PICKETS, FORT. 



POLAND. 



357 



ing results in the field of radiation, 676 ; how 

 may dark radiations be separated from others ? 

 677; conversion of heat into light, 677. 



PICRENS, FORT. I. Reinforcement of, 511, 

 708. 



PICRENS, GoYernor F. W. (S. C.). I. Inaugu- 

 ral, December 10, 1860, 647, 648 ; proclamation, 

 653; speech, December 21th, 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. 



IX. Birth, 568 ; death, 568 ; career, 568. 



PICKERING, OCTAVICS. VIII. Birth, 625; 

 death, 625 ; pursuits, 625. 



PICKERSGILL. XV. A British painter, 638 ; 

 biographical sketch of, 638. 



PICRETT, GEORGE E. XV. A Confederate 

 general, 638 ; biographical sketch of, 638. 



PICRIC POWDER. XI. How produced, 629 ; 

 explosive powder, 629 ; safety, 629 ; other sub- 

 stances introduced, 629. 



PICTET, Prof. FRANCOIS JULES. XII. Obitua- 

 ry, 642. 



PIERCE, General E. W. I. Commands the ex- 

 pedition to Great Bethel, 343. 



PIERCE, FRANRLIN. IX. Birth, 569 ; death, 

 569 ; early life, 569 ; character as a lawyer, 

 570 ; presidential administration, 570 ; charac- 

 ter, 571. 



PIERCE, Colonel GEORGE H., politician. XIII. 

 Obituary of, 579. 



PIERCE, HENRY L. XIII. Elected a mem- 

 ber of Congress from Massachusetts, 474. 



PIERPONT, JOHN. VI. Birth, 617; career, 

 617; death, 617. 



PIERREPONT, EDWARDS, United States At- 

 torney-General. XV. Biographical sketch of, 

 742. 



PIERS. I. At Southport, England, 581 ; 

 manner of driving the piles, 581 ; advantages of 

 the method, 581. 



PIGOTT, GILLERY. XV. Biographical sketch 

 of, 638. 



PIG POINT. I. Its situation, 581 ; skirmish 

 at, 581. 



PIRE, SAMUEL N. XII. Obituary, 635. 



PILLOW, General GIDEON. I. Occupies Co- 

 lumbus, Ky., 103 ; his letter on exchange of 

 prisoners, 582. 



PILLSBURY, AMOS. XIII. Birth, 643 ; death, 

 643 ; prison reformer and manager, 643. 



PISE, CHARLES C. VI. Birth, 618; pursuits, 

 618; death, 618. 



PITCHER, WILLIAM H.,M.D. XII. Obituary, 

 619. 



PITCHER, ZINA, M. D. XII. Obituary, 611. 



PIUS IX., Pope. III. Letter to Archbishop 

 Hughes, 819 ; do. to Jefferson Davis, 826. 



IV. His letter to Maximilian, 526 ; his en- 

 cyclical letter, 701. 



XIII. Condemns the proceedings in Switz- 

 erland against the Church, 726. (See Pope.) 



PNEUMATIC RAILWAY. IV. Trial-trips, 678 ; 

 plan of its operation, 678 ; results of trials, 

 678 ; details, 678. 



PNEUMATIC DISPATCH. VII. Construction, 

 624 ; mode of operation, 624. 



PLANTERS. I. Apply to Confederate Gov- 

 ernment for relief, 145 ; reply of the Secretary 

 of the Treasury, 145. 



PLATT, ISAAC. XII. Obituary of, 573. 



PLATT, Hon. ZEPHANIAH. XI. Obituary of, 

 673. 



PLEASANTON, General A. XI. Declines to 

 resign as Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 

 744. 



PLON, HENRI. XII. Obituary, 649. 



PLUMMER, Hon. GEORGE. XII. Obituary, 

 619. 



PLUNRETT, JAMES L. XV. Decease of, 584. 



POINDEXTER, Rev. A. M., D. D. XII. Obit- 

 uary, 613. 



POISONS, ANIMAL. VII. Experiments with 

 poison of cobra di capella, 625 ; cellular char- 

 acter of germinal matter, 625 ; materia morbi 

 of cholera allied to animal poison, 626. 



POL, VINCENT. XII. Obituary, 651. 



POLAND. III. Divisions, 742; Poland in 

 1772, 742 ; first partition, 742 ; second parti- 

 tion, 742 ; third partition, 742 ; Congress of 

 Vienna, 742 ; Constitution of 1815, 743 ; organ- 

 ic statute of 1832, 743 ; plan of the Emperor of 

 Russia, 743 ; conscription enforced, 744 ; insur- 

 rection, 744 ; convention between Russia and 

 Prussia, 745 ; Prussian and Austrian Poland, 

 745 ; Langiewicz, 745 ; proclamation of the 

 Dictator, 746 ; internal dissensions, 746 ; am- 

 nesty, 747; secret government, 747; its power, 

 747 ; French note to their minister in Prussia, 

 748; do. in St. Petersburg, 748; do. in Vien- 

 na, 748 ; do. in Great Britain, 749 ; notes to 

 the Russian cabinet, 749 ; that of France, 749 ; 

 do. of England, 749 ; do. of Austria, 750 ; re- 

 ply of Russia to England, 750 ; note of Earl 



