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Aberdeen, 150 Aberdeen Cathedral, 85n Abou Ben Adhem, 30 Abraham, 70 Adams, 49 Adams County, 142, 170, 176, 177, 207, 218 Adams, George, 152, 153, 161 Adams, Daniel, 162n Adams, Wirt, 162n Addison, 19 Affleck, 202 Africa, 86 Agricultural & Mechanical College, 124 Alabama, 72, 113, 127, 131, 148, 151n, 152n, 168, 185 Alabama Historical Society, 157 Alabama History: Brewer's, 151n, 153 Colonial Mobile, 158n Memorial Record, 152n Picket's, 151n Alabama River, 158 Alcorn, Gov. J. L., 121, 196, 197 Alexandria, 176 Allan-Bane, 71 Allan, James Lane, 8 "Alone," a poem, 33 Alston's Lake, 163 Altamaha, 127, 128 America, 113, 125, 126 American, 17, 20, 159, 212, 219 American fiction, Library of, 66 American Historical Association, Publication of, 94n American Historical Review, 159n, 219 American Philosophical Society, 93, 95, 105, see Transaction Ames, Gov. Adelbert, 122, 189, 195, 196, 197, 198, 199 Amite River, 86, 165 Anderson, Mrs. Albert, 67 Anderson, Thomas D., 153 Animalculæ, Account of, 98 Annalen of Physics, 98 Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography, 86n Archer, Judge Stevenson, 149, 162 Archives, 94 Aristotle, 16 Arkansas River, 105 "Arlington," 216 Arthur's Home Journal, 31 Ashly, 160 Asia, 101 Astronomy, 26 Atlantic Monthly, 38, 67 "Attala," 207 Attorneys, Federal in Mississippi, 153, 154 "Auburn," 216 Augustan Age of literature, 15, 16 Austin, Mississippi, 66 Bailey, 86 Bailiff, J. S., 196 Bance River, 158 Banks, Sir Joseph, 102 Banks, Sulton, 179, 183 Bantam River, 25 Baptist, 160, 228 "Bard of the Quarters," 20 Barksdale, E., 121n, 194 Barksdale, W. R., 196, 197 Burnet, Daniel, 166 Barton, Dr. Benjamin Smith, 99 Barton, 'Squire, 65 Bartram, 91, 101, 110, 226 Baton Rouge, 86, 87, 88, 100, 211 Bayou Tunica, 162, 163 Beacon Hill, 49 Beaver Creek, 165 Beauvoir, 72 Beechers, The, 24, 25 Beers, Prof., 17 Bedford's Magazine, 75 Bell, Mrs. Helen D., 5, 201 "Bellman," The of, '76 27 Benbroke, Dr., 204 "Bench and Bar of Mississippi," 147n, 150n, 151n, 152n, 153n Benjamin, Judah P., 73 Benoist, Gabriel, 160 Benson, 77 Berkeley, Governor, 12 Bernard, Joseph, 160 Beverly Farm, 39 Bienville, 209 Big Bayou Sara, 165 Bingaman, Adam L., 217 Black Creek, 166 Bledsoe, Oscar F., 154 Blount, I. T., 196 "Blue and the Gray," The, 32, 38 Blythe, Andrew K., 154 Bogue Chito, 165, 230 Boileau, 16 Bondurant, Prof., A. L., 5, 43 Bonner, Dr. Charles, 43, 44, 45 Bonner, Ruth Martin, 45 Bonner, Samuel Wilson, 45 Bonner, Sherwood, 43-68 Borneo, 101 Boston, 48, 49, 51, 52, 56, 174 Boston Courier, 66, 67 Boston Ploughman, 47 Boundary line (31 degree), 92, 93, 111, 125, 157, 168, 212 Bourbon County, 128 Boyer, Captain John, 160 Boyd, 43 Boyd, Miss Anna W., 176 Boyd, S. S., 217 Brabston, Miss Martha B., 177 Branch, Miss Virginia, 202 Brandon, Gerard, Esq., 5, 207 Brandon, Gov. Gerard C., 210 "Brandon-Hall," 216 Breazeale, D. W., 179 "Breer Rabbit," 45 Brewer's History of Alabama, 151n, 153n Briant, John W., 170 Briggs, 107 Bristol, 21 Broome, Mrs. Dr., 202 "Brotherhood for the Diffusion of Light," 83 Brough, Prof. C. H., 3, 5, 113 Brown, Gov. A. G., 214 Browne, 107 Bruin, Judge Peter Bryan, 148, 149, 150 Bryant, W. C., 17 Buckatanne River, 158 Bunker Hill, 174 Burnet, Daniel, 179, 180 Burns, Robert, 9, 16 "Burning Casque," a poem, 37 Burr, Aaron, 151n, 214 Burruss, Rev. John C., 172, 174 Bush, 82 Butterworth, Samuel F., 153 Byron, 16, 39, 41, 70 Cable, George W., 8, 55 Calhoun, John C., 24 California, 152n, 175 Calusa, California, 152n Calvit, Thomas, 179 Campbell, Anthony, 154 Campbell, Judge David, 149, 152 Cane, Account of, 96, 97 Capen, Nahum, 47, 48 Carolinas, The, 211 Carolinians, 24, 126 Carondelet, Baron de, 159, 163 Carpet-bag government, 121, 122, 189, 192, 196 Cartwright, Dr., 217 "Case of Eliza Blelock," The, a sketch, 57 Cashell, Miss Julia, 202 Catchings T. C., 196 Catholicism, 211 Cavalier, 24 Centennial Hymn, 32 Chahta, 228, 229 Chalmers, George, 86 Chalmer, 194 Chalmette, 12 Chapman, 18 Charles I, 126 Charles II, 126 Charles III, 159 Charles IV, 159 Charleston, South Carolina, 18, 19, 204 Charlotte County, 87 Chase, C. K., 195 Chateaubriand, 207 Chattahoochee, 125, 130, 159, 167, 168 Chatterton, Thomas, 16, 17, 21 Chaucer, 9, 11 Chester, Gov. Peter, 86, 87 Chew, Miss Sarah R., 176 Chickianoce river, 159 Chickasawhay, 115, 166 Chikasa, 228, 229 Chinese History, 81 Chipola river, 167 Choctaws, see Indians. Choctaw River, 167 Choctawhatchee, 167 Chopart, 209 Christmas, 29 "Christmas Night at the Quarters," 9 Civil War, 13, 20, 118, 190 Claiborne, Wm. C. C., 179, 217 Claiborne, Col. J. F. H., 86n, 89, 91, 177, 209, 210, 215, 217, 228 Claiborne's "Mississippi as a Province, Territory and State," 86n, 87n, 88n, 89n, 147n, 148n, 150n, 151n, 152n Clarke, Doctor, 83 Clarke, Gov. Charles, 194 Clarke, Daniel, 94, 160 Clarke, Justice, 142 Clarksville, 162 Clayton, Judge A. M., 147n, 150, 153 Clinton, 195 Cloud, Parson, 212 Coenecuh, 167 Coleridge, 16, 17 Coles Creek, 214 "Colonel Dunwoddie, Millionaire," 55 Colonial Mobile, 158n, 165n Columbian Exposition, 23 Columbus, 26, 28 "Come to the South," a poem, 31 Comite, 165 Commissioner, American, 93 Commissioner, Spanish, 213 Common School Fund, 123 Companies, Land, 128, 129 Comus, Queen of, 71 "Concord," 216 Conant, 53 Confederacy, Daughter of, 69, 84 Confederacy, Taxation in, 113 Confederate currency, 120 Confederate government, 150 Confederate soldiers, 119 Confederate treasury notes, 119 Congress, 91, 105, 107, 113, 125, 129, 148, 149, 179, 183, 185, 187, 213 Congress, Library of, 86n, 87n Connecticut, 24, 36, 42 Constitutional Conventions, 118n, 120, 121n, 214 Cook, Rev. Valentine, 174 Cosby, Miss Martha, 176 Corn-finding Myth of the Choctaws, 230, 231 "Cotter's Saturday Night," a poem, 9 Cotton bale, 88, 111 Cotton culture, 88 Cotton press, 88, 89, 111 Cotton-seed oil, 89 Cotton tree, account of, 96 County indigent fund, 119 "Coventry," 216 Covington, Alexander, 170 Dabney, Thomas, 45 Darlings' Creek, 165 "David Copperfield," 11 Davis, 160 Davis, Fielding, 155 Davis, Jefferson, 72, 75, 153n, 190, 214 Davis, Mrs. Jefferson, 69n, 70, 71, 75, 81 Davis, Mrs. M. E. M., 12 Davis, "Miss Winnie," 69-84 Dearborn, 106, 107 Debtor's prison, 136 Decameron, 51 Delaware, 151 Demarcation, Line of, 92, 93, 95n, 111, 125 Democrat, 29 Democratic Campaign of 1875 in Mississippi, 194, 195 Democratic Party, 202, 216 Derblay, Philippe, 78 "De Soto and his Men in the Land of Florida," 12 De Soto's expedition, 224, 225, 226 "Devereux," 216 "Devil's Punch Bowls," 208 Dexter, Colonel, 64 "Dialect Tales," 57n Dickens, 11, 19, 39 Dinsmore, 107 Dickson, Samuel W., 154 Direct Taxes, 120 District of Columbia, 160 Dixon, Roger, 160 Dodo, 77 Dolland, 161 Doric, 10 Dow, Lorenzo, 214 Drake, Rev. B. M., 172 Drake, Mrs. B. M., 177 Dryden, 15, 16 "Dukesborough Tales," 10 Dunbar family, 85n Dunbar, Sir Archibald 85 Dunbar, Sir William, 85-111, 161, 162, 163, 165, 180, 183, 213, 216 Dubuisson, C. S., 201, 204 Duncan, Dr., 217 Dupratz, 96, 225 Durale, Martin, 102 "Dying Year," The, a poem, 35 East Florida, 128 Education in Mississippi, 179, 180 Education, Female, in Mississippi, 169, 170, 177 "Egean," The, a poem, 27 Eggleston, 56 Egypt, 56, 102 Elizabeth Female Academy, 169-178, 214 Elgin Cathedral, 85 Ellicott, Andrew, 93, 94, 95-98, 159, 163, 165-168, 212, 214 Ellicott's Journal, 93, 94n, 159n, 160, 161, 165n Ellicott's Springs, 183, 214 Ellis, John, 179, 180 Ellis, Roger, 44, 64 Ellis, Powhatan, 152 Elmscourt, 216 Elvas, Knight of, 225 Ely, Prof., 118 Emancipation in Mississippi, Law regulating, 141 Emerald Mound, 203, 204, 207 Emerson, 10, 47, 49 Emmet, Robert, 74 England, 8, 9, 17, 18, 75, 113, 126, 136, 148, 151n, 159, 215 English, The, 16, 19, 70, 210, 212 English poetry, 13, 16, 17 English Romantic Movement, 21 Epidemic, yellow fever, 39 Episcopal clergyman, 26, 30, 212 Escambia River, 167 "Essay on Self-Reliance," 10 Europe, 56, 98, 103, 144 Eurycleia, 57 Evacuation of Natchez by the Spaniards, 160, 213, 214 Everett, Alexander, 96 Exemption from taxation, 119, 120 "Experiment in Chinese Money," An, 81 Exposition, at New Orleans, 71 "Exposition on one of the Commandments," An, 47 Farrar, Thomas, 204 Featherston, Gen. W. S., 190, 193, 194, 196, 197 "Federal Courts, Judges, Attorneys and Marshals in Mississippi," 147, 155 Ferrell, Prof. C. C., 5, 69 Ferrer, Jose Joaquin de, 98 Fewell, John W., 196 Fielding, 19 "Fight of Coilantogle Ford," 71 Fisk, Alvarez, 217 Fiske, Dr. Wilbur, 174 Fitts, Judge Oliver, 149, 152 Fitts, James Harris, 152n Fitz, Gideon, 152n Fletcher, Thomas, 155, 204 Flint River, 167 Florida, 131, 161, 167, 168 Floridas, 211 "Flowers of the South," A, 47 "Flush Times," 43 Folsom, Rev. Peter, 228 "Forest," The, 88, 98, 100, 109, 110, 216 "Forge Master," The, 77 Foreman, Miss Sarah M., 176 Forshey, Prof., 204 Fort Adams, 107 Fort Confederation, 158 Fort Panmure, see Panmure. Fort Rosalie, see Rosalie. Fort St. Stephens, 158 Fort Sumpter, 191 Foster, James, 183 Foster, John, 183 Fox, John, Jr., 8, 12 Fox, Miss Eliza A., 176 France, 51, 128, 131 Frank Leslie's Journal, 47 Frazee, Rev. Bradford, 172 Freedman's' Savings Bank, 122 Freedman, John D., 152n French, 9, 16, 71, 90, 209 French and Indian War, 127, 210 French Revolution, 11, 159 Fretwell, Miss May A., 176 "From '60 to '65," 56 "Frosted Pane," The, a poem, 38 Fulton, Chancellor R. B., 3 Gaillard, Isaac, 160 Gaines, Richard M., 153, 154 Galileo, 104 Galloway, Bishop Charles B., 5, 169 Galvez, 87, 158, 211 Garcilaso de la Vega, 226 Garrison, William Lloyd, 49 Gayoso, Governor, 91, 92n, 159, 160, 162, 163, 166, 212, 213, 216 George II, 126 George III, 128 George, Sen. J. Z., 190, 194 Georgia, 72, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 151, 152, 160, 211, 213 "Georgia Scenes," 10 Goethe, 16, 78 German, 50, 98 Germany, 71, 75 "Gettysburg" a poem, 32, 33 Gholson, Judge Samuel J., 150, 153 Gibson, Randall, 183 Gilbert's "Annalen of Physics," 98 Gillespie, David, 160, 161, 162, 165, 166, 167 Gilmer's Georgians, 151n Glasgow, 86 "Glimpses of the Past," 201-206 "Globe Trotter," The, 82 "Gloster," 216 Godoy, 159 Goodspeed's Memoirs of Mississippi, 147n, 151n, 152n, 153n Gordon, General, 72 Gothic, 10, 45 Govan, Hon. George M., 196 Government aid to science, 104, 105, 107 Graham, Samuel, 184 "Gran' Mammy Stories," 51, 55, 57, 62 Grant, Gen. U. S., 195, 198 "Grave of Hale," The, a poem, 27 Gray, 17 Grayson, Beverly R., 170, 171 Great Britain, 125, 126, 128, 131, 157, 158, 211 Greece, 18 "Greece," a poem, 27 Greek tragedy, 81 Greeks, The, 13, 16 "Green-field," 216 Green, Abner, 160, 179 Green, Mrs. Geo. F., 92n, 105n Green, Mrs. Sallie B. Morgan, 152n Green, Thomas, 160 Greenwich, 100 Greenville, in Jefferson county, 183 Grenada, 39, 52 Griffith, Richard, 155 Griffith, William B., 153 Grosse Point, 158 Grub Street, 47 Guion, John I., 217 Gulf Coast, Storms of the, 100 Guthrie, 82 Gwin, William M., 154 Haddley, 166 Hadley, Mrs. T. B. J., 202 Halbert, H. S., 5, 223 Halbrook, Major, 187 Hale, E. E., 108 "Hale," The Grave of, a poem, 27 Hall, J. G., 196 Hamburg, 217 Hamilton, Peter J., 5, 157 Hamlet, 75 Hanes, John, 154 Harding, Lyman, 214, 217 Harpel, 52, 38 Harper's Library of American Fiction, 66 Harper's Monthly, 56, 62, 67 Harper's Weekly, 53 Harris, Horatio J., 154 Harris, Joel Chandler, 8, 20 Harris, Wiley P., 190, 193 Hart, Albert Bushnell, 90n, 219 Harte, Bret, 11 Hatchatigbee Bluff, 158 Havana, 212 Hawkins, Colonel, 167 Hawthorne, 47, 77 Hayne, Paul H., 18, 66 "Heart of the War," The, a poem, 38 Heath, Sir Robert, 126 Hemans, Mrs., 215 Henry, Jack, 228 Herndon, Blythe, 44, 64 Herndon, Mrs., 64 Herschel, Sir William, 91 Hewett, Miss Mary C., 176 "Hieronymus Pop and the Baby," a sketch, 57 Hill, Judge R. A., 153 "Historic Adams County," 207-218 "Historical Element in Recent Southern Literature," 7-14 Historical Material, Classification of, 219 Historical novels, 7, 8, 11 "Historical Opportunity of Mississippi," The, 219, 222 "History of Democracy," 47 History of Mississippi, 13, see also Mississippi History. Hitchcock, Dr., 204 Hocket, 160 Holland, J. G., 39 Holly Springs, 45, 47, 48, 52, 124, 193 Holmes, David, 171 Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 39, 49 Homer, 13, 18 Hong Kong, 82, 83 Hooks, Dr., 100 Hopahkitubbe, 229 Hooper, Parson, 77 "Hope," Lines on, 30 Horace, 16, 78 "Horse-Shoe Robinson," 11 Hot Springs, Account of, 106, 111 Houston, Felix, 153 Howe, W. W., 152n Huddleston, G. B., 196 Huguenot, 24 Hunt, Fidelis S., 155 Hunter, 86, 91 Hughes, Felix, 179 Hutchins, Anthony, 160, 179, 217 Huston, Gen. Felix, 215 "Hymns to the Gods," 9 Iberville, 208, 209 "Idylls of the King," The, 41 "If Tongues Were Steel," a poem, 34 Ilaishtubbee, 230 Iliad, 30 Illinois, 56, 151n Impeachment of Gov. Ames, 197-199 Indians, 56 Indians, Chickasaw, 229 Choctaw, 157, 164, 223 Choctaw-Muscogee, 226, 233 Creek, 160, 164, 167 Natchez, 205, 208-210 Osage, 105 Indian language of signs, 99 Indian titles to land, 130 Indian trade, 86 Indigo culture, 88, 216 Industrial Institute and College, 124 Inge, Dr., 204 "Inglewood," 216 Ingraham, Rev. J. H., 215 "In Memoriam," a poem, 30 Inoculation, 101 Ireland, 43, 74, 176 Irish, 212, 228 "Irish Knight of the Nineteenth Century," 74 Irving, Washington, 47 Isabel, 76, 78 Italy, 9, 47 Italian, 9 Jackson, Gen. Andrew, 215 Jackson, Gen. "Stonewall," 12 Jackson, Mississippi, 149, 177, 193, 194, 196-198, 202, 216 Jamaica, 86 James I, 75 Jay's treaty, 159 Jefferson College, 91, 179-188, 214, 215 Jefferson County, 183, 213 Jefferson, Thomas, 12, 90, 91, 94, 95, 99, 100-106, 108, 109 Jenkins, Dr., 217 Jenkins, Major William Dunbar, 85n, 93n Johnson, 19 Johnson, Henry G., 154 Johnston, Colonel Richard Malcolm, 10 Johnston, Colonel William Preston, 18, 75 Johnston, Miss Mary, 12 Jones, Judge Obadiah, 148, 149, 151, 152 Jones, Prof. R. W., 3, 5, 219 Jordan, Charles R., 155 Judges of Mississippi, Federal: Territorial, 150-152 Federal District, 152, 153 Confederate District, 153 Justice, Department of, 147n "Just Twenty-Two," a poem, 36, 37 Kansas, 82 Karlsruhe, 71 "Katie Did," a poem, 36, 37 Kavanaugh, Bishop H. H., 175 Kavanaugh, Mrs. H. H., 177 Keats, 17 Keavy, Mrs. Ellen V., 176 Kempe, Colonel James, 74 Kennedy, John Pendleton, 7, 18 "Kentuckians," The, 12 Kentucky, 88, 151, 172, 174, 185, 228 Kerr, Judge David, 148, 149, 151, 179, 180 Kimball, Frederick, 160 Kimbrough, Judge B. T., 3 Kincannon, Andrew A., 154 King, Miss Grace, 8, 12 King, Justice, 160 King, Miss Laura J. A., 177 Kingswood, 172 Kirby, Ephraim, 151 Kirk, Dr. William, 67 Kosciusko, 153 "Lake of the Golden Isle," The, a poem, 36 Lamar, Senator L. Q. C., 50, 190, 191, 194 "Lame Gerry," 57 Lanier, Sidney, 8, 19 Lane, Rev. John, 174 Lane, Mrs. John, 177 Latrobe, Benj. Henry, 99 Lattimore, David, 179, 183 "Laura Capello," 47, 51 La Vega, 225 Laws of marriage among the Choctaws, 230 Leaf River, 166 Leake, Judge Walter, 49, 152, 154 Lee, Gen. Robert E., 7, 73 Lee, Gen. S. D., 3 Leflore, Col. Greenwood, 233 Legare, 18 "Legend of Good Women," 11 Leipzig, 98 Lester, George H., 196 Lewis, Chief Justice Seth, 148, 149, 161 Ligon, Woodson L., 156 "Like Unto Like," a novel, 43, 53, 56, 56, 63-66 Lintot, Bernard, 160 Lippincott's Magazine, 56n, 67 Lipscomb, Prof. Dabney, 5, 23 Litchfield, 24 Literature, 13, 15-20, 26 Little Bayou Sara, 164, 165 Little River, 209 "Llangollin," 216 Local taxation, 114, 115, 118 London, 21, 86, 95, 100, 107, 161, 162 "Longed-for Valentine," A, 54 Longfellow, 47, 48, 51, 55, 63, 65 Longstreet, A. B., 7, 10 "Longwood," 216 "Look Up," a poem, 34 Lottery, 183, 184 Louisiana, 86, 91, 98, 100, 102, 111, 125, 131, 168, 175, 176, 202, 206, 215, 217 Louisiana, University of, 207 Louisiana History, see Martin. Louisville, 172 Lovejoy, Flavius J., 154 Lowell, 17, 18, 47 Lowry, Gov. Robert, 190, 194 Lowry and McCardle's History of Mississippi, 113n, 121n, 152n Lyceum, 201 Lynch, James D., 23, 147n, 150, 151n, 152n, 153n M'Allister, 185, 186 McCaleb, Miss Mary, 202 McClelland, 65 McClung, A. K., 28, 154 McClure, 81 McDowell, Edward, 47 McDowell, Miss Lillian, 51, 56 McDowell, Mrs. David, 45 McGuire, Chief Justice Wm., 148, 149, 151 "McMahon at Sedan," a poem, 33 McMaster, 128n, 129n, 130n, 131n McMurran, John T., 217 McQuiston, William, 155 Macaulay, 19 Mackay, Charles, 25 Macon, 23, 28, 30 Macon Beacon, 27, 29, 41 Madison County, Alabama, 148, 151n, 152n Madrid, 96, 211 Maffett, Rev. J. N., 204 Magruder, Miss Eliza, 202 Magnolia tree, Account of, 87 Maiblume, 81 Malay Peninsular, 82 Malcolm, Ralstone, 82 Mallory, Stephen R., 73 Mammoth Bayou, 207 Manschack, 87 Marcella, 77 Marschalk, Andrew, 217 Martin's History of Louisiana, 151n, 152n "Marse Chan," 8 Marshall, Mrs. C. K., 177 Marshals, Federal in Mississippi, 154, 155 Martin, X. F., 149, 152 Maryland, 152 "Master Thought," The, a poem, 33 Matthews, Judge George, 149, 151 Maubila, 225 Mayes, Prof. Edward, 177 Mead, Cowles, 217 Mellen, Rev. T. L., 178 "Melrose," 216 Memoirs of Mississippi, see Goodspeed. "Memory," A, a poem, 33 Memphis Avalanche, 49 Menifee, John, 170 Meridian, 150 Merwin, Dr., 204 Metcalfe, Bela, 153 Meteorological Observations, 99, 100, 103, 111 Methodism in Mississippi, Early, 169, 170 Methodist Church, 202, 214 Microscopic examination of water, 98 Migration legend of the Choctaws, 227-229 Miller, Anderson, 155 "Minister's Black Veil," The, 77 Minor, Capt. Stephen, 213 Minor, Capt., 161, 163 Miro, Vov., 159 Missionary Herald, 227 Mississippi Agricultural-Horticultural etc., Society, 212 Mississippi City, 156 Mississippi, Female education in, 165 et seq. Mississippi Historical Society, 13, 94n, 157, 201, 219, 220 Mississippi History, see Lowry and McCardle Goodspeed Claiborne Barksdale Lynch Mississippi Historical Society Mississippi, Newspapers and Periodicals of, see Mississippi State Gazette Macon Beacon Natchez Democrat Philadelphia Courier Southern Galaxy University Magazine Mississippi Philosophical & Historical Society, 201 Mississippi Railroad, 217 Mississippi River, 12, 86-88, 94, 96, 100, 102, 108, 111, 115, 125, 128, 158, 159, 162, 163, 164, 167, 168, 209, 210, 211 Mississippi Society, The, 107, 108, 215 Mississippi State Gazette, 171 Mississippi Valley, The, 90, 111, 207 Missouri, 126 "Miss Willard's Two Rings," a story, 56 Mitchell, Dr., 204 Mobile, 26, 87, 157, 161, 166, 167 Mobile Bay, 158, 167 Mobile River, 164, 168 Monette, Dr. J. W., 177, 204, 209, 210, 215 Money, Sen. H. D., 194 "Monmouth," 216 "Manteigne," 216 Montgomery, Alexander, 179 Morayshire, 85 Morrison, J. K., 5, 179 Muldrow, A. L., 196, 197 Murder of Slaves in Mississippi, 143, 144 Murfree, Miss, 8, 12, 56 Murrel, 213 "Nanih Waiya, the Sacred Mound of the Choctaws," 223-232 Natchez, 74, 86, 87, 88, 91, 92n, 101, 102, 106, 109, 110, 115, 133, 149, 157, 158, 162, 163, 165, 169, 171, 174, 176, 184, 185, 187, 201, 203, 204, 207, 208, 209, 210, 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, 217 Natchez Indians, see Indians. Natchez Drug Company, 212 Natchez and Nashville Trace, 213 Natchez Democrat, 86n, 89n, 91n, 96n, 107n "Nebulae," a poem, 34 Negro dialect, 9, 20, 21 Negro Education, 138 Negro Rule in Mississippi, 189-200 Negro Suffrage, 191, 192, 195 "Neophyte," The, a poem, 37 Neshoba County, 223 Nevett, Miss Matilda J., 177 New Hampshire, 150 New Jersey, 152 Newman, Miss, 202 Newman, Miss Maria L., 176 Newman, Miss Catharine O., 176 New Orleans, 74, 90, 92n, 94n, 107, 161, 163, 165, 166, 209, 213, 215, 217 New Orleans Times-Democrat, 41, 74 New Richmond, 86 Newton, Sir Isaac, 97, 104 New York, 21, 26, 160 "Night Storm," The, a poem, 35 Niles, Judge H. C., 153 Nolan, Philip, 108, 109 North Carolina, 127, 152 North West Ordinance, 134, 142, 147, 180 Norton, Charles M., 154 Norton, John H., 154 Nugent, Col. W. L., 177, 193 "Oakland," 216 Oglethorpe, Mrs., 64 Ohio, 86 Ohio River, 159 Ohnet, Georges, 77 Okitibbeha County, 228 "On the Nine-Mile," a dialect story, 56 Opelousas, 102 Orleans Territory, 151n, 152 Orr, Jehu A., 154 Osmun, Benijah, 214 Owen, Thomas McAdory, 5, 147 Oxford, 124, 150, 152n, 153 Pachaha, 225 Page, Bettie, 64 Page, Thomas Nelson, 8, 12, 20, 55 "Pangnostics," 74 Panmure, 210, 211, 212 Pascagoula River, 158 Patterson, Miss Mary J., 176 Peabody, George, 38 Pea River, 167 Pearl River, 131, 165, 229 Pennsylvania, 43, 75, 160 Pensacola, 86, 161, 167 Percy, W. A., 196, 197 Perdido River, 131 Permanent Committee, 160 Peyton, 198 "Phantom Train," The, a poem, 37, 38 Philadelphia, 86, 87, 94, 95, 110 Philadelphia Courier, 27, 28, 41 Phillips, Wendell, 49, 50 Philosophical Magazine, 100 Philosophical Society, American, 93, 95, 98 Pickering County, 213 Pickett's Alabama, 151n "Pillar of Fire," 215 Pittsburg, 86 Pinckney, Thomas, 159 Pinckneyville, La., 176 Poe, E. A., 18, 19, 37, 41 "Poems of Places, Southern States," 48 "Poets' Homes," 48 Poindexter, Gov. Geo., 149, 152, 190, 217 Pontotoc, 149, 150 Port Gibson, 21, 176 Posey, Carnot, 154 Postlethwaite, 212 Power, Col. J. L., 118n Powers, 121 Prentice, George D., 7 Prentiss County, 196 Prentiss, S. S., 43, 191, 203, 215, 216 "Press Poem," The, 23 Price, Nathaniel S., 154 Priestly, Dr. Joseph, 99 "Printerdom," Poets and Poetry of, 25, 38 "Prisoners of Hope," The, 11, 12 Protestants, 212 Protestantism, Jones' Introduction of, 159n Pryor, 199 Quitman, Gov. John A., 217 Rainbow, Account of, 97, 98 Ramsden, 161 Randolph, Peter, 152 Rankin, Christopher, 217 Rawling, Miss, 202 Rawling, Daniel, 170 Rayburn, John, 155 Reconstruction, 113, 120, 121n, 123 Redding, Wyatt M., 39, 40 Red River, 105, 106 "Red Rock," 12, 55 Reed, Thomas B., 217 Reese, Dr. Edwin, 184 Republican Party, 29, 196 "Revolution in the Life of Mrs. Balingall," a story, 56 Reynolds, R. O., 196 Rhode Island, 75 Richardson, Miss Martha D., 175, 176 Richmond, Va., 69, 72 "Ride of the Ku-Klux," a poem, 38 Riley, Prof. F. L., 1, 3, 5, 85 "Ring and the Book," a poem, 41 Rittenhouse, 91, 161 Roach, Mrs. Elizabeth, 170 Roberts, Miss Mary E., 177 Robertson, Miss Susan C., 176 Rodney, Judge Thomas, 151, 215 "Rodolph," 9 "Romance of Summer Seas," 81, 82 Romanticism, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 21 Rosalie, Fort, 209, 210 "Rosine's Story," 52 Ross, Clinton, 12 Ross, John, 86, 88, 89 Rowland, Dunbar, Esq., 5, 189 Roy, Mrs., 65 Royal Society, 102 "Running Mississippi's South Line," 157-168 Russell, Irwin, 7, 9, 10, 15, 22, 201 Sanderson, Mrs. Jane B., 171 Sargent, Winthrop, 113, 115, 165, 213, 216 Savannah River, 127, 128 Scott, Miss Charlotte C., 176 Scott, Miss Mary, 176 Scott, Sir Walter, 10, 16, 18, 19, 24, 41 Scribner's Monthly, 198n Secession, Ordinance of, 118 Second Creek, 208, 209 "Selma," 216 Selsertown, 183, 203, 204, 207 "Serpent Myths," 75 Shakespeare, 15, 39, 71 Shands, G. D., 196 Sharkey, Gov., 120 Shaw, 160 Shields, Joseph D., 202, 217 Shields, Judge W. B., 152, 217 Shields, Mrs., 202 Simms, William Gilmore, 8, 18, 19 Simpson, Judge Josiah, 149, 152 Simrall, Judge H. F., 198 Singleton, O. R., 194 "Sister Weeden's Prayer," a dialect story, 56 Spight, Thomas, 196, 197 Stanton, Miss E. B., 214 Slave Laws, 133-145 Slavery in the South, 13, 20, 215 Smith, Prof. C. Alphonso, 5, 7 Smith, Miss Emily, 176 Smith, Philander, 160 Smith, Rev. R. D., 172 Smith, Rev. R. F. N., 186 Smith, Sidney, 17, 19 Smith, Miss Susan, 176 Smollet, 19 Smylie, Rev. Jas., 184 "Somerset," 216 "Sorrows of Werther," 78 South Carolina, 125, 126, 127, 128, 130, 205 Southern Galaxy, 174, 175 Southern History, 8, 12 Southern Literature, 7, 8, 9, 12, 15, 17, 18, 19, 42 "Southern Literature," Historical Element in, 7-14 Southern Railway, 166 Southern Romantic Movement, 10, 12, 21 "South Wind," The, a poem, 35 Spain, 95n, 127, 131, 159, 211, 217 Spanish architecture, 169, 212 Spanish conquest of West Florida, 87, 211 Spanish provinces, 98, 211 Spanish rule in West Florida, 91, 211, 212 St. Catharine Creek, 208, 210, 214 St. Mary's, 128, 157, 167, 168 "St. Nicotine, a Christmas Phantasy," a poem, 36 St. Stephens, 157, 158, 166 State, Department of, 90n, 91n, 94, 147n Starkey, Edwina, 83 Stephens, Alexander H., 73 Stevenson, Robert L., 52 Stewart, D., 171 Stiles, Chilion F., 171, 172 Stone, Alfred H., 5, 133 Stone, Gov. J. M., 190, 196, 199 "Story of Old Fort Loudon," 12 Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 8, 25 Street, H. M., 196 Stuart, James, 160 Stuart, Ruth McEnery, 8 "Suicide Club," The, 52 Survey of the 31 degree, 92, 93 "Suwanee River Tales," 56, 57n "Sweet-Auburn," 216 Taggert, Patrick, 161 Tanchipahoe, 165 "Tar Baby Story," 56 "Taxation in Mississippi," History of, 113-124, 193 Taxpayers' Convention, 193 Tennessee, 12, 56, 151, 152, 215 "Territorial Growth of Mississippi," 125-132 Texas, 12, 48 Thatcher, Judge, 204 Thayer, Mrs. Caroline M., 174, 175, 177 Thomas, Rev. J. P., 172 Thompson, R. H., 196 Thompson's Creek, 165, 166 Throckmorton, Mordecai, 183 Ticfaw, 165 Tilton, Judge Daniel, 148, 149, 150 Timrod, 18, 19 Tison, William H. H., 158 Tobacco culture, 88 Tombigbee River, 115, 128, 157, 158, 185, 229 Toulmin, Judge Harry, 148, 151 Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 93, 98, 99, 100-104, 163 Transactions of the Royal Society, 102 Traughton, 162 Trist, Mrs., 90 Tucker, Gov. T. M., 203 Tucker, W. F., 196, 197 Tugaloo, 124 Turner, Edward, 171, 217 Tuscaloosa, Ala., 152n "Two Storms," a story, 56, 62-63 Tyler, Rev. Charles, 204 "Unconventional Experiment," 82 "Under Two Flags," a poem, 32 Union and Planters' Bank, 203 Union Hill, 93, 103 United States, 90, 91, 95, 107, 226-131, 159, 169, 195, 211-213 University of Mississippi, 75, 124, 152n University of Mississippi Magazine, 75n "Valcours," The, a novelette, 56 Van Court, Rev., 204 Van Hosen, J. A., 204 Vaughan, John, 101, 104, 105 "Veiled Doctor," The, 75-78 Vick, Miss Emily, 176 Vicksburg, 150, 176, 195, 203 "Victory of Peace," The, a poem, 32 Vidal, Joseph, 217 Virginia, 126, 143, 151, 152, 172 "Volcano Interlude," a story, 56 "Voyage to the Moon," 9 Wailes, B. S. C., 202, 204, 207, 215 Walcott, Miss Charlotte, 176 Walker, Duncan S., 175 Walker, Robert J., 191, 217 Walker, Robert L., 177 Walnut Hill, (Vicksburg), 158 Walthall, Sen. E. C., 190, 194 Ward family, 24-25 Ward, Henry, 25 Ward, William, 23-42 Warner, Chas. Dudley, 73, 74 Warren, Gen., 174 Warton, Joseph, 17 Washington Academy, 184 Washington City, 94n, 122, 160, 161, 195, 197 Washington County, Ala., 148 Washington, District of, 148, 151n, 153n, 154n Washington, Mississippi, 134, 169, 171, 175, 176, 177, 183, 186, 201, 202, 214, 215 Washita, La., 175, 176 Washita River, 106, 209 Watts, Theodore, 17 Weber, Prof. W. L., 3, 5, 15 Weir, Adolphus G., 154 West, Cato, 160, 179, 180, 183 West Florida, 86, 87, 91, 128, 131, 157, 158, 211 West, Mrs. Sarah, 202 West Point, 23 Whiffen, Miss E. A., 28 Whig Party, 196, 202 Whipping-post, 136, 137 White Apple Village, 209 White Cedar Creek, 167 White, Prof. J. M., 3, 5, 125 Wickford, 75-78 Wilde, Richard Henry, 9 Wilkinson County, 176 Wilkinson General, 109, 160, 165 Williamson, Miss Mary, 44 Williams, Robert, 152n Willing, Capt. James, 87, 211 Willing's Bayou, 162 Williston, E. B., 187 Wilson, Alexander, 109, 110 Winans, Dr. William, 171, 174 "Windy Hill" Plantation, 214 Winn, Mrs. A. D., 202 Winn, Maj. J. T., 204 Winston County, 223, 227 "Wire Cutters," The, 12 Wistar, Dr., 95 Witnesses, Slaves as, 140, 141 "World," The, a story, 81 Wright, Gov., 128 Wright, Rev. Alfred, 227 Yale College, 24 Yariba, 64, 65 Yazoo City, 195 Yazoo Land Companies, 128, 130 Yazoo River, 125, 152, 211 Yellow fever, 39, 52, 53 Yokohama, 82