paper currency, 318; Congress has the power to declare what shall be a legal tender, 319; point out the words in the Constitution, 319; Congress has not the power to debase coin, 320; three propositions the sum of the argument, 321; existence of the Government depends upon its successful finance, 321; we are to conform our action to the Constitution of the country as it is, 322; what is this legal tender? 322; what power in the Constitution, 322; to coin money, 322; regulate commerce, 322; imperative necessity brings out the latent powers of the Constitution, 323; is this measure necessary to suppress the enemy, 823; bill passed the House, 324; vote, 324; in the Senate the bill considered, 324; legal tender constitutional, 324; obligation of an oath to support the constitution, 324; proposed to make these notes a legal tender to pay private debts, 324; who compelled to take this money, 325; said to be incidental to a great variety of powers, 325; those who choose may exercise their own judgments on the constitutionality of the measure, 326; a palpable violation of the Constitution, 326; Constitution silent, 826; if the Constitution has failed to speak Congress has not, 826; bill passed, 327.

Bill to authorize the President to take possession of railroads and telegraph lines, 827; its object, 827; where the judiciary cease the military begin to operate, 828; an extraordinary bill, 328; where do you get authority to subject civil employés to the articles of war, 328; an unauthorized power, 328; what is the whole object of the bill? 328; the power to do these things exists, 328; the war power is vested in Congress, not in the President, 828; without our assent the President cannot exercise what powers he pleases in the conduct of the war, 329; extending martial law over railroads, 329; the first step which costs, 329, the doctrine of state necessity at all times dangerous, 330; bill passed, 330.

Resolutions for the expulsion of the Senators from Missouri, 330; report on, 331.

Resolution for the expulsion of Senator Bright of Indiana, 331; debate, 331, 332; passed, 332.

Bill to prohibit slavery in the Territories considered, 332; amendment offered, 333; effects of emancipation in the British West Indies, 333; what involved in the negro question, 334; this bill a part of a series of measures already initiated, 334; Congress has no power to eman cipate a slave anywhere, 335; all the rights secured by the Constitution to the citizen exist in the District of Columbia as elsewhere, 335; on what terms can private property be taken, 335; statements of the Administration on the objects of the war, 335; have not the American people the right to relieve themselves from the guilt of upholding slavery, 336, protest in the name of Maryland, 836; views of Henry Clay, 336; cannot place expediency in the scale against justice, 337; has slavery a national existence at the capital? 887; shall money be paid for its abolition? 337; examination of the constitu tional question, 338; it is denied that property can exist in a human being, 338; slavery exists by the law of nations, 839; the slave trade cannot be restricted except by positive legislation, 340; slave trade would have been a legitimate trade to the citizens if the Government had not declared it piracy, 340; opinions of the Supreme Court, 340, 341; the Constitution treats the slaves as persons as well as property, 342; property in a horse has its origin in force, 842; vote on the question, 343; inex pediency of the measure, 343; is not this the commencement of a great system? 344; vote on the bill in the House, 344; message of the President on the bill, 345. Resolutions declaring the relations between the United States and the territory once occupied by certain States, 345; other resolutions on the same subject, 346.

Resolution relative to emancipation with compensation, 346; where is the power in the Constitution to appropriate money for this purpose? 346; too late to discuss that question, 347; an olive branch of peace, harmony, and good faith, 847; simply a declaration of opinion, 347; amendment offered, 348; the proposition of the President promises nothing, 348; is this power granted? 849; vote on the resolution, 349.

Bill relative to confiscation considered, 849; intended to operate on property, 349; competent for Congress to prescribe punishment, 349; further provisions and objects of the bill, 850; the right of confiscation relative to slaves, 351; further provisions of the bill, 351; what constitutional power to transport, colonize, and settle emancipated negroes, 351; what is to become of the Union men of the South with millions of freed slaves left to roam at large, 351; this measure can never secure peace, 352; shall we stand or fall by the Constitution or leave it and adventure on the wide sea of revolution? 852; this bill would liberate three million slaves at a blow, 352; effect upon the war, 353; pass this bill and all that is left of the Constitution is not worth much, 353; the supreme power of conducting war is in Congress, 353; no limit to the power of Congress, 353; it leaves to the citizens of the seceded States the ownership of nothing, 354; want of power, 854; Congress cannot interfere with slavery in the States, 855; wars should not be a revengeful policy, 355; ends for which the Constitution was made, 856; two classes of persons whose property is forfeited, 356; it will cut off the great market of the free States, 856; depriving a person of his property without process of law, 857; Congress no right to interfere with slavery in a State, 357; interfering with plighted faith, 358; subject referred to a select committee, 358; report, 358; the bill reported unconsti tutional, 358; moved to except slaves, 358; liberation is not confiscation, 358; the term forfeiture, 359; a substitute, 859; votes on the amendments, 860; motion to strike out the section authorizing the President to issue a proclamation of emancipation, 360; Congress no power to authorize him, 360; inexpedient, 361; contest in the Senate on the bill, 362; the debate in the House, 362. the Constitution not to be trampled on, 362; the bills examined under the law of nations and the Constitution, 862, 363, 364, 365; contest in the Senate renewed, 866; not one single word or letter in the Constitution which gives Congress any power to do an act in the exigency of war, which it cannot do in times of peace, 366; the doctrine that would concentrate all power in the Executive most fatal, 367; indifferent whether the Federal or Confederate States triumph, 367; the war power of the Government explained, 867, 368; doctrines subversive of every principle of free government, 869; authority of the President over the army and navy, 869; has Congress authority to control or direct the President in the use of the military force, 869; fatal sophistry to deny it, 869; manner in which the proceedings of the Senate have been conducted, 370; vote on the bill, 870; a substitute moved, 371; vote, 871; committee of conference, 871; subsequent legislation on the measure, 371; amendments moved, 372; confiscation and forfeiture, 378, features of the bill, 373; explanatory provision, 874; adopted, 374; message of the President relative to the bill, 874. Acts of a general nature passed, 875; number of representatives in Congress, 875; additional article of war, 875; abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, 875; department of agriculture, 375; homesteads to set. tlers, 875; railroad and telegraph to the Pacific, 375; punishment of polygamy, 375; oath to be taken by public officers, 876.

Connecticut.-Its situation, 876; civil officers, 876; census re-
turns, 876; institutions, 876; census statistics, 877; pro-
ceedings of the Legislature, 377; debt of the State, 377;
troops furnished, 877.

Conscription in Confederate States.-Act recommended by
President Davis, 242: its adoption, 243; features, 243;
constitutionality, 243; opposition at the South, 243;
correspondence of the Governor of Georgia, 244; opin-
ion of the Supreme Court of Georgia, 245; opposition
in Alabama, 245; desertions, 246; debate in Congress,
268.

CRITTENDEN, Gen. GEORGE B.-Address to the people of
Kentucky, 27.

CURTIS, Gen. Address to the people of the southwest, 54;
correspondence with Gen. Van Dorn, 57; appointed to
command the department of Missouri, 58.

D

DAVIS, President JEFFERSON.-Message on the capture of
Fort Donelson, 85; message to Confederate Congress,
78; address to the army after the battle of Fair Oaks,
118; after seven days' battles, 184; message to Confed-
erate Congress on despatch of Gen. Lee, 185; his inau-
guration at Richmond, 241; his views, 241; recommends
a conscription law, 242; on its constitutionality, 243;
letter to Gen. Lee respecting retaliatory measures, 715;
his inaugural address, 782; message at the first session
of the permanent Congress, 784; do. at the second ses-
sion of the permanent Congress, 785; retaliatory procla
mation, 786.

Decatur.-Its situation, 878; military movements at, 378.
Delaware.-Its situation, 378; State election, 878; census
statistics, 378; troops sent to the war, 878.
Deserters, provost marshals to arrest, 21.
Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States.-With

Great Britain, 379; case of the British consul at Charles-
ton, 879; the right to obtain coal at Nassau, 879; steam
gunboat Oreto, 880; proceedings relative to, 380; case
of the Alabama, 381; proceedings relative to, 882; the
charge of furnishing assistance to the Confederates, 883;
duty to suppress them, 384; letter of Mr. Adams explain-
ing his position, 885; belligerent rights accorded to the
Confederate States, 885; case of the Emily St. Pierre,
886; treaty for the suppression of the slave trade, 887;
correspondence with France, 387; anxiety for cotton,
887; condition of the manufacturing districts, 388; uni-
formity of policy, 888; conversation relative to media-
tion, 888; proposition of France to England and Russia,
889; mediation proposed by France to the United States,
889; reply of Mr. Seward, 390; correspondence with
Spain, 392; reference to the treaty surrendering the
right of search, 892.

Drury's Bluff, its position, 393; attack on, 893.
DUPONT, Com., commands expeditions on Florida coast, 49.

E

Earth.-Relative sunshine of different zones, 898; extent of

the earth's atmosphere, 393; thickness of the earth's
crust, 393; excentrality of the earth, 394; earthquake
waves, 395.

Education.-Its diffusion in the United States, 395; pri-
mary education, 396; scholars and expense of schools in
the United States, 396; secondary instruction, 396;
higher education, 396; universities and colleges, 896;
total expenditures in the United States, 397; object
teaching, 897; origin, 398; progress, 898; Comenius,
898; Pestalozzi, 398; his views, 399; pupils and assist-

ants, 899; the system in the Canadas and the United
States, 400; books published, 400; method of teaching,
401; results, 401.
Electricity.-Measures of electric resistance, 402; Mathie-
son's unit of resistance, 402; Weber's proposed absolute
standard, 402; electro-motive force of voltaic piles, 402;
measures of electrical quantities, 408; proposed stand-
ard of electrical resistance, 403; influence of temperature
on the conducting power of metals, 404; mechanical ef-
fects of powerful tension, 404; study of the electric
spark by the aid of photography, 404; production of vi-
brations and musical sounds by electrolysis, 405; new
experiments in electro-magnetism, 405: electricity de-
veloped during evaporization and effervescence, 405;
experiment with the crural nerve of a frog, 406; elec-
trical phenomena of Vesuvius, 406; Ritchie's electrical
machines, 406; conducting power of pure and alloyed
copper, 407; electric lights for lighthouses, 408; Way's
electric light with mercury, 409; improvement in
Holmes' magneto-electric light, 409; Serrin's electric
light regulator, 410; Baker's apparatus for electric lights,
410; present desideratum in electric lights, 410; electric
light signals, 410; application of electric light to mining
purposes, 411; engraving by electricity, 411; electric
despatch, 411; electric sounding apparatus, 411.
ELLET, CHARLES, jr.-Birth, 412; education, 412; pursuits,
412; death, 412.

Exhibition, British Industrial.-Results of the first opened,
412; disposal of the profits, 412; plan of that of 1862,
418; laying out of the works, 418; progress of the build-
ing, 413; the building, 414; the interior, 415; construe-
tion, 415; decoration of the building. 415; exhibition
opened, 417.

Objects and articles exhibited, 418; mining, quarry-
ing, and metallurgy, 418; chemical substances and phar-
maceutical processes, 419; coal tar and lichen dyes, 420;
substances used for food, 420; Indian products, 420; ma-
chinery, 421; traction engines, 421; Young's type com-
posing machine, 423; folding, pressing, and stitching
machine, 428; agricultural machines and implements,
423; civil engineering, architecture, and building con-
trivances, 424; models, weapons, 424; new cartridge,
425; marine engines, 425; gas engineering, 426; pho-
tography and photographic apparatus, 426; clocks and
watches, 427; electric telegraphs and electrical appa-
ratus, 427; surgical instruments and appliances, 428;
sanitary appliances, 428; musical instruments, 428; mis-
cellaneous machinery, 429; American machinery, 499;
sewing machines, 481; flax and hemp, 431; silk and vel-
vet, 432; woollen, worsted, and mixed fabrics, 432; tap-
estries, 482; printed and dyed fabrics, 432; lace making,
433; furs, feathers, and hair, 484; India rubber manu-
factures, 484; leather, including saddlery and harness,
485; paper making and stationery, 435; printing, 496;
bookbinding, 436; educational works and appliances,
436; furniture and upholstery, 487; iron manufactures,
487; forged iron, 438; welding, 488; rolled iron, 438;
sheet iron, 438; bars, rails, and girders, 439; armor
plates, 439; Canadian iron, 439; iron in India, 439;
Swedish boat plates, 440; galvanized metals, 440; Here-
ford screen, 440; chandeliers, gaseliers, and lamps, 441;
locks and safes, 441; steel manufactures, 442; Krupp's
cast steel, 442; Bessemer steel, 442; work in the pre-
cious metals, 448; aluminium articles, 448; jewelry,
448; glass, stained and fancy, 443; pottery, 445; sub-
stances used in manufactures, 445; British colonies, 445,
446, 447; Australian colonies, 447; French colonies, 449;
South American States, 449; Japan, 450; China, 450;
Egypt, 450; fine arts, 450; foreign paintings and sculp-
ture, 450; review, 451.

F

relieve Gen. Banks, 104; his reply, 104; his march, 104;
resigns his command, 126.

by Federal troops, 451.

FELTON, CORNELIUS C.-Birth, 452; education, 452; pursuits,

452; writings, 452; death, 452.

Fernandina.-Its situation, 452; capture, 452.
Finances of the United States.-Condition at the close of
1861, 452; loans, 452; views of the Secretary of the
Treasury, 453; drafts on the banks, 458; position of the
currency, 454; public deposits, 454; the currency act,
454; its effect, 455; wants of the Treasury, 455; certifi-
cates of indebtedness, 456; regulations respecting, 456;
effect of the certificates, 456; a supplemental act, 457;
purchase of coin, 457; contraction of the currency, 457;
public debt, 458; interest paid in specie, 458; certificates
of deposit, 459; mutilation of notes, 459; rules respect-
ing, 459; exchange of bonds for old demand notes, 459;
the tax law, 460; stamp revenue in one week, 460; prin-
ciple of the law, 460; details of taxes, 461; change of the
tariff, 461; expansion of paper currency, 461; effects,
461; disappearance of gold and silver, 462; shinplasters,
462; postage stamps, 462; stamp currency, 462; issues
of, 462; necessities of the Treasury, 463; new loan bill,
463; resources of the Treasury, 462; its operations, 462–
463; advance of stocks, 464; temporary loan of the banks,
464; bids, 465; receipts and expenditures for the year
ending June 30th, 465; debt, January 1st, 1863, 466; re-
marks of the Secretary on the loans, 466; costs of the
loans, 467; investments of surplus capital, 467; number
of lenders, 468; effects of currency measures upon stocks
and metals, 468; prices of produce, 469; cost of imports,
469; radical changes in trade, 469; foreign measures of
the value of stocks, 470; consumption of gold and silver
in manufactures, 470; specie in the Northern States,
471; specie movements in New York, 471; operations of
the assay office at New York, 471, 472; influence of paper
noney on merchandise, 472; number of failures in the
Northern States in 1862, 473; advance in railway freights,
478, prices of stocks in New York during the year, 474.
FISH, HAMILTON, appointed commissioner to negotiate ex-
change of prisoners, 710.

FITZROY, Admiral.-His system of weather forecasts and
storm signals, 575.

Florida.-Population, 474; census returns, 474; Federal ex-
peditions to, 474; troops withdrawn to Richmond, 474;
occupation of Jacksonville, 475; plan for the armed
colonization of, 475.

France.-Feeling of the people, 475; improvements of the
Emperor at Paris, 475; his enterprises, 476; debt of
France, 476; relations with Great Britain, 476; relations
on the Continent, 476; do. with Mexico, 477; do. with
the United States, 477; society of St. Vincent de Paul,
477; finances of France, 477; concessions, 477; effect of
the American tariff, 478; state of the manufacturing dis-
tricts, 478; statistics, 478; imports, 479; railroads, 479;
army and navy, 479; postal service, 479.
Frederick.-Its situation, 479; population, 479; occupation
by Confederate troops, 479; evacuation, 479.
Fredericksburg.-Its situation, 479; population, 479; evac-
uation by Confederate troops, 479; Federal occupation
and evacuation, 479; battle at, 480.

Freedom of the Press.-Order of the Secretary of War rela-
tive to newspaper publications, 480; second order, 480;
other orders, 480; restrictions on the press considered
in Congress, 480; report of the committee, 480.
Frelinghuysen, Theodore.-Birth, 481; education, 481; pur-
suits, 481; death, 481.

FREMONT, Gen. JOHN C., assumes command in the Mountain
Department, 102; his movements, 102; ordered to

at, 481.

G

GARFIELD, Col. JOHN A., defeats Confederate force in Ken-
tucky 25; his despatches, 25-26.

Geographical and Archæological Explorations.—Surveys
of the Mississippi and its tributaries, 481; explorations for
new mines in the Territories, 481; Lower California, 482;
Russian America, 482; interior of Labrador, 482; ex-
plorations of C. F. Hall, 482; Northwest Boundary Sur-
vey, 482; explorations in Mexico, 488; Central America,
483; Honduras, 483; New Granada, 483; Venezuela, 483;
Ecuador, 483; Guiana, 484; Brazil, 484; Argentine Con-
federation, 484; Chill, 484; Patagonia, 485; geographi-
cal publications in Europe, 485; Syria, 485; Palestine,
485; Lebanon Range, 485; Northern and Central Asia,
486; Persia, 486; coasts of Japan, 486-488; China, 486-
487; Island of Formosa, 487; Siam, 487; interior of
Burmah, 487; Australia, 488; discoveries, 488; discover-
ies in Africa, 489; Barbary States, 489; White Nile, 489;
Northern Africa, 490; Central Africa, 490; Western
Coast, 490; Gabun, 490; Upper Guinea, 491.

Discoveries in archæology, 491; lacustrian villages in
Switzerland, 491; discoveries in Egypt, 491; Algeria, 491;
Tunis, 491; Syria, 492; Greece, 492; Rome, 492; France,
492.

Georgia.-Conscription act not enforced in northern coun-
ties, 16; population, 493; census returns, 493; destruction
of the crops, 493; drafting at Savannah, 493; excitement
at Savannah on the capture of Fort Pulaski, 493; aban-
donment of the towns, 494; conscription act, 494; oppo-
sition to it, 494; action of the Legislature and the courts,
494; message of the governor relative thereto, 494; fur
ther action of the Legislature, 495; election of Senators
to the Confederate Congress, 495-496; manufacturers'
association, 496; crops, 496.

GOLDSBOROUGH, REAR AD. L. M., commands naval part of
the expedition to North Carolina, 88.

GRANT, GEN. ULYSSES, advances upon Fort Henry, 29; at-
tacks Fort Donelson, 83; summons to surrender, 83;
congratulates the troops, 35; commands at Shiloh, 69.
Great Britain.--Revenue and expenditures,496; Parliament,
496; action relative to the Confederate States, 497; iron-
clad ships, change of views relative to, 497; fortifications,
497; poor rates, 497; diplomatic intercourse, 498; opera-
tives in Lancashire, 498; their condition, 498; effects of
the supply of cotton, 499; relief, 499; external affairs,
499; financial condition, 499; imports and exports, 500;
education in England, 500; postal communication, 500.
Great Eastern Steamship, the accident to and the repairs
of, 501, 502, 508, 504, 505, 506.
Greece.-Area and population, 506; causes of the revolution
in 1862, 506; patience of the people, 507; feelings to-
ward the king and queen, 507; exasperation, 508; flight
of the king, 508; provisional government, 508.

H

Habeas Corpus.-Arrest of citizens in the United States, 508;
words of the Federal Constitution, 508; order relative
to prisoners who employed an attorney, 509; official
statement of a case of arrest, 509; matter of arrests
transferred from the state to the War Department, 509;
order in relation to state prisoners, 509; commission to
examine State prisoners, 510; proceedings of the com-
mission, 510; arrest of ex-Secretary Cameron on a pro-

cess of a court, 511; correspondence relative to threats,
511; arrest of a judge in open court in Maryland, 512;
proclamation of the President suspending the writ of
Habeas Corpus, 512; arrests in Philadelphia, 518; action
of the District Court of the United States, 513; arrests
in Vermont, 513; action of the District Court, 513; its
decision, 514; arrest in New Hampshire, 514; action of
the State Supreme Court, 514; action of the Supreme
Court of Wisconsin, 514; opinion of the Chief Justice,
514; order to release prisoners, 516.
HALLECK, GEN. H. W.-Thanks to Gen. Hunter for reen-
forcements to Gen. Grant, 32; letter to Gen. Grant on
the capture of Fort Donelson, 35; address to the in-
vading troops, 37; his despatch announcing the occupa-
tion of Springfield, 54; d8. of Arkansas, 54; do. of Fay-
etteville, 54; despatch on battle at Pea Ridge, 58; goes
to Pittsburg Landing, 74; takes command, 74; despatch-
es from Corinth, 75; arrives at Washington to act as
general-in-chief, 124; his views on affairs, 124; letter
in reply to Gen. McClellan, 125; correspondence with
Gen. Lee, 714; answer to interrogatories of Secretary
of War, 162.

Harrisonburg,-Its situation, 516; population, 516.

HOGG, THOMAS JEFF.-Birth, 516; education, 516; writings,
516; death, 516.

Iowa.-Population, 534; census statistics, 534; civil officers,

534; debt, 584; banks, 534; Legislature, 585; conven-
tions of the political organizations, 585; nominations,
535; votes of the citizens, 535.
Italy.-Area and population, 535; loss of Cavour, 535; his
successor, 535; obstacles, 585; action of the French
emperor, 536; Ratazzi, 536; his career, 536; restoration,
586; policy, 537; movements of Garibaldi, 587; defeat
at Aspromonte, 538; arrest, 538.

JOHNSON, GEN. A. S.-Address to his troops at Corinth, 68.
JOHNSON, REVERDY, sent to New Orleans to examine diffi-
culties, 650.

JOHNSTON, ALBERT S.-Birth, 538; education, 538; military
career, 589; death, 539.

JOHNSTON, GEN. J. E.-Address to the army at Manassas, 82.

K

Kansas.-Population, 589; civil officers, 589; military force,
539; Indian expedition, 589; conflicts, 599.
KEARNEY, PHILIP, birth, 540; education, 540; military ca-
reer, 540; honors, 540; death, 540.

HOPE, FREDERICK W.-Birth, 516; education, 516; pursuits,
517; death, 517.

HORNE, THOMAS H.-Birth, 517; education, 517; pursuits,
517; death, 517.

HUNTER, DAVID, takes command in South Carolina, 49; de-
mands the surrender of Fort Pulaski, 49; order dividing
the department, 52.
Huntsville.-Its situation, 517; military occupation of, 517.

Illinois.-Population, 518; do. of cities, 518; census statistics,
518; constitutional convention, 518; proceedings, 518;
vote of the people on the Constitution, 519; political
organizations, 519; resolutions of the Republican State
Convention, 519; nominations by the Democratic or-
ganization, 520; votes of the people for State officers
and members of Congress, 520.
Illumination.-Igniting point of gas and coal, 520; origin and
treatment of petroleum, 520; paraffine oils, 521; car-
buration of gas, 522; Bassett's carburetting apparatus,
522; illuminating gases from petroleum, coal oil, or
from their derivatives, 523; gas from petroleum alone,
524; Hill's air gas, oleo-water gas, and electro-chemical
gas, 524; McDougal's fixed gas and atmospheric gas,
524; Elmer's pure illuminating gas, 524; air light for
locomotives, 525; lampe eolienne, 526.
Indiana.-Population of cities, 526; census statistics, 526;
financial affairs, 527; elections, 527; political organiza-
tions, 527; conventions of the democratic organization,
527; nominations, 527; resolutions, 527; convention of
the republican organization, 528; nominations, 528;
resolutions, 528; votes of the people, 528; provisions
of the State Constitution relative to negroes, 528; troops
contributed to the war, 529.

INGERSOLL, CHARLES JARED.-Birth, 529; education, 529;
public offices, 529; death, 529.

Insurance Companies.-Losses, 529; do. in Massachusetts,

530; do. marine, 530; do. by fire risks, 580; increase of
fire risks, 581; cases of net losses, 581; foreign com-
panies in New York, 532; participation plan, 532; ac-
tivity of life insurance, 532; companies in New York,
583; returns, 588; returns in Massachusetts, 534.

message of the governor, 540; extra session of the
Legislature called, 541; governor resigns, 541; succes-
sor, 541; report of the committee on emancipation with
compensation, 541; finances, 542; military operations in
the State, 542.

KNOWLES, JAMES S.-Birth, 543; education, 548; pursuits,
543; death, 543.

L

LANDER, FREDERICK W.-Birth, 543; education, 543; mili-
tary career, 543; death, 544.

LEE, GEN. R. E.-Despatch of battle at Manassas, 185;
answer to Gen. Pope, 136; address to the citizens of
Maryland, 138; order to Gen. Hill showing what his
plans were, 140.

LINCOLN, PRESIDENT ABRAHAM.-Order of thanks to the
officers and soldiers at Mill Spring, 27; order for an ad-
vance of all the forces, 29; order of thanks on the cap-
ture of Roanoke Island, 40; order creating the Moun-
tain Department, 90; do. Shenandoah, 90; do. Rappa-
hannock, 90; reply to Gen. McClellan's request for re-
enforcements, 99; order dividing the army into corps,
84; assigning Gen. McClellan to the command, 84; let-
ter to Gen. McClellan respecting the withdrawal of Gen.
Blenker's division, 86; order to Gen. McDowell to pro-
ceed to aid Gen. Banks, 101; correspondence, 101; order
to Gen. Fremont to go to the relief of Gen. Banks, 104;
order forming the Army of Virginia under Gen. Pope,
126; calls three hundred thousand men, 128; his order
removing Gen. McClellan, 164; message with the bill
abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia, $45;
message relative to the Confiscation Bill, 874; his proe-
lamation suspending the writ of Habeas Corpus, 512;
countermands the proclamation of Gen. Hunter, 725;
message at the third session of the Thirty-seventh
Congress, 726; emancipation proclamation, 736.
Literature and Literary Progress in 1862.-In the United
States, 544; in Great Britain, 550.
Louisiana.-Census statistics, 552; educational institutions,
552; military affairs, 552; calls for troops, 552; gover
nor's appeal, 552; call of Gen. Beauregard, 553; affairs
in New Orleans before its capture, 558; address of gov.
Moore to the citizens with regulations relative to Federal
forces, 553; military operations in the State, 554.

Lutherans.--Number of members, 554; synods, 554; meeting
of General Synod, 555; resolutions, 555; seminaries,
555; do. in Great Britain, 555; do. in Germany, 555;
do. in France, 556; do. Sweden, 556; do. Russia, 556.

M

MACKENZIE, Rt. Rev. Bishop.-Birth, 557; education, 557;
pursuits, 557; death, 557.
Maine.-Population, 557; political organizations, 557; repub-

lican convention, 557; nominations 557; resolutions, 557;
war democrat's convention, 557; nominations, 557; reso-
lutions, 557; democratic convention, 557; nominations,
557; resolutions, 557; votes of the citizens, 558; troops
furnished, 558; passage of British troops over the terri-
tory, 568; institutions of education, 559; railroads, 559;
debt, 559.
Maryland.--Population, 559; Legislature, 559; appropriation

to families of Massachusetts soldiers killed at Baltimore,
559; message of the governor on the position of Mary-
land, 560; resolutions of the Legislature, 560; effect of
emancipation in the District of Columbia, 560; effect of
Maryland and Kentucky on the Southern side, 561; re-
ception of Gen. Lee's army, 561; political sympathies
of Maryland, 561; contribution of soldiers, 561; miles of
railroad, 561; institutions of education, 561; arrest of
citizens, 561.
Massachusetts.-Population, 561; increase, 561; manufac

tures, 561; value of property, 562; State debt, 562;
protection of seaports, 562; resolutions of Legislature
relative to the action of Maryland Legislature, 562;
answer of Gov. Andrew to a call for more troops, 562;
rally of volunteers, 562; troops contributed, 563; politi-
cal organizations, 563; resolutions of the republican
convention, 563; people's convention, 563; resolutions,
563, 564; democratic convention, 564; resolutions, 564;
votes of the citizens, 565; refusal of the governor to re-
ceive Southern blacks into Massachusetts, 565.
MCCLELLAN, GEN. GEORGE B.-Force before Washington,

24; directs Western operations up to the occupation of
Nashville, 29; address on taking command in the field,
84; statement at a court martial relative to the troops
left at Washington, 88; instructions to Gen. Wadsworth,
88; do. to Gen. Banks, 88, 89; letter to Gen. Thomas,
89; further statements, 90; moves on Yorktown, 90;
movements after its capture, 94; arrives at Williams-
burg, 96; addresses to the troops, 96; address to his
army at Harrison's Landing, 123; ordered to command
troops at Washington, 189; his general orders, 139; or-
der relative to the President's proclamation, 161; or-
dered by the President to cross the Potomac, 162; re-
moved from command, 164; farewell to the troops, 164;
retires to Trenton, 164.

Meteorology.-Comparative temperature of the air and soil,
570; experimental researches on evaporization and ab-
sorption, 570; Dalton's theory of an independent vapor
atmosphere questioned, 571; vapor of the upper atmos-
phere, 572; meteorological observations in balloon
ascents, 578; dew bow on the surface of mud, 578;
soap bubbles and the nature of cloud, 574; formation of
rain near the earth, 574; Admiral Fitzroy's system of
weather forecast, storm signals, &c., 575; weather
signs, 578; cyclones and anti-cyclones, 579.
Methodists, divisions of, 579; Methodist Episcopal, 579;
numbers, 579; churches, 579; conferences, 579; pro-
ceedings, 580; church South, 580; churches in British
America, 581; do. South America, 581; do. Hayti, 581;
do. Great Britain, 581: French Wesleyan Conference,.
582; German Annual Conference, 582; Methodists in
Asia, 582: do. in Africa, 582; do. in Australia, 582.
Mexico.-Population, 583; internal affairs, 588; movements
of the French, 584; position of the Government of the
United States relative to, 584.
Michigan.-Situation, 585; Legislature, 585; resolutions of,
585; political organizations, 585; resolutions of the
democratic organization, 585; nominations, 585; re-
publican nominations, 585; votes of the citizens, 585;
troops contributed, 585; railroads in the State, 585; in-
stitutions of education, 585; salt manufactures, 586;
State debt, 586; its agricultural college, 5.
Minnesota.-Situation, 586; character of its population, 586;

civil officers, 586; troops contributed, 586; Indian war,
586; attacks on the settlers, 586; defeat of the Indians,
587; consequences of the war, 588.
Mississippi.--Census statistics, 588; internal affairs of the

State, 588; call of the governor for troops, 589; scarcity
of arms, 589; military operations in the State, 589;
crops, 589.
Missouri.-Condition at the beginning of 1862, 589; assess-
ments, 590; provost marshal's order to publishers, 590;
oath of allegiance exacted, Chamber of Commerce,
teachers and civil officers, 590; trial of bridge burners,
590; correspondence between Gens. Halleck and Price,
591; advance of Gen. Curtis's forces, 591, civil officers of
the State, 591; State convention, 591; proceedings, 592;
emancipation bill, 592; qualification of voters, 592; pro-
visional government, 592; action of the convention on
emancipation and compensation, 592; emancipation con-
vention, 593; resolutions, 598; guerilla operations, 593;
order of Governor Gamble, 593; operations in Calloway
county, 593; attack on Independence, 594; movements
in northeastern counties, 594; capture of Andrew Alls-
man, 594; Gen. McNeil's order, 594; execution of ten
prisoners, 594; State election, 595; meeting of the Legis-
lature, 595; organization, 595; State debt, 595; emanci-
pation, 595.

MCDOWELL, GEN. IRWIN, ordered to cooperate with Gen.

McClellan, 101; ordered to aid Gen. Banks, 101; corre-
spondence, 101, 102; letters to Gen. McClellan, 117, 118.
MCNAB, Sir ALLAN N.-Birth, 566; public positions, 566;
honors, 566; death, 566.

MEADE, WILLIAM.-Birth, 566; education, 566; pursuits, 566;
death, 566.

Memphis.-Surrender of the city, 567; correspondence, 567;
civil organization, 567; trade, 567; circulation of Con-
federate script forbidden, 567; newspaper suspended,
568; Union meeting, 568; families of Confederate
officers sent South, 569; trade opened by Gen. Sher-
man, 568; vacant stores occupied, 569; operation of the
partisan corps, 569; government of the city, 569; gue-
rillas, 567.

movements toward Huntsville, 78; its capture, 78;
operations in Alabama, 79; made a Major-Gen., 79;
ordered to command in South Carolina, 80; birth, 595;
education, 595; pursuits, 595; military services, 596;
death, 596.

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Nashville, surrender of, 37; retreat of Confederate forces, 596;
surrender of the city to Federal troops, 596; state of the
city, 596; Andrew Johnson appointed military governor,
597; refusal of the city officers to take the oath of allegi-
ance, 597; resolutions of the city council, 597; condition
of the city, 597; order relative to the sale of provisions,
medicines, &c., 577; operations of guerillas, 598; as-
sessment of wealthy citizens, 598; proceedings in the
city, 599.