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Blitz, pulls ribbons from his mouth, 396.
Bluenose potatoes, smell of, eagerly desired, 396.
Bobtail obtains a cardinal's hat, 401.
Bolles, Mr. Secondary, author of prize peace essay, 396 presents sword to Lieutenant Colonel, _ib._ a fluent orator, _ib._ found to be in error, 397.
Bonaparte, N., a usurper, 431.
Boot-trees, productive, where, 441.
Boston, people of, supposed educated, 397, _note_.
Brahmins, navel-contemplating, 427.
Bread-trees, 440.
Brigadier Generals in militia, devotion of, 407.
Brown, Mr., engages in an unequal contest, 421.
Browne, Sir T., a pious and wise sentiment of, cited and commended, 394.
Buckingham, Hon. J. T., editor of the Boston Courier, letters to, 388, 394, 402, 417 not afraid, 394.
Buffalo, a plan hatched there, 448 plaster, a prophecy in regard to, _ib._
Buncombe, in the other world supposed, 408.
Bung, the eternal, thought to be loose, 391.
Bungtown Fencibles, dinner of, 401.
b.u.t.ter in Irish bogs, 440.
C.
C., General, commended for parts, 402 for ubiquity, _ib._ for consistency, _ib._ for fidelity, _ib._ is in favor of war, _ib._ his curious valuation of principle, _ib._
Caesar, tribute to, 424 his _veni, vidi, vici_, censured for undue prolixity, 432.
Cainites, sect of, supposed still extant, 393.
Caleb, a monopoly of his denied, 395 curious notions of, as to meaning of "shelter," 398 his definition of Anglo-Saxon, _ib._ 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, 416 cannot let go ap.r.o.n-string of the Past, 417 his unsuccessful tilt at Spirit of the Age, _ib._ the Sir Kay of modern chivalry, _ib._ his anchor made of a crooked pin, 417 mentioned, 417-420.
Cambridge Platform, use discovered for, 400.
Canary Islands, 441.
Candidate, presidential, letter from, 428 smells a rat, _ib._ against a bank, 429 takes a revolving position, _ib._ opinion of pledges, _ib._ is a periwig, 430 fronts south by north, _ib._ qualifications of, lessening, 432 wooden leg (and head) useful to, 439.
Cape Cod clergymen, what, 400 Sabbath-breakers, perhaps, reproved by, _ib._
Carpini, Father John de Plano, among the Tartars, 453.
Cartier, Jacques, commendable zeal of, 453.
Ca.s.s, General, 418 clearness of his merit, 419 limited popularity at "Bellers's," 446.
Castles, Spanish, comfortable accommodations in, 442.
Cato, letters of, so-called, suspended _naso adunco_, 427.
C. D., friends of, can hear of him, 427.
Chalk egg, we are proud of incubation of, 427.
Chappelow on Job, a copy of, lost, 421.
Cherubusco, news of, its effects on English royalty, 414.
Chesterfield, no letter-writer, 427.
Chief Magistrate, dancing esteemed sinful by, 400.
Children naturally speak Hebrew, 394.
China-tree, 441.
Chinese, whether they invented gunpowder before the Christian era _not_ considered, 401.
Choate, hired, 447.
Christ shuffled into Apocrypha, 401 conjectured to disapprove of slaughter and pillage, 403 condemns a certain piece of barbarism, 421.
Christianity, profession of, plebeian, whether, 393.
Christian soldiers, perhaps inconsistent, whether, 407.
Cicero, an opinion of, disputed, 432.
Cilley, Ensign, author of nefarious sentiment, 401.
_Cimex lectularius_, 397.
