INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



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the Lecrislature, 516; 1U action, 517; troops in the Fed- 

 eral service, 517 ; instructions to Commissioners to the 

 Peace Conference, 564. 



Xeicport 2ftics, its situation, 517; encampment, 517. 



Sew York, its boundaries, 517 ; population, 517 ; taxable 

 valuation of tho State, 51S; freight of railroads and 

 canals, 513: vote of the State, 518 ; the Legislature, 519; 

 -Message of the Governor, 519; defiant resolutions of tho 

 Legislature, 519 ; action of the people, 519 ; other memo- 

 rials, 520; action relative to the Peaco Conference, 520; 

 public meeting in New York City, MO; meetim; at Al- 

 bany, 521 ; its resolutions, 521 ; petitions, 521 ; seizure 

 of muskets by the police, 522 ; letter of Governor 

 Brown, of Georgia, 522 ; letter of Governor Morgan, 

 ; further correspondence, 522 ; number of volun- 

 teers furnished by tho State, 528 ; ordnance and small 

 arms, 523 ; money and men advanced by New York, 

 524: instructions to Commissioners to Peace Confer- 

 ence. 564. 



JTctc York City, its importance, 524; population, 525; 

 value of property, 525 ; changes in the population, 526 ; 

 city railroads, 526; lots improved and unimproved, 527; 

 tenant houses, 527 ; number of dwellings, 527; property, 

 tax, and population, 523 ; tax of, in 1 S61 , 529 ; debt of, 529 ; 

 loans for war purposes in 1S61, 529 ; political bias of, 529 ; 

 patriotism of, c-30 ; Mr. Seward's speech in, Dec. 22, I860, 

 580 ; effort for compromise in, 530; patriotic excitement 

 of, after the fall of Sumter, 530, 531 ; Mayor "Wood's 

 proclamation, 531 ; departure of the Seventh Regiment 

 from, April 19, 1S61, 531 ; mass meeting in Union Square, 

 April 20, 531 ; meetings of the Chamber of Commerce 

 and the New York Bar, 532 ; departure of the Sixth, 

 Twelfth, and Seventy -first Eegiments N. Y. S. M. on 

 the 21st April. 532; the churches of, on the 21st, 532; 

 departure of the Eighth, Thirteenth, and Sixty-ninth 

 Eegiments on the 22d April, 533; table of regiments 

 passing through, April 19th to June 29th, 533 ; money 

 and men for the war furnished by, 533, 534 ; arrivals of 

 foreign emigrants at, 534; statistics of crime and inci- 

 dental police duties in, 534; supply of meat for, 534; 

 flour and domestic produce delivered in, 1860-61, 534 ; 

 City Inspector's report for 1561, 535 ; dispensary returns 

 in, 535 ; monthly return of marriages and births in, 535. 



NICHOLSON, A. O. P., Senator in Thirty-sixth Congress, 166 ; 

 on the complaints of the South, 187; revolution has 

 suspended the relations between the Federal Govern- 

 ment and the seceded States, 220. 



Norfolk, Va. description of, 535; navy yard opposite to, 

 535 ; vessels in, 535; destruction of navy yard, 536; old 

 Fort Norfolk, with its ammunition, taken by the Vir- 

 ginia authorities, 536 ; collector of prohibited from ac- 

 cepting drafts of United States, <fcc., 536; small notes 

 issued by City Council of, 536; arrival of Confederate 

 troops at, 536, 537. 



forth Carolina, description of, 537 ; action of Legislature 

 of, 537 ; resolution of inhabitants of Pasqnotank County, 

 537 ; Forts Caswell and Johnston seized, but restored by 

 Governor J. W. Ellis, 537 ; Governor Ellis' Letter to 

 President Buchanan, Jan. 12, 1S61, 537, 533; reply of 

 Secretary of War, 538 ; passage of convention bill, 538 ; 

 appointment of commissioners to Peace Conference at 

 Washington, 533; vote of on Convention or no Con- 

 vention, 533 ; Governor Ellis' reply to the President's 

 call for troops, 533, 539 ; Pasqnotank resolutions of April 

 23d, 539; Governor Ellis's proclamation, 539; the Gov- 

 ernor calls for the enrolment of 30,000 men, 539; special 

 session of Legislature of, May 1, 1861, 539; Governor's 

 message. 539 ; call of convention, 539 ; other action of 

 Legislature, 539, 540 ; seizure of Federal forts, mint, and 

 arsenal, 540 ; ordinance of secession of, 540 ; ordinance 



assenting to Constitution of Provisional Government of 

 Confederate States, 540; delegates elected t,. 

 erate Congress, 540 ; flag of, 540; Senators from 

 fedrrnto Congress, 540; loan of one million dollars au- 

 thorized, 540; sending forward of troops from, 540; 

 Union movement in Hyde County, 540, 541 ; Union Con- 

 vention in Hyde County, 541 ; repair and manufacture 

 of fire-arms at Fayettcville, 641 ; contributions of tho 

 State for war purposes, 541 ; number of troops sent 

 from to Confederate army, 541 ; representatives from 

 in Confederate Congress, 541 ; tea raised in, 541 ; battles 

 and skirmishes in, 541, 



Obituaries, American, 541-546; Foreign, 547-558. 



Ocracote Inlet, tho fortification abandoned by Confed- 

 erate troops, and destroyed by Federal troop 



Ohio, description of, 556; Governor Dennison's message 

 to Legislature of, 566 ; extra session of Legislature of, 

 556; joint resolutions of Legislature of, Jan. 12, 1861, 

 556; detention of arms at Cincinnati, 556,557; militia 

 laws of, passed April 12th and 18th, 557 ; Governor Den- 

 nison's proclamation, 557; war laws passed by Legis- 

 lature April 17, IS, and 26, and May 7, 557; lease of pub- 

 lic works authorized, 557 ; general order for organization 

 of militia, 553; arrival of Ohio troops in Washington, 

 May 23, 553 ; organization and number of Ohio troops ID 

 United States sen-ice, 553; expenses paid by State, and 

 refunded by United States, 553, 559 ; Ohio DemocratU 

 State Convention, action o 559; statistics of State, 

 taxes, valuation, debts, naturalization, freight, &c., 559, 

 860; instructions of Legislature to commissioners to 

 Peace Congress, 564, 565. 



OSDF.RDOSK, BEXJAMIX T., biographical notice of, 560, 561. 



Ordnance Depot at San Antonio, Ttxa.%. Its surrender, 

 819 ; its contents, 319 ; given up by Gen. Twiggs, 819. 



OELOFF, PBIXCE ALEXEI F., biographical notice of, 561. 



Paducah, Ky., description of, 561 ; occupation of by Fed- 

 eral troops, 561, 562. 



Paris Congress, declaration of, approved by Confederate 

 Government, 164. 



Patents, new law of 562 ; number issued, 562. 



PATTERSON, General, explanation of his position on tho day 

 of the battle at Bull Eun, 89. 



Peace Conferences, initiated by resolutions of Virginia, 1 7?, 

 562 ; views of President Buchanan on, 562 ; recom- 

 mended by other States, 562; meeting of at Washing- 

 ton, Feb. 4, 1SG1, 562; delegates or commissioners from 

 the several States, 562; John Tyler's address at the 

 opening of 563, 564 ; resolutions or instructions con- 

 trolling their commissioners adopted by the Legis- 

 latures of Massachusetts, Ehode Island, New York, 

 New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Ohio, ?>64; 

 resolutions or instructions of Legislatures of Indiana, 

 Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, and Tennessee, 565 ; Mr. 

 Guthrie's resolution, and the committee appointed un- 

 der it, 566 ; report of that committee, 566 ; sections of 

 said report as amended, and the votes on these sections, 

 566-563; Mr. Guthrie's preamble, 568; Mr. Johnson's 

 resolution, 563; 



Eesolutions of Virginia relative to, 173 ; communi- 

 cated to Congress by President Buchanan, IT*. 



PEDRO V., King of Portugal, biographical notice oC 563. 



PEXDLF.TOX, GEORGE H., member of Congress, 226; on the 

 conduct of the war, 240. 



PEJJDLETOX'S battery at Bull Enn, 84. 



