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Smith, William Prescott, of Baltimore, 538;
character and accomplishments of, 359.
Social Reminiscences of Washington, 273.
Soulé, Pierre, on the Compromise Meas-
ures, 9; character of, 57.
South, brilliant rhetoric of the, 57.
Southern Congressmen, 57; institutions, 17;
slaveholders, grotesque manners and hab-
its of, 194.

Speaker, election of, 32, 375; speeches at,
376 et seq.; high compliment to J. W. For-
ney, 381.

Stanton, Edwin M., 76; his position and ac-

tion as War Minister, 185; letter
to Gen. Grant on the taking of
Richmond, 186; his friendship
for D. E. Sickles, 425; on his
death-bed, 426.

Fred. P., Secretary of Kansas, 119.
Steam-traveling, 162.

Stebbins, Colonel, of New York, 69.
Stetson, Charles, of the Astor House, 68.
Stevens, Thaddeus, anecdotes of, 37; his
relations with George Wolf, 281; attacked
the Masonic order and joined the Know-
Nothings, 386.

Still, Peter, story of, 210.

William, his Under-ground Railroad
record, 204.

Stockton, Commodore, his wager with James
Buchanan, 74.

Stormy Session, a, 109; two months' delay
over election of Speaker, 110; Nathaniel P.
Banks chosen by a majority of three, 111.
Story, Mr. Justice, and Annie Royall, 115.
Sullivan, John T., of Washington, general
hospitality of, 64.

John T. S., college-mate of Charles
Sumner, 71.

Sully, Thomas, the artist, 97.
Sumner, Charles, refinement of his tastes,
83; in peril at Baltimore, 158; his opinion
of Pennsylvania, 346.

Sumter, firing upon, opens the Civil War, 158.
Superior City stock, speculation in, 19.
Swain, William M., anecdote of, 365.
Swift, John, Ex-Mayor of Philadelphia, 9.

TAINE, HENRI A., on biography, 411.
Terry, David S., kills Senator Broderick in
a duel, 28.

443

Texas, annexation of, opposed by J. Q. Ad-
ams, 48; supported by Stephen A. Doug-
las, 51.

Thompson, Chief Justice James, of Penn-
sylvania, 83.

John R., of New Jersey, a strong
Unionist, 42.

Toombs, Robert, of Georgia, the stormy pet-
rel of debate, 58.

Traveling forty years ago, 162.

UNCONSCIOUS courage, anecdote of, 290.
Union, a former Washington journal, 107.
Utility, the Age of, 352.

VAN BUREN, JOHN, a dinner-table despot, 70.
Martin, had few realfriends, 146.
Victoria, Queen, Sully's portrait of, 97.

WALKER, ROBERT J., anti-slavery Governor
of Kansas, 32; at the Baltimore Conven-
tion, 118; his career, 119; sent to Europe
by President Lincoln, 121; writes in the
London Times, 121.

Walsh, Mike, of New York, 113.

Ward, Sam, of Washington, a courteous au-
tocrat of the dinner-table, 394.
Washington, George, at the Mills House,

Washington, 80; at table,
221; Presidential tour
through the South, 257; his
traveling carriage, 257; his
daily life in Philadelphia,
261; how he opened Con-
gress, 262; domestic habits
of, 262; at the Philadelphia
theatre, 270; letter to Mat-
thew Carey, 390; his char-
acter by Jefferson, 391.
Mrs., in Philadelphia, 261;
her person and dress, 263;
her disinclination for grand
entertainments, 304.
Thirty years ago, 231; its ad-
vance into a great city, 233;
Freedmen's Savings Bank
in, 234; municipal govern-
ment of, 348; a newspaper
sepulchre, 382.
Washington Sunday Morning Chronicle,

427.

Washington Union, organ of President

Pierce, 110.

Webster, Daniel, Tariff speeches of, 10; on
the Presidential nomination, 11; change
of politics, 54; defeated by Winfield Scott,
80; appreciation of humor, 83; death, 183;
his retort to Signor Blitz, 417.
Weed, Thurlow, 69.
Westward Ho! 357-

Wharton, George M., an "Old-line Whig,"
55.

Wikoff, Henry, his devotion to Louis Napo-

leon, 366; visits the prisoner of Ham, 369.
Wilkes, Captain, of the San Jacinto, cap-
tures Mason and Slidell at sea, 156.

Wilkins, Judge William, of Pennsylvania,
87; character of, 88; his mental trial of
Jefferson Davis, 89.

Wilson, Henry, of Massachusetts, 341; his
character and talents, 342.

William J., Cashier of Freedman's
Savings Bank in Washington,
234.

Wise, Henry A., opposes Know-Nothing-
ism, 135; his public life, 144; Governor
of Virginia, 145.

Wits in Congress, 83.

Wright, Frances (Madame Frances d'Arus-
mont), her socialistic theories, 115.
Silas, a great logician, 83.

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