INDEX. Adirondack fishing days, 148 Albemarle, the ram, Sinking of, 311 Allen, Gen. Ethan, his daugh- ter enters a convent, 79 Armstrong, Jack, his fight with Lincoln, 353 Artist, An American, and his Bang, a favorite Irish setter, Barber, Edward D., the poet of Barn and other swallows, 111 Bear, how I lost one in the Beckwith, Gen. Amos, Sher- Bennett, Milo L., a Vermont Bible, Mr. Lincoln's opinion Birds, Notes on, 101, 106 Auditor, Opinion of a "hold- Blair, Francis P., letter on over," 318 Lincoln's death, 243 Book chase, The, 279 Bar supper, The annual, 205, Book thieves, their work, 295 Book-account, Action of, 209 Barn-Burners, The New York, Boorn case, The, 330 12 Bradley, William C., Mr. Van Bank swindler, How to know Bronx River, its diminution, Bryant, W. C., on Diminution | Comanche Indians, how best Bucking the tiger in Nevada, Contempt of court goes unpun- Cabinet officers, Lincoln's rea- son for their selection, 386 China, "La Chine," supposed to be by Cartier's men, 196 Circumstantial evidence, Dan- 102 marle, 311 Cooper Institute speech, Lin- Conkling, J. C., Lincoln's let- Dams on Adirondack rivers, Douglas, debate with Lincoln, Cold River and its trout in Eagle, The white-headed, a robber, 225 Collamer, Hon. J., assists in East Creek, Duck-shooting in, College graduate, A, mining Emancipation Proclamation, in Nevada, 129 man's army, 267 175 The, 403 lows, 113 Colored people following Sher- Engineering taught by swal- Colored pilot on the Savannah Essex Junction, its miseries, Faro, A game of, and its re- | Haynes, Rev. Lemuel, a col- on, 269-273 cism, 285 Fisher, Fort, Second attack on, Hough, Prof. John, his criti- Fox, Capt. G. V., his charac- Free Soil Party, Origin of, 1 Gambler, A Western, 126 Hudson River, its diminution Indian medical remedies, 196 Italy, Destruction of forests Judges, Early Vermont, 19 Keyes, Elias, Anecdote of, 20 Greenbacks, their first issue, Law, a progressive science, 328 95 Green River Station, a tender- Law and order at a discount in a mining country, 130 Greeley, Horace, The Presi- Lincoln, Abraham, Notes on the dent's letter to, 404 Grizzly Gulch under Lynch Gurowski, Adam, his notes, 320 Hall, Mr. and Mrs., their spir- Hatteras Inlet, Fishing in, 263 day of his death, 236; Effect school, 191 the "Ecolectic" Militia Act of the Third House, Minister and his boys in the Miracle, A Vermont, 81 Mosby "can't have them young Armstrong, 358; His | Medicine, Murder in a mining-camp, 126; Needham, Horatio, 206 New York, ill-treatment of Official influence, Value of, 231 14 Long Lake in 1846, 139 incident in, 114 Osborne, W., Murder of, 128 Lynch law, An execution by, Ospreys and their habits, 223 123 Otter Creek, Little, incidents, McCook family, The fighting, Owls and their peculiarities, 306 Maeck, Jacob, attorney, 199 284 Malaria 221 Pacific Railroad travel, Early, in Tuscany which Pamphlets, their short lives, 289 Partridge, common name of "Sanders' Indian Wars,' ruffed grouse, 105 rarity, 282 " its Реасе Conference calls on Savannah in winter and in war, President Lincoln, 392 246, 260 "Scrap" in a Nevada faro game, 135 Scientific navigation by a coast- Pierpont Brothers, Robert and School-teaching on Hog Island, Pigeon, The passenger, its dis- Seymour, "Squire" Horatio, appearance, 107 Pitkin, Perley P., a Vermont Pliny, Medical remedies of, 194 Presents to Treasury officers, 228 father of the bar, 206 Slavery, changes in its policy, Smalley family, The, 329 Prout, John, who "made all Speed, Joshua, Lincoln's letter the noise," 206 Quack, A typical, 189 Quacks and quackery, 186 Railroad engineering taught by birds, 113 to, 370 Spinner, Francis E., his char- acter, 317 Spiritualism and its mediums, Spooner, Judah Paddock, first tive, 55 296 198 27 Rushlow, Captain, one of my Swallows, their habits, 109 scholars, 278 Switzerland, Destruction of forests in, 166 Sabattis, Mitchell, Adirondack Swanton, Teaching school in, |