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SCENE at signing of the emancipation proclamation, 549.
at Ford's theater at the assassination of Lincoln,620.
- at the completion of the Pacific Railroad, 641.
SCHOOLS, system of, in the U. S., progress of the, 667.
SCHURZ, Carl, centennial oration at St. Louis by, 702.
SCIENCE, the four miracles of, 680.

SCOTT, Gen., in the halls of the Montezumas, 346.

- at the head of the loyal army in the civil war, 508.
SCOURGE of the cholera and yellow fever, 368.
SEA, the Dead, Lynch's expedition to, 354.
SEAT of goverment, contest as to the location of the,113.
establishment of the, in New York in 1789, 88.
transferring of the, to Washington in 1800, 116.
SECESSION, the first gun of, 501.

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the jubilation of the emancipated, 551.

SMALLEY, Geo. W., war correspondent of the Tribune,

gallantry of, at Antietam, 543.

SMITH, Joseph, the Mormon leader, history of, 215.

SOLAR ECLIPSE, the great total, midday, 134.

SOLDIERS' MONUMENT at Gettysburg, 571.

SOMERS, U. S. brig, mutiny on board the, 290.
SOVEREIGNS OF INDUSTRY, objects of the, 666.
SOVEREIGNTY, popular, great debate upon, between
Lincoln and Douglas, 469.

SPANGLER, trial of, for conspiracy 627.

SPEECH, farewell, of Gen. Washington, to his army, 63.
of Washington, in resigning his commission, 68.
of John Adams, to George III., 74.

at Boston, 228.

at Niagara Falls, 230.

- on the Mississippi, 233.

SUCCESSFUL laying of the telegraphic cable across the
Atlantic ocean, 630.

SUDDEN appearance of a great comet in the skies at
noonday, 300.

SUICIDE of John C. Colt, the murderer of Adams, in
prison, 385.

SUMMIT of the Rocky Mountains, Fremont upon, 287.
SUMNER, Charles, assault of Preston S. Brooks upon,
in the United States senate, 437.

SUMTER, Fort, bombardment of, 501.

gallant defense of, by Gen. Anderson, 503.
-the fall of, 508.

TABLE TIPPINGS, and spirit knockings,accounts of, 340.
TAKING THE OATH, Washington, at inauguration, 89.
TAMING of wild horses, Rarey's method of, 517.
TARRING and feathering, in the Pennsylvania whiskey
insurrection, 106.

TAYLOR, Bayard, the ode at the centennial by, 690.
General Zachary, his victories in Mexico, 348.
TEACHINGS of the Mormon Bible, 216,
TECUMSEH, General Harrison's victory over, 170.
TELEGRAM, the first, 249.

TELEGRAPH, the electric, Morse's invention of, 244.

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description of, 245.

the debate upon, and trial of, in congress, 247.
Miss Ellsworth's
the first, over, 249.
message,
TELEGRAPHIC CABLE, the Atlantic, laying the, 629.

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the first message through, 634.

the messages through, between Queen Victoria and
the President, 634.

TELEGRAPHIC INSTRUMENT, the original, 248.

TELEPHONE, invention of the, by Professor Bell, 681.

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description of the, 684.

TEMPERANCE, Gen. Washington's testimony as to, 280.

debate of Webster and Hayne, 205.
exhibition of 1853, in New York, 421,
exposition of 1876, at Philadelphia, 689.
financial crisis, of 1857, 447.
gold fever, of 1848, 360.

petroleum excitement, of 1859, 476.

religious awakening, of 1857, 476.

temperance reformation, of 1840, 276.

tragedy of the century, 617.

uprising of the North, of 1861, 501.

yacht race, the victory of the U. S. in, 403.
THE GREATEST New Year's present of the century, 547.
THE LITTLE MONITOR," at Hampton roads, 526.
THE NATIONAL GRANGE movement, history of, 660.
THEODOSIA, Aaron Burr's daughter, devotion of, 148.
- her mysterious fate, 149.

THEORIES, of Professors Dana and Silliman as to the
origin and source of petroleum, 4×3.

TOUR, the United States, of the Prince of Wales, 493.
- musical, of Jenny Lind, in the United States, 386.
— of Kossuth, in the United States, 412.

- of Lafayette in the United States, 186.
TRAVELING on the first steam railway, 646.

- by the first steamboat, 152.

TREASON, of Major-general Benedict Arnold, 48.

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of Aaron Burr, 146.

TREATING with the Indians, 91.

TREATY OF PEACE and commerce with Japan, 485.
TRIAL of Aaron Burr, for conspiracy, 148.

- of Prof. Webster, for murder of Dr. Parkman, 380.
- of John H. Surratt, Mrs. Surratt, Atzerodt, Harold
and Payne, for conspiracy, 628.

TRIUMPHAL JOURNEY of Washington to New York to
be inaugurated President, 85.
TUNISIAN TENT at the centennial, 704,

TWO HUNDRED YEARS of education, 667.

TYCOON OF JAPAN, letter of the, to President Bu-
chanan, 489.

U.

UNANIMOUS ELECTION of General Washington to the
Presidency, 85.

"UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER," how Gen. U. S. Grant
won the title, 559.

UNCONTROLLABLE PANIC at Bull Run, 521.
UNEXPECTED EMBRACE of the Prince of Wales, 497.
UNFURLING Of the UniteD STATES FLAG, Fremont,
on the summit of the Rocky Mountains, 287.
-- Gen. Scott, from the halls of the Montezumas, 353.
UNION, Daniel Webster's apostrophe to the, 211.

petition in congress for the dissolution of the, by
Massachusetts citizens, 257.

UNION SQUARE, N. Y., centennial display in. 697.
UNITED STATES, John Adams, at the British Court as
first ambassador of the, 74.

UNPARALLELED gale, the, of 1815, 178.

conflagration of the century, the, 653.

UNPRECEDENTED SPECTACLE in a legislative body, 437.
UNUSUAL APPEARANCE of the water during the myste-
rious dark day of 1780, 42.

USE of rock oil by the early Indian tribes, 476.
USES of petroleum, the various, 484.

UTAH, migrations of the Mormons to, 220.

V.

VAPORS, peculiar, during the dark day of 1780, 42.
VARIOUS effects of the inhalation of ether, 329.

uses of rock oil by the early tribes of Indians, 476.
uses of petroleum, 484.

VELOCITY of the falling meteors in the great shower
of stars of 1833, 232.

VERA CRUZ, Gen. Scott's victory at, 348.
VESSEL, burning of a merchant, by the Alabama, 581.
VESSELS, in the streets of Providence, during the
great gale of 1815, 179.

VESTA, the collision of the, with the Arctic, at noon-
day, in mid-ocean, 428.

VICKSBURG, the campaign against, 554.

Gen. Grant's famous terms of surrender to the
garrison of, 559.

VICTOR EMANUEL, the centennial message of, 705.
VICTORIA, her visit to the yacht America, 411.

WAGER, the great, on the yacht America, 404.
WAGNER'S centennial inauguration march, 690.
WALES, Prince of, his tour in the United States, 493.
WALL STREET, N. Y., scenes in, during the great panic
of 1857, 449.

WARD, J. Q. A., his monument to the discovery of ether
as an anesthetic, 330.

WARFARE, ocean, the effect upon the method of, by
the introduction of the iron-clads, 534.
WARNING of Washington to St. Clair, 95.
WASHINGTON, Gen., appointment of, to the command
of the continental army, 64.

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receiving his commission from congress, 65.
taking command of the army at Cambridge, 65.
record of his generalship, 65.

his indignant refusal of American kingship, 66.
his farewell address to his army, 67.

his return of his commission to congress, 68.
his unanimous election as president, 85.

the last words of the mother of, to, 85.

the ovations to, on his journey to inauguration, 86.
ceremonies of the inauguration of, in N. Y., 89.

his prophecy upon signing the constitution, 82.
his wrath, at the defeat of St. Clair, 95.

his suppression of the whiskey insurrection, 107.
his influence in locating the national capital, 114.
laying of the corner stone of the capitol by, 116.
his death bed and last words, 122.

the funeral obsequies of, 123.

the eulogies of, by the crowned heads and great
generals of Europe, 125.

the tomb of, visit of Lafayette to, 194.

WEBSTER, Daniel, his great debate with Hayne, 205.
effect of the speech of, against Hayne, 210.

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his eulogy of Massachusetts, 209.

his apostrophe to the Union, 211.

his impromptu duet with Jenny Lind, 393.

- his encomium of Kossuth, 418.

Prof., the murder of Dr. Parkman by, 376.
singular detection of, 378.
hardihood on trial of, 381.

firm denial and subsequent confession of, 382.
WELCOME to Lafayette by the people of the U. S., 190.
to Kossuth by the citizens of New York, 417.

to the Prince of Wales by the American people, 498.
WELLS, DR. W., his claim to the discovery of ether as
an anæsthetic, 326.

WEST POINT, plot of Benedict Arnold to deliver, to
the British, 48.

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how a bright woman helped him, 99.

the invention of the cotton gin by, 100.

the discouragements and final success of, 103.
WHITTIER, John G., centennial poem written by, 690.
WILCOX, Gen., at Bull Run, 517.

WILLIAM, Emperor of Germany, his congratulatory
centennial letter to Pres. Grant, 745.

WINSLOW, Capt., in command of the Kearsarge, sink-
ing the Alabama, 586.

WINTHROP, Robert C., the centennial oration at Bos-
ton by, 700.

WOMAN'S PAVILION at the centennial exposition, 703.
WONDERFUL dark day of 1780, account of the, 39.

- gateway in the Rocky mountains, 286.
meteoric shower of 1833, 228.

WORD, the most important, in the proclamation of
emancipation, 547.

WORDS, last, of Gen. Washington, 119.

last written, of President Lincoln, 619.
WORLD, the Millerites waiting the expected destruc-
tion of the, 307.

WORLD'S FAIR, the great of 1853, in New York, 421.
WORDEN, Lieut. John S., exploits of, with the "Little
Monitor," 532.

WRATH OF WASHINGTON at the defeat of St. Clair, 95.

YORKTOWN, surrender of Cornwallis at, 55.

- junction of the American and French forces at, 56.
letter of King George as to the defeat at, 60.
YOUNG, Brigham, the Mormon leader, history of, 220.
YOUNG MEIGS, voluntary generalship at Bull Kun, 524.

Z.

ZEAL of Lafayette for the American cause, 55, 186.
ZOUAVES, the New York, their dash and daring at Bull
Run. 522.