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London Quarterly Review on Edward Ev-

erett, 14.

Louis Philippe, 23.

Louisville, Kentucky, tragedy in, 274.
Lowell, James Russell, his "Hosea Bigelow's
Speech," 286.

MACALESTER, Charles, 12, 192.

McCarty, John M., his duel with Mason,
307.

McClellan, Dr. J. H. B., 193.

McClure, A. K., as a young man, 144, 145;
at Saturday Night Club, 195; candidate
for Mayor of Philadelphia, 241.
McDonald, Moses, 198.
McDuffie, George, his duel with Colonel
Cummings, 306.

McKean, W. V., of Philadelphia Ledger,
194; and Buchanan campaign, 240.
McMichael, Morton, 115; his official posi-
tions, 116; talents and manners of, 116;
friendship with Forney, 117; politics of,
117; his friends, 118; as an orator, 119;
as an editor, 120; Forney on, 121; at Sat-
urday Night Club, 192.

Madison, President, vacates White House,
199; a great student, 416.

hanged, 69; escapes to America, 70; speech
on declining a reception, 70; as an orator
and a writer, 71; establishes Irish News,
71; on Mitchel's transportation, 73; his
welcome of Mitchel from exile, 73; his
portrait of Grattan, 74; on Curran, 75 ; re-
ligion of, 76; as a companion, 76; services
to the Union, 77; appointed Secretary of
Montana, 77; Richard O'Gorman on, 77.
Meredith, William M., 65; as Attorney-gen-
eral of Pennsylvania, 146.
Mexican War, meeting of survivors of, in
1874, 235.

Middleswarth, Ner, 137; his lack of early
advantages, 138; in Congress, 138; per-
sonal appearance of, 138; his career, 139;
and Free School Bill, 139; on the ten-hour
law, 140; his political opinions, 141.
Miles O'Reilly on the Downfall of Richmond,
286.

Milliken, James, 145.

Mills, Rev. John, his devotion to liberty, 325.
Missouri Compromise, debate on repeal of, in
1854, 154-178.

Mitchel, John, 71; Meagher on transporta-
tion of, 73; welcomed by Meagher, 73.
Mitchell, John H., U. S. Senator, 293,

Magoffin, Beriah, his record as War Govern- Monroe, James, 416.
or of Kentucky, 50.

Magoon, Rev. E. L., his culture and tolera-

tion, 252.

Maitland, his novel "Bye-and-Bye," 189.

Mann, William B., 195.

Marchant, E. D., artist, 195.

Marcy, William L., 10, 33.

Moore, Tom, his cottage on banks of Schuyl-

kill, 380.

Thomas O., War Governor of Ten-

nessée, his accord with secession,

51.

Morgan, Edwin D., as War Governor of New
York, 54.

Marshall, Humphrey, his duel with Clay, Morris, E. Joy, ex-Minister to Constantino-

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Meade, General George G., at Saturday Morwitz, Dr. E., German editor, 194..
Night Club, 192.

Meagher, Thomas Francis, his education, 69;
his policy for Ireland, 69; sentenced to be

Mount Vernon Fund, 12.

Muhlenberg, Rev. Peter Gabriel, the fight-
ing clergyman, 326.

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Newspaper men, 186; their autobiographi- Pettigrew, of South Carolina, on Florida's

cal tastes, 186.

Newspapers, growth of, in the United States,
84; attacks on private character by, 231.
Nicholson, A. O. P., leaves U. S. Senate, 48.
Norris, J. P., his Penn Genealogy, 390.
North American of Philadelphia, its high
character, 120.

Nullification, Jackson, Webster, and Cal-
-houn on, 122; South Carolina in, 129.
Nye, James W., appointed judge, 9; kind-
ness to a young criminal, to; Governor of
Nevada, 11; U. S. Senator, 11; in the
Senate, 292.

O'BRIEN, FITZJAMES, 71..

O'Connell, Daniel, his demand for justice to
Ireland, 68; his policy, 69; imprisoned,
69; his duels, 303.

Oglesby, Richard J., U. S. Senator, 295.
O'Gorman, Richard, 71; on Meagher, 77.
Otis, Harrison Gray, his talents and manner,

109.

James, his oratory, 108.

Samuel Allyne, first Secretary of U. S.
Senate, 109.

PACKER, W. F., as Governor of Pennsylva-
nia, 59; and President Buchanan's policy,
59; his character and talents, 60.
Pancoast, Dr. Joseph, 193.
Partisans in the U. S. Supreme Court, 226.
Party excitements, 61.

Patois, German, Irish, and Yankee, 283.
Patterson, John J., U. S. Senator, 295.
General Robert, 192.

secession, 181.

Philadelphia, National Repeal Convention
in, 68; old and new clubs of, 189; Acade-
my of Fine Arts of, 193; Masonic Temple
of, 193; forty years ago, 197; social life dur-
ing and after the war in, 197; during and
after the Revolution, 364.

Phillips, Henry M., of Philadelphia, 193.
Pickens, Francis W., War Governor of South
Carolina, his official positions, 49; his atti-
tude towards secession, 49; address to the
people of South Carolina, April, 1861, 49.
Pickering, Timothy, his eventful career,

IIO.

Pierce, Franklin, nominated for the Presiden-
cy, 70; at his inauguration, 102; anecdote
of, 237; his good qualities, 418.
Pioneers of the West and South, 296.
Polk, James K., a disciple of Jackson, 39; as
a horseman, 418.

Pollock, James, ex-Governor of Pennsylva-
nia, 196.

Poore, Ben Perley, his mementoes of 1776,

379.
Porter, Admiral D. D., and General Grant,
94; not a politician, 202.
Potter, Clarkson N., of New York, 298.

John F., of Wisconsin, his quarrel
with Pryor, 301.

Pratt, U. S. Senator from Indiana, 295.
Presidents on horseback, 411.

Press, Forney's, 84; founded, 86; supports
McClure for Mayor of Philadelphia, 242;
and Sunday cars, 242; and Grant's election,
247; and the Lecompton question, 247-

Preston, William E., 239.
Princeton, sloop of war, built by Robert F.
Stockton, 30; cannon explosion on, 31.
Pryor, Roger A., 217; his quarrel with Pot-
ter, 301.

Public men, private character of, 231–234.
Pulaski, 68.

Sergeant, John, defeated for Governor of
Pennsylvania, 61.

Seward, W. H., and Greeley, 95; on repeal
of Missouri Compromise, 164.
Seymour, Horatio, as War Governor of New
York, 54; his purity and ability, 54; in
Presidential canvass of 1868, 54.

Purvis, Robert, distinguished colored man, Sherman, General W. T., as President of

220; his passport to Europe, 221.

Putnam, General, anecdotes of, 306.

RAMSEY, ALEXANDER, 295.

Randall, Josiah, 239.

Samuel J., 192.

Military Academy of Louisiana, 51; rejoins
U. S. Army, 51; visits Louisiana, 1866, 51.
Slavery, in States and Territories, 154; North-
ern and Southern Democrats on, 170; ef-
fect of Kansas-Nebraska Bill on, 177;
change since abolition of, 216.

Randolph, John, Senator, his duel with Clay, Slifer, Eli, of Pennsylvania, 141; his early

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Ritner, Governor of Pennsylvania, and liberal South, the, return to the Union of men of,

education, 137.

Rossini at Paris in 1867, 280.

Rothermal, P. F., artist, 192.
Rush, Richard, diplomatist, 22; his career,
22; co-operates with Democratic party, 22;
Minister to France, 22; in London, 23;
his "Occasional Productions," 23; descrip-
tion of Louis Napoleon, 27.

SARGENT, AARON A., U. S. Senator, 293.
Saturday Night Club of Philadelphia, 190;
editors at, 194; ex-governors at, 196.
Savage, John, 71.

Scandal a poor political weapon, 238.
Schuylkill River, 381; of its name, 383.
Scott, Thomas A., 192.

Winfield, nominated for the Presiden-
cy, 70; as a correspondent, 94; an-
ecdote of, and Jackson, 94; at sixty-
seven, 102; his career, 103

Seamen not politicians, 201.

Self-made men of Congress, 298.

218; improvements in, 272.
South Carolina and Nullification, 129.
Spencer, George E., U. S. Senator, 295.
Sprague, William, as War Governor of Rhode

Island, 54; his resemblance to Ellsworth,
54; his patriotism, 54; elected U. S. Sen-
ator, 54.

Spring, Rev. Samuel, Revolutionary patriot,
326.

"State in Schuylkill," 381.

States, their honors to their great men, 373.
Statuary, American, at Washington, 332; in
Capitol, 339.
Stenographers, 238.

Stephens, Alexander H., appearance and
characteristics, 165; on Kansas-Nebraska
Bill, 165; for negro equality, 217, 220; his
mental powers, 311; speech against Civil
Rights Bill, 313.

Steuben, Baron, 68.
Stevens, Paran, 44.

Thaddeus, his severity, 181.

Senators, some U. S., since the war, 289, Stevenson, Andrew, of Virginia, 297.

299.

John W., U. S. Senator, 297.

Stewart, A. T., 44.

William M., 292.

Stockton, John P., U. S. Senator, 297.
Robert F., sailor and explorer, 30;
his career, 30; instrumental in
purchase of Liberia, 30; efforts
against slave-trade and piracy,
30; builds steam sloop of war
Princeton, 30; in California, 31;
elected U. S. Senator, 31; din-
ner at Washington, 32; as a
host, 33; his political actions,
33; his wager with Buchanan,
34, 409.

Rev. Thomas H., 311.

Story, Joseph, on a sermon by Edward Ev-
erett, 14.

Strong, Justice William, 193
Stuart, A. H. H., 217.

Sullivan, Judge Samuel, 297.

Sumner, Charles, speaks on Kansas-Nebras-
ka Bill, 173; in 1854 and 1872, 176; his
education, 253; Washburn, Blake, and
Muhlenberg on, 253; and the Kansas con-
troversy, 254; his crusade against slavery,
254; his hospitality, 255; after the war,
256; his last days, 257; an Englishman's
letter on death of, 258; his industry, 258;
his dress, 259; as a host, 259; his affabili-
ty, 260; in Philadelphia, 261; his unself-
ishness, 262; letter to Mrs. Furness, 263.
Sumter, Fort, news of firing upon in Penn-
sylvania Legislature, 67.

Supreme Court of the United States in 1861,
227; present justices of, 228, 337; its old
room, 336; its new room, 337.

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Tree, Ellen, 87.

Truxtun, Jackson's horse, 417.
Tussaud, Madame, her museum of wax fig-
ures, 394.

Twain, Mark, as a humorist, 185.
Tyler, John, saved from death by a song, 32;
a good horseman, 418.

VAN BUREN, MARTIN, defeated at Balti-
more Convention in 1844, 79; as a horse-
man, 418.

Vaux, Roberts, anecdote of, 221.2.

WADE, BENJAMIN F., in Missouri Compro-
mise Repeal debate, 156; on negro equali-
tỷ, 157.

Walker, Robert J., 33; in Democratic Con-
vention of 1844, 79.

Walter, Thomas W., architect, 335.
War Governors, 44; mention of, 55.
Ward, Artemus, as a humorist, 185.
Warren, James, 109.

Mrs. James, 109.
Joseph, 109.

Washburn, Henry S., on Sumner, 253.
Washington, city of, improvements in, 273.
Washington, George, Bancroft on youth of,
37; his friendship for Judge Peters, 356;
his ancestry, 396; speech in Virginia Con-
vention, 402; on horseback, 412; his entry
into New York city in 1783, 413; his car-
riages, 414.

Wax figures, Madame Tussaud's collection
of, 394.

Webster, Daniel, his estimate of Everett, 11;
letter to same, 12; and Jackson, 61, 134;
and Clay, 62; and the Greeks, 68; and
Nullification, 122; replies to Hayne, 124,
126, 127, 128; his dress and appearance,
127; as an orator, 127; and the Force
Bill, 130; his reply to Calhoun, 131; his
popularity, 131; on Jackson, 132; speech
on Jackson's protest, 135; Stephens on,
165.

Weed, Thurlow. at eighty, 211; his career
and character, 212; at Greeley's grave,
212; his desire to edit a weekly newspa-

per, 213.

Wells, Charles F., Jr., incident of his gen-
erosity, 248.
Welsh, John, 194.

Wentworth, John, his treasury of anecdote, | Wise, Henry A., on Sam Houston, 44.

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Matthew, his portrait of Lincoln, YATES, RICHARD, as War Governor of Illi-

424.

Windom, William, U. S. Senator, 295.

Windsor Castle, 384.

nois, 55; elected U. S. Senator, 55.

Yearick, Mr., of Pennsylvania, elected to
Legislature over Middleswarth, 139.

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