A.

AGRICULTURAL Hall, at the centennial exhibition, 695.
ALABAMA, the combat of the, with the Kearsarge, 581.
ALARM, caused by the total solar eclipse, 135.

- by the mysterious dark day of 1780, 40.
ALEXANDER, Czar of Russia, the centennial gratula-
tions of, 705.

ALBERT Edward, Prince of Wales, tour in the United
States of, 493.

ALONG the Jordan, wild and impressive scenery, 356.
AMBASSADOR, John Adams, the first from the United
States to England, 70.
AMBASSADORS, the Japanese, 491.

AMENDMENT, fifteenth constitutional, ratification of,
by the states, 552.

AMERICA, matched with England on Lake Erie, 163.
the yacht, the international race won by, 403.

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ANECDOTES, relating to the selection of the location of
the national capital, 114.

ANNAPOLIS, Washington's resignation of his commis
sion to congress at, 68.

ANNIVERSARY of the birth of the republic, celebration
of the one hundredth, 689.
ANTIETAM, the battle of, 535.

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APOSTLES, Mormon, their proselyting in Europe, 219.
of Temperance, the famous, 277.
APOSTROPHE, Webster's eloquent, to the Union, 211.
APPALLING catastrophe, on board the Princeton, 315.
APPEAL for life, to Gibbs, the pirate, by a girl, 222.
APPEARANCE of the great comet of 1843, 305.

of Jenny Lind at Castle Garden, 392.
APPLICATION of Lafayette to enter the American
army, 188.

APPOMATOX, the momentous occurrence at, 612.
APRIL 14, 1865, the bereavement of the nation on, 617.
ARCHBISHOP McCloskey, consecration of, as the first
American cardinal, 675.

ARCHIVES, the removal of the national, to Washing
ton, 116.

ARCTIC, the Collins steamer, loss of the, at sea by col
lision at noonday with the Vesta, 429.

plot of, to deliver West Point to the British, 49.
frustration of the plot of, 50.

escape from arrest of, 52.

reward and punishment of, 54.

ARREST, of Aaron Burr, dramatic scene at the, 147.
Prof. Webster's, for murder of Dr. Parkman, 378.
- of Booth, the assassin of President Lincoln, 625.
ARRIVAL, of Lafayette in New York, scene at the, 191.
of Kossuth in New York, scene at the, 416.
- of the Great Eastern with the Atlantic cable, 635.
ARTIFICIAL light, wonderful revolution in, 484.
ASHMUN, Hon. George, of Springfield, Mass., last inter-
view of Lincoln with, 618.

ASTONISHING feats of horse taming by Prof. Rarey, 509.
ASSUMING command of the army, Washington, at Cam-
bridge, 65.

at Vicksburg, Gen. Grant, 555.
ATLANTA, Ga., Gen. Sherman at, 599.

ATLANTIC telegraphic cable, the several attempts and
failures in laying the, 630.

the successful laying of the, 632.

the first message transmitted through the, 634.
ATMOSPHERICAL phenomena, during the "dark day
of 1780, 42.

ATTEMPTED assassination of President Jackson, 238.

ATZERODT, the trial and execution of, 627.
AURORA Borealis, the magnificent, of 1837, 269.
its remarkable extent and duration, 270.
appearance of, 271-274.

accounts of, from different points, 272.
AUTOGRAPHIC letter, of the Emperor of Germany to
President Grant, 704.

AVENUES of the national capital, Washington's plan
of the, 116.

AWAKENING, the great religious, of 1857, 456.
AWFUL explosion, on board the Princeton, 315.

visitations, of the cholera and yellow fever, 369.
"AWFUL" Gardiner, the prize-fighter's conversion, 463.

B.

BALLS, the great, to Prince Albert at New York and
Boston, 498. 499.

"BANNER TOWN," for furnishing soldiers in the revo-
lution, 190.

BARCLAY, Commodore, in the battle of Lake Erie, 168.
BARNUM, P. T., his success with Jenny Lind, 390.

Jenny Lind's first interview with, 391.
"BARON RENFREW," tour of, in the United States, 493.
BARRICADING the streets against the cholera, 368.
BATTLE, on Lake Erie, Commodore Perry's famous, 167.
- on the Thames, against the British and Indians, 170.
at New Orleans, Gen Jackson's famous, 176.
of the Forts, 501.

BOOTH, John Wilkes, assassination of President Lin-
coln by, 620.

dramatic flight and arrest of, 625.

tragic death of, 626.

his dying message to his mother, 627.

trials and fates of the accomplices of, 627,

BORING, for petroleum, the first, 479.

BOSTON CORBETT, Sergeant, 624.

BRADFORD, David, the leader of the whiskey insurrec-

tionists in Pennsylvania, 107.

BRAZIL, the Emperor of, at the centennial, 690.
BREAKING and taming of wild horses, by Rarey, 509.
out of the temperance reformation of 1840, 276.
up of Burr's expedition, 146.

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BRIDAL chamber, the Asiatic cholera in the, 373.
BRILLIANT musical tour of Jenny Lind, 386.
BROADWAY, N. Y., the grand Kossuth procession in, 416.
BROOKS, Preston S., his assault upon Senator Sum-
ner, 437.

BRUTE creation, effect of the solar eclipse on the, 136.
BUCHANAN, President, reception of the Japanese em-
bassy by, 487.

correspondence between Queen Victoria and, 494.
reception of Albert Edward, Prince of Wales by, 496.
Commodore, in command of the Merrimac, 526.
BUILDINGS of the centennial exhibition of 1876, 694.
BULL RUN, the first battle of, 517.

the opposing armies before, 518.
the conflict and panic at, 521.

-the losses of the contending armies at, 525.

CABINET, the discussion in Pres. Lincoln's, upon the
emancipation proclamation, 547.

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reception of the news of Cornwallis's surrender, in
the English, 58.

CABLE, the Atlantic, telegraph, section of the, 629.

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the attempts and failures to lay. 630.

the scene at the completion of, 632.

the first message transmitted through, 634.
CALIFORNIA, disastrous earthquake in, 161.
the acquisition of, 347.

rapid growth of, account of the, 366.
reign of the vigilance committee in, 395.

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at the opening of the centennial exhibition, 692.
CERRO GORDO, Victory of Gen. Winfield Scott at, 350.
CHAMPIONSHIP, of the sea, race for the, 403.

- of the Union cause in England, Henry Ward Beech-
er's, 573.

CHANGE of scene after the dark day of 1780, 44.
CHAPULTEPEC, account of the storming of, 347.
CHERBOURG, the duel of the iron-clads at, 581.
CHICAGO, the destruction by fire of, in 1871, 653.
reception of the Prince of Wales at, 494.
CHOLERA, the scourge of the Asiatic, 368.

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its visits to and ravages in America, 369.
its causes, 369.

- phenomena of and incidents in relation to, 370.
the fancied preventives and remedies of, 370.

horrible scenes during the prevalence of, 371–375.
comparative mortality of, between the sexes, 374.
CHRISTMAS gift of Gen. Sherman to Pres. Lincoln, 605.
CINCINNATI, ovation to the Prince of Wales at, 695.
CITY of Washington in 1876, 116.

CIVIL war, the cause of the, 501.

the first aggression in the, at Sumter, 502.

COLT, conviction for murder and suicide in prison of,385.
COMBAT of the Merrimac and Monitor, 526.

of the Alabama and Kearsarge, 581.
COMET, the remarkable, of 1843, account of, 300.
COMETS of the century, account of, 305.

COMMEMORATION, centennial, of Independence, 698.
COMPLETION of the Pacific Railroad, celebration of, 637.
-scene at Promontory Point upon the, 641.
COMMERCE with Japan, the first treaty for, 485.
CONFEDERACY, Southern, attempt to establish a, 501.
the fall of the capital of the, 607.

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the causes leading to the formation of the, 78.
the objects sought to be attained by the, 78.
the men who shaped the, 78, 79.
John Randolph's plan of a, 80.

the exciting debate upon the, 80.

the secrecy of the debate upon the, 80.
speech of Benj. Franklin upon the, 81.
scenes in convention upon adoption of the, 82.
declaration of Washington upon signing the, 82.
acceptance, by the states, of the, 83.

fifteenth amendment to the, passage of the, 552.
CONVENTION, the great constitutional, of 1787, 79.
CORNWALLIS, Lord, surrender of, at Yorktown, 55.
house where the surrender of, took place, 55.
scene at the surrender of, 57.

CORLISS engine, the great, 692.

COTTON GIN, Eli Whitney's invention of the, 98.
how it was suggested to Whitney, 99.
-scene at a, 101.

the change wrought by the, in the South, 103.
the effect upon the commercial world of the, 104.
CRISIS, the terrible financial, of 1857, 447.

the flight of, after Lee's surrender, 614.
DEAD Sea, Lynch's expedition to the, 354.
the shores and surroundings of the, 358.
the mystery solved of the, 359.

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DEATH, of George Washington, 169.

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of Alexander Hamilton, 133.

of John Quincy Adams in the national capital, 262.
of Abraham Lincoln, 617.

tragic, of John Wilkes Booth, the assassin, 626.
DEATH-BED, scene at President Washington's, 122.
-scene at President Lincoln's, 621.

DEBATE, the great, between Webster and Hayne, 205.

DEBATE, the questions discussed in, 206.

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the debaters in, contrasted, 208.

scene after Webster's speech in, 211.

the eleven days', on the right of petition, 253.

the great political, of Lincoln and Douglas, 469.
-scene during, 470.

DECLARATION of national sovereignty, 25.

DECOY letter sent by Washington to attract Cornwallis
to Yorktown, 58.

DEDICATION of the Bull Run memorial monument, 525.
- of St. Patrick's cathedral in New York, 680.
DEFEAT of the British ship of war, Serapis, 35.
- of the British under Cornwallis at Yorktown, 57.
- of the Indians by Mad Anthony Wayne, 93.
- of St. Clair by "Little Turtle," 95.

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of the Confederate iron-clads at New Orleans, 593.
of the Confederates at Fort Fisher, 597.

- of the Confederates at Savannah, 605.

- of Gen. Lee by Gen. Grant at Richmond, 610.
DEFENSE of the Union, Beecher's, in England, 573.
DE KALB, visit of Washington and Lafayette to the
grave of, 192.

DELEGATES to the convention for framing the federal
constitution, 78.

DELUSION, the Second Advent, of Miller, 307.
DEPARTURE of Lafayette from America, 195.
DE ROCHAMBEAU, Count, at Yorktown, 59.

DESK on which Jefferson wrote the declaration of inde-
pendence, 700.

DESTRUCTION of the world, the expected, 307.

Rev. William Miller's prophecy of, 308.

the preparations made for the impending, 311.

- by the great flood in 1815, 178.

DEVOTION of Theodosia, daughter of Aaron Burr, to
her father, 148.

DIARY, Washington's last entry in his, 120.
DIFFICULTY of traveling during the "dark day," 40.
DINNER given by Washington to Lord Cornwallis after
the surrender of Yorktown, 61.

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EARLY home of President Lincoln, 617.
EARTHQUAKE, the great western, of 1811, 156.
its extent and disastrous effects, 157.
its long-continued violence, 159.
the changes wrought by, 160.
ECLIPSE, the total solar, at mid-day, of 1806.
effect upon the witnesses of, 135.
the actions of beasts and birds during, 136.
scientific calculations based upon, 137.

reports from different observers of, 138.
views of the superstitious upon, 140.

EDISON, Thomas A., the inventor, accounts of, 681.
his improvements upon the electric light, 682.
his invention of the phonograph, 685.
his invention of the microphone, 687.

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EDMONDS, Judge, account of, as a spiritualist, 345.
his classification of spiritual mediums, 345.
EDUCATION, free popular, in the United States, rise
and progress of, 667.

-contrast of the old with the new system of, 670.

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the grants of public lands in aid of, 671.
bureau of, at Washington, 672.

free public, for females, condition of schools for, 673.
EGYPT, its contribution to the exhibition of 1876, 697.
ELECTION, first, of a president of the United States, 85.
ELECTRIC light, the invention of, by Prof. Farmer, 681.

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the exigency that caused the proclamation of, 545.
the great event of the 19th century, estimated by
Lincoln as, 548.

- public reception of proclamation of, 550.
its effect upon the freedmen, 551.
EMINENT revival preachers of the century, 460.
EMBASSY, the first, from the New Republic to the Eng-
lish Court, 70.

the results of John Adams's to George III., 75.
the first Oriental, to a foreign government, 485.
EMIGRATION, the great, to California in the gold ex-
citement of 1848, 367.

the great, to the oil regions in 1859, 476.
EMPEROR of Germany, letter of, to Pres. Grant, 704.
his congratulations upon the republic's centen-
nial anniversary, 707.

of Brazil, Dom Pedro, at the centennial, 692.
ENCOMIUM upon Massachusetts, Daniel Webster's, 209.
END of the world, the Millerites awaiting the, 310.
ENGINE, the Corliss, at the exposition of 1876, 692.
Pres. Grant and Dom Pedro starting the, 692.
ENGINEERING, feats of, in the construction of the Pa-
cific railway, 638.

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ENGLAND, the reception of the first Republican ambas-
sador by, 70.

the heir to the throne of, in the United States, 493.
banishment of Aaron Burr from, 148.

ENTRANCE of the United States army into the capital
of Mexico, 352.

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- of the Union army into the Confederate capital, 610.
of the New York Seventh Regiment into Union
Square at the centennial celebration, 701.
EPIDEMICS, the great yellow fever and cholera, 368.
the several great, of the century, 369.
heart-rending scenes during the prevalence of, 371.
ERICSSON, construction of the "Monitor" by, 530.
ETHER, discovery of, as an anæsthetic, 324.

ETHER, religious objections urged against the use of, 325.

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the three claimants to the discovery of, 326.

the effects, beneficent and amusing, of 329.

Ward's monument in honor of the discovery of, 330.
EVARTS, William M., the centennial oration of, 608.
EVERETT, Edward, his eulogy of Webster's speech
against Hayne, 210.

EXCITEMENT, the great gold, of 1848, 360.

the great temperance, of 1849, 281.

the great financial, of 1857, 447.
the great religious, of 1859, 456.
the great petroleum, of 1859, 476.
the great patriotic, of 1861, 501.
EXECUTION, the first in California, 396.

EXECUTIONS, by the vigilance committee of Cali-
fornia, 400.

EXETER hall, London, Henry Ward Beecher's defense
of the Union cause in, 575.

EXHIBITION, the great, of 1853 in New York, 421.

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description of the first U. S. naval ensign, 33.

the British, first striking of, at sea, to the U. S., 38.
the fall of the U. S., at Fort Sumter, 504.
-the restoration of the U. S., at Fort Sumter, 615.
FLIGHT of Jefferson Davis, after Lee's surrender, 614.
of John Wilkes Booth, after his crime, 625.
FOOT, Senator, the famous resolution of, 206.
FOOTE, Admiral, his naval services, 861.
FORD's theater Washington, D. C., 618.

Gen., at the battle of Bull Run, 520.
FREE, popular education, progress of, 667.
FREEDOM of the slaves, Lincoln's proclamation of, 544.
FREDERICK the Great, his eulogy of Washington, 125.
FREMONT, John C., his expedition to the Rocky moun
tains, 285.

FULTON, Robert, the early life of, 150.

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the invention of the steamboat by, 151.

the first pecuniary reward of, 154.
FUNERAL of Geo. Washington, 123.
of Abraham Lincoln, 617.

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the singular phenomena accompanying, 179.
estimates of property destroyed by, 185.
GARDINER," Awful," the revivalist prize-fighter, 463.
GENERALS, the two great, face to face, 607.
GERMANY, letter of the Emperor of, to Pres. Grant, 705
GETTYSBURG, the three days' battle at, 563.
-scene at the height of, 567.

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the last desperate charge of the Confederates at, 568
GIBBS, the pirate, career of; the real name of, 222.
his war on the commerce of all nations, 224.
his capture, execution and remorse, 227.

GOLD, the discovery of, in California, 360.