Chinese, whether they in-
vented gunpowder before the
Christian era not considered,
167.

Choate hired, 250.
Christ shuffled into Apocrypha,
168-conjectured to disap-
prove of slaughter and pil-
lage, 171-condemns a certain
piece of barbarism, 204.
Christianity, profession of, ple-
beian, whether, 154.
Christian soldiers, perhaps in-
consistent, whether, 180.
Cicero, an opinion of, disputed,
223.

Cilley, Ensign, author of ne-
farious sentiment, 168.
Cimex lectularius, 161.
Cincinnatus, a stock character

in modern comedy, 243.
Civilization, progress of, an
alias, 206-rides upon a pow-
der cart, 219.

Clergymen, their ill husbandry,
205-their place in proces-
sions, 242--some,
cruelly
banished for the soundness
of their lungs, 258.
Cocked-hat, advantages of be-
ing knocked into, 217.
College of Cardinals, a strange
one, 168.

Colman, Dr. Benjamin, anec-
dote of, 180.

Colored folks, curious national
diversion of kicking, 162.
Colquitt, a remark of, 201-ac-
quainted with some princi-
ples of aerostation, ib.
Columbia, District of, its pe-
culiar climatic effects, 185-
not certain that Martin is for
abolishing it, 251.
Columbus, a Paul Pry of gen-
ius, 215.
Columby, 246.

Complete Letter-Writer, fatal
gift of, 221.
Compostella, St. James of, seen,
165.

Congress, singular consequence
of getting into, 184.
Congressional debates, found
instructive, 194.

Constituents, useful for what,
186.

Constitution trampled on, 198
-to stand upon, what, 218.
Convention, what, 185.
Convention, Springfield, 185.
Coon old, pleasure in skinning,
200.

Coppers, caste in picking up of,
232.

Copres, a monk, his excellent
method of arguing, 194.
Cornwallis, a, 158-acknowl-
edged entertaining, ib., note.
Cotton Mather, summoned as
witness, 165.

Country lawyers, sent provi-
dentially, 172.

Country, our, its boundaries
more exactly defined, 173-
right or wrong, nonsense
about exposed, ib.
Courier, The Boston, an unsafe
print, 192.

Court, General, farmers some-
times attain seats in, 244.
Cowper, W., his letters com-
mended, 216.

Creed, a safe kind of, 235.
Crusade, first American, 166.
Cuneiform script recommend-
ed, 224.

Curiosity distinguishes man
from brutes, 214.

D.

Davis, Mr., of Mississippi, a re-
mark of his, 200.
Day and Martin, proverbially
on hand," 148.
Death, rings down curtain, 212.
Delphi, oracle of, surpassed,
191, note-alluded to, 222.
Destiny, her account, 190.
Devil, the, unskilled in certain

Indian tongues, 165-letters
to and from, 217.
Dey of Tripoli, 196.
Didymus, a somewhat volumi-
nous grammarian, 222.
Dighton rock character might
be usefully employed in some
emergencies, 224.
Dimitry Bruisgins, fresh supply
of, 213.

Diogenes, his zeal for propagat-
ing certain variety of olive,
238.

Dioscuri, imps of the pit, 166.
District-Attorney, contemptible
conduct of one, 196.
Ditchwater on brain, a too com-
mon ailing, 195.
Doctor, the, a proverbial saying
of, 164.

Doughface, yeast-proof, 210.
Drayton, a martyr, 196-north
star, culpable for aiding,
whether, 202.

D. Y., letter of, 216.

E.

Earth, Dame, a peep at her
housekeeping, 197.
Eating words, habit of, con-
venient in time of famine,
189.
Eavesdroppers, 214.
Echetlæus, 166.
Editor, his position, 205-com-
manding pulpit of, 206-large
congregation of, ib.-name
derived from what, 207-
fondness for mutton, ib.-a
pious one, his creed, ib.-a
showman, 211-in danger of
sudden arrest, without bail,
212.

Editors, certain ones who crow
like cockerels, 152.
Egyptian darkness, phial of,
use for, 224.
Eldorado, Mr. Sawin sets sail
for, 237.

G.

Gawain, Sir, his amusements,
198.

Gay, S. H., Esquire, editor of
National Antislavery Stand-
ard, letter to, 214.
Getting up early, 150, 163.
Ghosts, some, presumed fid-
getty, (but see Stilling's
Pneumatology,) 216.
Giants formerly stupid, 197.
Gift of tongues, distressing case
of, 193.

Globe Theatre, cheap season-
ticket to, 212.

Glory, a perquisite of officers,
232 her account with B.
Sawin, Esq., 236.
Goatsnose, the celebrated, in-
terview with, 224.
Gomara, has a vision, 165-his
relationship to the Scarlet
Woman, ib.

Gray's letters are letters, 216.
Great horn spoon, sworn by,
199.

Greeks ancient, whether they
questioned candidates, 223.
Green Man, sign of, 176.

H.

Ham, sandwich, an orthodox
(but peculiar) one, 202.
Hamlets, machine for making,
226.

Hammon, 191, note, 222.
Hannegan, Mr., something said
by, 200.

Harrison, General, how pre-
served, 221.

Hat-trees, in full bearing, 237.
Hawkins, Sir John, stout, some-
thing he saw, 237.

Henry the Fourth of England,
a Parliament of, how named,
182.

Hercules, his second labor prob-
ably what, 259.

Herodotus, story from, 156.
Hesperides, an inference from,
238.

Holden, Mr. Shearjashub, Pre-
ceptor of Jaalam Academy,
222-his knowledge of Greek
limited, ib.-a heresy of his,
ib.-leaves a fund to propa-
gate it, 223.

Hollis, Ezra, goes to a Cornwal-
lis, 158.

Hollow, why men providential-
ly so constructed, 183.
Homer, a phrase of, cited, 206.
Horners, democratic
ones,

plums left for, 187.
Howell, James, Esq., story told
by, 182-letters of, commend-
ed, 216.

Human rights out of order on
the floor of Congress, 199.
Humbug, ascription of praise
to, 210-generally believed
in, ib.

Husbandry, instance of bad,
170.

I.

Icarius, Penelope's father, 174.
Infants, prattlings of, curious
observation concerning, 155.
Information wanted (universal-
ly, but especially at page)
216.

J.

Jaalam Centre, Anglo-Saxons
unjustly suspected by the
young ladies there, 164

"Independent Blunder-
buss," strange conduct of
editor of, 205-public meet-
ing at, 217-meeting-house
ornamented with imaginary
clock, 239.
Jaalam Point, light-house on,
charge of prospectively offer
ed to Mr H Biglow, 220.

connection with, worthy the
attention of tailors, 185-
citizen of, baked, boiled, and
roasted (nefandum!) 233.
Masses, the, used as butter by
some, 187.

M. C., an invertebrate animal,
189.

Mechanics' Fair, reflections
suggested at, 226.

Mentor, letters of, dreary, 216.
Mephistopheles at a nonplus,
202.

Mexican blood, its effect in rais-
ing price of cloth, 241.
Mexican polka, 167.
Mexicans charged with various
breaches of etiquette, 163-
kind feelings beaten into
them, 210.

Mexico, no glory in overcom-
ing, 185.

Military glory spoken disre-
spectfully of, 160, note—mili-
tia treated still worse, ib.
Milk-trees, growing still, 237.
Mills for manufacturing gabble,
how driven, 193.
Milton, an unconscious plagi-
ary, 184, note—a Latin verse
of, cited, 207.

Missions, a profitable kind of,
208.

Monarch, a pagan, probably
not favored in philosophical
experiments, 156.

Money-trees desirable, 238-
that they once existed shown
to be variously probable, ib.
Montaigne, a communicative
old Gascon, 215.

Monterey, battle of, its singu-

lar chromatic effect on a
species of two-headed eagle,
190.

Moses held up vainly as an ex-

ample, 206-construed by
Joe Smith, 207.
Myths, how to interpret readily,
223.

N.

Naboths, Popish ones, how dis
tinguished, 167.
Nation, rights of,
Nation, rights of, proportion.
ate to size, 163.
National pudding, its effect on
the organs of speech, a curi.
ous physiological fact, 168.
Nephelim, not yet extinct, 259.
New England overpoweringly
honored, 188—wants no more
speakers, ib.-done brown by
whom, ib.-her experience in
beans beyond Cicero's, 223.
Newspaper, the, wonderful, 210
-a strolling theatre, 211-
thoughts suggested by tear-
ing wrapper of, 212-a vacant
sheet, ib.-a sheet in which
a vision was let down, 213-
wrapper to a bar of soap, ib.
-a cheap impromptu platter,
ib.

New York, Letters from, com-
mended, 216.

Next life, what, 205.
Niggers, 151-area of abusing,
extended, 186-Mr. Sawin's
opinions of, 252.

Ninepence a day low for mur-
der, 158.

No, a monosyllable, 167-hard
to utter, ib.

Noah, inclosed letter in bottle,
probably, 215.

Nornas, Lapland, what, 239.
North, has no business, 200-
bristling, crowded off roost,
220.

North Bend, geese inhumanly
treated at, 221-mentioned,
243.

North star, a proposition to in-
dict, 202.