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INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



count of small-pox at Columbia, 649 ; committees ap- 

 pointed by Convention, 649; ordinance of secession, 

 650 ; Governor authorized to appoint Collectors of Cus- 

 toms, Postmasters, &c., and incumbents to hold over 

 till such appointments are made, 650; discussion on this 

 subject, 650, 651; ordinance of secession signed, 651; 

 address to people of Southern States, 651 ; declaration 

 of causes, prepared by Mr. Memminger, 651, 652 ; com- 

 missioners appointed to proceed to Washington and 

 treat with the Federal Government for the delivery of 

 the forts, magazines, lighthouses, &c., to the sovereign 

 State of South Carolina, 651 ; the manner in which se- 

 cession was effected, 652, 653 ; declaration adopted, 653 ; 

 Gov. Pickens' proclamation, 653 ; report of Committee 

 on relations with other Slaveholding States, 653; trans- 

 fer of powers of Congress to State Legislature by the 

 Convention, 653 ; anxiety concerning forts in Charleston 

 Harbor, and pledge of members of Congress from South 

 Carolina that they should not be attacked if no reen- 

 forcemcnts were sent to them, 654; Gov. Pickens' 

 speech, Dec. 21, 1860,654; Gov. Pickens' cabinet, 654, 

 655; seizure of the U. 8. arsenal, Dec. 81, 1860, 655; 

 loan of $400,000 authorized, 655 ; Palmetto flag adopted, 

 655; Gen. Pickens proposes purchase of three war 

 steamers, 655 ; J. N. Merriman. collector at Georgetown, 

 8. C., seized on charge of treason against the State, 655 ; 

 reply of South Carolina to the peace propositions of Vir- 

 ginia, 655, 656 ; Dudley Mann sent to Europe as a com- 

 missioner to negotiate for the opening of direct trade, 

 656 ; arms sent to Florida on its secession, 656 ; corre- 

 spondence between Gov. Pickens and Major Anderson 

 relative to surrender of Fort Sumter, 656 ; Gov. Pickens' 

 letter to Pres. Buchanan, 656; $1,880,000 to be issued in 

 Treasury notes, 656; volunteer force of 10,000 men or- 

 dered to be raised, 656 ; Provisional Constitution of Con- 

 federate States adopted, March 26, 656; Fort Sumter 

 captured by orders from Confederate Government, 657 ; 

 Governor Pickens' address, 657; 19,000 troops sent to 

 Virginia, 657; representatives of South Carolina in Con- 

 federate Congress, 657. 



Spectrography, definition of, and experiments in, 657; 

 the Spectroscope, 657; discovery of new elements by 

 means of, 658; detection of elements existing in the at- 

 mosphere by means of the Spectroscope, 658. 



Springfield, Mo., description of, 658; battle of Wilson's 

 Creek, and retreat upon, 659 ; Zagonyi's recapture of, 659. 



STANNARD'S battery at Bull Eun, 84. 



STAN-TON, BENJAMIN, member of Congress, 166; no inten- 

 tion to make war, 212; on the amendment to the Act of 

 1798, 214, 215. 



Star of the, West, description of, 662 ; voyage of to Charles- 

 ton, 662; is fired upon by tke forts in Charleston harbor, 

 663 ; is captured by the Texans, 663. 



State War Loans, 307, 308. 



STEPHENS, ALEXANDER H., speech in opposition to seces- 

 sion, 699 ; speech on the war, 139 ; speech at Atlanta, on 

 the plan of the confederate government, 141 ; speech at 

 Augusta, on the Cotton Loan, 143 ; chosen Vice-Presi- 

 dent for six years, 153 ; vote in Congress, 155 ; speech on 

 taking his seat as Viee-President, 156. 



STEVENS' Battery, description of, 60S; drawing of, 509; cost, 

 510 ; further details, 510. 



STEVENS, ISAAC I., biographical notice of, 725. 



STEVENS, THADDEUS, member of Congress, 166; on the 

 rightfulness of secession, 207; on the conduct of the 

 war, 238; on the confiscation bill, 249. 



St. Helena Parish, S. C., topography and history of, 659. 



St. Louis. Mo., description of, 660; guard of soldiers sta- 

 tioned at Sub-treasury, 660; arms removed to Spring- 

 Held, 111., April 26th, 660; Gen. Frost's letter to Gen. 



Lyon, 660 ; Gen. Lyon demands and receives the surren- 

 der of Frost and his brigade, 661 ; soldiers attacked by a 

 mob in the streets, fire upon the crowd, 661 ; character 

 of Camp Jackson, 661, 662 ; martial law declared in, 662 ; 

 protest of the mulcted secessionists in, 662. 



Stocks, average sales during the year, 207. 



STONE, CHARLES P., biographical notice of, 723. 



STOKES, WILLIAM L., biographical notice of, 663. 



STRINGHAM, Com. S. II., commands the naval expedition to 

 Hatteras Inlet, 287; conference relative to surrender of 

 the forts on board his ship, 288. 



STUART'S cavalry at Bull Eun, 84. 



Sugar, export of prohibited, 165. 



Sultan of Turkey, 1. 



Summerstille, Va., description of, 663; skirmish at, 668. 



SUMNEE, CHARLES, member of the Senate, 166; offers a 

 memorial against any compromise, 223. 



SUMNER, EDWIN V., biographical notice of, 722. 



Sumter, Fo't, supply vessels sail from New York, 713; 

 when fire opened upon her, 133; labors of the engineer 

 corps in completing, 664; occupied by Major Anderson, 

 Dec. 26, 1860, 664; officers and garrison of, 664; excite- 

 ment at Charleston in consequence, 664; Gov. Pickens 

 demand for surrender of, 664 ; Col. Hayne sent to Wash- 

 ington to demand surrender of, 664 ; correspondence of 

 Messrs. Fitzpatrick, Mallory and Slidell with the Presi- 

 dent on, 664; President's answer sent to Charleston, and 

 reply of S. C. Government, 665; Col. Hayne instructed 

 to deliver his letter, and demand whether the President 

 asserted his right to send reinforcements to, 665; the 

 President's reply, 665 ; question of attacking, referred to 

 Confederate Congress, 665; women and children removed 

 from, 665; Gen. Beauregard demands the evacuation of, 

 April 11, 665; Major Anderson's reply, 665; Gen. Beau- 

 regard's proposal, 665, 666 ; Anderson's reply, 666 ; Gen. 

 Beauregard notifies Major Anderson that he will open 

 fire in one hour, 666; the first day's bombardment of, 

 666; list of batteries firing upon, 666, 667; armament of 

 fort, 667 ; effect of fire from, 667 ; effect of fire of enemy's 

 batteries on, 667 ; the second day's bombardment of, 667, 

 668; hot shot fired on from Fort Moultrie and other 

 batteries, 668 ; barracks set on fire, 668 ; Wigfall and his 

 flag of truce, 668 ; terms of evacuation agr eed upon with, 

 668 ; terms of evacuation of, finally approved by Gen. 

 Beauregard, 668, 669; condition of, at time of evacuation, 

 669 ; fleet sent by government for relief of, 669 ; official 

 notification of evacuation of, by Major Anderson, 669 ; 

 biographical sketch of Major Anderson, 669; effect of 

 intelligence of surrender at the North, 669. 



SWEENEY, THOMAS W., biographical notice of, 725. 



Taconic System, processor Emmons' theory of the, 670 ; 

 long rejected, 670 ; recent discoveries render probable 

 Professor Emmons' views of, 670, 671 ; T. Sterry Hunt's 

 theory accounting for the formations without admitting 

 the, 671. 



TANEY, Chief Justice, proceedings before, in the case of 

 John Merryman, 354-356. 



Tariff, revenue and protective, discussions on, 671 ; table 

 of changes in and results of, 672 ; whole revenue of each 

 tariff, 672 ; warehousing system, and independent treas- 

 ury plan of finance adopted, 672 ; tariffs of 1857 and 1861, 

 672; orders of the Treasury Department, 673; do. of 

 collector of New York, 673; protest against the pay- 

 ment of duties, 673; comparative rates of duty for 

 twenty years, 673; difficulties in the operation of the 

 old and new tariff, 675 ; revenue at New York, 675. 



Taxes in the Confederate States, 164. 



