio troops in
United States service, 558; expenses paid by State, and
refunded by United States, 558, 559; Ohio Democratie
State Convention, action of, 559; statistics of State,
taxes, valuation, debts, naturalization, freight, &c., 559,
560; instructions of Legislature to commissioners to
Peace Congress, 564, 565.

ONDERDONK, BENJAMIN T., biographical notice of, 560, 561.
Ordnance Depot at San Antonio, Texas.-Its surrender,
819; its contents, 819; given up by Gen. Twiggs, 319.
ORLOFF, PRINCE ALEXEI F., biographical notice of, 561.

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Paducah, Ky., description of, 561; occupation of by Fed-
eral troops, 561, 562.

Paris Congress, declaration of, approved by Confederate
Government, 164.

Patents, new law of, 562; number issued, 562.
PATTERSON, General, explanation of his position on the day
of the battle at Bull Run, 89.

Peace Conferences, initiated by resolutions of Virginia, 178,
562; views of President Buchanan on, 562; recom.
mended by other States, 562; meeting of at Washing-
ton, Feb. 4, 1861, 562; delegates or commissioners from
the several States, 562; John Tyler's address at the
opening of 563, 564; resolutions or instructions con-
trolling their commissioners adopted by the Legis
latures of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Ohio, 564;
resolutions or instructions of Legislatures of Indiana,
Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, and Tennessee, 565; Mr.
Guthrie's resolution, and the committee appointed un-
der it, 566; report of that committee, 566; sections of
said report as amended, and the votes on these sections,
566-568; Mr. Guthrie's preamble, 568; Mr. Johnson's
resolution, 568;

Resolutions of Virginia relative to, 178; communi-
cated to Congress by President Buchanan, 178.
PEDRO V., King of Portugal, biographical notice of, 568.
Pendleton, GEORGE H., member of Congress, 226; on the
conduct of the war, 240.

PENDLETON's battery at Bull Run, S4.

Pennsylvania, description of, 568, 569; minerals of, 569; Governor Curtin's inaugural, 569; resolutions of Legislature of, January 17 and 24, 569; Message of Governor Curtin on military affairs, April 9, 569, 570; militia law passed, April 12, 570; law to punish treason, passed April 13, 570; excitement in Philadelphia on the 15th of April, 570, 571; Mayor Henry's speech, 571; Governor Curtin's proclamation convening an extra session of Legislature, April 30, 571; movement of troops under call of the President, 571; acts of the Legislature in regard to the war, at extra session, 571, 572; loan of $8,000,000 authorized, 572; esolutions of Legislature, 572; Pennsylvania troops in United States service, 572; arms owned by the State, 572; members of Congress elected on Union issues, 572, 578; debt of Pennsylvania, 578; railroad progress in the State, 578; instructions of Legislature to Commissioners to the Peace Conference, 564.

Pensacola Bay, description of, 578; Fort Pickens taken possession of by Lieutenant A. J. Slemmer, 573; Fort Pickens reenforced, 12-16 April, 578; Wilson's regiment stationed on Santa Rosa Island, 573, 574; daring exploits of Federal troops, 574; attack on Wilson's regiment, October 8, 574; bombardment of Forts Barrancas and McRae by Fort Pickens and of Fort Pickens by the Confederate forts and batteries, 574, 575; Colonel Brown's conclusions, 575.

Perrysville, description of, 575.
Personal Liberty Laws, motives which led to their enact-

ment, 575; the sixth section of the Fugitive Slave Law,
575, 576; Governor Morgan (N. Y.), recommends their
repeal, 576; Governors Washburn (Me.), Banks (Mass.),
and Packer (Penn.), make similar recommendations,
576; recommendation of the Governor of Ohio, 577;
law of Rhode Island, 577; do. of Vermont, 577; do. of
Maine, 577; do. of Connecticut, 577; do. of Massachu
setts, 577; do. of New York, 578; New Jersey has
no law, 578; law of Pennsylvania, 578; Indiana and
Illinois no law, 578; law of Michigan, 578; Ohio, 578;
Wisconsin, 578; number of fugitives in twenty years,
579.

Petroleum, supply of the springs, 579; how raised to the

surface, 579; location of springs, 579; decline in price, 579; exports of, 580; Oil Creek, 580; probable duration of the supply, 580; its uses, 560.

PHELPS, Gen., commands first body of troops sent to Ship Island, 291; arrival, 291; landing, 291; issues a procla mation, 291; its effect, 292.

Philippi, its situation, 581; skirmish at, 581; details, 581. Pickens, Fort, reenforcement of, 511, 708. PICKENS, GOV. F. W., (S. C.,) inaugural, Dec. 10, 1860, 647, 648; proclamation, 653; speech, Dec. 21, 654; his cabinet, 654, 655; correspondence with Major Anderson relative to surrender of Fort Sumter, 656; letter to President Buchanan relative to surrender of Fort Sumter, 656; address to the people on the taking of Fort Sumter, 657.

PIERCE, Gen. E. W., commands the expedition to Great Bethel, 843.

Piers at Southport, England, 581; the form, 581; manner of driving the piles, 581; advantages of the method, 581. Pig Point, its situation, 581; skirmish at, 581. PILLOW, Gen. GIDEON, occupies Columbus, Ky., 103; his letter on exchange of prisoners, 582. Planters apply to Confederate Government for relief, 145; reply of the Secretary of the Treasury, 145. POLK, Gen. LEONIDAS, enters Kentucky, 403; his pastoral letter, 480; letter relative to an exchange of prisoners, 583.

POLK, TRUSTEN, Senator in Thirty-sixth Congress, 166; on the

condition of the country, 190; on the acts of President
Lincoln, 229, 233.

POPE, JOHN, biographical notice of, 724.
Population of Confederate States, 180.
PORTER, Col. ANDREW, at Bull Run, 82, 85; biographical no-
tice of, 723.

PORTER, FITZ JOHN, biographical notice of, 723.
Port Royal Expedition, its object and destination, 259;
population and productions of the group of islands, 289;
date of sailing, 289; vessels of the expedition, 289; com-
manded by Com. S. F. Dupont, 289; the military forces
of the expedition, 289; commanded by Gen. T. W.
Sherman, 289; a gale of wind scatters the ships, 290;
arrival at Port Royal, 290; vessels enter the harbor,
290; a storm, 290; the forts, 290; attack on them, 290;
its plan, 290; captured, 290; loss, 290; results, 290.
POWELL, LAZARUS W., Senator in Thirty-sixth Congress, 166;
offers a resolution to refer President's Message, relative to
the state of the country, to a committee of thirteen, 168;
remarks, 168; on the acts of President Lincoln, 230; on
the right of Senators from Western Virginia to seats,
236; on the conduct of the war, 286, 238.
PRENTISS, BENJAMIN M., biograpical notice of, 725.
PRESTON, W. B., member of Confederate Congress, 165.
Prisoners or persons arrested, a list of, 861.
Prisoners, exchange of, difficulty of the question, 582; how

solved, 582; letter of Gen. Pillow, 582; reply of Gen. Grant, 582; manner in which an exchange was made at Cairo, 588; details, 588; treaty between Gens. Fremont and Price, 584.

Privateering, the law on the subject, 584; proclamation of President Lincoln, 585; action of the Confederate States, 585; numbers, 586; the Petrel, 586; the Calhoun, 586; Ivey, 586; Wm. H. Webb, 586; the Dixie, 586; the Jeff. Davis, 587; her prizes, 587; the Bonita, 587; the Sallie, 587; the James Gray, 587; prizes at New Orleans, 587; revenue cutters made privateers, 588; the Gordon 588; the Coffee, 588; the McRae, 588; the Lady Davis, 588; the Nina, 588; the Jackson, 588; the Incarora, 588; the Yorktown, 588; the Everglade, 588; the Savannah, 588; discussion on the subject in the British House of Lords, 589; action of foreign Governments, 590; one of the crew of the Jeff. Davis, 590; his trial for piracy, 590; opinion of Judge Sprague, 590; trial of the crew of the Savannah, 591; letter of Secretary Welles as to letters of marque, 592; transfer of ships, 592; the Nashville, 598; the Sumter, 598; proclamation of Pres. Davis granting letters to, 187; instructions to 188; steamer Nashville, 593; her cruise, 593; the Sumter, 593; her cruises, 593; escapes, 593. Protest of Southern Senators on the admission of California, 193.

PRYOR, ROGER A., member of Congress, 166; on the object of the military bill, 215; remarks at Charleston on the attack upon Sumter, 187.

Public Documents, Message of President Buchanan, December, 1860, 594; do. Jan. 8th, 1861, 598; inaugural of President Lincoln, 600; Message of President Lincoln, July 4th, 1861, 603; do. December, 1861, 607; inaugural of President Davis, 612; Message of President Davis, April 29th, 1861, 614; do. July 20th, 1861, 619; do. Nov. 18th, 1861, 622; proclamation of neutrality by Queen Victoria, 624; decree of the Queen of Spain, 626; decree of the King of Portugal, 626; views of the Emperor of Russia, 626; Constitution of the Confederate States, 627. PUGH, GEO. E., Senator in Thirty-sixth Congress, 166; there is

nothing which cannot be redressed promptly and in the most efficacious manner, 170; the Northern people had no policy against slavery, 171; on the amendment of the Constitution, 222.

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Railway, Subterranean, beneath the city of London, 631; its commencement, 631; length, 632; details of a portion of the line, 632; trial trip, 633.

Ration, details of the old ration to the soldier, 638; details of the present ration, 633.

REAGAN, JOHN H., appointed Postmaster-General, 158. Resolution, on the duty of the soldiers of the army relative to slaves, 227.

Retaliation measures of between Confederate and Federal Governments, 151.

REYNOLDS, JOHN H., member of Congress, 166; let the present laws be enforced, 214; rally under the folds of the stars and stripes, and the country will be saved, 214. Rhode Island, its boundaries, 633; political divisions, 633;

manufacturers, 634; Personal Liberty Bill, 684; action of the Legislature, 634; troops of the State, 634; extra session of the Legislature, 635; Message of the Governor, 635; acts, 635; force furnished to the United States, 635; instructions of Legislature of to her commissioners to the Peace Conference, 564; export of rice prohibited, 165.

RICHARDSON, WILLIAM A., member of Congress, 225; on the

cause of the war, 244, 245; on the statements of General Scott relative to the battle of Bull Run, 245, 246. Richmond, Confederate Congress adjourn to meet at, 140. RICKETT's battery at Bull Run, 84.

ROBERTSON, JOHN, sent by Virginia as Peace Commissioner to the Southern Confederacy, 780.

Romney, its situation, 636; skirmish at, 637. ROSECRANS, W. S., biographical notice of, 725. Ross, Joux, his proclamation to the Cherokees, 873. ROST, P. A., appointed Commissioner to Europe, 160. Russia, its sizc, 636; races of people, 636; Government, 636; causes of disturbance, 636; outbreak in Poland, 687; circumstances, 687; agronomic societies suppressed, €37; serfdom of Russia, 638; numbers, 638; condition of serfs, 638; ways of becoming free, 638; territorial acquisitions, 639; conduct towards the United States, 639; finances, 639; internal improvements, 639; education, 639

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Sacramento City, loss by floods in 1861, 92. SAULSBURY, WILLARD, Senator in Thirty-sixth Congress, 166; Delaware was the first to adopt the Constitution, and will be the last to do any act looking to separation, 168.

SHAW LEMUEL, birth, 640; pursuits, 640; public offices, 640. SHERMAN General THOMAS W., proclamation to inhabitants

of South Carolina, Nov. 8, 1861, 644; biographical notice of, 724.

SHERMAN, General WILLIAM T., takes command in Kentucky, 406; biographical notice of, 723. SHERMAN, JOHN, member of the Senate, 225; on the acts of the President, 234; on the conduct of the war, 236, 287; on the cause of the war, 243.

Ship Island Expedition, its destination, 290; island occupied by a Confederate force, 291; evacuated, 291; occupied by Federal troops, 291; captures of Confederate vessels, 291; General Butler commands the military force, 291; first troops composing the expedition, 291; landing on the island, 291; proclamation of General Phelps, 291; other troops added, 292.

SICKLES, DANIEL E., member of Congress, 166; on the present condition of things, 214.

SIEGEL, FRANZ, biographical notice of, 726. SINGLETON, O. R., member of Congress, 166; refuses to serve on the Compromise Committee, 201.

Slaves, Federal Government had no control over them in the States before the war, 641; its relation to the slaves of insurgents, 641; slaves called contrabands-meaning of the term as thus applied, 641; Gen. Butler's correspondence with the Secretary of War in regard to them, and reply of that functionary, 641, 642; correspondence relative to execution of Fugitive Slave law between U. S. Marshal in Kansas and Attorney-General, in July, 642; Confiscation Act approved Aug. 6, 1861, 642; Secretary Cameron's second letter to Gen. Butler, 642, 648; Secretary Caleb Smith's statement of the position of the Government on the question, at Providence, Aug. 16, 1861, 643; Gen. Fremont's proclamation, Aug. 30, 1861, 643; President Lincoln's modification of the proclamation, Sept. 11, 1861, 644; Instructions of Secretary Cameron to Gen. T. W Sherman, Oct. 14, 1861, 644; Gen. Sherman's proclamation, Nov. 8, 1861, 644; Gen. Dix's proclamation to inhabitants of Eastern shore of Virginia, Nov. 17, 1861, 644; Gen. Halleck's order prohibiting fugitives from entering the lines of the camps of the army, 644; Col. Cochrane's address, 645; Secretary Cameron's address, 645; Secretary Chase's orders respecting fugitive slaves to be employed on cotton and other plantations at Port Royal, Nov. 30, 1861, 645, 646; Secretary Seward's instructions to Gen. McClellan in regard to escaped slaves of insurgents, 646.

SLEMMER, Lieut. ADAM J., takes possession of Fort Pickens,

578.

SCHLOSSER, FRIEDRICH C., birth, 640; pursuits, 640; writings, 640.

SCOTT, General WINFIELD, views on the danger to the
Union, 123; his statements relative to the battle at Bull
Run, 246; order announcing the issue of demand notes
to pay the soldiers, 299.

SCRIBE, EUGENE, birth, 640; occupation, 640; writings, 640.
Sequestration Act of Confederate Congress, 165.
SEWARD, W. H., Senator in Thirty-sixth Congress, 166;

presents the memorial from New York City, 180; remarks, 180; on the state of public affairs, 192; offers a minority report relative to the propositions of the Peace Conference, 220; speech in Boston, 450; speech at New York, Dec. 22, 1860, 580; instructions to General McClellan relative to escaped slaves of insurgents, 646; letter to the commissioners from South Carolina, 711; second note, 718; letter to Governor Hicks, 716. Sewell's Point, its situation, 640; attack on the batteries, 640; results, 640.

free navigation of the Mississippi, 184; withdraws, 200; speech on the occasion, 200; seized on board the steamer Trent, 693.

SMITH, CALEB, statement of the position of Government in regard to fugitive slaves, 643.

SMITH, CHARLES F., biographical notice of, 724. SMITH, E. K., arrives at Bull Run with troops, 85; appoints Col. W. M. Churchill provost-marshal in East Tennessee, 441. South Carolina determines to attack Fort Sumter, 182; her members retire from Congress, 206; description of, 646; debate on Secession in Legislature of, in 1850, 646, 647; electoral vote of the State cast for Breckenridge, Nov. 6, 1860, 647; act passed by Legislature calling a State Convention to meet at Columbia, Dec. 17, 1860, 647; Message of Gov. Gist, 647; military bill passed, 647; Gov. Gist's farewell Message, Dec., 1860, 647; Gov. Pickens' Inaugural, Dec. 10, 1860, 647, 648; Convention assembled, Dec. 17, 648; Mr. Jamison's opening address, 648; Convention adjourns to Charleston on ac

count of small-pox at Columbia, 649; committees appointed by Convention, 649; ordinance of secession, 650; Governor authorized to appoint Collectors of Customs, Postmasters, &c., and incumbents to hold over till such appointments are made, 650; discussion on this subject, 650, 651; ordinance of secession signed, 651; address to people of Southern States, 651; declaration of causes, prepared by Mr. Memminger, 651, 652; commissioners appointed to proceed to Washington and treat with the Federal Government for the delivery of the forts, magazines, lighthouses, &c., to the sovereign State of South Carolina, 651; the manner in which secession was effected, 652, 653; declaration adopted, 653; Gov. Pickens' proclamation, 653; report of Committee on relations with other Slaveholding States, 653; trans. fer of powers of Congress to State Legislature by the Convention, 653; anxiety concerning forts in Charleston Harbor, and pledge of members of Congress from South Carolina that they should not be attacked if no reênforcements were sent to them, 654; Gov. Pickens' speech, Dec. 21, 1860, 654; Gov. Pickens' cabinet, 654, 655; seizure of the U. S. arsenal, Dec. 31, 1860, 655; loan of $400,000 authorized, 655; Palmetto flag adopted, 655; Gen. Pickens proposes purchase of three war steamers, 655; J. N. Merriman, collector at Georgetown, S. C., seized on charge of treason against the State, 655; reply of South Carolina to the peace propositions of Virginia, 655, 656; Dudley Mann sent to Europe as a commissioner to negotiate for the opening of direct trade, 656; arms sent to Florida on its secession, 656; correspondence between Gov. Pickens and Major Anderson relative to surrender of Fort Sumter, 656; Gov. Pickens' letter to Pres. Buchanan, 656; $1,880,000 to be issued in Treasury notes, 656; volunteer force of 10,000 men ordered to be raised, 656; Provisional Constitution of Confederate States adopted, March 26, 656; Fort Sumter captured by orders from Confederate Government, 657; Governor Pickens' address, 657; 19,000 troops sent to Virginia, 657; representatives of South Carolina in Confederate Congress, 657.

Spectrography, definition of, and experiments in, 657;

the Spectroscope, 657; discovery of new elements by means of, 658; detection of elements existing in the atmosphere by means of the Spectroscope, 658. Springfield, Mo., description of, 658; battle of Wilson's

Creek, and retreat upon, 659; Zagonyi's recapture of, 659. STANNARD'S battery at Bull Run, 84.

STANTON, BENJAMIN, member of Congress, 166; no intention to make war, 212; on the amendment to the Act of 1798, 214, 215.

Star of the West, description of, 662; voyage of to Charleston, 662; is fired upon by the forts in Charleston harbor, 663; is captured by the Texans, 663.

State War Loans, 307, 808.

STEPHENS, ALEXANDER H., speech in opposition to seces-
sion, 699; speech on the war, 139; speech at Atlanta, on
the plan of the confederate government, 141; speech at
Augusta, on the Cotton Loan, 143; chosen Vice-Presi-
dent for six years, 153; vote in Congress, 155; speech on
taking his seat as Vice-President, 156,
STEVENS' Battery, description of, 508; drawing of, 509; cost,
510; further details, 510.

STEVENS, ISAAC I., biographical notice of, 725.
STEVENS, THADDEUS, member of Congress, 166; on the

rightfulness of secession, 207; on the conduct of the
war, 238; on the confiscation bill, 249.

St. Helena Parish, S. C., topography and history of, 659. St. Louis, Mo., description of, 660; guard of soldiers stationed at Sub-treasury, 660; arms removed to Springfield, Ill., April 26th, 660; Gen. Frost's letter to Gen.

Lyon, 660; Gen. Lyon demands and receives the surren der of Frost and his brigade, 661; soldiers attacked by s mob in the streets, fire upon the crowd, 661; character of Camp Jackson, 661, 662; martial law declared in, 662; protest of the mulcted secessionists in, 662. Stocke, average sales during the year, 207. STONE, CHARLES P., biographical notice of, 728. STORES, WILLIAM L., biographical notice of, 663. STRINGHAM, Com. S. H., commands the naval expedition to Hatteras Inlet, 287; conference relative to surrender of the forts on board his ship, 288. STUART'S cavalry at Bull Run, $4. Sugar, export of prohibited, 165. Sultan of Turkey, 1.

Summersville, Va., description of, 663; skirmish at, 663. SUMNER, CHARLES, member of the Senate, 166; offers a memorial against any compromise, 223.

SUMNER, EDWIN V., biographical notice of, 722. Sumter, Fot, supply vessels sail from New York, 718; when fire opened upon her, 183; labors of the engineer corps in completing, 664; occupied by Major Anderson, Dec. 26, 1860, 664; officers and garrison of, 664; excite ment at Charleston in consequence, 664; Gov. Pickens demand for surrender of, 664; Col. Hayne sent to Washington to demand surrender of, 664; correspondence of Messrs. Fitzpatrick, Mallory and Slidell with the Presi dent on, 664; President's answer sent to Charleston, and reply of S. C. Government, 665; Col. Hayne instructed to deliver his letter, and demand whether the President asserted his right to send reenforcements to, 665; the President's reply, 665; question of attacking, referred to Confederate Congress, 665; women and children removed from, 665; Gen. Beauregard demands the evacuation of, April 11, 665; Major Anderson's reply, 665; Gen. Besuregard's proposal, 665, 666; Anderson's reply, 666; Gen. Beauregard notifies Major Anderson that he will open fire in one hour, 666; the first day's bombardment of 666; list of batteries firing upon, 666, 667; armament of fort, 667; effect of fire from, 667; effect of fire of enemy's batteries on, 667; the second day's bombardment of, 667, 668; hot shot fired on from Fort Moultrie and other batteries, 668; barracks set on fire, 668; Wigfall and his flag of truce, 668; terms of evacuation agreed upon with, 668: terms of evacuation of, finally approved by Gen. Beauregard, 668, 669; condition of, at time of evacuation, 669; fleet sent by government for relief of, 669; official notification of evacuation of, by Major Anderson, 669 ; biographical sketch of Major Anderson, 669; effect of intelligence of surrender at the North, 669. SWEENEY, THOMAS W., biographical notice of, 725.

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Taconic System, pro.essor Emmons' theory of the, 670; long rejected, 670; recent discoveries render probable Professor Emmons' views of, 670, 671; T. Sterry Hunt's theory accounting for the formations without admitting the, 671.

TANEY, Chief Justice, proceedings before, in the case of John Merryman, 354-356,

Tariff, revenue and protective, discussions on, 671; table of changes in and results of, 672; whole revenue of each tariff, 672; warehousing system, and independent tressury plan of finance adopted, 672; tariffs of 1857 and 1861, 672; orders of the Treasury Department, 673; do. of collector of New York, 673; protest against the payment of duties, 678; comparative rates of duty for twenty years, 673; difficulties in the operation of the old and new tariff, 675; revenue at New York, 675. Taxes in the Confederate States, 161.

Taylor, Fort, its location, 675; armament, 675.
TAYLOR, Lieutenant-Colonel, bears a letter from Jefferson
Davis to President Lincoln, 150.
Telegraph, Electric, progress in 1861, 675; communication

with San Francisco, 675; on the lower Amoor, 675; con-
nection between Europe and America through Russia,
675; by the Atlantic Ocean, 676; smaller enterprises,

676.

Telegraphic Despatches, their seizure a violation of the Constitution, 230.

Tennessee, instructions of Legislature to commissioners to Peace Conference, 565.

Its boundaries, 676; population, 676; sessions of its Legislature, 676; members, when elected, 676; vote for President, 677; extra session of the Legislature called, 677; evils complained of, 677; conservative sentiment, 677; New York resolutions, how received, 677; election of delegates to a State Convention, 677; vote on the Convention, 678; answer of the Governor to the President's proclamation, 678; address of citizens, 678; Legislature convenes, 678; message to, 678; Commissioner from the Confederate States, 679; letters from citizens, 679; military league made with the Confederate States, 679; articles, 679; declaration of Independence, 680; ordinance to adopt the Provisional Constitution, 680; a military force organized, 681; fundamental law of the State, 681; payment of debts to Northern citizens prohibited, 682; progress of military affairs, 682; Union Convention in East Tennessee, 683; acts of the Legisla ture, 683; efforts to procure arms, 683; message of the Governor, 684; call for men, 684; second call, 685; burning of bridges in East Tennessee, 685.

Message of the Governor on extortions, 144. Tennessee, East, martial law in, 153, 441. Territories, their division as proposed by the Crittenden amendments to the Constitution, 174; organized in 1861, 685; Dakotah, its size, 685; boundaries, 685; Colorado, its size, 686; boundaries, 686; Nevada, its size, 686; boundaries, 686.

Texas, boundaries, 686; government, 686; population, 686; secession sentiment of the people, 686; Governor refuses to call a session of the Legislature, 687; his views, 687; call for a convention, how made, 687; action of the Governor, 687; Legislature convened, 688; resolutions relative to a State Convention, 685; vote of the State for members of the Convention, 688; ordinance of secession, 688; vote of the people upon it, 689; vote at the Presidential election, 689; difficulty between the Governor and the State Convention, 689; action of the Convention, 690; condition of affairs, 690; war loan, 690; United States forces in Texas, 690; surrender of Twiggs, 690; seizure of public property, 690; surrender of Major Sibley, 691; surrender of Colonel Reeve, 691; address of ex-Governor Houston to the people, 692; his letter to the people in favor of the Confederate Government, 692; intercourse with Northern people prohibited, 692; state of affairs at the close of the year, 693; troops in the field, 693; crops, 693.

THOMAS, Col. F. J., killed at Bull Run, 84.
THOMAS, FRANCIS, member of Congress, 210; on the right
of the Government to use the forts for other purposes
than the defence of the States, 210.

THOMAS, GEORGE H., biographical notice of, 724.
THOMAS, PHILIP, resigns as Secretary of Treasury, 704.
THOMPSON, JACOB, resigns as Secretary of the Interior, 704.
TOMPKINS, Lieut., commands the cavalry in the skirmish at
Fairfax Court-House, 294.

TOOMBS, ROBERT, Senator in Thirty-sixth Congress, 166; the Union is dissolved, 176; men are arming to defend the separation, 176.

TOUCEY, ISAAC, resolution of censure as Secretary of the Navy passed the House of Representatives, 216. TOWNSEND, Col., at the battle of Great Bethel, 344. Treason, Secretary Seward's letter defining, 358. Trent, steamer, how employed, 693; passengers, 693; boarded by officers from the San Jacinto, 693; the English report, 698; an officer's report, 694; protest of Mason and Slidell, 604; details, 695.

TRUMBULL, LYMAN, Senator in Thirty-sixth Congress, 166; on slavery in Arizona, 190 reply to Senator Davis, 192; on the condition of affairs, 223; on the acts of President Lincoln, 233; on the object of the war, 241. TUCKER, GEORGE, birth, 695; education, 695; public offices, 695; writings, 695.

TWIGGS, Gen., surrenders the ordnance depot at San Antonio, Texas, 319, also 690; dismissed from the army by order of the President, 819.

Tybee Island, its situation, 695; reconnoissance of, 695; occupied, 695.

TYLER, JOHN, member of Confederate Congress, 165; despatch to, relative to the attack on Sumter, 187; address of at opening of Peace Conference, 563, 564.

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United States, population, 696; election of President, 696; principle represented, 696; officers of the Government in 1860, 697; opinion of the Attorney-General on the right of a State to secede, 697; do. on collection of duties in a seceded State, 697; right of the Government over public property, 697; right of the Government to make war upon a State, 698; affairs in the Southern States, 699; speech of Stephens on the prosperity of the Union, 699; President Buchanan's message, 699; attitude of South Carolina, 699; resignation of Secretary Cobb, 700; resignation of Secretary Cass, 700; reason, 700; state of public sentiment at this time, 700; affairs in South Carolina, 701; resignation of Secretary Floyd, 701; reason, 701; correspondence, 701; arrival of Commissioners from South Carolina at Washington, 701; object, 701; letter to the President, 702; his reply, 702; manner of their reception, 702; President's views on the movement of Major Anderson, 703; reply of the commissioners, 703; rejected by the President, 703;. President's message of Jan. 8th, 703; principles governing his conduct, 703; resignation of Secretary Thompson, 704; correspondence relative thereto, 704; resignation of Secretary Thomas, 704; reasons, 704; John A. Dix appointed to the Treasury, 704; views of the Government at this time, 705; decision respecting Fort Sumter, 705; commissioner Hayne, of South Carolina, arrives at Washington, 705; the proposition to him, 705; letters of Senators to the President, 705; reply of Secretary Holt, 705; a final reply to demand for Fort Sumter, 706; Virginia peace resolutions, 707; mission of ex-President Tyler, 707; action of the President, 708; armistice charged on President Buchanan, 708; sentiments of the people, 709; close of Mr. Buchanan's term of office, 709; inauguration of Mr. Lincoln, 709; the change which had taken place since November, 709; the policy of the President declared, 710; commissioners from South Carolina arrive at Washington, 710; letter to Secretary Seward, 710; his reply, 711; commissioners' response, 712; military movements in New York, 713; preparation of transports, 713; sail from the port, 714; excitement, 714; affairs at Charleston, 714; Virginia commissioners visit the President to inquire as to his policy, 714; his answer, 715; capture of Sumter, 715; proclamation of President Lincoln, 715; call for troops by the Secretary of War, 715; answers of the Governors of the respective States, 716;