CHAPTER XXXVIII.

FIRST VISIT TO AMERICA 380

The "London Correspondents'" puff extraordinary--Welcomed on arrival in New York--The Lotos Club--O'Donovan Rossa--Financial panic--At Steinway Hall--Stephen Pearl Andrews and Mrs Victoria Woodhull: a contrast--Wendell Phillips--Charles Sumner--William Lloyd Garrison--Henry Wilson--Joshua B. Smith--An accident at Kansas City--Carlile's daughters at Chicago--Ralph Waldo Emerson--Julia Ward Howe--Dissolution of Parliament--Return to England.