A. B., information wanted concerning, 76.
Adam, eldest son of, respected, 10.
AEneas goes to hell, 101.
AEolus, a seller of money, as is supposed by some, 101.
AEschylus, a saying of, 51, _note_.
Alligator, a decent one conjectured to be, in some sort, humane, 120.
Alphonso the Sixth of Portugal, tyrannical act of, 120.
Ambrose, Saint, excellent (but rationalistic) sentiment of, 35.
"American Citizen," new compost so called, 104.
American Eagle, a source of inspiration, 45
--hitherto wrongly classed, 51
--long bill of, 51.
Amos, cited, 34.
Anakim, that they formerly existed, shown, 124.
Angels, providentially speak French, 23
--conjectured to be skilled in all tongues, _ib._
Anglo-Saxondom, its idea, what, 21.
Anglo-Saxon mask, 21.
Anglo-Saxon race, 16.
Anglo-Saxon verse, by whom carried to perfection, 11.
Antonius, a speech of, 40
--by whom best reported, _ib._
Apocalypse, beast in, magnetic to theologians, 83.
Apollo, confessed mortal by his own oracle, 83.
Apollyon, his tragedies popular, 72.
Appian, an Alexandrian, not equal to Shakspeare as an orator, 40.
Ararat, ignorance of foreign tongues is an, 53.
Arcadian background, 106.
Aristophanes, 34.
Arms, profession of, once esteemed especially that of gentlemen, 10.
Arnold, 42.
Ashland, 106.
Astor, Jacob, a rich man, 91.
Astraea, nineteenth century forsaken by, 102.
Athenians, ancient, an institution of, 41.
Atherton, Senator, envies the loon, 60.
Austin, St., profane wish of, 43, _note_.
Aye-Aye, the, an African animal, America supposed to be settled by, 25.
Babel, probably the first Congress, 53
--a gabble-mill, _ib._
Baby, a low-priced one, 98.
Bagowind, Hon. Mr., whether to be damned, 63.
Baldwin apples, 125.
Baratarias, real or imaginary, which most pleasant, 102.
Barnum, a great natural curiosity recommended to, 49.
Barrels, an inference from seeing, 125.
Baton Rouge, 106
--strange peculiarities of labourers at, 107.
Baxter, R., a saying of, 35.
Bay, Mattysqumscot, 119.
Bay State, singular effect produced on military officers by leaving
it, 21.
Beast in Apocalypse, a loadstone, for whom, 83.
Beelzebub, his rigadoon, 61.
Behmen, his letters not letters, 76.
Bellers, a saloon-keeper, 111
--inhumanly refuses credit to a presidential candidate, 112.
Biglow, Ezekiel, his letter to Hon. J. T. Buckingham, 1
--never heard of any one named Mundishes, 2
--nearly four-score years old, _ib._
--his aunt Keziah, a notable saying of, 3.
Biglow, Hosea, excited by composition, 2
--a poem by, 3, 66
--his opinion of war, 4
--wanted at home by Nancy, 7
--recommends a forcible enlistment of warlike editors, _ib._
--would not wonder, if generally agreed with, 9
--versifies letter of Mr. Sawin, 11
--a letter from, 12, 57, 77
--his opinion of Mr. Sawin, 12
--does not deny fun at Cornwallis, 14, _note_
--his idea of militia glory, 17, _note_
--a pun of, 18, _note_
--is uncertain in regard to people of Boston, _ib._
--had never heard of Mr. John P. Robinson, 27
--_aliquid sufflaminandus_, 28
--his poems attributed to a Mr. Lowell, 33
--is unskilled in Latin, _ib._
--his poetry maligned by some, 34
--his disinterestedness, _ib._
--his deep share in commonweal, _ib._
--his claim to the presidency, _ib._
--his mowing, _ib._
--resents being called Whig, 35
--opposed to tariff, _ib._
--obstinate, _ib._
--infected with peculiar notions, _ib._
--reports a speech, 40
--emulates historians of antiquity, _ib._
--his character sketched from a hostile point of view, 52
--a request of his complied with, 64
--appointed at a public meeting in Jaalam, 77
--confesses ignorance, in one minute particular, of propriety, _ib._
--his opinion of cocked hats, _ib._
--letter to, _ib._
--called "Dear Sir," by a general, _ib._
--probably receives same compliment from two hundred and nine, _ib._
--picks his apples, 125
--his crop of Baldwins conjecturally large, _ib._
Billings, Dea. Cephas, 14.
Birch, virtue of, in instilling certain of the dead languages, 100.
Bird of our country sings hosanna, 16.
Blind, to go it, 98.
Blitz pulls ribbons from his mouth, 16.
Bluenose potatoes, smell of, eagerly desired, 17.
Bobtail obtains a cardinal's hat, 25.
Bolles, Mr. Secondary, author of prize peace essay, 15
--presents sword to Lieutenant Colonel, _ib._
--a fluent orator, _ib._
--found to be in error, 17.
Bonaparte, N., a usurper, 83.
Boot-trees, productive, where, 100.
Boston, people of, supposed educated, 18, _note_.
Brahmins, navel-contemplating, 74.
Bread-trees, 100.
Brigadier-Generals in militia, devotion of, 38.
Brown, Mr., engages in an unequal contest, 63.
Browne, Sir T., a pious and wise sentiment of, cited and commended, 11.
Buckingham, Hon. J. T., editor of the Boston Courier, letters to, 1,
12, 33, 57
--not afraid, 13.
Buffalo, a plan hatched there, 115
--plaster, a prophecy in regard to, _ib._
Buncombe, in the other world supposed, 41.
Bung, the eternal, thought to be loose, 7.
Bungtown Fencibles, dinner of, 26.
Butter in Irish bogs, 100.
C., General, commended for parts, 29
--for ubiquity, _ib._
--for consistency, _ib._
--for fidelity, _ib._
--is in favour of war, _ib._
--his curious valuation of principle, _ib._
Caesar, tribute to, 66
--his _veni, vidi, vici_, censured for undue prolixity, 85.
Cainites, sect of, supposed still extant, 10.
Caleb, a monopoly of his denied, 15
--curious notions of, as to meaning of "shelter," 19
--his definition of Anglo-Saxon, 20
--charges Mexicans (not with bayonets, but) with improprieties, _ib._
Calhoun, Hon. J. C., his cow-bell curfew, light of the nineteenth
century to be extinguished at sound of, 55
--cannot let go apron-string of the Past, _ib._
--his unsuccessful tilt at Spirit of the Age, 56
--the Sir Kay of modern chivalry, _ib._
--his anchor made of a crooked pin, 57
--mentioned, 58-61.
Cambridge Platform, use discovered for, 24.
Canary Islands, 100.
Candidate, presidential, letter from, 74
--smells a rat, 78
--against a bank, 79
--takes a revolving position, _ib._
--opinion of pledges, 80
--is a periwig, _ib._
--fronts south by north, 81
--qualifications of, lessening, 85
--wooden leg (and head) useful to, 96.
Cape Cod clergymen, what, 24
--Sabbath-breakers, perhaps, reproved by, _ib._
Carpini, Father John de Plano, among the Tartars, 123.
Cartier, Jacques, commendable zeal of, 123.
Cass, General, 59
--clearness of his merit, 60
--limited popularity at "Bellers's," 111.
Castles, Spanish, comfortable accommodations in, 102.
Cato, letters of, so called, suspended _naso adunco_, 76.