stitution, and will be the last to do any act for separation, 168; the portion of the message on the state of the country referred to a committee of thirteen in the Senate, 168; object, 168; the country will go safely through the crisis, 168; we should look to our country, not to our party, in the consequences of our action, 168; sectional hostility substituted for fraternity, 169; where is the remedy, 169; the only point that remains for difference, 169; first thing to be done, 169; the crisis can be met only in one way, 169; nothing which cannot be redressed promptly and in the most efficacious manner, 170; a war of sentiment and opinion by one form of society against another form of society, 170; the only concession that will satisfy the South, 170; the Republicans a unit against it, 170; a large majority of the North opposed to any interference with slavery, 171; these discussions amount to nothing-we cannot save the Union, 171; if there is any thing in the legislation of the Federal Government not right, the Republicans are not responsible for it, 171; the last election, 172; I would not compromise away the platform upon which the candidate was elected, 172; amendments to the Constitution proposed, 172; their nature, 172; is it not the cheapest price at which this Union was ever purchased, 178; willingness of Southern statesmen to compromise, 174; the remedy is not to be sought in compromise, but in a faithful execution of the bond, 174; this controversy will not be settled here, 174.

Committee of thirteen appointed, 175; report, 175; other resolutions, 175; the real causes of the discontent, 175; war means disunion-final, irrevocable, eternal separation, 175; modification of Crittenden's resolutions, 176; their object, 176; its importance, 176; the Union is now dissolved, 176; the cause of the South will receive the sympathy of tens and hundreds of thousands of patriotic men in the non-slaveholding States, 176; resolutions that the Constitution is sufficient for the evil, and that the energies of the Government should be directed to the maintenance of the Union, 176; attempt to consider the Crittenden resolutions, 177; its failure, 177; renewed, 177; failure, 177; considered, 177; amendments, 177; withdrawal of Senator Iverson, 178; his letter, 178; resolutions of Virginia for a peace conference, 178; sent to Congress by President Buchanan, 178; memorial from New York city presented in the Senate, 179; speaking goes before voting, voting goes before giving money, and all go before a battle, 180; not to be expected that in the ninety days allotted to this Congress, reason and judgment will come back to the people, 180; what do we hear, 180; what is recommended, 180; a convention ultimately be called, 180; if the Union falls, stand in the breach, 180; the policy of the new Administration, 181; the remedies failing through the Constitution, battle and bloodshed to preserve the Union, 181; different views in regard to the future, 181; extremes North and South tend to inevitable disunion, 181; the action of the Senate has created the impression that there is no hope for an adjustment, 181; non-intervention disrupted the Democratic party, and has now disrupted the Union, 181; one of three contingencies inevitably before the country, 181; a settlement, or recognition of a peaceable separation, or war, 181; have we seized any forts, 182.

Naval appropriation bill considered, 182; is there any demand for these steamers, 182; explanation, 182; what is the public emergency, 182; the bill has no warlike purpose, 182; duty to let the South go in peace, 188; what does the United States want to do, 183; if the time comes when it will be necessary to use force under the laws and Constitution, I am ready to do it, 183; this Government cannot be peaceably destroyed, or over

thrown, or divided, 183; to what purposes are these steamers to be applied, 183.

Amendments to the Constitution proposed, 183; remarks, 184; free navigation of the Mississippi, 184; the attempt to enforce the laws in South Carolina, when she was not a member of this Confederacy, would bring about civil war, 185; cause of the destruction of the Government, 185; the present state of things foreseen for years, 185; extent to which secession will go, 185; right of South Carolina to take the course she did, 185; an attempt to prove that this Government is no Government at all, 186; this Government not a compact, 186; resolution of Senator Davis, 186; sentiments of a majority of the Northern people, embraced in three propositions, 187; present complaints of the South, 187; what is offensive to the South in the Chicago platform, 187; sentiment of the South for demanding guarantees, 187.

Bill to provide a temporary government for Arizona considered, 188; Mexican law on slavery, 188; abolitionists watching present affairs with intense interest, 188; can a citizen obeying a State law be hung for treason, 188; the point at issue between the two sections, 189; Mexican law, 189; views of John C. Calhoun, 189 it is no longer a question of union, but one of reunion, 190; the real grievance of the South, 190; no ground to fear Republican interference, 190; what is the condition of the country, 190; message from the President, 191; the events which have taken place, 191; it is proposed that the Government should abdicate, 192; Congressional compromises not likely to save the Union, 192; immediate duty of Congress, 192; Florida Senators retire, 193; their remarks, 193-195; Alabama Senators retire, 196; speeches, 196, 197; Mississippi Senators retire, 198; speeches of Senator Davis, 198; Louisiana Senators retire, 200; speeches, 200; in the House, President's Message referred to a committee of one from each State, 201; the committee, 202; members decline to serve, 202; propositions submitted to the House, 203, 204; not a representative of the Democratic party on the committee, 203; what was the cause of this discrimination. 203; manœuvres in the House to obtain an expression for compromise, 204-206; position of the Republican party, 206; slave property, 206; state of opinion in the House, 207; debate, 207; importance of cotton, 207; resolution relative to slavery unanimously passed the House, 208.

Proviso to exclude slavery from the territories, 208; omitted in the bills introduced, 208; right of secession, 208, 209; love of the Union, 209; importance of cotton. 209; object of the forts, 210; the President should collect the revenue, 210; the Government must be maintained, 210.

Object of the South, 211; movement of Major Anderson, 211; South Carolina is to-day approachable with reason and words of kindness, 211; the door of conciliation not closed, 212; amendment offered to the appropriation bill, that no money shall be used by the Government to make war, 212; is it the purpose to wage war or not, 212: no war contemplated by the Government but a defensive one, 212; members from Georgia retire, 213.

Reasons for opposing all compromise, 213; the just laws of the country should be enforced, 214; the present is no time for compromise, 214; obey the Constitution, and administer the laws as they are, and all will be well, 214; a general insurrection against the authority of the United States, 214; the present condition of things, 214; the Southern Confederacy is not hostile, 215; one of two things must be done, 215; it is a revolution-no more and no less, 215; object and effect of this bill is coercion,

215; to say that we have not the constitutional power to protect ourselves is an absurdity, 215; censure of the Secretary of the Navy, 216; votes on the report of the Committee of Thirty-three, 216, 217, 218; in the Senate, a bill to discontinue postal service considered, 218; rather a peace measure than otherwise, 218; an indirect attempt to strike at States which have seceded, 219; what the bill assumes, 219; what is the secret of the opposition to this bill, 219; a deliberate plot to break up this Union under pretence of preserving it, 219; but one issue in this case, 219; communication from the President of the Peace Conference, 220; report on, 220; dissent of certain Senators, 220; their reasons, 220; resolution offered, 220; the Peace Conference measure would increase the difficulties, 220; compromise needed to save the country, 220; to be deplored that the mediation of Virginia has not been effective, 221; we stand in the presence of peace or war, 222; the amendments of the Peace Conference are a cheat, 222; the Senate convenes on Sunday evening, 223; crowded hall, 223; disturbance, 228; questions of order, 223; readiness of the South to compromise, 224; amendments offered to the Peace Conference proposition, 224; all measures fail to pass, 225; Congress adjourns, 225.

EXTRA SESSION, commencing July 4th, 225; the members, 225; question of the right of Senators from Western Virginia to seats, 226; notice of a bill to confiscate property, 226; resolution to approve the acts of the President, 227; amendment offered, 227; all the propositions of this joint resolution cannot be endorsed, 227; suspension of the habeas corpus, 227; no necessity for it, 227; the acts of the Administration were forced upon it by the condition of the country, 228; an army of forty thousand true men last January would have prevented this state of affairs, 228; the application of force is not the way to maintain the Union, 228; justification for the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, 228; ratify whatever needs ratification, 228; the determined aggregated power of the whole people of this country will yet conquer, 229; violation of the rights of the people, 229; seizure of telegraphic despatches a violation of the Constitution, 280; the President has no right to regulate commerce between the States, 230; he has involved the country in a war in violation of the Constitution, 230; other instances, 230; those who propose to maintain the Union by force are disunionists, 230; efforts to avert the difficulty, 231; what is the excuse for this violation of the Constitution-necessity, 231; the doctrine of necessity denied, 231; what has the President done, 232; who is to judge, 282; the line of demarcation in endorsing the conduct of the President, 232; the increase of the army, 232; not disposed to say the Administration has unlimited power, 233; this joint resolution of not much importance, 233; the Senate does not intend to pass the resolution, 234; the President has no power to suspend the writ of habeas corpus, 234; resolution to expel certain Senators offered, 284; is a Senator to be condemned individually for the action of his State, 234; desirable to deny on this floor the right of any State to secede, 234; expulsion implies turpitude, 235; resolution passed, 235. Senators from Western Virginia, their credentials presented, 235; involves grave questions, 235; you have no authority to create a new State, 235; the certificates, 235; an abandonment of the whole form of your Government, 235; it is because we will not recognize insurrection in a State that we admit these men, 235; this proceeding is an overthrow of the Constitution, 236. Amendment offered to the army bill, 236; the purpose of this war is to maintain the national honor, 236; defend the national property and uphold the flag, 236;

to preserve the Union, 236; declarations of Senators 236; rather than let the Government perish let slavery perish, 236; the institution of slavery will not survive the march of the Union armies in any State, 236; this is no war of subjugation, 236; if it is not a war of subju. gation, what is it, 237; if the issue is the Government or slavery, then let slavery do down, 237; the institu tion of slavery did not of necessity produce this rebellion, 237; is commerce to be destroyed because a tariff is made, 239; what right has any Senator to go into my State and thrust himself between me and my property, 237; what would be thought if you were to march an army against New York to despoil the people of their houses and their goods, 238; amendment rejected, 288,

Conduct of the war, 238; increase of the army neces sary, 288; what is the clamor about the increase of the regular army, 239; state of the army when secession commenced, 239; this Government rests for its support on the consent of the governed, 239; men and money may desolate but cannot bring peace, 239; this is not a war of conquest, 239; this Government will be preserved and the gallows will eventually perform its office, 240; what is your country worth when the finale comes, 240; if there is no other way to quell this rebellion we will make a solitude and call it peace, 240; not vote more men and money than the Administration asks, 240; one hundred thousand men entirely sufficient to restore the Constitution, 240: may it not be necessary to leave the track of the chariot wheels of war so deep in the Southern soil that a century may not obliterate it, 241; amendment offered, 241; in the Senate resolu tion on the conduct of the war offered, 241; the war prosecuted for the purpose of the subjugation of rebels and traitors, 241; the resolution simply says that we are not waging a war for the subjugation of States, 241; we have a purpose to defend the Constitution and the laws of the country, 242; a fear exists that the design of this war is subjugation, 242; such not its purpose, 242; Congress no right to interfere with slavery in the States, 242; this war is prosecuted for purposes of subjugation, 243; the war is prosecuted for the purpose of subduing the disunionists of the Southern States, 243; what did the minority demand, 243.

In the House resolutions relative to the war offered, 244; appropriation to pay the police force of Baltimore considered, 244; by ratifying the acts of this adminis ration you are writing the blackest pages in the history of this courtry, 244; division of the Democratic party at Charleston and Baltimore brought the existing ca lamity upon the Union, 245; the Douglass party far nished you one-half of your entire army, 245; who forced General Scott into the battle at Bull Run, 245; statement of General Scott respecting the battle, 246; discussion of the battle, 246.

Confiscation bill in the Senate, 246; its features, 247; fourth section of the bill, 247; under some contingencies the slave becomes entitled to his freedom, 247; it amounts to a wholesale emancipation, 247; limitations of the bill, 247; you place one species of property on s different footing from another, 248; you have no power by the Constitution to touch slavery at all, 249; is it not competent to forfeit the claim that a man has to his slaves for treason in the master, 248; if you have no power, there the question ends, 248; is it not a plain breach of the Constitution that a man shall forfeit his slaves, 249; can a confiscation law promote the success of the army, 249; the rebels have no standing in court, they cannot invoke the Constitution, 250; bill amended and passed, 250; Congress adjourns, 250. Connecticut, its boundaries, 250; Government, 250; popt

lation, 250; members of Congress, 250; election in, 250; Message of the Governor, 251; acts of the Legislature, 251; militia law, 251; first regiment, 251; peace meetings, 251; proclamation of the Governor, 251; second Message of the Governor, 252; loan of two millions, 252; regiments furnished during the year, 252. Convention Commercial meets at Memphis, 146; action of,

146.

CONWAY, WILIAM, quartermaster in the United States navy,

252; refuses to obey his superiors and haul down the United States flag at the Pensacola navy yard, 252. CORCORAN, Colonel, held as a hostage in prison, 151. Cotton consumption in 1861, 252; cotton enterprises in India, 252; export from the United States, 253; qualities of 253; Surat cotton, 253; supplies from other sources than the United States, 253; imports to Great Britain from all countries, 254; its culture in Turkey, 254; do. Greece, 254; do. Cyprus, 254; do. Asia Minor, 254; do. Egypt, 254; do. Tunis, 254; do. Madeira, 254; do. Sierra Leone, 254; do. Sherbo, 254; do. Lagos, 254; do. River Niger, 255; do. other places, 255.

Recommendation to burn it, to prevent seizure, 142; export of prohibited, 165; importation of into Great Britain in 1861, 350.

Cotton Loan proposed, 142; instructions to planters, 142; views of the Government, 143.

Cotton Planters, doings of convention of, 144.

Court-houses and Post-offices in seceded States, their seizure, 315-320.

Cox, General, enters Charleston, Va., 103.

Cox, SAMUEL S., Member of Congress, 166; infidelity to the Union, 209; submits propositions relative to secession, 209.

CRITTENDEN, JOHN J., Senator in Thirty-sixth Congress,

166; proposes amendments to the Constitution, 172; the amendments, 178; territory to be divided under them, 174; modifications of his resolutions, 176; extraordinary condition of the country makes it necessary to resort to this extraordinary measure, 176; appeals to, the Senate to act on the Peace Conference propositions, 220; on the Compromise proposition, 223: offers a resolution on the object of the war, 244; on the confiscation bill, 248, 249; first to bring a regiment of troops into Kentucky, 401.

DAVIS, JEFFERSON, Senator in Thirty-sixth Congress, 166; source from which this evil has sprung, 168; offers a resolution expressing the claims of the South, 186; asks to be excused from serving on the Committee of Thirteen, 175; excused, 175; motion to reconsider, 175; request withdrawn, 175; remarks on withdrawing from the Senate, 198; elected President, 127; address on his arrival at Montgomery, 127; inauguration of, 127; cabinot authorized to assume control of military opera.

tions, 180; on the commencement of hostilities, 133; proclamation granting letters of marque, 187; copy of letter of marque, 187; instruction to privateers, 138; desires peace, 189; letter to the Maryland Commissioners, 141; proclamation respecting alien enemies, 148; letter to President Lincoln relative to the treatment of the prisoners captured in the privateer Savannah, 150; remarks on in his message, 150; chosen President for six years, 158; previously elected by Congress, 155; vetoes the act to prohibit the African slave trade, 160; on the events which have taken place, 191; proclaims martial law in East Tennessee, 441; letter to the Governor of Kentucky, 399. Davis, Jeff., privateer, officers and crew convicted of piracy, 151; hostages seized by the Confederate Government, 151.

Delaware, its boundaries, 256; population, 256; Government, 256; Legislature addressed by the commissioner from Mississippi, 256; its decision, 256; proclamation of the Governor, 256; orders of do., 256; volunteers during the year, 256; views of the people, 256; Peace Convention, 257; the speakers, 257; Legislature convenes, 257; Message of the Governor, 257.

Instructions of Legislature to Commissioners to Peace Congress, 564.

DENNISON, Governor, Message of, 556; proclamation of 557; decides that Ohio debt is legal, 558.

DERBY, GEORGE H., his birth and death, 257; education, 257; wounded at Cerro Gordo, 257; rank in the army, 257; his writings, 257.

Despatch to the President o the Virginia State Convention, on the attack upon Sumter, 187.

Diplomatic Correspondence of the Confederate States; interview of the commissioners with Lord John Russell, 278; their letter to Lord John Russell, 278; his reply, 279; further correspondence, 279.

Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States; Senator Black's circular to all the American Ministers, 258; Senator Seward's do., 258; correspondence with the Minister to Prussia, 260; correspondence with the Minister to Belgium, 261; correspondence with the Minister to Mexico, 262; correspondence with the Minister to Great Britain, 262; correspondence with the Minister to France, 268; correspondence relative to the seizure of Mason and Slidell from the British steamer Trent, 276. DIVEN, ALEXANDER S., member of Congress, 226; on the Confiscation bill, 249.

DIX, JOHN A., appointed Secretary of Treasury 704; speech at Union Square, 705; letter to the Collector at New Orleans on the seizure of the marine hospital, 320; proclamation to inhabitants of Accomac and North ampton Counties, Va., Nov. 17, 644; biographical notice of, 722.

DIXON, JAMES, Senator Thirty-sixth Congress, 166; the first thing to be done to avoid the crisis, 168; on the conduct of the war, 236. DOOLITTLE, JAMES R., Senator in Thirty-seventh Congress, 166; on slavery restriction in Arizona, 188; on the Mexican law, 189; member of the Senate, 225; on the cause of the war, 243.

DOUGLASS, Sir HOWARD, his birth, 280; military career, 250; writings, 280.

DOUGLASS, STEPHEN A., Senator in Thirty-sixth Congress,

168; country before party, 168; nine-tenths of the complaints about the non-execution of the fugitive slave law are unfounded, 171; speech on the state of affairs, 175; war means disunion, 175; further remarks, 181; there is a deliberate plot to break up this Union, under a pretence of preserving it, 219; one of two things must be done, 219.

his birth, 280; education, 280; public offices held, 280; candidate for the Presidency, 280; vote of the people, 280; speeches in Congress, see CONGRESS; speech at Wheeling, 280; address to the Illinois Legislature, 280; sickness, 280; letter to the Chairman of the Democratic Committee, 280; death, 281.

Dranesville, Va., its situation, 281; skirmish at, 281; details, 282.

DUELL, R. HOLLAND, member of Congress, 166; the present is no time for compromise, 214.

DUPONT, Commodore S. F., commands the naval expedition to Port Royal, 289; biographical notice of, 726. DURYEA, Colonel, at the battle of Great Bethel, 344.

E

EARLY, Colonel, at Bull Run, 85.

Earthquakes and Eruptions of Volcanoes; earthquake at Mendoza, South America, 282; city totally destroyed, 282; earthquake at Edd, Africa, 282; eruption of Vesuvius, 282; earthquake on the island of Penang, 283; earthquakes in the United States, 286.

EGLINTON, Earl of, his birth, 284; education, 284; offices, 284; fond of sports of the turf, 284; revives the tournament, 284.

ELLIS, JOHN W., his birth, 284; education, 284; offices in North Carolina, 284; elected Governor, 284; orders the forts to be seized, 284.

Letter of, to President Buchanan, 587, 538; answer of, to President Lincoln's call, 538, 539; proclamation of, 589; message of, 539.

ELLSWORTH, EPHRAIM E., his birth, 284; education, 284;

organizes the Chicago Zouave corps, 284; raises a regiment of volunteers in New York, 284; cause of his death, 285.

ELZEY, Colonel, at Bull Run, 85.

EMMONS, PROFESSOR EBENEZER, Taconic System, 670. Epidemics, the principal that prevailed in 1861, 285; cholera, 285; typhus fever, 285; yellow fever, 285; smallpox, 285; sanitary reform, 285; steppe murrian, 286; remedy for small-pox, 286.

Ericsson's Battery. (See Navy.)

EVANS, JOHN, his birth, 287; education, 287 discovers fossil remains, 287; labors as a geologist, 287.

Evening News, St. Louis, suppressed by General Fremont, 410.

Expeditions, Military and Naval, their number, 287, the

Hatteras Expedition, 287; the expedition to Port Royal,
South Carolina, 289; the expedition to Ship Island and
New Orleans, 290; the Burnside expedition to North
Carolina, 292; the mortar fleet under Com. Porter, 292;
the Mississippi River expedition, 293.

F

Fairfax Court-House, its situation, 294; skirmish at, 294; details, 294.

Fast Days, frequent, 294; proclamation of President Bu

chanan, 294; resolution of the Confederate Congress,
294; proclamation of President Davis, 294; proclama-
tion of President Lincoln, 295; second proclamation of
President Davis, 295.

FAULKNER, CHAS. J., his arrest, 860.
FESSENDEN, W. P., Senator in Thirty-sixth Congress, 166;

on the naval appropriation bill, 183; on the bill to dis-
continue postal service in seceded States, 219; on the
object of the war, 241.

Finances of the Confederate States, coin and bank circula

tion in, 309; payment of Northern debts forbidden, 810;

Treasury notes authorized, 810; action of the banks, 310; convention of bank officers, 310; resolutions, 310; second session, 810; resolutions, 310; action of the Confederate Congress, 811; payments of interest on Southern securities, how to be made, 311; cotton and produce loans, 811; form of subscription, 811; issues of paper by the Government, 811; failures in 1861, 313.

Finances of the United States, change in the policy of the Government, 295; resources and payments of the Federal Government from its origin to 1861, 295; effect of the war upon the finances, 296; loan of June, 1861, 296; issue of Treasury notes in December, 1860, 296; bids for loan, 296; loan authorized in February, 1861, 296; revision of the tariff, 296; bids for the loan, 296; taken, 297; resources of the Treasury, 297; recommendations of bank committees, 297; struggles of the Government for money, 297; war loans of the States, 297; 60 day loan of the Government, 297; demands of the Secretary upon Congress, 297; action of Congress, 298; action of the banks of New York, Philadelphia, and Boston, 298; report of the Secretary of the Treasury in December, 299; his circular to assistant treasurers relative to demand notes, 299; order of Gen. Scott to the army, 299; estimates of revenue and expenditure for 1862, 299; debt at the close of 1860-61, 300; amounts afterwards author. ized, 300; taxation, 301; table of States, population, debt, valuation of property and tax, 301; inequality of the tax, 801; table of population and assessed value of real and per sonal property in the United States, 302; table of the true value of do. per census of 1860, 802; the change from gold to paper money, 303; amount of metals in the country, 303; rate of money and bills of exchange in New York for 1861, 803; specie movement, 804; receipts, exports, and coinage of California gold, 304; bars of California gold, 804; value of each bar, 805; bullion deposits at the assay office in New York, 305; operations of the office, 305; operations of the mint in Philadel phia, 806, coinage, 306; shipments of specie from Eng. land, 806; coinage of stock sales during 1861, 307; State war loans, 807; loan of Indiana, 307; loan of New Jer sey, 808; loan of Massachusetts, 308; loan of Connecticut, 308; loan of Maine, 308; loan of Illinois, 308; loan of Michigan, 308; loan of Iowa, 308; failure to negotiate, 808; reason, 308; loan of Ohio, 308; loan of New York, 308; loan of Pennsylvania, 308; contributions of cities and towns, 809; failures in the United States in 1861, 312; revenue and expenditure in 1861, 813. FITZPATRICK, BENJAMIN, Senator in Thirty-sixth Congress, 166; withdraws from the Senate, 197; his remarks, 197. Florida, her Senators retire from Congress, 193; their speeches on the occasion, 193-195.

Its boundaries, 814; lighthouses, 314; population, 814; government 814; State convention, 814; when convened, 314; Ordinance of Secession, 314; vote on its passage, 814; address of the South Carolina Commis sioner to the Convention, 314; acts of the Convention, 314; treason defined, 814; seizure of forts in the State, 314; troops furnished to the Confederate Government, 814. FLOYD, JOHN B., furnishes arms to the Southern States,

123, 124; resigns as Secretary of War, 701; indictment by a Grand Jury at Washington, 701; action of the court, 701.

FOLSOM, SAMPSON, Choctaw delegate to the Confederate Congress, 373.

FOOTE, ANDREW H., commands the Fleet of Federal gunboats on the Mississippi River, 293; biographical notice of, 726.

Forts and Arsenals in seceded States, their seizure, 815; Fort Caswell, its cost, 815; condition, 315; Fort John

son, its position, 315; Fort Macon, its situation, 815; condition, 315; Fort Johnson, its situation, 315; condition, 315; Fort Pickney, its situation, 315; condition, 815; armament, 815; Fort Moultrie, its situation, 315; its occupation by troops, 815; orders to Gen. Anderson, 816, abandonment, 316; seizure by South Carolina forces, 316; Fort Pulaski, its situation, 317; condition, 817; armament, 817; seizure, 817; Fort Jackson, its situation, 317; its seizure, 317; Fort Clinch, its situation, 817, condition, 817; Fort Marion, its situation, 317; its seizure, 317; Fort Barrancas, its situation, 817; armament, 317; Fort McRae, its situation, 317; its seizure, 817; Fort Morgan, its situation, 317; seizure, 317; Fort Gaines, its situation, 817; seizure, 818; fort on Ship Island, its condition, 818; seizure, 318; Fort St. Philip, its situation, 318; seizure, 818; Fort Jackson, its situation, 318; Fort Livingston, its situation, 818; Fort Brown, its situation, 818; its evacuation, 318; Fort Smith, its occupation, 818; articles captured, 818.

Seizure of arsenals, 318, 319; do. ordnance depot at San Antonio, Texas, 3819; do. of mints, 319; do. of custom-houses, 319; do. of court houses and post-offices, 820; do. of marine hospitals, 820; do. of lighthouses, 820; extinguishment of lights, 320.

France, boundaries, 323; population, 823; government, 328; occurrences of the previous year, 323; cession of Savoy and Nice, 323; occupation of Syria, 323; change in the relations with England, 324; commercial treaty with Great Britain, 824; her relations with Italy, 824; excitement in France, 824; action of the clergy, 325; decree enlarging the liberty and scope of the legislative body, 825; freedom of the press, 325; commercial treaty with Belgium, 825; copyright treaty with Russia, 325; Victor Emanuel recognized, 825; the elections, 825; the American blockade, 325; export trade to the United States, 826; effect of its loss, 326; change in the finances, 326; control of expenditures yielded to the legislature, 826; capture of Mason and Slidell, action of the emperor, 326; Mexican expedition, 326, Society of St. Vincent, 826; its suppression, 326; Renau, 827; excitement relative to, 327.

FRANCIS, JOHN W., birth, 327; education, 827; pursuits, 327; literary labors, 827.

FRANKLIN, Wm. B., biographical notice of, 723. FREDERICK WILLIAM IV., birth, 828; education, 829; as a soldier, 828; as a king, 828; death, 828. Fredericktown, Va., its situation, 828; skirmish at, 828; details, 328.

Freedom of the Press, attack on a weekly paper in New Hampshire, 328; attack on a weekly paper in Maine, 828; newspapers suppressed in St. Louis, 328; attack on a weekly paper in Pennsylvania, 829; treatment of an editor in New Hampshire, 329; attack upon another weekly paper in Pennsylvania, 329; inquiry of the Grand Jury of the United States Court in New York if certain newspapers can be indicted, 329; these papers excluded from the mails, 829; action of a Grand Jury in New Jersey, 329; suppression of a weekly paper in New York State, 330.

FREMONT, JOHN C., ordered to Missouri, 484; his despatch on the capture of Lexington, 410; proclaims martial law in St. Louis, 441; efforts to strengthen Cairo, 491; his proclamation, 491; removed from command in Missouri, 493; address to his soldiers, 493; letter from Secretary of War to, 493; reception at St. Louis, 496; address to, 494; reply, 494; proclamation, Aug. 30, 1861, on slaves of secessionists, 643; biographical notice of, 721.

FROST, GEN. D. M., letter to General Lyon, 660; surrenders with his entire force to General Lyon, 661.

Galveston, Texas, its situation, 330; means of defence, 330; its batteries fire on a schooner's boat, 830; the batteries attacked, 330; remonstrance of the foreign consuls, 330; reply of Capt. Alden, 330; city evacuated by the inhabitants, 881.

Garibaldi Guard at Bull Run, 86.

GARLAND, JOHN, birth, 831; education, 331; rank in the army, 331.

GARNETT, ROBERT S., birth, 331; rank in the army, 381; commands a Confederate force, 331; defeated and killed, 831.

Gauley Bridge, its situation, 831; skirmish at, 331; details, 331. Geographical Explorations of 1861, in the Arctic regions, 882; in King William's land, 333; Swedish polar expedition, 383; topographical surveys in European countries, 833; exploration of the isthmus between the Caspian and Black Seas, 333; sea of Azof, 333; Central Asia, 334; the Sacred Mountain of Japan, 334; route of the Amoor River, 334; valley of Cashmere, 834; Farther India, 334; Caspian Sea, 385; Eastern Persia, 335; the Sahara desert, 335; river Senegal, in Africa, 335; headwaters of the Gaboon, 335; South Africa, 336; sources of the Nile, 336; Australia, 336; New Zealand, 336; Patagonia, 336; Salt Lake and Carson's Valley, 887; Salvador, 337. Georgia, her members of Congress retire, 213; authorizes the Confederate Government to occupy all the forts, &c., within her limits, 180; also to control all military operations in the State, 180; message of the Governor on extortion, 145.

Its boundaries, 337; population, 337; government, 837; resolutions adopted in the Assembly of the Legislature, 337; rescinded, 337; views of the Legislature, 337; address to the people of the Southern States, 338; public meetings of the citizens, 888; vote for delegates to the State Convention, 338; meeting of the convention, 838; ordinance of secession, 338; vote, 338; demonstrations on its passage, 839; other resolutions, 339; acts of the convention, 339; adoption of the Confederate Constitution, 340; new constitution of the State, 340; vote on, 340; effect of President Lincoln's proclamation, 840; Governor Brown prohibits the payment of debts to Northern creditors, 340; action of the agents for the cotton loan, 341; people urged not to ship cotton during the blockade, 841; supply of arms exhausted, 341; financial condition of the State, 841; extortions of provision dealers, 341; action of the Governor, 341; military force of the State, 342; invasion of Georgia by the Port Royal expedition, 342; vote of the State in November, 1860, 842.

GIBBS, JOSIAH W., his birth, 842; education, 342; scholarship, 342; writings, 342.

GIBSON, GEORGE, birth, 842; education, 842; rank in the army, 342.

GIST, Governor, Message of, November 1, 1860, 647; farewell Message, December, 1860, 647. GOLDSBOROUGH, L. M., commands the naval force of the expedition to North Carolina, 292.

GORTCHAKOFF, Prince, birth, 342; education, 342; enters the Russian army, 842; services as a soldier, 348; defence of Sebastopol, 843.

GRAHAM, Sir JAMES, birth, 343; education, 343; rank, 343; services, 343.

GRANT, ULYSSES S., biographical notice of, 724. Great Bethel, its situation, 343; position of Federal troops, 343; object of movement, 343; orders, 343; notes on, 844; march of troops, 344; accidental collision, 844; de feats the plan of the expedition, 345; resolved to march