INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



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184 ; Major Gordon's successes, 184 ; agreement for 

 steamers broken, 185; terms, 185; details, 185; reforms, 

 185; concessions, 186; system of international law 

 adopted, 186 ; treaty with Denmark, 186. 



CLERKE, Judge THOMAS W. Opinion in the case of Jones vs. 

 Seward, 518-520. 



Clinton. Its situation, 187 ; capture, 1ST. 



CLYDE, Lord. Birth, 187; death, 187; military services, 

 187 ; personal appearance, 188 ; character, 188. 



COOHRANE, Gen. Joiis Letter from the army of the Poto- 

 mac, 78. 



COCBEBKLL, CHARLES K. Birth, 188; death, 188; adven- 

 tures, 188; explorations, 188 ; works as an architect, 189. 



COLFAX,' SCHUYLER, Representative from Indiana, 233 ; on 

 indemnifying the President, 242 ; on the admission 

 of West Virginia, 306. 



COLLAMEK, JACOB, Senator from Vermont, remarks on ar- 

 rests, 238, 239 ; on the bill to discharge State prisoners, 

 248; offers a substitute for the House bill, 249; on the 

 substitute, 250, 251 ; on the conscript bill, 275 ; on a na- 

 tional currency, 290. 



Colombia, United, States of. States composing, 189; capi- 

 tals, 189; population, 189; finances, 189; army, 189; 

 revolution in, 189; its close, 189; new constitution, 189; 

 war with Ecuador, 190. 



Colored Troops, first order to enlist, 26 ; details of enlist- 

 ment, 26. 



COMBES, J. J. Letter on the relations of the insurrectionary 

 States to the Union, 839. 



Commerce. During 1863, 190; imports and exports, 190; 

 balance of trade, 190; prices in New York and San Fran- 

 cisco, 190 ; dutiable goods, 190 ; monthly imports at New 

 York, 191 ; stock of goods in the country, 191 ; failures, 

 191 ; imported articles at New York, 192 ; exported arti- 

 cles, 194; barrels of flour, 194; decline of prices abroad, 

 194 ; grain and flour received by the Erie Canal, 194 ; 

 freight and tonnage of the lakes, 195 ; export of petro- 

 leum, 195 ; effect of the Confederate cruisers, 195 ; cot- 

 ton imported into Great Britain, 195. 



Commercial Inter-course. Regulations of the Government 

 for trade with inhabitants of Confederate States, 196; 

 act of Congress of July, 1861, 196 ; proclamation of the 

 President in August, 1861, 196; proceedings under it, 

 196 ; proclamation of March, 1863, 196 ; act of Congress 

 of March, 1862, 196; do. of May, 1S62, 196 ; orders of the 

 Secretaries of War and Navy relative to abandoned 

 property, 196; further regulations, 196; regulations of 

 the Secretary of the Treasury, 197; circular to the agent 

 at Memphis, 197, 198; letter from Gen. Grant, 199; re- 

 vised regulations of the Secretary of the Treasury, 199 ; 

 special rules for agency districts, 200 ; decision of Chief 

 Justice Taney relative to trade regulations in Maryland, 

 202. 



COMONFOET, YGXACIO. Birth, 202 ; death, 202 ; public ser- 

 vices in Mexico, 202. 



Confederate States. Officers of the Government, 203 ; bad 

 effects of the currency, 203 ; impressions when the war 

 commenced, 203 ; finances of the Government, 204; de- 

 preciation of the currency, 204 ; letter of Mr. Toombs, 

 205 ; measures suggested by him relative to the curren- 

 cy, 205; plan of Mr. Oldham, 205; schemes for improve- 

 ment proposed, 205 ; letters from the people, 205 ; con- 

 sequences of the depreciation, 206. 



Order relative to the impressment of provisions, 206 ; 

 commissioners of impressment, 206 ; resolutions, 206 ; 

 effect of these measures, 207 ; remarks of Senator 

 Toombs in the hall of the Assembly of Georgia, 207, 

 208 ; decay of the railroads, 208 ; extent of their failure, 

 208; roads made by the Government, 209; consequences 

 of deficient transportation, 209. 



Appeals to the people to raise grain, 209; addrew of 

 Mr. Davis to the people, 209; appeals of the governors 

 of States, 210; do. of the governor of Georgia, 210; do. 

 of the governor of Alabama, 210; letter from the Com- 

 missary-General, 210; causes of the distress for pro- 

 visions, 211 ; public disturbances, 211 ; contributions of 

 tho people, 211 ; reports from different parts of the 

 country, 211 ; prices in Richmond market, 212. 



Cotton accumulated by the Government, 212 ; circu- 

 lar of the purchasing agent, 212 ; foreign relation*, 212 ; 

 difficulty with the consuls, 213 ; letter of Mr. Benjamin 

 explaining the action of the Government, 213 ; instruc- 

 tions to Mr. Mason, 213 ; proclamation of emancipation 

 how received, 213; address to Christians throughout the 

 wcrld, 214; exchange of prisoners, 214; mission of A. 

 IL Stephens, 214. 



Militarystrcngth of the Confederacy, 215 ; effectof the 

 surrender of Vicksburg, 216; division of tho Confed- 

 eracy, 216 ; a levy en masse ordered, 216 ; loss of East 

 Tennessee, 216 ; lack of military supplies, 216; prospect 

 for subsistence of the army, 216; deficiency of labor, 

 217 ; losses, 217 ; supposed letter of T. Butler King, 217 ; 

 speech of Mr. Stephens, 218; do. of Senator Johnson, 

 218; apprehensions, 218; gleam of light, 219. 



Confiscation. Discussion on the power of Congress, 219; 

 acts of Congress, 219; instructions of the Attorney- 

 General relative to proceedings, 219 ; legal status of the 

 inhabitants of the Confederate States, 220 ; opinion of 

 Judge Wylie, 220 ; case of Leroy M. Wiley, 220 ; opinion 

 of Judge Betts, 220 ; comment on this opinion, 220 ; 

 duration of the forfeiture, 221 ; opinion of Judge Under- 

 wood, 221 ; other cases, 222 ; is real estate covered by 

 the act of 1861 222 ; opinion of -Judge Trigg, 222; the 

 constitutionality of the acts of Congress, 223 ; opinion 

 of Judge Trigg, 223 ; a case in New Orleans, 223 ; argu- 

 ment of counsel in behalf of the United States, 223 ; do. 

 in behalf of the claimants, 223 ; argument of the District 

 Attorney, 224 



Congregationalists, Trinitarian. Statistics, 225; case of 

 Charles Beecher, 225 ; Canada Union, 225 ; English Con- 

 gregational Union, 225 ; statistics, 225. 



Congress, Confederate. List of members, 226 ; resolutions 

 on the conduct of tho war and the Emancipation Proc- 

 lamation, 226 ; retaliatory measures suggested, 226 ; the 

 Government should take the responsibility, 226 ; reso- 

 lution offered in the Sen^e, 227; joint resolutions on 

 retaliation, 227 ; free navigation of the Mississippi, 227 ; 

 bills introduced, 227 ; tax law, 227 ; tax on farmers, 22S ; 

 new flag, 228 ; impressment act, 228 ; resolutions relative 

 to army substitutes, 22S ; do. to the currency, 228 ; do. on 

 prisoners, 228 ; acts of officers, 229 ; resolution relative 

 to declaring all persons in the army, 229 ; do. relative to 

 the issue of bonds, 229 ; varions other resolutions, 229 ; 

 remarks on impressment of provisions, 230 ; bill to con- 

 tinue all troops in service, 280; substitutes, 230; act 

 relative to exemptions, 230 ; use of negroes, 230 ; debate 

 relative to substitutes in the army, 281; conscription 

 act finally adopted, 282. 



Congress, United State*. List of members, 233; resolution 

 relative to arrests, 238 ; do. relative to persons in prisons, 

 288, 234; do. relative to a convention, 284; do. relative 

 to the sale of freemen into slavery by tho enemy, 284 ; 

 do. relative to propositions for peace, 284 ; do. relative to 

 a military governor in the district of Columbia, 284 ; do. 

 relative to assisting the Government, 235; do. explan- 

 atory, 285. 



Resolution relative to arrests in Delaware, 235 ; why 

 were the persons arrested ? 285 ; no cause ever stated, 

 285 ; the Senate ought not to be engaged in calling upon 

 the Government for this kind of information, 235 ; ought 



