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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.

66

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; social
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.

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.

Harrison, Joseph, Jr., of Philadelphia, 404;
railwayism in Russia, 405; his patronage
of art, 406.

Hart, Emmanuel B., of New York, 70.

Haskin, John B., 34.

Hickman, John, Stevens's reply to, 37.

Hiester Isaac E., an "Old-line Whig," 55.
History, falsity in, 293.

Hoffman, David, of Baltimore, 220; receives
a cockade from President Washington,

221.

Holland, Lady, 313.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 300.

Holt, Judge Joseph, vindicates the charac-
ter of Richard M. Johnson, 323.
Hooper, Samuel, of Boston, 300.
Hotels, as they were and are, 164.
Hunter, R. M. T., of Virginia, 57.
Huntington, William S., early death of, 302.

"IDIOT BOY," recited by E. Forrest, 77.
Illinois Central Railroad, 20.

"JACK CADE," Conrad's drama of, 31.
Jackson, Andrew, recommended James Bu-
chanan for Secretary of State to
President Polk, 63; anecdote of,
65; his patriotism, 280; scene with
an old postmaster, 281; with Mr.
Wright, 283; freely characterized
by Thomas F. Marshall, 329.
Mrs. Andrew, in the White House,

312.

James S., of Kentucky, 34; his
death on the battle-field, 95.

Jacksonian Democrats, 343.

Jarvis, Russell, an editorial writer, 428.
Jay, John, his notice of theatricals in Phila-
delphia, 269.

"Jeannette and Jeannot," ballad of, 84.
Jefferson, Mrs. Martha, her husband's epi-

taph upon, 305.

Thomas, described by an English
traveler, 305; opens the Con-
gressional Session, 306; first
sends a written Message, 306;
one of his receptions, 307; vis-
its the North, 260; his charac-
ter of Washington, 390; sketch
of European sovereigns, 391;
glad to leave office, 392; view
of character, 393.

Johnson, Andrew, advocated for the Vice-
Presidency by Mr. Lincoln, 167;
his false step at starting, 177; de-
moralizes the Republican party,
286.

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 good
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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Madison and Jefferson visit the North, 260.
Madison, Mrs., in the White House, 307.
Maelzel, inventor of the Automaton Chess
Player, 417.

Marshall, E. C., of California, 315.

Thomas F., his satirical sketch of
Andrew Jackson, 329.

Mason, James M., 57.

Massachusetts, historians of, 346; what con-
stitutes its greatness, 301,

"Mazeppa" speech at Coyle's, 33; English
reminiscence of, 36.

Meredith, W. M., of Philadelphia, 385; con-
flict with Thaddeus Stevens, 386.
Mills House, the, on Capitol Hill, 75; for-
merly Chief Justice Marshall's residence,
80.

Mirabeau, death of, 399.

Missouri Compromise, repeal of, 109.
Monroe, Mrs. James, in the White House,

311.

Moore, Frank, his Rebellion Record, 329.
Moran, Benjamin, Secretary of United States
Legation in London, 36.

441

Morris, Robert, his house in Philadelphia,

240.

Muhlenburg, Henry E., visit to, 66; death
of, 68.

Municipal Government, 347.

Murdock, James A., recites T. Buchanan
Read's poems, 331.

Mutiny suppressed by firmness, 297.

NATIVE AMERICANS, L. C. Levin, their
chief, 131.

Nelson, General William, his difficulty with
James S. Jackson, of Kentucky, 95.
New England, intelligence of, 301; high cult-
ure of, 345.

New-year's Calls, 237; President Washing-
ton in New York, 238; in Philadelphia, 242.
Noah, M. M., of New York, 362.
Nye, James W., of Nevada, 396.

OAK HILL CEMETERY, at Georgetown,
D.C., 184.
"Occasional," of the Philadelphia Press,

names General Grant for President, 287.
Official Secrets, difficulty of keeping, 73.
Officials, information possessed by aged, 296.
Old-line Whigs, 54.

Orne, James H., 303.

PARKER, THEODORE, on George Washing-
ton, 18.

Patriot, The, Washington daily, 383.
Patterson, General Robert, 96.
Pennington, William, elected Speaker, 32.
Pennsylvania, Senator Sumner's character
of, 345; a local historian of, 346.
Pennsylvanian, The, Daniel Webster's
speech reported in, 10.

Philadelphia, before and after Secession,
224; the seat of Congress in, 249; the last-
century belles of, 242; male celebrities of
the time, 243; Lincoln raises the nation-
al flag in front of Independence Hall, 244;
Washington's daily life in, 261; old thea-
tres in, 268; Republican National Con-
vention in, 336; Colonial Congress in, 339.
Pierce, Franklin, personal and public char-
acter of, 12; distrust of James Bu-
chanan, 13.

Mrs. Franklin, in the White House,
312.

Pike, Albert, the Wake of, 274; his "Fine
Arkansas Gentleman," 275; his speech,
276; his own death song, 277; his person-
al appearance, 278.
Plantation patois, the, 194; eminent speak-
ers using it, 197.

Polk, James K., Presidency of, 22.

Mrs. J. K., in the White House, 312.
Porter, General Andrew, his command in
Mexico, 292.

Prentice, George D., journalist and poet, 76,

327.

Presidential election, comic side of, 327;
satiric writers in, 327.

Presidential tours originated with Washing-
ton, 261.

Presidents' wives, 304.

Press, the Government, in Washington, 104;
Thomas Ritchie, 106.

Press, The Philadelphia, its conflict with
pro-slavery Democracy, 120; names Gen-
eral Grant for President, 287; with Presi-
dent Buchanan, 363.

Pryor, Roger A., a prisoner-guest, 38; as an
orator, 57.

Public Ledger, 427; its early history, 428;

present position of, 429.

Public Printing, the, formerly a job, 384.
Purvis, Robert, of Byberry, his interesting
experiences, 205; a representative man,
337; an ornament to any circle, 339.

QUEEN, JOHN, his emancipation papers, 206.

RANDOLPH, JOHN, of Roanoke, his duel with
Henry Clay, 181.

Rawle, William, Philadelphia lawyer, his re-
lations with D. P. Brown, 213.

Rawlins, John A., President Grant's friend-
ship for, 288.

Read, T. Buchanan, early death of, 330; his

patriotic poem, "We Swear," 331; his
"New Pastoral," 333; "The Apostro-
phe," 335.

Reade, Charles, a realistic romancist, 56.
Reed, William B., editing James Buchan-
an's Diary, 14; a fine political writer, 55;
verses by, 82.

Reeder, Andrew H., Governor of Kansas,
13; removed by President Pierce, 32; in
Congress, 110.

Religion in politics, 145.

Republican National Convention in Phila-
delphia, 336.

Reyburn, Dr. W. P., anecdote related by,
290; what a cavalry charger did, 292.
Ritchie, Thomas, journalist, sketch of, 107.
Rives, John C., of the Washington Globe,
anecdote of, 395.

Roberts, Marshall O., New York, 69.
Royall, Annie, newspaper satirist and nov-
elist, 115.

Rupp, I. Daniel, a historian of Pennsylvania,
346.

Rush, Richard, describes Washington's
opening of Congress, 262.

Russell, William H., Times correspondent
in Washington, 76.

SAVAGE, JOHN, at Albert Pike's Wake,

277.

Savannah visited by President Washington,

259.

Schlomberg, the Automaton Chess Player,

417.

Scott, Colonel T. A., of Pennsylvania Cen-
tral Railroad, 99; Assistant Secretary of
War, 101; his business rapidity of action,
103; his habits, 104.

Seaver, William A., of New York, 70.
Sergeant, John, of Philadelphia, 197; a mod-
erate fee, 199.

Seward, William H., sustains President An-
drew Johnson, 286; defeated at Chicago
by A. Lincoln, 326; as a biographer, 353;
death of, 372.

Shunk, Francis R., Governor of Pennsylva-
nia, 68.

Sickles, Daniel E., 69; Secretary of Legation
in England, 318; his mission to Spain,
426.

Slavery created changes of political opin-
ions, 54.

Slidell, John, reply to by Robert J. Walker,

121; his secession speech, 152; his life
and death, 156.

Slocum, Frances, a Wilkesbarre child, her
life among the Indians, 208; marries and
grows old in the tribe, 209.

Smith, Gerritt, of New York, 151.

long-lived family of, in Philadelphia,

96.

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