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Bothum's Hotel, 384.

Boutwell, George S., his ancestry, 111; ca-
reer of, 112.

Bradford, A. W., War Governor of Maryland,
48.

Breck, Samuel, 369.

Breckinridge, John C., 187; visits Philadel-
phia after the war, 198; lost with Forney,
198; his quarrel with Cutting, 301.
Broderick, David C., killed in a duel, 305.
"Brother Jonathan's Lament for Sister Caro-
line," 288.

Brough, John, War Governor of Ohio, his
characteristics, 52; incident of his energy
and decision, 52.

Brougham, John, 88; as an actor and writer,

89; bodily suffering while writing "Poca-
hontas," 89; his versatility, 90; his gout,
178.

Brown, Albert Gallatin, his character, 170;
violence upon slavery, 170.
Joseph E., Governor of Georgia, 49;
as a republican, 50.

Brownlow, W. G., 293; mental powers of,
311; his characteristics, 318; his autobiog-
raphy, 319; and Jackson, 321; and the
Rebellion, 322; his last days, 322.
Buchanan, James, 32, 33; his secretiveness,
34; his wager with Stockton, 34, 409; 66 ten-
cent Jimmy," 36; on publishing private
letters, 93; and the sensitive jurist, 233; |
his campaign of 1856, 237; as a horseman,
419; formation of his cabinet, 420.
Buckshot War, 234.

Bullit, Judge, of Kentucky, his courage, 276.
Burr, Aaron, trial of, 103; his duel with Ham-
ilton, 305.

Burton, Robert, a hypochondriac, 182.

William E., comedian, 88; his Gen-
tlemen's Magazine, 88; his play
of "Ellen Wareham," 88; his
"Encyclopædia of Wit and Hu-
mor," 88; as a Shakespearian
scholar, 89; as an actor, 89.
Butler, Benjamin F., of Massachusetts, 78;
his parentage, 78; his character,
80-83; ancestry, So; his career,
80-81; his political opinions, 81;
incidents of, 82; a target for abuse,
82; defends Oakes Ames, 83.
Benjamin F., of New York, his par-

ents, 78; at Baltimore Conven-
tion in 1844, 79; his appearance,
manners, and character, 79; politi
cal principles of, 79.

"Bye-and-Bye," Maitland's novel of, 189.

CABINET-MAKING, 419.

Cadwalader, General George, 195, 234, 235
236.

Judge John, 195.

Caldwell, Rev. David, 325.
Calhoun, John C., rupture with Jackson, 61,
128, 129; his defence of Nullification, 61;
and the Force Bill, 130; his appearance,
130; compared with J. Davis, 134; speech
on Nullification, 136; his public positions,
374.

California Senators, 293.

Cameron, Simon, 93; recommended for Lin-
coln's Cabinet, 422.

Campbell, James, 192; appointed Postmas-
ter-general by Pierce, 420.
James H., 196.

Lewis D., of Ohio, on Kansas-
Nebraska Bill, 167.

Canning, George, duel with Lord Castlereagh,
304.

Capitol at Washington, the, 332; its cost,
336.

Carey, Henry C., as an old man, 105.
Carpenter, F. B., the artist, his Emancipa-
tion Proclamation picture, 424.
Matt, 294.

Cartwright, Dr. Samuel A., oration on An-
drew Jackson, 39.

Cass, Lewis, his career, 168; on Kansas-Ne-
braska Bill, 169.

Castlereagh, Lord, suicide of, 23; duel with
Canning, 304..

Cavaignac, 24, 25; made Dictator, 26.
Centennial Commission, members of, at Sat-
urday Night Club, 192.
Chandler, Joseph R., his "Letters from my
Arm-chair," 86; at Saturday
Night Club, 192.
Zach, of Michigan, 83.
Chase, Salmon P., his appearance, 228.
Chester, Thomas Morris, in Richmond in
1865, 217.

Childs, George W., of the Philadelphia
Ledger, 193.

Cushman, Susan, 91, 92.

Choate, Rufus, ill-health of, 178.

Cilley, Jonathan, his duel with Graves, 304.
Claghorn, James L., 193.

Cutting, Francis B., of New York, 301.

Clarke, Rev. Jonas, Revolutionary patriot, Dallas, Alexander James, 68.

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Conkling, Roscoe, father of, 298.

Conner, E. S., the actor, 90, 91.
Conover, S. B., U. S. Senator, 295.
Cooke, Jay, public estimation of, 243.
Cox, General James, 297.

S. S., of New York, 297.

"Culprit Fay," Halleck on Drake's, 266.
Cummings, Rev. Francis, Revolutionary pa-

triot, 325.

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Denver, General J. W., his duel with Gilbert,
305; his high character, 310.

De Quincey, Thomas, 185.

Dickens, Charles, and Guy's mint-juleps,
182; obituary on Douglas Jerrold, 183.
Dinners at the White House, 198.

Major Jack, of Pennsylvania, Disraeli, Benjamin, his quarrel with O'Con-

143.

Curran, Meagher on, 75.
Curtin, Andrew Gregg, 59; parents of, 60;
his earlier career, 60; nominated and elect-
ed Governor of Pennsylvania, 62; Forney's
letter on election of, 63; convenes Legis-
lature, April, 1861, 66; consultation with
Lincoln, 66; at Saturday Night Club, 196.
Curtis, Carlton B., 274, 277.
Cushing, Caleb, discussion over his nomina-
tion for Chief-justice of the United States,

228.

Cushman, Charlotte, as a hostess, 91; her pro-
fessional career, 91; in Great Britain, 92;
her patriotism, 92; her genius, 92; appear-
ance and manner, 93; reference to Janau-
schek, 93.

nell, 304.
Dixon, Hepworth, 394.

Senator, of Kentucky, interrogates
Senator Wade, 157.

Dodge, A. C., 83; replies to Brown of Mis-
sissippi, 171.

Henry, 83; career and appearance,

172.

Dorsey, Stephen W., U. S. Senator, 295.
Dougherty, Daniel, his fun, 194.
Douglas, Stephen A., on the Missouri Com-
promise, 154; his consistency, 154; his
character, 155; attitude towards slavery in
the territories, 155; on Kansas-Nebraska
Bill, 176; defeated by J. T. Stewart, 179;
his career, 180; a favorite story of, 231.
Drake, Joseph Rodman, his friendship with

Halleck, 265, 267; writes "The Croakers" | Forbes, Paul S., 44.
with Halleck, 266; his "American Flag,"
266.

Drexel, Anthony J., 193.

Duché, Rev. Jacob, opens Continental Con-
gress with prayer, 326.
Duels in America, England, and France, 300.
Dwight, Rev. Timothy, 328.

EDITORS, at Saturday Night Club, 194; pres-
ent and past, 244; Washington correspond-
ents and, 244; of the past, 245; good qual-
ities of, 246; their sanctums, 246.
"Election Sermons," 324.

"Ellen Wareham," Burton's play of, in Lon-
don, 88.

Elliott, the artist, his picture of himself, 115.
Robert Brown, his reply to Stephens,

315.

Emancipation Proclamation, effect of, 216.
Eminent old men, 102.

Emmet, Judge, nephew of Robert, 70.
Erie Canal prophesied by Barlow, 328.
Evarts, William M., 95.

Everett, Edward, 11; Webster's estimate of,
11; oration on the character of Washing-
ton, 12; his appearance, 13; his character-
istics, 13; as a clergyman, 13; his oratory,
14, 15; his career, 15; his writings, 16; first
speech on the Rebellion, 16; oration at
Gettysburg, 17; on repeal of Missouri Com-
promise, 158.

Exposition, French, of 1867, 278.

FAIRMOUNT PARK, Romance of, 350; descrip-

tion of, 351; history of,
351.

East, scenes, characters,
and recollections of, 378.
Farragut, Admiral, dined by President Grant,
200; his character and career, 201; Foltz's
memoir of, 203; enters the Bosphorus with
his flag-ship Franklin, 208.

Force Bill, in the Senate, 129; debate on, 130.
Forney, John W., letter on election of Cur-
tin, 63; letter from Washington in 1861,
65; threatened with arrest, 82; his Press,
84; journalistic experience, 85; his rela-
tions with McMichael, 117: with Douglas,
155; on Douglas's Nebraska Bill speech,
177; lost with Breckinridge, 198; memoirs
of campaign of 1856, 237; as a boy Demo-
crat, 241; supports McClure for Mayor of
Philadelphia, 241; his Press and Sunday
cars, 242; his editorial rooms, 246; and
Rev. Dr. Hutter, 251; relations with Sum-
ner, 254; on the Pryor-Potter difficulty, 302;
letter from London, 402; and Pierce's Cab-
inet, 420; and Buchanan's Cabinet, 420;
and Lincoln's Cabinet, 421; and Simon
Cameron, 422.

Forrest, Edwin, 88.

Foster, Henry D., runs against Curtin for
Governor of Pennsylvania, 63.
Fox-hunting, 411.

Franklin, Admiral Farragut's flag-ship, en-
ters the Bosphorus, 208.
Franklin, Benjamin, his ancestry, 396; in
England, 397; his mission of peace, 399;
poem to, 401.

Freas, Philip R., starts Germantown Tele-
graph, 213; his success, 214; his home,
214, 215.

Fredericks, W. S., the actor, 90, 91.
Frelinghuysen, U. S. Senator, 297.
Theodore, 297.

French Exposition of 1867, 278.

Republic, reflections on, 29.
Revolution of 1848, 23, 24.

Fuller, T. J. D., 198.

GALES, JOSEPH, editor National Intelligen-
cer, reports Webster's reply to Hayne, 128.
Gallatin, Albert, 68.

Garrick, David, his great gifts, 87.

Fillmore, Millard, at the inauguration of Germans, Pennsylvania, 136; characteristics

Pierce, 102.

Flanders, Henry, his "Lives of the Chief-
Justices," 229.

Foltz, ex-Surgeon-general, his career, 202;
memoir of Farragut, 203.

of, 137; opposition to common-school sys-
tem, 137.

Germantown, 214.

Germantown Telegraph, started by Philip
R. Freas, 213; its success, 214.

Foote's Resolution, Benton and Hayne on, Gettysburg, dedication of National Cemetery

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Gilbert, Abijah, U. S. Senator, 295.

Edward, killed in duel with Denver,
305.

Godey, L. A., at Saturday Night Club, 192.
Gordon, General John B., 290.

Gowen, F. B., President of Philadelphia and
Reading R. R. Co., 194.

Grant, U. S., 18; made Colonel, 55; and Ad-
miral Porter, 94; a Democrat before the
war, 229; as a horseman, 419.
Grattan, Meagher's portrait of, 74.
Graves, William J., his duel with Cilley, 304.
Gray hairs, 407.

Gray, Thomas, grave of, 386.
Greeley, Horace, in Weekly New-Yorker,
86; and Seward, 95; and Raymond, 96;
his letter to Seward, 97; his genius, 212.
Gregg, Andrew, grandfather of Governor
Curtin, 60.

Grier, Judge Robert C., his appearance, 227.
Grimaldi, anecdote of, 178.

Gross, Dr. Samuel D., 193.

Grow, Galusha A., 187.

Maryland, 47; his patriotic action at open-
ing of Rebellion, 47; Henry Winter Davis's
vindication of, 47.

Hill, Isaac, of Concord, N. H., 81.
Hitchcock, Major Ethan Allen, 93.

Phineas W., U. S. Senator, 294.
"Hole in the Wall" at the Capitol, 340.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, "Brother Jona-
than's Lament" by, 288.
Hood, Thomas, 182.

Hook, Theodore Edward, his bitter wit, 181;
his dishonesty and death, 181.
Horses in England and America, 412.
"Hosea Bigelow's Speech in March Meet-
ing," 286.

Houston, Sam, 44; Wise on, 44; character
and characteristics, 45; his career, 45; vis-
its Texas, 46; elected President of Texas,
46; elected to U. S. Senate, 46; Governor
of Texas, 46; in the Rebellion, 46; on the
Missouri Compromise Repeal, 161; his
opinion of duelling, 306.

Howe, Timothy O., U. S. Senator, 294.

Guy, John, his mint-juleps, 182; presents to Humorists, their melancholy, 178; not long-
Jenny Lind and Daniel Webster, 183.

HAGER, JOHN S., U. S. Senator, 293.
Halleck, Fitz-Greene, 264; Wilson's Life of,
264; his career, 265; writes "The Croak-
ers" with Drake, 266; his "Fanny," 266;
friendship with Drake, 267; “Marco Boz-
zaris," 267; Rogers's opinion of "Marco
Bozzaris," 268; and Fanny Kemble, 269;
modesty of, 269; on proposition for his
monument, 271.

Halpine, Charles G., poem by, 286.

lived, 183; of to-day, 185.

Hunter, R. M. T., of Virginia, 217.
Hutter, Rev. Edwin W., his career, 251; his
toleration, 251.

ILLINOIS, its part in the Rebellion, 55.
Ingalls, John James, U. S. Senator, 295.
Iredell, of South Carolina, on Webster and
Hayne, 127.

Ireland, American sympathy for, 68; in 1844,
69.

Irishmen in the United States, 71.

Hamilton, Alexander, 68; his duel with Burr, Irish News, established by Meagher, 71.

305.

Hammond, Edward, 311.

"Hans Breitmann's Party," 284.

Irving, Washington, his last hours, 182; and
Dickens, 183.

Harding, W. W., of the Philadelphia In- Jackson, Andrew, death of, 39; appointed

quirer, 194.

Harris, Isham G., War Governor of Tennes-

see, his character and political tendencies,

48; U. S. Senator, 48.

Harrison, William Henry, 418.

Hartranft, J. F., 192.

Harvey, James M., 295.

Hayne, Robert Y., and Webster, 123, 125.
Heister, William M., 59.

Hicks, Thomas Holliday, War Governor of

U. S. District Attorney by Wash-
ington, 39; Cartwright's oration
on, 39; rupture with Calhoun, 61,
128, 129; protest against Senate's
censure, 62; censure removed, 62;
and General Scott, 94; and Nulli-
fication, 122, 129; and U. S. Bank,
132; and Clay, 133; appeal to
South Carolina, 134; and Amos
Kendall, 153; recognizes citizen-

ship of a colored man, 222; his Kendall, Amos, 147; his career, 148; influ-

duels, 305; as a horseman, 417;

his horse Truxtun, 417; duel with

Dickinson, 417.

Jackson Federalists, 61.

James, John O., 194.

Janauschek, Madame, Charlotte Cushman's
opinion of, 93.

Jefferson, Joseph, his grandfather, 87; when

ence with Jackson, 148; as a
writer, 148; and the Rebellion,
149; piety and generosity of,
149; his journal, 149; and Morse
telegraph, 150; four eras of his
life, 150; appearance and man-
ner, 151; acquaintance with
prominent men, 151; admiration
of Jackson, 153; on Democracy
and secession, 153.

Kendall Green, 147.

born, 91; his dyspepsia, 178.
Thomas, remark on House of Rep-
resentatives, 103; as a horseman,
415; anecdote of his inaugura- | Kennedy, John P., 44.
tion, 416.

Jerrold, Douglas, Dickens's obituary on,
183.

Johnson, Andrew, demands succor for Union

men of Tennessee, 48; as milita-
ry governor, 48; nomination for
Vice-President, 48; his experi-
ences, 187.
Cave, 33.
Reverdy, his reminiscences, 187;
his mental vigor, 188; in London,
1874, 404; his career, 405; his pa-
triotism, 406.

Kentucky, the victim of reactionary politi-
cians, 50;
honors to Clay, 374.

Keyser, Charles, his book on Fairmount
Park, 380.

King, William R., of Alabama, his quarrel
with Clay, 300.

Knight, Edward C., 194.
Knox, John C., 59.
Kosciusko, 68.

Kossuth, American ovation to, 68.

LAFAYETTE, 68.

Lamartine, 24, 25.

Dr. Samuel, his mental and bodily Lamb, Charles, 184; anecdote of, 184.

suffering, 182.

Jones, J. Glancy, 240.

J. P., U. S. Senator, 292.

Mary, insanity of, 184.

Landreth, David, agriculturist, 194.

Law, John, 187.

"Jordans,"
," Burial-place of William Penn, Lecompton question, 247.

388.

Journalist, duty of, 242.
Jubilee singers, Fisk, 284.

Justices of the Supreme Court of U. S., 226,
231; their social position, 230; their tastes,

230.

KANSAS-NEBRASKA BILL, passage of, 154.
Keenan, Rev. Bernard, 249; his genial nat-
ure, 250; his religious liberality, 250.
Keim, De B. Randolph, author, 333.
Kelley, William D., offers resolution for en-
couragement of Irish manufactures in con-
vention at Philadelphia in 1842, 68; his
career, 375; his abilities, 376.
Kelly, James K., U. S. Senator, 293.
Kemble, Fanny, 87.

William H., ex-State-Treasurer of
Pennsylvania, his manner and
character, 196.

Leighton, Mrs., 12.

Leland, Charles G., his "Hans Breitmann's
Party," 284.

L'Enfant, architect, 370.

Letcher, John, War Governor of Virginia, 47 ;
his connection with secession, 47; as an
orator, 217.

Letters, revealing private, 93.
Liberty, American love of, 67.
Library, National, 341.

Lincoln, Abraham, at dedication of National
Cemetery at Gettysburg, 17, 18, 21; ap-
proval of Curtin's policy, 66; his gloom,
179; Douglas's opinion of, 179; his contest
with Douglas, 179; on receiving bad news,
180; his toleration, 252; as a horseman,
419; his Cabinet, 422; his portraits, 423;
his faith in Providence, 426.
Livingston, Mr., friend of Jackson, 131.
Lloyd, Clinton, his recitations, 284.

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