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PENSIONS. 



PERU. 



Fort Pickens taken possession of by Lieuten- 

 ant A. J. Slemmer, 573 ; Fort Pickens rein- 

 forced, April 12th-16th, 573; Wilson's regi- 

 ment stationed on Santa Rosa Island, 573, 574 ; 

 daring exploits of Federal troops, 574 ; attack 

 on Wilson's regiment, October 8th, 574 ; bom- 

 bardment of Forts Barrancas and McRae by 

 Fort Pickens, and of Fort Pickens by the Con- 

 federate forts and batteries, 574, 575 ; Colonel 

 Brown's conclusions, 575. 



PENSIONS. XII. (See President's Message, 

 p. 701 ; also, p. 33.) 



PENSIONS LAW PASSED BY CONGRESS. II. 

 795. 



PERIT, PELATIAH. IV. Birth, 652; pur- 

 suits, 652 ; death, 652. 



PERKINS, ABSALOM. IX. Birth, 568 ; death, 

 568 ; pursuits, 568. 



PERKINS, HENRY A. XIV. Decease of, 

 643. 



PERKINS, HENRY COIT, M. D., A. A. S., physi- 

 cian and scientist. XIII. Obituary of, 561. 



PERKINS, JOHN. XIV. Decease of, 664. 



PERKINS, Rev. JUSTIN. IX. Birth, 566; 

 death, 566 ; pursuits, 566. 



PERKINS, SAMUEL E. III. Delivers the 

 opinion of the Supreme Court of Indiana on 

 martial law, 606. 



PERLEY, IRA. XIV. Decease of, 626. 



PERRY, BENJAMIN F. V. Appointed Pro- 

 visional Governor of South Carolina, 757; 

 proclamation, 758 ; on the withdrawal of col- 

 ored troops, 759 ; messages to the Legislature, 

 760-762. 



PERRY, Captain MATTHEW ., U. S. N. XIII. 

 Obituary of, 585. 



PERRY, ex-Governor of South Carolina. 

 YII. On reconstruction, 692. 



PERRY, Hon. THOMAS. XI. Obituary of, 576. 



fERRYSVILLE. I. Description of, 575. 



PERSANO, Admiral. VII. Sentence for dis- 

 obedience and incapacity, 417. 



PERSIA. V. Boundaries, 694 ; Government, 

 694; army, 694; population, 694; races, 694; 

 Armenians, ^94; Nestorians, 695; Jews, 695; 

 Parsees, <595 ; European residents, 695 ; litera- 

 ture, 695 ; Mohammedan sects, 696. 



VII. Government, 621 ; area and popula- 

 tion, 621 ; finances, 621 ; army, 621 ; com- 

 merce, 621 ; relations with Turkey, 621 ; re- 

 call of students from France and England, 

 621. 



VIII. Government, 622 ; population, 622 ; 



religions, 622 ; finances, 622 ; report of the 

 British legation, 622 ; a peculiar practice of 

 Persia, 623 ; railways, 623 ; the Green-Book, 

 623. 



X. Shah, 614 ; area, 615 ; population, 615 ; 

 finances, 615 ; army, 615 ; commerce, 615 ; 

 difficulty with Turkey, 615 ; visit of Shah to 

 Mohammedan shrines of Kerbela, 615. 



XI. Famine in, 43 ; area, 625 ; population, 

 625; terrible famine, 625; further accounts, 

 625 ; denials, 626 ; further details, 626. 



XII. Royal family, 669; extent of terri- 

 tory, 669 ; population, 669 ; revenue, 669 ; 

 debt, 669 ; army, 669 ; imports, 669 ; religious 

 statistics, 669 ; famine in, 34, 85. ^ 



XIII. Reigning house, 637 ; area and popu- 

 lation, 637 ; religious divisions, 637 ; divisions 

 of the country, 637 ; budget, 637 ; army, 637 ; 

 imports, 637; journey of the Shah through 

 the countries of Europe, 637 ; convention with 

 Baron Renter in London, 637 ; extraordinary 

 concessions, 638 ; ministerial crisis, 638 ; fail- 

 ure of Baron Renter, 639. 



XIV. Sovereign, 682; area and popula- 

 tion, 682 ; religious divisions, 682 ; Protestant 

 missions, 682 ; civil divisions, 682 ; imports 

 and exports, 682; riches of the Shah, 682; 

 political affairs, 683 ; opposition to reforms, 

 683. 



XV. Sovereign, 623 ; area and population, 

 623 ; army, 623 ; telegraph, 623 ; visit of the 

 Shah to Europe, 623 ; its effects, 623 ; relations 

 with Russia, 623. 



PERSIGNY, JEAN GILBERT VICTOR FIALIN, 

 Die de. Hill. Birth, death, 670 ; career, 670. 



PERSONAL LIBERTY LAWS. I. Motives which 

 led to their enactment, 575 ; the sixth section 

 of the fugitive-slave law, 575, 576; Govern- 

 or Morgan (N. Y.) recommends their repeal, 

 576 ; Governors Washburn (Me.), Banks (Mass.), 

 and Packer (Pa.), make similar recommenda- 

 tions, 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 Massachusetts, 577 ; 

 do. of New York, 578; New Jersey has no 

 law, 578 ; law of Pennsylvania, 678 ; Indiana 

 and Illinois no law, 578; law of Michigan, 

 578; Ohio, 578; Wisconsin, 578; number of 

 fugitives in twenty years, 579. 



PERSOZ, JEAN F. VIII. Birth, 623 ; death, 

 623; pursuits, 623. 



PERU. IV. Area, 652 ; Government, 652 ; 



