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734 ; firing under water, 735 ; Armstrong gun, 735 ; "Whit- 

 worth gun, 735-736 ; Blakely gun, 730 ; French rifled 

 guns, 737 ; gun cotton, 737. 



Oregon. Boundaries, 737 ; climate, 737. 



OWES, ROBEET DALE. Letter on the relations of the insur- 

 rectionary States to the Union, 838. 



PEABODY, CIIAS. A. Appointed judge of the provisional 

 court for Louisiana, 770. 



PEASE, CALVIN. Birth, 737 ; death, 737 ; pursuits, 787. 



PEMBERTON, Gen. Order relative to prisoners paroled at 

 Vicksburg, 17 ; in command at Vicksburg, 88 ; address 

 to his troops, 88. 



PBNDLETON, G. II., Representative from Ohio, 233; presents 

 the protest of members against the bill to indemnify the 

 President and others for arrests, 243. 



Pennsylvania. Soldiers contributed to the array, 738 ; 

 troops furnished during the invasion, 738 ; finances, 739 ; 

 interest on debt, 739 ; Democratic Convention, resolu- 

 tions and nominations, 737 ; Republican do., 789 ; letter 

 of Gen. McClellan, 740 ; votes, 740 ; disturbances, 740 ; 

 claims for loss by the enemy, 740. 



PETIGRU, JAMES L. Birth, 740 ; death, 740 ; attachment to 

 the Union, 740. 



PERKINS, SAMUEL E. Delivers the opinion of the Supreme 

 Court of Indiana on martial law, 606. 



Pius IX., Pope. Letter to Archbishop Hughes, 819 ; do. to 

 Jefferson Davis, 820. 



Poland,. Divisions, 742 ; Poland in 1772, 742 ; first partition, 

 742; second partition, 742; third partition, 742; Con- 

 gress of Vienna, 742; Constitution of 1815, 743; organic 

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

 conscription enforced, 744; insurrection, 744; convention 

 between Russia and Prussia, 745 ; Prussian and Austrian 

 Poland, 745 ; Langiewicz, 745 ; proclamation of the Dic- 

 tator, 746; internal dissensions, 746; amnesty, 747; se- 

 cret government, 747; its power, 747; French note to 

 their Minister in Prussia, 748 ; ditto in St. Petersburg, 

 748 ; do. in Vienna, 743 ; do. in Great Britain, 749 ; notes 

 to the Russian Cabinet, 749 ; that of France, 749 ; do. 

 of England, 749 ; do. of Austria, 750 ; reply of Russia to 

 England, 750 ; note of Earl Russell, 751 ; reply of Rus- 

 sia to France, 751 ; do. to Austria, 752 ; notes of the sec- 

 ond rate powers to Russia, 752 ; opinion of the United 

 States, 752; dissatisfaction with the replies of Russia, 

 752 ; new notes embracing six points addressed to Rus- 

 sia, 752 ; Russia declines to accept the sis points, 753 ; 

 proposal of an armistice rejected, 752 ; replies to Franca 

 and Austria similar to the one addressed to England, 

 75E; unsatisfactory, 755; how regarded by France, 755; 

 note of Earl Russell, 755 ; do. of France, 756; reply of 

 Russia, 756. 



POETER, D. D., Admiral. Report of the attack on Grand 

 Gulf, 50 ; do. of the capture of, 51 ; report of his co- 

 operation with Gen. Grant, 58 ; do. on the expedition to 

 Yazoo City, 59 ; do. on the naval part of the assault on 

 Vicksburg, 61 ; despatch on the surrender of Vicksburg, 

 65 ; captures Alexandria, 70 ; his despatch, 71. 



POWELL, LAZARUS W., Senator from Kentucky, 233 ; 

 offers a resolution relative to arrests, 234 ; remarks on 

 arrests, 237-238 ; on the transfer of certain suits to the 

 U. 8. Courts, 250 ; on the suspension of the habeas cor- 

 pus, 253 ; on the discharge of state prisoners, 257 ; on 

 compensated emancipation in Missouri, 817-318. 



Presbyterians. Synods, ministers and churches, 757; in- 

 crease, 757 ; resolution of the Saline Presbytery, 757 ; 

 attitude of the General Assembly on slavery, 757 ; letter 

 of President Lincoln, 757; new school, 758; numbers, 



Ac., 753; assembly, 758; resolutions, 758 ; Cumberland 

 Presbyterians, 758 ; assembly of United Presbyterians, 

 759; Reformed Presbyterians, 759 ; church in the Con- 

 federate States, 759 ; churches in Scotland, 760. 



Prisoner*, Exchange of. First indication of complications, 

 760; letter of Gen. Hunter, 760 ; resolutions of Confed- 

 erate Congress, 760 ; cartel of 1862, 761 ; order of the 

 Secretary of War, 761; prisoners at Gettysburg and 

 Vicksburg, 762 ; execution at Johnson's Island, 762; re- 

 taliation, 762 ; order of the President relative to colored 

 prisoners, 762; negroes captured at Fort Wagner, 763; 

 correspondence of Messrs. Meredith and Ould, 763; let- 

 ter of Gen. Hitchcock, 764 ; Gen. Butler in command, 

 764 ; number of Confederate prisoners, 764 ; treatment 

 of prisoners, 764; plot at Johnson's Island, 765. 



Prize. Definition, 765; questions of blockade and contraband 

 of war, 765; points decided by the Supreme Court, 765; 

 application of the principles thus settled, 766 ; case of 

 the Stephen Hart, 766; facts, 766; principles decided, 

 766 ; application to the case, 767 ; case of the Springbok, 

 767; facts, 767; grounds upon which vessel and cargo 

 were condemned, 768; case of the Peterhoff, 763; facts, 

 768; material points of the evidence, 769 ; steamers Dol- 

 phin end Pearl, 769 ; case of the steamer Chesapeake at 

 Halifax, 769. 



Protest of members of the House of Representatives against 

 the bill to indemnify the President and others for mak- 

 ing arrests, 243. 



Provisional Court for Louisiana. Order of President 

 Lincoln, 770; extent of the order, 770; powers con- 

 ferred by it, 770; proclamation of Governor Shepley, 

 771; the Court goes into operation, 771; what laws 

 were recognized by the Court, 771 ; business before the 

 Court, 772; the practice in the Provost Court, 772; 

 case of Do Bare vs. De Bare for divorce, 773 ; do. of Mil- 

 landon, 773; do. of the N. O. and Carrolton railroad 

 company, 773 ; do. of Emerson, 774 ; do. of Crowell <fc 

 Hallet, 774 ; do. of Avandano Brothers, 774 ; prize cases, 

 775 ; confiscation do., 775. 



Prussia. King, 776 ; area and population, 776 ; army, 776 ; 

 navy, 777 ; commerce, 776. 



Public Documents. Message of President Lincoln to Con- 

 gress, Dec. 7th, 1863, 777 ; do. amnesty proclamation, 7S1 ; 

 message of Jefferson Davis to Confederate Congress, 

 Jan., 1S63, 782 ; do. at the second session, 788 ; corres- 

 pondence of President Lincoln witli the committee at 

 Albany, relative to the arrest of Vallandigham, 799; 

 correspondence with the Ohio committee in the same 

 case, 803 ; letter to the Unconditional Union Meeting in 

 Springfield, 80S. 



Reformed Church. Synods, churches, members, 809; meet- 

 ing of the General Synod atNewbnrg, 809; proceedings, 

 809; missions, 809; German Reformed Church, 809; 

 convention at Pittsburg, 809. 



REYNOLDS, JOHN F. Birth, 810 ; death, 810; military ser- 

 vices, 810. 



Rhode Island. The draft, 810 ; its result, 810; amendment 

 to the State constitution, 810; election of State officers, 

 810; finances, 811. 



RICHARDSON, WM. A., Representative from Illinois, 233; 

 resolution relative to persons in prison. 283 ; on the con- 

 script bill, 273, 275. 



Riot. Commencement of the draft in New York, 811 ; ex- 

 citement, 811 ; disturbances on the first and second days, 

 811, 812; meeting of Board of Aldermen, 818; call of 

 Gen. Wool, 814; proclamations of Gov. Seymour, 814; 

 effect, S14 ; letter relative to tho draft, 815 ; murder of 



