INDEX

A B C D E F G H I J K L M

N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Achinese, subjugation of the, 178.

Aden, visit to, 208.

Adirondack Railway, 260.

American Merchant in Europe, Asia, and Australia, an, 222.

Andaman Islands,204.

Anglo-American, the, 72, 144.

Anglo-Saxon, the, 55, 58, 72.

Anjer, visit of the natives at, 174.

Antietam, Battle of, 282.

Ariens, Admiral, 251.

Around the world tours, 331.

Around the World in Eighty Days, 301, 331.

Ashburner, George, 204.

Astor, John Jacob, Jr., 44.

Atlantic and Great Western Railway, 237, 269.

Australia, begin business in, 127; gold-fever in, 130, 141; outlaws of, 152, 156; railway system of, 269; rebellion in, 156.

Austria, travels in, 233.

Bailey, Crawshay, and Atlantic and Great Western Railway, 244.

Balaklava, visit to, 217.

Balmoral, visit to, 92.

Banka, tin mines of, 179.

Banking and gambling compared, 86.

Banks, Gen. Nathaniel P., 38, 58.

Baring, Thomas, visit to America, 71.

Bartley, Judge, 244.

Bastile at Lyons, a prisoner in the, 310.

Batavia, Java, beauty of, 175.

Bemis, Emery, 37.

Bemis, George Pickering, 8, 48, 273, 311.

Bennett, James Gordon, 222.

Beyrout, visit to, 215.

Birkenhead, tramways in, 261.

Black Hole of Calcutta, 205.

Blockade running, 272.

Bly, Nellie, trip round the world, 335.

Bombay, India, railroad in, 270.

"Bonanza nugget," the, story of, 141.

Boomerang, the, 169.

Booth, Edwin, in Melbourne, 166.

Botany Bay, 144.

Bougevine, Gen., in China, 196.

Bowling, skill in, 79; in Australia, 135.

Braemar, meeting with Lord John Russell at, 92.

Bridges, the phrenologist, 122.

Briticisms, 91.

Brooke, "Sarawak," 179.

Brougham, John, visit to Liverpool, 124.

Bunker Hill Day, 112.

Bury, Lord, 105.

Bushnell, the actor, in Melbourne, 167.

Cairo, land trip from Suez to, 209.

Calcutta, visit to, 204.

Caldwell, Captain, partner in the Australian house, 127, 136, 223.

California, discovery of gold in, 71.

Canada, visit to, 86.

Canning, Lord, Governor-General of India, 207.

Canton, visit to, 182, 185.

Cape May, in 1850, 79.

Carleton, Mrs., meeting with, 83.

Castiglione, Countess, 230.

Ceylon, visit to, 208.

Chatsworth, visit to, 102.

China, visit to, 180; population of, 190.

Chinese, civilization of the, 197; customs of the, 190; honesty of the, 187.

Choate, Rufus, retained in the Franklin case, 62.

Chronicle, London, purchase of the, 272.

Cincinnati, honeymoon trip to, 116.

Civil War in the United States, England and the, 271.

Claflin, Tennie C., arrest of, 323.

Clarke, John, Jr., 7, 9.

Clay, Cassius M., debate with, 279.

Clay, Henry, calls on, 81.

Cluseret, Gen. Gustave Paul, summoned from Switzerland, 305.

Collie, Alexander, 180.

Collingwood, home at, 135.

Commune, the, 301.

Constantine, Grand Duke, meeting with, at Strelna, 251.

Constantinople, visit to, 216.

Cook, Captain, in Botany Bay, 145.

Copenhagen, tramway in, 269.

Cozzens's Hotel, Omaha, 296.

Crédit Foncier, 285.

Crédit Mobilier of America, 260, 285, 316.

Crimea, in the, 217.

Cristina, Queen Maria, and Atlantic and Great Western Railway, 227, 237.

Crystal Palace, 103, 104.

Dalhousie, Lord, Governor-General of India, 207.

Dallas, George M., 250.

Daniel Webster, the, 117.

Darlington, England, tramways in, 269.

Davis, Col. George T. M., 110, 116, 259.

Delane, John, editor London Times, 251.

Delmonico's, McHenry's $15,000 dinner at, 246.

De Morny, Count, 228.

De Questa, Rodrigo, and Atlantic and Great Western Railway, 238.

Derby, J. C., 273.

Devonshire, Duke of, meeting with the, 101.

Dinsmore, Mr., meeting with, 87.

Dombriski, Prince, received by, 255.

Donohue, Irish patriot, 165.

Donovan, the phrenologist, 122.

Drinking by women in 1850, 83.

Dublin, imprisonment in, 314.

Duckbill, the Australian, 169.

Durant, Dr. T. C., president of Crédit Mobilier, 260.

Elephants as carriers, 208.

Emerson, Ralph W., lecture at Waltham, 39; engages passage for Europe, 60.

Emigration, Irish, to America, 76; of the Landsdowne tenants, 97; to Tasmania, 148.

"Emperor, the," fountain at Chatsworth, 102.

England, first impressions of, 90; introduction of tramways in, 259; and the Civil War in the United States, 271.

Excelsior, the Chinese, 193.

Fallow, Christopher and John, 239.

Fenton, Reuben E., 243.

Fillmore, Millard, President, 113.

Fiske, Stebbins, 13.

Fitzroy, Sir Charles, Governor of New South Wales, 143.

"Five-Star Republic," the, of Australia, 157.

Flowers, love of, 177.

Flying Cloud, the, 72, 221.

Flying-fish, experience with, 208.

Fowler, the phrenologist, 123.

France, travels in, 233.

Franklin, wreck of the, 61.

Franklin, Sir John, house in Tasmania, 150.

Frost, Abigail Pickering, 10.

Frost, George W., 14.

Frost, Leonard, 39.

Fu-chow, visit to, 200.

Fuller, Frank, builder of Crystal Palace, 104.

Fuller, Col. Hiram, 93.

Gambetta, interview with, 311.

Gambling at Saratoga in 1850, 85.

Geneva, Switzerland, tramway in, 269.

Georgetown Convent, visit to, 82.

Germany, travels in, 233.

Ginger, preparation of Canton, 190.

"Godowns," 185.

Golden Age, the, and Black Warrior incident, 143.

Gold-fever, in California, 71; in Australia, 130, 141.

Gordon, "Chinese," 196.

Governor Davis, the, 64.

Grant, U. S., election to the presidency, 321.

Gray Nunnery, Montreal, visit to the, 87.

Greeley, Horace, nomination of, 320.

Green, E. H., in Hongkong, 182.

Greig, Colonel, entertained by, 254.

Guild, B. F., editor of Boston Commercial Bulletin, 276.

Harris, Townsend, 179.

Havelock, General, 208.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 58.

Hayes, Kate, in Melbourne, 167.

Heard, Augustine, author of The Chinese Excelsior, 193, 200.

Henry, voyage to Boston on the, 7, 16.

Herald, New York, in 1856, 221.

Hill, Rowland, English postal reformer, 108.

Hobart Town, Tasmania, visit to, 149.

Holmes, Joseph A., secure employment with, 42.

Hongkong, visits to, 182, 203.

Hooligan, finder of the "bonanza nugget," 141.

Horsemanship, 112.

Hotel scheme for London, 105.

Howe, Joseph, ex-Governor of Nova Scotia, 113.

Howitt, William and Mary, 149.

Hudson, Captain, 249.

Hudson, Frederick, 222.

Hunt, Thornton, made editor of London Morning Chronicle, 272.

Imprisonment, 314, 334.

India, visit to, 204.

Inventions, 106.

Irish immigration to America, 76.

Italy, travels in, 233.

Japan, leaves Australia for, 168, 171; trip abandoned, 200.

Java, visit to, 174.

Jerusalem, visit to, 211.

Joppa, visit to, 211.

Joshua Bates, the, 58, 72.

Kangaroos, Sidney Smith on, 169.

Keene, Laura, in Melbourne, 166.

Kennard, Thomas, and Atlantic and Great Western Railway, 243.

King, Susan B., 332.

Krakatoa, volcano of, 175.

Kremlin, at the, 255.

Lachine Rapids, shooting the, 86.

Laird, John, and the Birkenhead tramways, 261.

Lake Champlain, visit to, 88.

Lake George, visit to, 88.

Lamartine, Alphonse de, meeting with Seward, 232.

Lansdowne, Marquis of, 97.

Latrobe, Governor, 158.

Launceston, Tasmania, visit to, 151.

Lawrence, Abbott, United States Minister, 98.

Lawrence, Bigelow, marriage to Sallie Ward, 114.

Leghorn, explosion at, 233.

Lemon, Mark, 105.

Lexington, burning of the, 10, 36.

Lightning, the, 221.

Ligue du Midi, the, 305.

Li Hung Chang, meeting with, 195.

Lillo, Leon, 227; and Atlantic and Great Western Railway, 238.

Lincoln, President, and emancipation, 280.

Liverpool, take charge of business in, 79, 90; business facilities of, 94; return to, after marriage, 117; introduction of street-railways, 260.

London, visits to, 98, 104; introduction of tramways, 263.

Lyons, imprisonment at, 310.

Macao, visit to, 182.

MacDonald, Sir John A., 113.

MacFarlane, Rev. J. R., companion in the Holy Land, 211.

McGill, James, Australian outlaw, 159.

McHenry, James, 94, 108, 121, 231; and Atlantic and Great Western Railway, 237.

Mackay, Charles, author, 125.

Mackay, Donald, 72, 223.

Mackay, John W., 76.

MacMahon, Marshal, in the Crimea, 219.

Madras, visit to, 208.

Marriage, 109.

Marseilles, in the Commune, 301.

Marsh, John Alfred, 121.

Marshall, Matthew, Jr., and Atlantic and Great Western Railway, 245.

Martin, John, Irish patriot, 165.

Marvin, the hotel-keeper, 83.

Mavrockadatis, the, trip to Newfoundland on, 274.

Melbourne, Australia, begin business in, 127; in 1854, 133; public improvement in, 170.

Methodism, New England, 21, 45.

Mirage, a, 209.

Montez, Lola, in Melbourne, 167.

Montreal, visit to, 86.

Morse, Salmi, 133.

Moscow, visit to, 255.

Mount Vernon, visit to, 82.

Muñoz, Fernando, 237.

Nana Sahib, 208.

Naples, visit to, 234.

Napoleon, Emperor Louis, 272; hatred of, 226.

New Orleans, yellow fever at, 2.

New South Wales, gold-fever in, 130, 141.

New York, to sell Flying Cloud, 73; vacation in, 79.

Niagara Falls, visit to, 86, 111.

Nicholson, Sir Charles, 143.

Nijnii Novgorod, visit to, 256.

Noroton, Conn., Soldiers' Home in, 164.

O'Brien, Smith, Irish patriot, 165.

Ocean Monarch, the, 72; burning of, 59.

Omaha, development of, 294.

Opium trade, 67; English, in China, 196.

Otis, Mrs. Harrison Grey, meeting with, 84.

Outlaws, Australian, 152.

Palestine, visit to, 211.

Paris, first visit to, 224, 226.

Parker, Dr., United States Minister to China, 180.

Parliament, the, trip to Liverpool on, 90.

Paxton, Sir Joseph, meeting with, 103.

Pennock, Commander, 249.

Peto, Sir Morton, 246.

Philippines, war in the, 178.

Phillips, Wendell, and the negro, 281.

Phrenology, experiences with, 121.

Pickering, Rev. George, 1, 21.

Pickering, Judge Gilbert, 23.

Pickering, Maria, 1.

Pidgin-English, 185, 192.

Pigeon-netting, 30.

Pirates, Chinese, 182, 201.

Plymouth Rock, the, trip to Melbourne on, 127.

Point de Galle, Ceylon, visit to, 208.

Porter, Capt. David D., visits Melbourne, 143.

Portland, Ore., speech at, 297.

Presidential aspirations, 314.

Pyramids, trip to the, 209.

Railway building, in Australia, 131, 269; Atlantic and Great Western Railway, 237, 269; English street-railways, 259; Union Pacific Railway, 269, 283.

Red Jacket, the, 221; the incident at Melbourne, 138.

Rhoades, Sallie, 24.

Rianzares, Duke of, 227, 237.

Richardson, Albert D., Beyond the Mississippi, 291.

Ripley, George, 38.

Ristori, meeting with, 228.

Rome, hailed as "liberator" in uprising in, 235.

Rumford, Count, 38.

Rush, Mrs., meeting with, 84.

Russell, Lord John, meeting with, at Braemar, 92; and the Civil War, 272.

Russia, visit to, 249.

St. Petersburg, visit to, 251.

St. Petersburg, the,64.

Sala, George Augustus, 105; in America, 260.

Salamanca, José de, Spanish banker, 228; and Atlantic and Great Western Railway, 240.

San Francisco, lectures in, 296.

Saratoga, visit to, 83.

Savage Club of London, organization of the, 263.

Schenck, Robert E., 244.

Scotland, visit to, 92.

Seattle, speech in, 299.

Sebastopol, visit to, 217.

Seward, William H., in Paris, 231; and the Mavrockadatis incident, 274; in Washington, 281.

Seymour, Thomas H., Minister to Russia,251.

Shanghai, visit to, 194.

Shelley, Sir John Villiers, 268.

Sherman, John, 244.

Ships, naming of, 174.

Singapore, visit to, 179.

Slave trade, Chinese, 184, 203.

Smith, Archdeacon, meeting with, 88.

Smith, Sidney, on kangaroos, 169; prophecy in regard to Sydney, Australia, 143.

Smuggling, 67.

Smyrna, visit to, 215.

Sovereign of the Seas, the, 74, 221.

Spectator, the London, purchase of, 273.

Spence, Carroll, 217.

Spencer, Bishop of Jamaica, meeting with, 88; dinner with, in London, 98.

"Spread-Eagleism," 244.

Staffordshire, introduction of tramways in, 268.

Staffordshire, the, 74.

Stettin, visit to, 251.

Stevens, Paran, 106.

Stoddard, Captain, meeting with, 87.

Street-railways, first English, 259.

Strelna, meeting with Grand Duke Constantine at, 251.

Suez, visit to, and land trip to Cairo, 209.

Sumner, Charles, speaks in Boston on the war, 277.

Swans, black, 168.

Sydney, visit to, 143.

Tai-ping rebellion, 196.

Tasmania, visit to, 148; gold-fever in, 130, 141.

Taylor, Moses, 166.

Taylor, President, introduced to, 80.

Tea, Chinese and Russian, 191, 334.

Temperance, 47, 99.

Ten-pins, skill in, 79; in Australia, 135.

The Hague, visit to, 251.

Ticonderoga, visit to, 88.

Tilden, Samuel J., and Union Pacific Railway, 288.

Tilly, Governor, of New Brunswick, 113.

Tombs, imprisonment in the, 324.

Train, Ellen, 5.

Train, Col. Enoch, 52, 126, 223; failure of, 173.

Train, Josephine, 3.

Train, Louisa, 9.

Train, Louise, 5.

Train, Oliver, 1, 7.

Train Villa, Newport, 314.

Tramways. See Street-railways.

Trescot, Commodore, meeting with, 88.

Tucker, Beverley, consul in Liverpool, 123.

Tweed Ring, exposure of the, 32.

Unicorn, the wreck of, 118.

Union Pacific Railway, 269, 283.

Upas-tree, fable of the, 189.

Upton, George B., 223.

Verne, Jules, Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-vingts Jours, 301, 331.

Victoria, Queen, 92, 104.

Vienna, visit to, 235.

Wade, Benjamin, 244.

Wales, visit to, 101.

Waltham, Mass., homestead at, 1, 19, 21.

Ward, Frederick Townsend, in China, 196.

Ward, Alfredo, 109.

Ward, Gen. C. L., 243.

Ward, Sallie, marriage to Bigelow Lawrence, 114.

Washington, vacation trip to, 79.

Washington Irving, the, 58, 72, 144.

Webster, Daniel, letter from, 80, 87, 92; retained in the Franklin case, 63; Secretary of State, 80.

Wellington, Duke of, 100.

West Point, visit to, 82.

Whistler, Major, 255.

Willis, N. P., John Brougham on, 124.

Wilson, Henry T., 148.

Winslow, Henry A., 10.

Woodhull, Victoria C., arrest of, 323.

World tours, 331.

Young America Abroad, 93, 103, 257.

Young America in Wall Street, 125.

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Transcriber's Note:

Punctuation has been corrected without note.

page 280: "nonogenarian" changed to "nonagenarian" (who is now a nonagenarian, in his armed castle in Kentucky).