Nary, Confederate.—Instructions to Capt. Bullock, 382; or-
ganization of, 599; operations of the Sumter, 599;
movements of the Oreto, 599; Commander Maflit, 600;
steamer Alabama, 600; movements of, 600; captures
of American vessels, 600; her papers, 600; crew, 601;
capture of the Virginia, 601; statement of the captain,
601; capture of the Elisha Dunbar, 601; statement
of the captain, 601; disposal of prisoners, 601; excite-
ment in New York, 602; do. in England, 602; corre-
spondence with the British Minister relative to losses by
British subjects, 602; capture of the Ariel, 603; other
captures, 603; bonded, 603; validity of, 603; appearance
of the Alabama after her conflict with the Hatteras, 608;
the fight, 604; officers of the Alabama, 604.
Navy, United States.-Its organization, 604; officers, 604;
vessels, 604; squadrons, 604.

Iron-clad or armored ships, 604; necessity of armor
recognized, 605; progress in its application, 605; the
revolving turret or cupola, 606; earliest American iron-
clads, 607; the first class Monitors, 607; the Passaic,
details of, 608; improvements in working the new Mon-
itors, 609; guns discharged within the turret, 609; recoil,
609; men, 609, bed of the turret water-tight, 610; expe-
rience in battle, 610; results at Charleston, 610; loss of
the original Monitor, 611; new life raft, 611; second and
third class Monitors, 611; Dictator and Puritan, 611;
New Ironsides, 612; Galena, 612; Roanoke, 612; Keo-
kuk, 613; Dundenberg, 613; the Benton gunboat, 614;'
Essex gunboat, 614; the Tuscumbia gunboat, 614; other
gunboats and rams, 614; recent English and French
armored vessels, 614; manufacture and application of
armor plates, 615, 616; aspects of the armor question
changing, 617; destructive power of projectiles, 617, 618;
resistance of iron plates, 619; recent experiments with
modern heavy ordnance, 620, 621; practical qualifications
as to the relative efficiency of guns and armor, 622;
qualities of inclined or vertical armor, 622; the question
of the kind of armor and of backing, 623; extent of
armor and plans of armored vessels, 624; best construction
of hull for armored ships, 625; preserving the bottoms
of armored vessels, 626; rams, 626; coast and harbor
defences, 627; conclusions, 627.

Navy, U. S., operations of.--North Atlantic squadron, 629;
Roanoke Island, 629; Sewall's Point, 629; batteries on
the James river, 629; at New River Inlet, 629; South
Atlantic squadron, 630; Little Tybee river, 630; coast of
Florida, 630, steam tug Plow, 630; Stono Inlet, 680;
Jacksonville, 680; Gulf squadron, 630; Appalachicola,
630; St. Andrew, 630; Cedar Keys, 631; mouths of the
Mississippi, 631; preparations to attack Forts Jackson
and Philip, 631; attack commenced, 631; plan of the
attack, 632; bombardment, 633; preparations to pass
the forts, 633; passing of the forts, 684; conflict, 634;
approach to New Orleans, 635; correspondence with the
city authorities, 635, 636; operations of Com. Farragut
above New Orleans, 687; operations of Com. Porter
upon the forts, 637; their surrender, 638; Baton Rouge,
688; Natchez, 688; Vicksburg, 638; Confederate ram
Arkansas, 639; further movements before Baton Rouge,
639; Western flotilla, 640; Potomac flotilla, 640; James
river flotilla, 640.

NELSON, WILLIAM.-Birth, 640; education, 640; naval life,

640, transferred to a military command, 640; death, 640.
NESSELRODE, KARL ROBERT VON.-Birth, 641; education,

641; pursuits, 641; public employments, 641; death, 641.
New Hampshire.-Increase of population, 641; civil officers,
641; political organizations, 641; resolutions, 641; votes
of the citizens, 642; resolutions of the Legislature, 642;
troops contributed, 642; finances, 642; railroads, 642;
institutions of education, 642.

New Jersey.--Population of cities, 642; political excitement,
642; political organizations, 642; republican convention,
642; nominations, 642; resolutions, 643; democratic con-
vention, 643; nominations, 648; resolutions, 648; votes
of the citizens, 643; troops furnished, 644; services, 644;
State debt, 645; institutions of education, 645.
New Orleans.--Occupation by Gen. Butler, 645; proclamation
of Gen. Butler, 645; the press, 645; landing of troops,
646; aspect of the city, 646; providing relief for the
poor, 646; distribution of Confederate stores captured,
647; seizure of specie, 647; proclamation relative to
females, 647; excitement, 647; apology of the mayor,
648; explanation of Gen. Butler, 648; his private letter,
648; result of one month, 648; execution of Mumford,
649; revengeful feeling excited, 649; explanation of Gen.
Butler, 649; difficulties with the consuls, 649; action of
Reverdy Johnson, 650; further difficulties, 650; corre-
spondence, 651; emancipation order, 651; confiscations,
651; oath of allegiance renewed, 652; excitement, 652;
further orders, 652; command transferred to Gen. Banks,
652; farewell address of Gen. Butler, 652-8; proclama-
tion of Gen. Banks, 653.

New York.-Political aspect of the State, 654; political organ-
ization, 655; democratic convention, 655; nominations,
655; resolutions, 655; republican convention, 655; nom-
inations, 655; resolutions, 655; votes of the citizens, 656;
finances of the State, 656; operations of the canal de-
partment, 656; premium for specie to pay State interest,
656; canal debt, 657; banks of the State, 657; Federal
stocks held, 657; railroads, 657; salt manufacture, 658;
troops contributed, 658; militia law, 658; charter elec
tion in New York city, 659; operations of city railroads,
659; institutions of education, 660.

North Carolina.-Appeal of the governor for clothes and
shoes for troops, 15 advance of Gen. Burnside's expedi
tion against, 39; address of Gen. Clark, 41; population,
660; approach of Gen. Burnside's forces, 660; conscrip
tion, how received, 660; State convention, 660; State
election, 660; candidates, 661; difference of parties, 661;
result, 661; resolutions of the Legislature, 661; troops
taken by conscription, 661; conference with provisional
governor Stanley refused, 662.

Obituaries, American, 662; do. foreign, 682.
Ohio.-Civil officers, 695; political organizations, 695; demo.
cratic convention, 695; nominations, 695; resolutions,
695; republican convention, 696; nominations, 696;
resolutions, 697; votes of the citizens, 697; resolutions
of the Legislature, 697; apprehension of an attack upon
Cincinnati, 697; troops contributed, 697; charitable in-
stitutions, 697; institutions of education, 697; finances,
698; State debt, 698; railroads, 698.
Oregon.-Its situation, 698; population, 698; civil officers,
698; Legislature, 698; taxes, 698; colleges, 698; climate,
698.

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PASQUIER, ETIENNE D.-Birth, 698; education, 698; pur-
suits, 698; public services, 698; death, 698.
Patents.-Business of the patent office, 699; costs to pa-
tentees, 699; patents of 1862, 699; beer cooling, 699;
ballast boxes, 699; canteens, 700; dredging machines,
700; firearms and implements of war, 700; accelerating
projectiles, 700; revolving chambered pistols, 701; re-
volving guns, 701; hay elevator, 701; lamps, 701; loco-
motives, 701; locomotive tracks, 701; machine for plan-
ing wood mouldings, 702; shoes, 702; skeleton skirts,
702; sewing machines, 702.

sylvania.-Population, 703; civil officers, 708; political
rganizations, 703; democratic convention, 703; nomi-
nations, 708; resolutions, 703; republican convention,
704; nominations, 704; resolutions, 704; votes of the
citizens, 705; financial condition of the State, 705; tax,
706; interest on public debt, 706; troops contributed,
706; volunteers called to resist invasion, 706; capture of
Chambersburg, 706; voting of absent soldiers, 706;
banks, 706; railroads, 706; institutions of education, 707;
charitable institutions, 707; mineral wealth, 707.

Pensions law passed by Congress, 795.
POPE, Gen.-Movement toward New Madrid, 61; its capture,
61; crosses the Mississippi, 63; surrender of the enemy,
63; ordered to Corinth, 65; address to the army of Vir-
ginia, 126; his orders, 127; correspondence with Gen.
Lee, 136.
Presbyterians, divisions of, 707; membership-Old School,
707; church South, 707; Cumberland, do., 707; General

Assembly, 707; New School, do., 708; views on sla-
very, 708; effects of the war, 708; other portions, 708;
churches in the British provinces, 709; Scotland, 709;
England, 709; Ireland, 709: Australia, 710; New Zea-
land, 710.

PRICE, STERLING A., Gen.-His withdrawal from Missouri,54.
Prisoners, Exchange of.-Position at the close of 1861, 710;
commissioners to Richmond appointed, 710; admission
to Richmond refused, 710; arrangements for an exchange,
711; recommendation to release Confederate prisoners
from the obligations of parole, 711; exchange suspended,
711; privateersmen, 711; held as prisoners of war, 711;
exchange proposed, 712; correspondence, 712; instruc-
tions of Confederate Secretary, 712; exchange suspended,
713; Federal Government yields, 713; terms of exchange
established, 718-714;,new complications, 714; correspond
ence of Gens. Lee and Halleck, 714; orders to military
commanders in Virginia, 715; letter of President Davis
to Gen. Lee, 716; letter of Gen. Lee to Gen. Halleck,
716; Confederate order relative to Gens. Hunter and
Phelps, 717; do. relative to Gen. Neil, 717.
Projectiles, destructive power of, 617.
Protestant Episcopal Church.-First council in the Confed-
erate States, 496.

Protestant Episcopal Church, division in, 717, 718; church
in Confederate States, 718; General Convention, 718;
pastoral letter, 718; church in the British provinces,
718; church of England, 719; outside of England, 719;
in Asia, 719; British possessions in Africa, 719; in
Oceanica, 719; in Sandwich Islands, 719.

Public Documents.-Message of President Lincoln to Con-
gress on the emancipation of slaves and compensation to
the owners, 720; proclamation countermanding the
order of Gen. Hunter relative to slaves, 720; message
of President Lincoln to Congress on emancipation with
compensation, 720; appeal to the Border State mem-
bers of Congress in behalf of emancipation with com-
pensation, 721; reply of a majority of the members,
722, 728; reply of the minority, 724; reply of Mr. May-
nard of Tennessee, 725; proclamation of President Lin-
coln relative to future emancipation of slaves, 725; mes-
sage of President Lincoln at the third session of the
Thirty-seventh Congress, 780; inaugural address of
Jefferson Davis, 782; do. message at the first session of
the Confederate Congress, 784; do. message at the second
session of the Confederate Congress, 784; emancipation
proclamation of President Lincoln, 786; retaliatory
proclamation of Jefferson Davis, 787; overtures of
France and the replies of Great Britain and Russia on
mediation in the affairs of the United States, 738; treaty
between the United States and Great Britain for the
suppression of the African slave trade, 741.

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Reformed Churches.-What the name designates, 748; Dutch
Reformed Church, 778; German Reformed Church, 748;
Reformed churches of Europe, 744.

Rhode Island.--Population, 744; political organizations in the
State, 745; democratic convention, 745; nominations,
745; resolutions, 745; votes of the citizens, 745; debt of
the State, 746; banking capital, 746; railroads, 746;
schools, 746; troops furnished, 746; order for a negro
regiment, 746.

RICHARDSON, ISRAEL B..-Birth, 746; education, 746; rank
in the army, 746; death, 746.

Roman Catholic Church, population under, 746; other sta-
tistics, 746; increase, 747; present number, 747; great
council at Rome, 747; temporal power of the Pope, 748;
progress of the Church in Asia, 748.

ROSECRANS, Gen.-Address to the troops after the battle at
Corinth, 156.

Ross, JAMES CLARK.-Birth, 749; naval service, 749; death, 749.
Russia.-Population, relations with Poland, 749; emancipa.

tion of serfs, 750; feelings in Russia, 750; excitement
produced by the proposed radical changes, 750; action
of the Government, 751; decree of the Emperor, 751.

SAN MIGUEL, Evaristo.-Birth, 750; education, 750; liberal
views, 750; official positions, 751; death, 752.
SAULSBURY, WILLARD, Senator from Delaware, offers resolu-
tions proposing a conference for the settlement of diffi-
culties, 276.

STANTON, EDWIN M., appointed Secretary of War, 82;
order to Gen. McDowell how to proceed after junc
tion with Gen. Shields, 101; call for troops to defend
Washington, 107; order to take military possession of
the railroads, 108; order relieving Gen. Fremont from
command, 126; orders to military commanders in Vir-
ginia, 715.

SEWARD, W. H., Secretary of State.-Reply to a resolution of
Congress relative to passports for California, 294; reply
to the French proposition for mediation, 290.
Slaves.-Questions raised, 752; is the negro a citizen? 752;
opinion of Attorney General Bates, 752; his position in
Massachusetts, 752; proceedings in Illinois, 752; fine
for bringing negroes into the State, 758; instructions
from the Navy Department, 753; proceedings of a Kan-
sas regiment, 758; proceedings in Chicago, 758; do. in
Brooklyn, 754; social position described in Congress, 754;
instructions to the marshal of the District of Columbia
relative to slaves, 754; order of Gen. Halleck, 754; do.
of Gen. Curtis, 754; do. of Gen. Hunter, 754; do. of Gen.
Williams, 754; proceedings in North Carolina, 754; in-
structions of Secretary Cameron relative to the employ-
ing slaves, 755; further orders, 755; social experiment
with the negroes, 756; education, 756; field work, 756;
order of Gen. Saxton relative to the morals of the ne-
groes, 757; organization as soldiers, 757; letter of Gen.
Hunter in answer to a resolution of Congress, 757; orders
of Gen. Lane, 758; colonization, 758; removal to the
New England States proposed, 758.

SMITH, CHAS. F.-Birth, 758; military services,758; death, 795.
South Carolina.-Population, 759; State convention, 759;

command of the sea coast, 759; troops refuse to go out
of the State, 759; crops, 759; troops furnished to the
Confederate army, 760; failure of the stone blockade, 760.
STEVENS, ISAAC I.-Birth, 760; military rank, 760; civil
offices, 760; military command, 760.

SUMNER, JOHN B.-Birth, 760; education, 760; pursuits, 760;
writings, 760; death, 760.