General Scott and Jones the sculptor, 34;
“great” men, 37;
Daniel Webster, 37, 131;
Thad. Stevens, 38;
“a little more light and a little less noise,” 49;
tax on “state” banks, 53;
Andy Johnson and Colonel Moody, 102;
“chin fly,” 129;
Secretary Cameron’s retirement, 138;
Wade and Davis’ “manifesto,” 145;
“second advent,” 147;
“nothing but a noise,” 155;
“swabbing windows,” 159;
“mistakes,” 233;
“picket” story, 233;
“plaster of psalm tunes,” 239;
“Fox River,” 240;
“nudum pactum,” 241;
harmonizing the “Democracy,” 244;
Mrs. Sallie Ward and her children, 247;
a Western judge, 250;
“lost my apple overboard,” 252;
rigid government and close construction, 254;
“breakers” ahead, 256;
counterfeit bill, 262;
blasting rocks, 262;
General Phelps’s emancipation proclamation, 273;
making “ministers,” 277;
John Tyler, 278;
the Irish soldier and Jacob Thompson, 283;
Jeff. Davis and the coon, 284;
last story,--“how Patagonians eat oysters,” told to Marshal Lamon
on evening of assassination, 285.