PENNSYLVANIA. 



PENNSYLVANIA. I. Description of, 668, 

 569 ; minerals of, 569 ; Governor Curtin's in- 

 augural, 569 ; resolutions of Legislature of, Jan- 

 uary 17th and 24th, 569 ; message of Governor 

 Curtin on military affairs, April 9th, 569, 570 ; 

 militia law passed, April 12th, 570 ; law to pun- 

 ish treason passed, April 13th, 570 ; excitement 

 in Philadelphia on the 14th of April, 570, 571 ; 

 Mayor Henry's speech, 571 ; Governor Curtin's 

 proclamation convening an extra session of Leg- 

 islature, April 30th, 571 ; movement of troops 

 under call of the President, 571 ; acts of the 

 Legislature in regard to the war, at extra ses- 

 sion, 571, 572 ; loan of $3,000,000 authorized, 

 572 ; resolutions of Legislature, 572 ; Pennsyl- 

 vania troops in United States service, 572; 

 arms owned hy the State, 572; members of 

 Congress elected on Union issues, 572, 673 ; 

 deht of Pennsylvania, 673 ; railroad progress 

 in the State, 573 ; instructions of Legislature 

 to commissioners to the Peace Conference, 564. 



II. Population, 703 ; civil officers, 703 ; 

 political organizations, 703 ; Democratic Con- 

 vention, 703 ; nominations, 703 ; resolutions, 

 703 ; Kepublican Convention, 704 ; nomina- 

 tions, 704; resolutions, 704; votes of the 

 citizens, 705 ; financial condition of the State, 

 705 ; tax, 706 ; interest on public debt, 706 ; 

 troops contributed, 706 ; volunteers called to 

 resist invasion, 706 ; capture of Chambersburg, 

 706; voting of absent soldiers, 706; banks, 



706 ; railroads, 706 ; institutions of education, 



707 ; charitable institutions, 707 ; mineral 

 wealth, 707. 



III. Soldiers contributed to the army, 738 ; 

 troops furnished during the invasion, 738 ; 

 finances, 739; interest on debt, 739; Demo- 

 cratic Convention, resolutions and nominations, 

 739; Republican do., 739; letter of General 

 McClellan, 740 ; votes, 740 ; disturbances, 740 ; 

 claims for loss by the enemy, 740. 



IV. Prosperity, 648 ; debt, 648 ; refusal to 

 pay interest in gold, 648 ; explanation of the 

 State Treasurer, 649 ; finances, 649 ; military 

 contribution, 649 ; system of bounties, 649 ; 

 votes of soldiers, 649 ; elections, 650 ; invasion 

 of the State by the enemy, 650; difficulties in 

 Clearfield County, 651 ; coal mined, 651 ; de- 

 cisions of the courts on legal-tender notes, 

 651. 



V. Number of troops furnished to the Fed- 

 eral Government, 691 ; military history, 691 ; 

 schools for soldiers' orphans, 691 ; public debt, 



691, 692 ; claims on the United States Govern- 

 ment, 692 ; statistics of common schools, 692 ; 

 resolutions of the Union State Convention, 



692, 693 ; resolutions of the Democratic State 

 Convention, 694 ; result of the October election, 

 694 ; resolutions of colored men in relation to 

 negro suffrage, 694. 



VI. Meeting of the Legislature, 612; acts 

 passed, 612 ; resolution on the civil-rights 

 bill, 612 ; disfranchising deserters, 612 ; Demo- 

 cratic Convention, 613; resolutions, 613; Re- 

 publican Convention, 613 ; resolutions, 613 ; 

 mass convention, 614 ; resolutions, 614 ; 

 finances, 614; debt, 614; school system, 614; 

 appropriations, 614 ; report of superintendent, 

 614 ; elections, 615. 



VII. Action of the Legislature, 618 ; liquor 

 law, 618; distinctions on account of color for- 

 bidden on railroads, 618; financial condition, 

 618; public schools, 618; Agricultural College, 

 618 ; asylums for the insane, 618 ; peniten- 

 tiaries, 619; transportation of bodies from 

 battle-fields, 619; police force in the mining 

 districts, 619; revision of the civil code, 619; 

 State election, 619; Democratic Convention, 

 619; Republican Convention, 620; result of 

 the election, 620 ; judicial decision on separa- 

 tion of races in the cars, 621 ; question of run- 

 ning street-cars on Sunday, 621. 



VIII. Finances, 617; debt, 617; public 

 schools, 617; tuition, 617; absentees, 617; 

 educational classifications, 617; Normal School, 

 618; Agricultural College, 618; soldiers' or- 

 phans, 618 ; meeting of the Legislature, 618 ; 

 resolution on Federal relations, 618 ; relative 

 to the removal of the Secretary of War, 618 ; 

 on impeachment, 618 ; Democratic State Con- 

 vention, 619; resolutions, 619; Republican 

 State Convention, 619; resolutions, 620; reg- 

 istry law, 620 ; extract, 620 ; qualifications of 

 voters, 621 ; opinion of the courts, 621 ; elec- 

 tions, 621 ; naturalization of foreigners, 621 ; 

 presidential election, 622. 



IX. Meeting of the Legislature, 561 ; elec- 

 tion of United States Senator, 561 ; ratification 

 of the fifteenth amendment, 661 ; registration 

 law, 561, 562; constitutionality of the law 

 questioned, 562 ; decision of the Supreme 

 Court affirming its validity, 562; opening of 

 the political campaign, 563; meeting of the 

 Union Republican State Convention, 563 ; plat- 

 form, 563 ; meeting of the Democratic Con- 

 vention, 563 ; resolutions, 563 ; election re- 



