Latimer, Bishop, episcopizes Satan, 185.
Latin tongue, curious information con-
cerning, 192.

Launcelot, Sir, a trusser of giants for-
merly, perhaps would find less sport
therein now, 201.

Laura, exploited, 313.
Learning, three-story, 299.
Letcher, de la vieille roche, 279.
Letcherus, nebulo, 309.

Letters classed, 209- their shape, 207
- of candidates, 208- often fatal,

209.

Lettres Cabalistiques, quoted, 264.
Lewis Philip, a scourger of young na-
tive Americans, 199-commiserated
(though not deserving it), ib. note.
Lexington, 267.

Liberator, a newspaper, condemned by
implication, 193.

Liberty, unwholesome for men of cer-
tain complexions, 204:

Licking, when constitutional, 282.
Lignum vitæ, a gift of this valuable
wood proposed, 189.

Lincoln, too shrewd to hang Mason
and Slidell, 288.

Literature, Southern, its abundance,
280.

Little Big Boosy River, 260.

Longinus recommends swearing, 186
note (Fuseli did same thing).
Long sweetening recommended, 211.
Lord, inexpensive way of lending to,
258.

Lords, Southern, prove pur sang by
ablution, 279.

Lost arts, one sorrowfully added to list
of, 221.

Louis the Eleventh of France, some
odd trees of his, 214.

Lowell, Mr. J. R., unaccountable si-
lence of, 192.

Luther, Martin, his first appearance as
Europa, 188.
Lyæus, 310.

Lyttelton, Lord, his letters an imposi-
tion, 207.

M.

Macrobii, their diplomacy, 209.
Magoffin, a name naturally noble, 279.

Mahomet, got nearer Sinai than some,

204.

Mahound, his filthy gobbets, 189.
Mandeville, Sir John, quoted, 264.
Maugum, Mr., speaks to the point, 201
Manichæan, excellently confuted, 200.
Man-trees, grew where, 214.
Maori chieftains, 264.

Mapes, Walter, quoted, 265 - para,
phrased, ib.

Mares'-nests, finders of, benevolent,
206.

Marius, quoted, 276.
Marshfield, 216, 218.

Martin, Mr. Sawin used to vote for
him, 219.

Mason and Dixon's line, slaves north
of, 201.

Mason an F. F. V., 288.

Mason and Slidell, how they might
have been made at once useful and
ornamental, 288.

Mass, the, its duty defined, 201.
Massachusetts on her knees, 185-
something mentioned in connection
with, worthy the attention of tailors,
196 citizen of, baked, boiled, aud
roasted (nefandum !), 212.
Masses, the, used as butter by some,

197.

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Maury, an intellectual giant, twin birth
with Simms (which see), 280.
Mayday a humbug, 297.

M. C., an invertebrate animal, 198.
Me, Mister, a queer creature, 299.
Mechanics' Fair, reflections suggested

at, 210.

Medium, ardentispirituale, 308.
Mediums, spiritual, dreadful liars, 301.
Memminger, old, 259.

Mentor, letters of, dreary, 207.
Mephistopheles at a nonplus, 203.
Mexican blood, its effect in raising
price of cloth, 215.
Mexican polka, 189.

Mexicans charged with various breach-
es of etiquette, 188-kind feelings
beaten into them, 205.

Mexico, no glory in overcoming, 196.
Middleton, Thomas, quoted, 276.
Military glory spoken disrespectfully
of, 187, note-militia treated still
worse, ib.

Milk-trees, growing still, 214.

Mill, Stuart, his low ideas, 287.
Millenniums, apt to miscarry, 306.
Millspring, 287.

Mills for manufacturing gabble, how
driven, 200.

Mills, Josiah's, 299.

Milton, an unconscious plagiary, 195,
note a Latin verse of, cited, 204
an English poet, 290 — his Hymn
of the Nativity," 303.
Missionaries, uset 1 to alligators, 256
- culinary liabilities of, 278.
Missions, a profitable kind of, 204.
Monarch, a pagan, probably not favored

in philosophical experiments, 186.
Money-trees, desirable, 214 - that they
once existed shown to be variously
probable, ib.

Montaigne, a communicative old Gas-

Naboths, Popish ones, how distin-
guished, 189.
Nana Sahib, 264.

Nancy, presumably Mrs. Biglow, 266.
Napoleon III., his new chairs, 285.
Nation, rights of, proportionate to size,
188-young, its first needs, 286.
National pudding, its effect on the or-
gans of speech, a curious physiologi-
cal fact, 190.

Negroes, their double usefulness, 259
-getting too current, 286.
Nephelim, not yet extinct, 221.
New England overpoweringly honored,
198 wants no more speakers, ib.-

done brown by whom, ib. - her exp
rience in beans beyond Cicero's, 200
Newspaper, the, wonderiul, 205-
strolling theatre, ib. - thoughts sug
gested by tearing wrapper of, 206 -
a vacant sheet, ib. a sheet in which
a vision was let down, ib.
-wrappe
to a bar of soap, ib. - a cheap im-
promptu platter, ib.

New World, apostrophe to, 272.
New York, letters from, commended,
207.

Next life, what, 204.

Nicotiana Tabacum, a weed, 290.
Niggers, 184 -area of abusing extend-
ed, 196- Mr. Sawin's opinions of,

Parliamentum Indoctorum sitting in
permanence, 194.

Past, the, a good nurse, 201.
Patience, sister, quoted, 187.
Patriarchs, the, illiterate, 261.
Patricius, brogipotens, 308.

Paynims, their throats propagandisti-
cally cut, 189.

Penelope, her wise choice, 192.
People, soft enough, 205- want cor-
rect ideas, 213-the, decline to be
Mexicanized, 292.
Pepin, King, 207.

Pepperell, General, quoted, 266.
Pequash Junction, 314.
Periwig, 208.

Perley, Mr. Asaph, has charge of bass-
viol, 274.

Perseus, King, his avarice, 266.
Persius, a pithy saying of, 197, note.
Pescara, Marquis, saying of, 185.
Peter, Saint, a letter of (post-mortem),

295.

Phlegyas quoted, 203.

Phrygian language, whether Adam
spoke it, 186.

Pickens, a Norman name, 279.
Pilcoxes, genealogy of, 254.
Pilgrim Father, apparition of, 300.
Pilgrims, the, 196.

Pillows, constitutional, 198.
Pine-trees, their sympathy, 299.
Pinto, Mr., some letters of his com-
mended, 207.

Pisgah, an impromptu one, 215.
Platform, party, a convenient one, 213.
Plato, supped with, 207 - his man,

Pliny, his letters not admired, 207.
Plotinus, a story of, 201.

Plymouth Rock, Old, a Convention
wrecked on, 196.

Poets apt to become sophisticated, 297:
Point Tribulation, Mr. Sawin wrecked
on, 214.

Poles, exile, whether crop of beans de-
pends on, 188, note.
Polk, nomen gentile. 279.

Polk, President, synonymous with our
country, 191 censured, 196-in
danger of being crushed, 197.
Polka, Mexican, 189.

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Pomp, a runaway slave, his nest, 219-
hypocritically groans like white man,
219, 220- blind to Christian privi-
leges, 220-his society valued at fifty
dollars, ib. his treachery, ib. -
takes Mr. Sawin prisoner, ib. - cru-
elly makes him work, ib. - puts him-
self illegally under his tuition, ib.-
dismisses him with contumelious epi-
thets, ib. -a negro, 256.
Pontifical bull a tamed one, 189.
Pope, his verse excellent, 186.
Pork, refractory in boiling, 189.
Portico, the, 312.

Portugal, Alphonso the Sixth of, a
monster, 221.

Post, Boston, 192 - shaken visibly, 193
- bad guide-post, ib. - too swift, ib.
edited by a colonel, ib. - who is pre-
sumed officially in Mexico, ib. - re-
ferred to, 199.

Pot-hooks, death in, 210.

Power, a first-class, elements of, 285.
Preacher, an ornamental symbol, 204

a breeder of dogmas, ib. -earnest-
ness of, important, 221.
Present, considered as an annalist, 204
-not long wonderful, 206.
President, slaveholding natural to, 205
- must be a Southern resident, 213
- must own a nigger, ib. the, his
policy, 321-his resemblance to Jack-

son, 322.

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Princes mix cocktails, 285.
Principle, exposure spoils it, 195.
Principles, bad, when less harmful, 190.
when useless, 294.

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Professor, Latin, in

- Scaliger, ib.

College, 308

Prophecies, fulfilment of, 288.
Prophecy, a notable one, 199.
Prospect Hill, 267.

Providence has a natural life-preserver,

Recruiting sergeant, Devil supposed
the first, 185.

Religion, Southern, its commercial ad-
vantages, 278.

Representatives' Chamber, 200.
Rhinothism, society for promoting, 206.
Rhyme, whether natural not conside
ered, 185.

Rib, an infrangible one, 211.
Richard the First of England, his
Christian fervor, 189.

Riches conjectured to have legs as well
as wings, 203.

Ricos Hombres, 276.
Ringtail Rangers, 260.
Roanoke Island, 287.

Robinson, Mr. John P., his opinious
fully stated, 191, 192.

Rocks, pocket full of, 211.

Roosters in rainy weather, their mis-
ery, 256.

Rotation insures mediocrity and inex-
perience, 282.

Rough and ready, 217-a wig, 218-
a kind of scratch, ib.

Royal Society, American fellows of,
303.

Rum and water combine kindly, 292.
Runes resemble bird-tracks, 290.
Runic inscriptions, their different grades

of unintelligibility and consequent
value, 289.

Russell, Earl, is good enough to ex-

pound our Constitution for us, 263.
Russian eagle turns Prussian blue, 199
Ryeus, Bacchi epitheton, 310.

S.

Sabbath, breach of, 186.

Sabellianism, one accused of, 209.
Sailors, their rights how won, 309.
Saltillo, unfavorable view of, 187.
Salt-river, in Mexican, what, 187.
Samuel, avunculus, 309.
Samuel, Uncle, 257-riotous, 198― yet
has qualities demanding reverence,
204a good provider for his family,
205 an exorbitant bill of, 215-
makes some shrewd guesses, 273,
274 expects his boots, 280.
Sansculottes, draw their wine before
drinking, 202.

Santa Anna, his expensive leg, 213.

Sappho, some human nature in, 313.
Sassy Cus, an impudent Indian, 266.
Satan, never wants attorneys, 189-an
expert talker by signs, ib.-a suc-
cessful fisherman with little or no
bait, ib. - cunning fetch of, 190-dis-
likes ridicule, 192- ought not to have
credit of ancient oracles, 199, note-
his worst pitfall, 278.

Satirist, incident to certain dangers,

190.

Savages, Canadian, chance of redemp-
tion offered to, 221.

Sawin, B., Esquire, his letter not writ-
ten in verse, 185-a native of Jaalam,
186 not regular attendant on Rev.
Mr Wilbur's preaching, ib. — a fool,
ib.

his statements trustworthy, ib.
his ornithological tastes, ib
letter from, 186, 210, 216 - his curi-
ous discovery in regard to bayonets,
187 - displays proper family pride,
ib. modestly confesses himself less
wise than the Queen of Sheba, 188

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the old Adam in, peeps out, 189
a miles emeritus, 210- is made
text for a sermon, ib. - loses a leg,
ib.
-an eye, 211-left hand, ib.
four fingers of right hand, ib. — has
six or more ribs broken, ib. —a rib
of his infrangible, ib. — allows a cer-
tain amount of preterite greenness in
himself, ib.his share of spoil lim-
ited, ib. -his opinion of Mexican
climate, 212-acquires property of a
certain sort, ib.his experience of
glory, ib. -stands sentry, and puns
thereupon, ib. - undergoes martyr-
dom in some of its most painful forms,
ib. enters the candidating business,
213-modestly states the (avail) abili-
ties which qualify him for high polit-
ical station, 213, 214- has no princi-
ples, 213-a peaceman, ib. -un-
pledged, ib. has no objections to
owning peculiar property, but would
not like to monopolize the truth, ib.
- his account with glory, 214-a
selfish motive hinted in, ib. - sails
for Eldorado, ib. shipwrecked on a
metaphorical promontory, ib. - par-
allel between, and Rev. Mr. Wil-
bur (not Plutarchian), 215- conjec-
tured to have bathed in river Selem-

nus, 216- loves plough wisely, but
not too well, ib. a foreign mission
probably expected by, ib. - unani-
mously nominated for presidency, ib.
his country's father-in-law, 217-
nobly emulates Cincinnatus, ib. is
not a crooked stick, ib. advises his
adherents, ib. views of, on present
state of politics, 217-219-popular
enthusiasm for, at Bellers's, and its
disagreeable consequences, 218-in-
human treatment of, by Bellers, ib.
his opinion of the two parties, ib.
agrees with Mr. Webster, ib. - his
antislavery zeal, 219- his proper
self-respect, ib.-his unaffected piety,
ib.his not intemperate temperance,
ib.a thrilling adventure of, 219-
221 his prudence and economy,
219-bound to Captain Jakes, but
regains his freedom, 220-is taken
prisoner, ib. ignominiously treat-
ed, 220, 221-his consequent resolu-
tion, 221.

Sawin, Honorable B. O'F., a vein of
humor suspected in, 255-gets into
an enchanted castle, 256- finds a
wooden leg better in some respects
than a living one, ib. takes some-
thing hot, 257-his experience of
Southern hospitality, ib. -water-
proof internally, ib. sentenced to
ten years' imprisonment, 258- his
liberal-handedness, ib. - gets his ar-
rears of pension, 259 marries the
Widow Shannon, ib. confiscated,
260- finds in himself a natural ne-
cessity of income, 261- his mission-
ary zeal, ib. never a stated attend-
ant on Mr. Wilbur's preaching, 274

sang bass in choir, ib. - prudently
avoided contribution toward bell, ib.

abhors a covenant of works, 277-
if saved at all, must be saved gen-
teelly, ib. reports a sermon, 278—
experiences religion, ib. - would con-
sent to a dukedom, 279- converted
to unanimity, 280 sound views of,
282 makes himself an extempore
marquis, 283-extract of letter from,
324, 325 his opinion of Paddies,
325 of Johnson, ib
Sayres, a martyr, 220.
Scaliger, saying of, 191.