INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



ABDUL Aziz KHAN becomes Bnltan of Turkey, 2. 



ABDUL MEDJID, birth ot, 1 ; education, 1 ; disposition, 1 ; 

 hostility of the masses, 1 ; rebellion of Mahomet Ali, 1 ; 

 foreign interference, 1 ; reforms in Turkey, 1 ; causes 

 of his death, 2 ; his successor, 2. 



African Slave Trade. Act to prohibit passed Confed- 

 erate Congress, 160 ; veto, 160. 



Agriculture. Its object, 2 ; primaries as pabulum, 2 ; chalk, 

 2 ; ingredients in soil, 8 ; effect of rains on, 8 ; under- 

 draining, 3 ; underdrained soils, 3 ; sub-soil ploughing, 

 4 ; fertilizers, 4 ; true test of soil, 4 ; manures of the 

 farm, 4; receptacles for manures, 5; composts, 5; lime, 

 6; sulphate of lime, 6; -wood ashes, 6; green crops 

 ploughed in, 6 ; recent changes in farm crops, 7 ; use- 

 of machinery, 7 ; pulping, 7 ; cooked food, S ; mulching, 

 8 ; caloric engines, 8 ; decay of crops, 8 ; -worn-out soils, 

 8 ; benefit of deep ploughing, 8. 



Alabama. Its boundaries, 9 ; population, 9 ; opinion of the 

 people, 9 ; vote at the Presidential election, 9 ; State 

 Convention meets, 9 ; its Union sentiment, 9 ; refuses to 

 submit to the Republican administration, 10 ; ordinance 

 of secession, 10 ; action of the Convention, 10 ; excitement 

 outside, 10 ; forts seized, 11 ; opposed to the slave trade, 

 11 ; farewell remarks of the President of the Conven- 

 tion, 11 ; commissioner sent to "Washington, 11 ; Presi- 

 dent declines to receive him, 11 ; further action of the 

 State Convention, 12 ; precipitation, 12 ; reconstruction, 

 13; civil suits, 13; military operations, 14 ; troops fur- 

 nished, 14; message of the Governor on extortions, 144; 

 her Senators retire from Congress, 196 ; speeches on the 

 occasion, 196, 197. 



ALBEBT, Prince, his birth, 14; marriage, 15; public acts, 

 15; death, 15. 



ALBUKTIS' battery at Bull Run, 84 



ALDEK, Captain, attacks the batteries at Galveston, 3SO ; re- 

 ply to the remonstance of foreign consuls, 830. 



Alexandria. Its situation, 15 ; scenes at, 15 ; decline, 15. 



ANDERSON, Gen. P.OBEET, continues at Fort Moultrie, 99; 

 occupies Fort Sumter, 100 ; reason, 100 ; effect of it, 

 100 ; ordered to Fort Moultrie, 815 ; instructions to him 

 from the \Var Department, 816; reply to Gov. Pickens, 

 demand for surrender of Fort Snmter, 656; Anderson's 

 correspondence with Gen. Beauregard, 665, 666; noti- 

 fies the Secretary of "War of surrender of Fort Sumter, 

 669 ; in the Senate of t7nited States Congress, motion to 

 approve his act in taking possession of Fort Sumter, 

 190 ; takes command in Kentucky, 401 ; resigns, 406. 



Annapolis, its situation, 16 ; arrival of troops at, 16. 



Anthracite, progress of the trade in 1S61, 16. 



Antiquity of the, Human Race, 17; evidences, 17, 18. 



APPLTTON, NATHAN, his birth, 19 ; pursuit*, 19 ; success, 19. 



Ayuia Creek, its situation, 19 ; skirmish at, 19 ; details, 1. 



Architecture, its progress in New York, 20; do. in Washing- 

 ton, 20 ; building for the English International Exhibi- 

 tion, 21. 



Arizona, bill to provide a temporary government for, 18S; 

 debate on, 188. 



Arkansas, its boundaries, 22 ; government, 22 ; population, 

 1 22 ; vote for a State Convention, 22 ; action of the Con- 

 vention, 22 ; result, 22 ; answer of the governor to the 

 call for troops, 23 ; meeting of the State Convention, 23; 

 ordinance of secession, 23 ; call for troops, 23 ; other acts, 

 28 ; war loan, 24 ; seizure of public property, 24 ; joins 

 the Confederate States, 24; military operations, 24; 

 method to increase the army, 25; forces in the field, 25; 

 murmuring of the troops, 25 ; internal affairs, 25 ; secret 

 Union organizations, 25 ; admitted as a member of the 

 Confederacy, 162. 



Arms, shipment of, to the Southern States in I860, 123. 



Army Confederate, its strength in July, 163. 



Army of the United States, its numbers, 26; increase, 26; 

 total force, 26 ; appropriations for, 27 ; pay of privates, 

 27 ; entire strength 1st of December, 27 ; do. of arms of 

 the service, 27 ; stores for at "Washington, 23 ; infantry 

 arms, 28 ; Springfield musket, 2S; how made, 29 ; Enfield 

 rifles, 29 ; Prussian needle gun, 29 ; breech-loading arms, 

 29 ; proposals of the government, 80 ; rifles for sharp- 

 shooters, 30; cavalry, 80; the carbine, 30; Sharp's, 

 Colt's, Savage's, 80 ; loading, 31 ; pistols, 31 ; artillery, 

 81 ; various kinds of ordnance, 31 ; columbiads, 31 ; Par- 

 rott gun, 32; "Whitworth gun, 82; steel cannon, 82; 

 "Wiard's steel cannon, 32 ; mortars, S3 ; shells, 33 ; foun- 

 dries, 33; projeStiles, 34; Hotchkiss, 85; James, 85; 

 gunpowder, 85; tents, 85; the Sanitary Commission, 

 86; objects of its appointment, 36; volunteers, 36; time 

 in recruiting, 87; natives and foreign born, 87; age, 37; 

 camp sites, 37 ; drainage, 87 ; ventilation of tents, 37 J 

 flooring of do., 8S ; impurities of camps, 33 ; clothing of 

 the men, 33; average sickness, 89; do. British army, 

 89 ; mortality, 39 ; diseases of the volunteers, 40 ; treat- 

 ment, 41. 



Arrest, a list of political prisoners, 861. 



Arsenal* in the seceded States, their seizure, 815 ; arsenal 

 at Augusta seized, 818; its contents, 818; arsenal at 

 Baton Rouge seized, 318 ; its contents, 318 ; arsenal at 

 Charleston seized, 818; its contents, 819; arsenal at 

 Fayetteville seized, 819; its contents, 319; arsenal at 

 Little Rock seized, 319 ; arsenal at Mount Vernon 

 seized, 819 ; its contents, 819. 

 Artesian Well at Passy, its size, 42 ; time of completion, 



42 ; flow of water, 42. 

 Astronomical Phenomena, comets, 42; their appearance 



