by the English, 90.

Acton, 225.

Acts of Parliament burned, 203.
Adams, Gov., 242.

Adams, John, Vice-President, 308; Pres-
ident, 313; his death, 330; would nev-
er own a slave, 345.

Adams, John Quincy, President, 355.
Adams, Samuel, the true king in Boston,
208; at the Old South Church, 211;
at Lexington, 217, 221; Governor in
1795, 238.

Alaska, remains of Siberian elephant
found in, 25; purchased from Russia,

Alexandria, Confederate flag at, 417;
seized by the Federals, 418.
Allen, Ethan, 249.

Alligators cooked by the Indians, 46.
Alton, Ill., Mr. Lovejoy killed at, 358.
Amber on the shores of the Baltic, 14.
Amendment to the Constitution forbid-
ding slavery, 464; the fourteenth, 491;
the fifteenth, 505.

America, the most grateful of nations,
282.

America's name, story of, 45.

American Antislavery Society organized,
356.

American continent known to the an-
cients, 13.

ning-frame, 350.

Arlington Heights seized, 418.

Armies of the Union in Washington, 489;

BALBOA discovered Pacific Ocean, 51.
Baltimore, blood shed in streets of, 414.
Baptism and religious instruction with-
held from slaves, 343.

Baptism of Indians at Port Royal, 89.
Baptists banished, 169; conduct of, 170.
Barrett's, Col., British at, 225.
Battle of Lexington, 221.
Battle of New Orleans, 329.
Battle-Hymn of the Republic, 451.
Bay of Chaleur explored and described,
59, 60.

Beacon Hill, 238; bonfires on, 232.
Beauregard, Gen., at Manassas, 418.
Behring Strait easily crossed, 25.
Belle Isle, Strait of, Cartier enters, 59.
Bellingham, Gov., 242.
Beloeil, Mt., 336.

229.

Americans arm and drill, 212.
Americus Vespucius, voyage of, 45, 51.
Amnesty, general, proclaimed, 505.
Ancient pueblo pottery, 21.

Anderson, Major, surrendered Fort Sum-
ter, 412.

André, Major John, story of, 293.
Andrew, Gov., statue of, 238.
Andros, Gov., imprisoned, 241.
Andros, Lady Anne, 241.

Annapolis, site of the old Port Royal, 86.
Annawon, story of capture of, 131.
Antietam, battle of, 439.
Antislavery riots, 357.
Apthorp, Madame, 236.

Area of the States and Territories, 517.

Mass., 16.

Bible, the book of all ages, 56; not al-

lowed to be printed in America, 203.
Blaine, James G., Secretary of State, 511.
Blockade of American ports, 320.
Blockade of Confederate ports, 418.
Blockading decrees repealed, 316.
Booth, assassinator of Pres. Lincoln, 481.
Boston, England, persecutions at, 94:
Boston, the port closed, 211; full of
monuments, 237; situation of, 246;
blockaded, 246.

Boston Common, English troops en-
camped on, 207, 217.

Boston Massacre, the, 208, 242.
Boucherville, Mt., 336.
Bowdoin, Gov., 242.

Copp's Hill Burying-ground, 242.
Corey, Giles, pressed to death, 163.
Corn, five kernels to each person for one
day, 110.

Cornwallis, Lord, marches into Phila-
delphia, 283 surrender of, 298.
Cortez captured Montezuma, 51.
Cotton, John, 241.

Cotten, high price of, 492.

Cotton-gin, the story of the, 351.
Cotton plant, 352.

Cradle of Liberty, 237.

Cradock Mansion, Medford, 12, 245,
Craigie House, Longfellow's residence,
245, 263.

Creditors imprisoned in England, 151.
Cromwell, Oliver, 106; supported by New
England, 179.

Cross set up on Labrador, 59; on Bay of
Gaspé, 60.

Crown Point, 249.

Cumberland, the, destroyed, 426.

DAILLÉ, PETER, grave of, 242.
Danes claim to be the builders of round
arch tower at Newport, R. I., 16.
Dare, Virginia, first white child born in
America, 76.

Davenport, John, 241.

Davis, Isaac, at Concord fight, 225.
Davis, Jefferson, President of the Con-
federacy, 398; his inaugural, 403;
curses breathed against, 469; flight
from Richmond, 473; his capture, 489;
set at liberty, 489.

Declaration of Independence, 269. ̧
Debt incurred in putting down the Re-
bellion, 502.

Deerfield, Mass., sacked and burned, 335.
Delaplace, Capt., 253.

Delaware, Lord, reinforces the colony at
Jamestown, 72.

Demonology, King James's book on, 157.
De Monts visits the Bay of Fundy, 86.
Desertions from the Confederate army,
459.

De Soto, Ferdinand, expedition of, 41;
discovers the Mississippi, 42; death of,

EAST INDIA COMPANY, 208, 211.
Effects of the war, 289.

Election of 1860, 388.

529

ers, 170.

Fathers of New England imprisoned at
Boston, England, 94.

Feathers signify love, 152.
Ferdinand, King of Aragon, 32.
Fillmore, Millard, President, 375.
Fingers, tender, of Virginia colonists
blistered, 67.

"First in the Foremost Line," poem, 453.
Fishing, successful, 110.

Florida named by Ponce de Leon, 38;
ceded to United States by Spain, 330.
Flour, Washington brand, 182.
Forest, clearing the, 68.

Fort Detroit, surrender at, 316.
Fort Duquesne, 189, 190.

Fort Necessity, built by Washington, 188;

Fort Pitt, 190.

Fort Sumter, attack on, 411.

Fortress Monroe, 424.
Fountain of youth, 38.
Fourth of July, 1826, 329.
Fox, George, 173.

France, sympathy of, for Americans, 280.
Francis I. sends Cartier to Western Hem-
isphere, 59, 60.

Franklin, Benjamin, 183; as boy and man,
184; as man of science, 185; ambassa-
dor, 186; commissioner at Paris, 290.
Frederick of Prussia, 274.
Fredericksburg, battle of, 439.
Freedmen's Bureau established, 467.
French settlements earlier than that at

Jamestown, 332.

French and Indian War, 335.

French at Newfoundland, 37.

French colonies, the, 187.

George II., 151.

Georgia, 148 country between the Sa-
vannah and the Altamaha, 152; sends
money, rice, &c., to Boston, 245.
German boy's funeral, 231.
German mercenaries in New Jersey, 283.
German Protestants join Oglethorpe, 152.
Germantown, battle at, 284.
Gettysburg, Gen. Lee's advance to, 445;
battle of, 446.
Ghent, treaty of, 325.

Gibraltar, 14; besieged by Spain, 293.
Gold discovered in California, 371; pre-
mium on, 469.

Goodwin, John, his children bewitched,
163.

Gosnold discovered Cape Cod, 51.
Government, a central, needed, 302.
Governments of the colonies, diversity
in, 177.

Governor appointed by the king, 179.
Governor, functions of the colonial, 177.
Granary Burying-ground, 241.
Grand Pré, village of, 86.
Grant, Gen., victorious in the West, 429;
the William the Silent of the war, 440;
put in command of the Union army,
456; elected President, 502; re-elected,

505.
Great Britain has no written constitution,
307; war declared against, 316.

505.

Henry VII., discoveries in reign of, 51.
Henry VIII., discoveries in reign of, 51.
Henry, Patrick, in Congress, 215.
Hessians, 274.

Hobomok, the Indian interpreter, 103.
Hochelaga, Mount Royal, now Montreal,
63.

Holland, Pilgrims spend eleven years in,
94; sail from Delfthaven in, 97.
Hollis Street Church, 233.
Homes in the new land, 51.
Homestead Act passed, 440.
Hooker, Gen. Joseph, in command, 442.
Hopkins, the witch detector, 158.
House of Commons, resolution to tax
Americans, 204.

Houston, Sam., President of Texas,
358-361.

Howard, Gen., head of Freedman's Bu.
reau, 467.

Howe, Gen., in command, 263; at Staten
Island, 275; retreats to New York,

IMMIGRANTS to California, 375-

Impressment, 314.

Increase of the colonists, 202.
Indian chief, old, at Port Royal, 86.
Indian corn a legal tender, 110.
Indians, origin of the, 26; in council, 27;
treatment of by De Soto, 41, 42; con-
verted to Christianity, 89; efforts to
christianize the, 117; encroached up-
on by the whites, 119; three hung by
the Puritans for murder, 120; allies of
the French, 335; held as slaves, 344.
Indignation in the North at the Rebellion,

James River, emigrants sail up the, 67,
424; Confederate iron-clad in, 426.
Jamestown, Va., founded, 67.
Jefferson, Thomas, Vice-President, 313;
President, 313; his death, 330; op-
posed to slavery, 345.
Jeffreys, the brutal Judge, 75.
Jesuits, contests between, and liberal

Catholic priests, 89; the French, 332.
Johnson, Andrew, President, 490.
Johnson, Dr. Samuel, 148; sale of his
books, 151.

66

Join or die," 207.

Joliet and Marquette discover the Missis-
sippi, 332.

Jones, Paul, on the Scotch coast, 293.
Joy in the South over victories, 413.
July 4, 1776, 270.

King William's War, 335.

Interior, 511.

531

Knowledge, love of, among the Pilgrims,

114.

Knox, John, the reformer, 55.

LABRADOR, Cabot lands on, 37; Cartier
plants the cross on, 59.
Lachine Rapids, 336.
Lafayette, Marquis de, 281, 330.
Lake St. Peter, 63.
Land of promise, 372.
Lands beyond the great ocean, 36.
La Salle, Robert de, names Louisiana,
332; lands in Texas, 335; treacher-
ously shot, 335.

Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, 106.
Lawrence, Capt., 320.

Lawrence, Kan., invaded, 379.

Lee, Richard Henry, in Congress, 215.
Lee, Gen. Robert E., Confederate com-
mander, 422; invades Maryland, 445;
surrender to Grant, 474.

Letters from the Pilgrims regarded as a
"sacred script," 109.
Leverett, Gov. John, 241.

Lexington, story of the battle of, 217;
British and American losses at, 231.
Libby Prison, Richmond, Va., 451.
Liberty, religious, 165.
Liberty Tree, the, 232.

Licking Valley, mounds in, 20, 21.
Lincoln, Abraham, bust of, 238; enters
Lillie, Theophilus, would sell tea, 234.

Congress, 365; elected President, 391;
story of his early life, 392; political
career, 396; inaugural, 402; his si-
lence, 408; re-election, 467; visit to
Richmond, 477; assassinated, 478; the
people's grief for, 482.

Lincoln, Robert T., Secretary of War,
511.

Liquors, Indians' passion for, 117.
Long Island, battle of, 276.

Lorne, Marquis of, Governor of Canada,

MACHINERY HALL, Philadelphia, 505.
McClellan, Gen. George B., in command,
421; on the Peninsula, 424; his fail-
ure, 425; removed from command,
439; nominated for President, 467.
McDowell, Gen., at Bull Run, 419.
MacVeagh, Wayne, Attorney General,

512.

Madison, James, President, 313; opposed
to slavery, 345.

Man responsible to God alone in relig-
ious belief, 166.

417.