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CONTENTS.--No. XIV.

Our National Finances. Robert J. Walker, 129

A Trip to Antietam. Charles W. Loring, 145

American Destiny. John Stahl Patterson, 160

The Birth of the Lily, 169

Was He Successful? Richard B. Kimball, 171

Nullification and Secession. Hon. Robert J. Walker, 179

The Sioux War. John G. Nicolay, Private Secretary

to President Lincoln, 195

"Dead!" 204

A Merchant's Story. Edmund Kirke, 206

The Consequences of the Rebellion. Hon. Frederic

P. Stanton, 223

Sunshine in Thought, 233

How they Jested in the Good Old Time. Charles G. Leland, 237

Literary Notices, 248

Editor's Table, 250

The article in this number of THE CONTINENTAL, on "Our National
Finances," by Hon. ROBERT J. WALKER, will be found worthy of especial
attention at the present time.

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Our next issue will contain a valuable article on "GOLD."

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ENTERED, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1862, by JAMES R.
GILMORE, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United
States for the Southern District of New York.

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INDEX TO VOLUME III.

A Chapter on Wonders. Perth Granton, 461

A Fancy Sketch, 482

A Heroine of To-Day, 543

A Merchant's Story. Edmund Kirke, 206, 289, 451, 528, 642

American Destiny. John Stahl Patterson, 79, 160

An Englishman in South Carolina, 110

A Trip to Antietam. Charles W. Loring, 145

A Winter in Camp. E. G. Hammond, 519

Cloud and Sunshine, 687

Consequences of the Rebellion. Hon. F. P. Stanton, 26, 223

Cost of a Trip to Europe, 730

"Dead," 204

Down in Tennessee, 469

Editor's Table, 126, 250, 379, 503, 747

Ethel. Mrs. Martha Walker Cook, 435

False Estimations, 274

Flag of our Union. Hon. R. J. Walker, 48