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INDEX.

ACTORS. Influence of, 271.
Adams, Charles Francis, 48.

Family, 48; English descent, 354.
Henry, monument of, 354.
President John, 48; Jefferson's
character of, 392.

Mrs. John, her social tastes, 304.
John Quincy, Journal of, 14; on his
closing years, 48; opposes annex-
ation of Texas, 51; knew the value
of wit, 83; made few personal
friends, 146; Seward's Life of, 353;
early letter from, 355; diary of, 356.
Mrs. John Quincy, 311.

J. Q., Jr., an "Old-line Whig"
Democrat, 54.

Agassiz, Professor, 299.

Aged Publicists, 95.

Allibone, S. Austin, his Dictionary of Au-

thors, 430.

Amateur Editors: James Buchanan, Thos.
H. Benton, J. S. Black, and Caleb Cush-
ing, 21.

Ammen, Commodore, puts down a mutiny

at sea, 297.

Anti-Romanist Oratory, 131.

"Arkansas Traveler," a piece of domestic
poetry, 85.

Arlington Heights, latest repose in, 91.
Art in America, 219.

Astor House, New York, symposia at, 70.
Autography of Publicists, 421.
Automaton Chess Player and Trumpeter,
417.

BAKER, E. D. B., scene in the Senate with
Breckinridge, 43; his political predictions,
46; his adopted citizenship and true pa-
triotism, 49; won and retained friends, 146.
poem by, 285.

Baltimore, eventful occurrences in, 160; fir-
ing on the Massachusetts troops, 225.
Baltimore American, loyalty of, 159.
Banks, Nathaniel P., elected Speaker, 379.
Barnum's Hotel, Baltimore, exciting scene
at, 158.

Barnum, Zenos, his kind interest in Mr.

Sumner, 159; his hotel closed and re-
opened by authority, 161.

Barton, G. W., of Lancaster, 29; character
of his eloquence, 30.

Bayley, Thomas H., of Virginia, 57.

Benjamin, Judah P., 57.

Bennett, James Gordon, relations with Hen-
ry Wikoff, 366; with President Buchan-
an, 367.

Benton, Thomas H., as an amateur news-

paper writer, 21; anecdote of, 22.

Biddle, Charles J., of Philadelphia, press
banquet to, 71.

Bingham, Mrs., her quarrel with Manager
Wigfall, 269.

Binney, Horace, his eulogy on John Ser-
geant, 198; his public life, 201.
Black, Jeremiah S., as a newspaper writer,

21.

Blair & Rives, of the Washington press,
106.

Blitz, Signor Antonio, his forty years in the
New World, 413; autobiography of a
conjurer, 414; anecdotes from, 416.
Boker, George H., his introduction to Mr.
Lincoln, 264; his patriotic poetry, 266.
Booth, John Wilkes, assassinates President
Lincoln, 40.

Boston, local government of, 348.
Brady, James T., 71.

Breckinridge, John C., his career and char-
acter, 41; scene with Senator E. D. Baker,
42; with a South Carolina Hotspur, 284.

Bristol, Lord, retort to Frederick the Great,
265.

Broderick, David C., of California, 23; elect-
ed Senator, 24; character of, 25; personal
and prophetic speech by, 26; return to
California, 27; slain in a put-up duel, 28;
his tragic fate, 316.

Brown, David Paul, Philadelphia lawyer,
sketch and anecdotes of, 211.
Buchanan James, his diary, 14; inspired an
attack on T. H. Benton, 22; his set of an-
ecdotes, 62; his twenty years' Presiden-
tial candidacy, 67; a good secret-keeper,
74; made few friends, 146; Mr. Clay's
dislike of, 181; Cabinet on the eve of Re-
bellion, 223; Minister to England, 317;
his Secretary of Legation, 318; an English
Boniface, 319; first Presidential aspira-
tion, 324; successful, 325.

CALHOUN, J. C., change of his politics, 53;
simplicity of his manners, 83.
California, early days of, 314.
Cameron, Simon, a ride with, 66; another
bottle of Johannisberger, 67; proposes to
arm the negroes, 76.

Canning, Stratford, in Washington, 311.
Carey, Henry C., ubiquity of his writings, 98.
Matthew, of Philadelphia, 390.
Carlyle, Thomas, his French history inspired
Dickens, 294.

Carroll, Charles, grandson of the signer of
the Declaration of Independence, 189; a
day with, 190; his career, 191; practical
anti-slavery convictions, 192.

Cartter, Chief Justice, his share in the nom-
ination of General Grant, 286.

Cass, General, mistaken for John Guy, 165.
Cavendish, Lord Frederick, a reminiscence
by, 36.

Cemeteries, 183.

Centenary of 1776, preparing for it, 216.
Changes of political opinions, examples of,
in Webster, Buchanan, Clay, Calhoun, 53;
in whole States, 54.

Charleston visited by President Washing-
ton, 258.

Chess Player, the Automaton, 417.

Players, enthusiasm of, 417.
Childs, George W., his Public Ledger, 429,
430; his generosity, 431.

Choate, Rufus, the great Massachusetts law.
yer, 80; anecdote of, 81.

Christ Church, Philadelphia, regularly at-
tended by President Washington, 261.
Christmas in Washington, 231.

Chronicle, Daily and Weekly, Washington
journals, 383, 427.

Clay, Henry, in Philadelphia, 9; change of
politics, 53; delighted in anecdotes, 83;
made and retained friends, 146; did not
forgive Buchanan's sharp practice, 181;
bitter retort in the Senate, 182; death,
183; a disappointed man, 325; with Sig-
nor Blitz, 418.

Clerk of the House, election of, 32.
Clymer, Hiester, an "Old-line Whig," 55.
Cobb, Howell, of Georgia, 40.

Colored Race, able men of the, 337.
Columbia, District of, 348.
Congressional habits, change in, 321; sociai
admixture, 322.

Conklin, Seth, dies in a just cause, 211.
Connelly, Harry, famous back-room of, 419;
his character and friends, 420.

Conrad, Robert T., of Philadelphia, death
of, 29; his character and gifts, 31.
Constellation, dinner on board of the, 310.
Contrasts of character, Abraham, Lincoln
and Andrew Johnson, 165.

Cooke, Henry D., first governor of the Dis-
trict of Columbia, 348; his career, 349.
Cooper-shop Refreshment Saloon, in Phila-

delphia, during the Rebellion, 224.
Corcoran, W. W., founds the Oak Hill Cem-

etery at Georgetown, 184; his bank, 234.
Cox, S. S., his "Buckeye Abroad," 283.
Coyle, John F., 33; celebrates the wake of
Albert Pike, 274.

Crossley, Sir Francis, a public benefactor,
408.

Cushing, Caleb, an amateur editor, 28;

sketch of, 227; his political antecedents,
228; his varied endowments and acquire-
ments, 229.

Daily Critic, of Washington, 385.
Dallas, Geo. M., Vice-President under J. K.
Polk, 63; Embassador to England, 64.
Dana, Richard H., 300.

Davis, Henry Winter, our "Rupert of De-
bate," 302.

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Davis, Jefferson, as a speaker, 58.

Walter, of Maryland, 57.

INDEX.

Dawson, John L., his "Buried Joe San-

ders" story, 274.

Decoration Day in Washington, 91.
Democracy, course and death of, 344.
Democrats in Convention in 1844, 117.
Diaries of John Quincy Adams, 14; of

James Buchanan, 14.

Dickens, Charles, 294; his extensive human-

ity, 400; his Christmas feelings, 401.
Dimitry, Alexander, description of, 279.
D'Orsay, Count, and Louis Napoleon, 368;

his character, 370.

Dougherty, Daniel, his lecture on Oratory,
56.

Douglas, Stephen A., compared with Wash-
ington, 18; anecdote of, 19; mon-
ument to, 20; great extent and
variety of general information,
21; supports annexation of Tex-
as, 51; retained friends, 146; at
the outbreak of the Civil War,
225; his western tour, 225; dies
at Chicago, 226; overborne by
the South, 325; a defeated Pres-
idential candidate, 362; his sons,
226.

Mrs. Stephen A., 307.

Douglass, Frederick, on the Decoration Day,
92; a great orator, 337.

ELDER, Dr., anecdote told by, 16.
Ellet, Mrs. Mary, a nonogenarian, 221.
European cities, how governed, 348.
Evening Star, of Washington, 385.
Ewing, George W., Indian Agent, a let-
ter from, revealing the Slocum romance,
208.

Executive Session of the United States Sen-
ate, 72.

FAIRMOUNT Park, Philadelphia, proposed
statues of Pennsylvania worthies in, 218;
Art Gallery in, 406.

Faulkner, Charles James, of Virginia, 57.
Felton, Samuel M., his narrative of Mr. Lin-

coln's escape from assassination, 248.
Fiction, truth in, 293.

Fillmore, Millard, and Signor Blitz, 417.
Fitzgerald, Thomas, his pictures, 98.

439

Forrest, Edwin, Clay's apology to, 10; at
the Astor House, 70; Sympathy with the
Union, 76; at the Mills House, 77; letter
from, 425.

Forrest Letter, use made of, 13; statement
relating to, 35.

Forney, John W., elected Clerk of the
House, 32; "Mazeppa" speech by, 33;
letter from, at opening of the Thirty-fourth
Congress, 109; edits Washington Union,
110; retires from, 194; solid compliment
to, as Clerk of the House, 381.
Franklin, Dr., his indignant reply to Lord
Howe, 393.

Frederick the Great and Lord Bristol, 265.
Freedman's Savings Bank, in Washington,

234.

Fremont, John C., explores California, 314;
opposed by T. B. Benton, 22.
Freneau, Philip, extract from his satirical
verses, 239.

GALES & SEATON, of the National Intelli-
gencer, 109.

Geary, John W., anti-slavery Governor of
Kansas, 32.

Gibson, Chief Justice, 214; and Signor Blitz,

417; on D. P. Brown, 214.

Girard, Francis J., a versatile journalist,
108.
College, 407.

Globe, The Congressional, 105.
Grant, General U. S., letter to, from Secreta-
ry Stanton, on the capture of Rich-
mond, 186; story of his first nomi-
nation for President, 287; his dis-
inclination, 288; his character re-
sembles Washington's, 340.

Mrs. U. S., in the White House, 312.
Greeley, Horace, 69; his Log Cabin and
Tribune, 328; his solid friendship, 374;
Sumner's tribute to, 397; last interview
with, 398.

Guy, John, of Baltimore, and General Lewis
Cass, anecdote of, 165.

Gwin, Senator W. M., of California, 314.

HALL, Dr. J. C., of Washington, his anec-
dote of President Jackson, 189.
Handwriting of public men, 421.

Harper's Weekly, pictorial satire in, 329.

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Johnson, Andrew, advocated for the Vice-
Presidency by Mr. Lincoln, 167;
his false step at starting, 177; de-
moralizes the Republican party,
285.

Mrs. A., in the White House, 312
Simeon M., 302.

Jones, J. Glancy, defeat of, 120.
Journalism in Washington, 104.
Journalizing, advantages of, 15.

KANSAS, maltreatment of, 15.
Know-Nothingism, 135.

Kremer, George, his rebuff of John Ran-
dolph's pedantry, 202.

Lancaster Intelligencer and Journal, 21.
Lane, Miss Harriet, in the White House, 312.
Langston, Prof. J. M., his colored law-class
at Howard University, Washington, 180.
Latham, Milton S., of California, 315.
Lawyers, preponderance of, as legislators,
178; education for public life, 179.
Leaders, future political, 351.
Lectures, the era of, 272.

Leland, Charles Godfrey, his Pennsylvania
Dutch verses, 203.

Leslie, Frank, pictorial satire in his Illus-

trated Newspaper, 329.

Levin, Lewis C., founds the Native Ameri-
can Party, 131; his death, 144-
Lewis, Chief Justice, speech by, 432.
Dixon H., of Alabama, 112.
William D., an octogenarian, 97.
Lincoln, Abraham, an original humorist, 38;
his two inaugurations, 39; assas-
sinated, 40; marked individual-
ity of his character and tempera-
ment, 86; his fitness for supreme
office, 166; his liking for Shakes-
peare, 167; some of his short
sentences, 168; his uniform gcod
temper, 176; raises the national
flag in front of Independence
Hall, 244; escape from threat-
ened assassination, 248; passes
through Baltimore, and arrives
in Washington, 255; reply to the
Kentucky Commissioners, 265;
fond of the theatre, 272; his hu-
manity, 295.

Mrs., in the White House, 312.

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