GUN-COTTON. 



HABEAS CORPUS. 



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GUN-COTTON. IV. Is gun-cotton stronger 

 than gunpowder ? 417 ; is gun-cotton more con- 

 venient than gunpowder? 417; is it cheaper? 

 418; mechanical applications of gun-cotton, 

 418 ; first form for use, 419 ; second form, 419 ; 

 third form, 419 ; fourth discovery of General 

 Lenk, 419; fifth principle, 420 ; how to make 

 it destructive, 420 ; nature and source of the 

 amazing power of gun-cotton, 420. 



GUNPAPER. VI. Combines elements of de- 

 struction with the principle of safety, 388 ; its 

 composition, 388 ; how used, 388 ; experiments, 

 389. 



GURNET, GOLDSWORTHY, an English invent- 

 or. XV. Biographical sketch of, 381. 



GUROWSKI, ADAM de. VI. Birth, 389 ; ca- 

 reer, 389 ; death, 389. 



GUTHRIE, JAMES. I. Resolutions offered by, 

 at Peace Congress, 566 ; moves the adoption 

 of first section of committee's report, 566 ; his 

 preamble to report, 568. 



VI. Senator from Kentucky, 124; on the 

 reconstruction committee, 139 ; on the civil- 

 rights bill, 199; on the Freedmen's Bureau, 

 207 ; on the President's power to remove office- 

 holders, 245. 



IX. Birth, 332 ; death, 332 ; career, 332. 



GUTHRIE, THOMAS. XIII. Birth, 347 ; death, 

 347 ; career as a preacher in the Church of Scot- 

 land, 347 ; writings, 348. 



GUTANDOTTE, Va. I. Its situation, 353; 

 skirmish at, 353 ; details, 353. 



GWILT, JOSEPH. III. Birth, 469; death, 469; 

 pursuits and writings, 469. 



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HABEAS CORPUS. I. Nature of the writ, 

 354 ; arrest of Merryman, 354 ; application 

 for a writ of habeas corpus to Chief-Justice 

 Taney, 354; the writ as issued, 354; answer 

 returned, 355; interrogatories, 355; writ of 

 attachment as issued, 355 ; return to, 355 ; re- 

 marks of the Chief-Justice, 356 ; case of Em- 

 mett McDonald, 356 ; writ of Jialeas corpus 

 issued in St. Louis, 356 ; question of jurisdic- 

 tion raised, 356 ; result of the case, 356 ; com- 

 munication from one of the Judges of the 

 United States Court at Washington, 356 ; re- 

 marks of the court, 357 ; notice to General 

 Porter to show cause why a writ of attachment 

 should not issue, 357 ; reply, 357 ; decision of 

 the court, 357 ; action of Judge Garrison, 358 ; 

 opinion of the Attorney-General on the power 

 of the President to suspend the writ, 358 ; 

 treason, 358 ; letter of Secretary Seward, 358 ; 

 letter to the American minister at London, 

 358 ; opinion of the Judge of the District Court 

 of New York on treason, 359 ; overt act of, 

 defined by Justice Nelson, 359 ; arrest of Ross 

 Winans, 360; arrest of C. J. Faulkner, 360; 

 arrest of the Mayor of Washington, 360 ; arrest 

 of members of the Maryland Legislature, 360 ; 

 Fort Lafayette, 360 ; list of the prisoners, 361 ; 

 Pierce Butler commences a prosecution against 

 the Secretary of War, 362. 



Debate on the suppression of, in Congress, 

 227-234. 



II. Arrest of citizens in the United States, 

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508 ; words of the Federal Constitution, 508 ; 

 order relative to prisoners who employed an 

 attorney, 509 ; official statement of a case of 

 arrest, 509 ; matter of arrests transferred from 

 the State to the War Department, 509 ; order 

 in relation to state prisoners, 509 ; commission 

 to examine state prisoners, 510 ; proceedings 

 of the commission, 510 ; arrest of ex-Secretary 

 Cameron on a process of a court, 511 ; corre- 

 spondence relative to threats, 511 ; arrest of a 

 judge in open court in Maryland, 512 ; procla- 

 mation of the President suspending the writ of 

 habeas corpus, 512; arrests in Philadelphia, 

 513 ; action of the District Court of the United 

 States, 513 ; arrests in Vermont, 513 ; action 

 of the District Court, 513 ; its decision, 514; 

 arrest in New Hampshire, 514 ; action of the 

 State Supreme Court, 514 ; action of the Su- 

 preme Court of Wisconsin, 514; opinion of 

 the Chief -Justice, 514; order to release pris- 

 oners, 516. 



III. Case of Nicholas Kemp, 469 ; opinion 

 of Chief -Justice Dixon of Wisconsin, 470 ; con- 

 clusions of Judge Paine, 470 ; case of Albert 

 D. Boileau, 470 ; charge of Judge Ludlow to 

 the grand-jury, 470 ; return of the jury, 471 ; 

 remarks of the judge, 471 ; comments on the 

 action of Judge Ludlow, 471 ; case before the 

 Legislature, 472 ; Boileau released, 472 ; arrest 

 of Judge Constable, 472 ; proceedings, 472 ; 

 order of General Burnside, 473; Vallandig- 

 ham's arrest, 473 ; excitement, 473 ; address ta 



