Jaalam, unjustly neglected by great | Latimer, Bishop, episcopizes Satan, events, 316.
Jaalam Centre, Anglo-Saxons unjustly suspected by the young ladies there, 60"Independent Blunderbluss," strange conduct of editor of, 97- public meeting at, 108-meeting- house ornamented with imaginary clock, 130.
Jaalam, East Parish of, 218. Jaalam Point, lighthouse on, charge of, prospectively offered to Mr. H. Biglow, 112.
Latin tongue, curious information concerning, 70.
Launcelot, Sir, a trusser of giants formerly, perhaps would find less sport therein now, 91. Laura, exploited, 366. Learning, three-story, 335. Letcher, de la vieille roche, 286. Letcherus, nebulo, 357.
Letters classed, 108-their shape, ib. - of candidates, 112-often fatal, ib.
Jakes, Captain, 145 reproved for Lettres Cabalistiques, quoted, 247.
avarice, ib.
Jamaica, 383.
James the Fourth, of Scots, experi- ment by, 51.
Jarnagin, Mr., his opinion of the com- pleteness of Northern education, 94.
Jefferson, Thomas, well-meaning, but injudicious, 325.
Jeremiah, hardly the best guide in modern politics, 329. Jerome, Saint, his list of sacred writ- ers, 108.
Jeruslia, ex-Mrs. Sawin, 236.
Job, Book of, 50, 221-Chappelow on, 98.
Johnson, Andrew, as he used to be, 323-as he is: see Arnold, Bene- dict.
Johnson, Mr., communicates some in- telligence, 95.
Jonah, the inevitable destiny of, 96 -probably studied internal econ- omy of the cetacea, 107- his gourd, 283-his unanimity in the whale, 289.
Jonathan to John, 266.
Jortin, Dr., cited, 75, 85, note. Journals, British, their brutal tone,
Lewis Philip, a scourger of young na- tive Americans, 85-commiserated (though not deserving it), 86, note. Lexington, 254.
Liberator, a newspaper, condemned by implication, 72. Liberty, unwholesome for men of cer- tain complexions, 99. Licking, when constitutional, 294. Lignum vitæ, a gift of this valuable wood proposed, 60.
Lincoln, too shrewd to hang Mason and Slidell, 309.
Literature, Southern, its abundance, 286.
Little Big Boosy River, 235. Longinus recommends swearing, 53,
note (Fuseli did same thing). Long sweetening recommended, 119. Lord, inexpensive way of lending to,
Lords, Southern, prove pur sang by ablution, 285.
Lost arts, one sorrowfully added to list of, 150.
Louis the Eleventh of France, some odd trees of his, 129.
Lowell, Mr. J. R., unaccountable si- lence of, 69.
Luther, Martin, his first appearance as Europa, 61. Lyæus, 360.
Lyttelton, Lord, his letters an imposi- tion, 108.
Macrobii, their diplomacy, 115.
Magoffin, a name naturally noble, 286.
Kay, Sir, the, of modern chivalry, 191 Mahomet, got nearer Sinai than some, -who, 90.
Mahound, his filthy gobbets, 61.
Keziah, Aunt, profound observation Mandeville, Sir John, quoted, 247.
Mangum, Mr., speaks to the point, 92. Manichæan, excellently confuted, 88. Man-trees, grow where, 129.
Maori chieftains, 246.
Martin, Mr. Sawin used to vote for | Montezuma, licked, 225.
Mason and Dixon's line, slaves north of, 92.
Mason an F. F. V., 309.
Mason and Slidell, how they might have been made at once useful and ornamental, 309.
Mass, the, its duty defined, 92. Massachusetts on her knees, 49; some- thing mentioned in connection with, worthy the attention of tailors, 78; citizen of, baked, boiled, and roasted (nefandum!), 124.
Masses, the, used as butter by some, 81.
Maury, an intellectual giant, twin birth with Simms (which see), 286. Mayday a humbug, 331.
M. C., an invertebrate animal, 84. Me, Mister, a queer creature, 334. Mechanics' Fair, reflections suggested at, 117.
Medium, ardentispirituale, 356. Mediums, spiritual, dreadful liars, 338.
Memminger, old, 233.
Mentor, letters of, dreary, 108. Mephistopheles at a nonplus, 96. Mexican blood, its effect in raising price of cloth, 131. Mexican polka, 63. Mexicans charged with various breaches of etiquette, 59 — kind feelings beaten into them, 102. Mexico, no glory in overcoming, 80. Middleton, Thomas, quoted, 275. Military glory spoken disrespectfully of, 56, note-militia treated still worse, ib.
Milk-trees, growing still, 129. Mill, Stuart, his low ideas, 307. Millenniums apt to miscarry, 340. Millspring, 308.
Mills for manufacturing gabble, how driven, 87.
Mills, Josiah's, 334.
Milton, an unconscious plagiary, 77, note a Latin verse of, cited, 99- an English poet, 314- his "Hymn of the Nativity," 343. Missionaries, useful to alligators, 224 -culinary liabilities of, 281. Missions, a profitable kind of, 100. Monarch, a pagan, probably not fa- vored in philosophical experiments,
Money-trees, desirable, 128-that they once existed shown to be variously probable, 129. Montaigne, 367.
Nancy, presumably Mrs. Biglow, 253. Napoleon III., his new chairs, 303. Nation, rights of, proportionate to
size, 59-young, its first needs, 305. National pudding, its effect on the organs of speech, a curious physio- logical fact, 63.
Negroes, their double usefulness, 234 -getting too current, 306. Nephelim, not yet extinct, 150. New England overpoweringly honored, 83 wants no more speakers, ib. - done brown by whom, ib.- her expe- rience in beans beyond Cicero's, 114. Newspaper, the, wonderful, 103— a strolling theatre, ib. thoughts suggested by tearing wrapper of, 105 a vacant sheet, ib. a sheet in which a vision was let down, ib. wrapper to a bar of soap, ib.-a cheap impromptu platter, ib.
New World, apostrophe to, 265. New York, letters from, commended, 108.
Next life, what, 98.
Nicotiana Tabacum, a weed, 315. Niggers, 47-area of abusing, ex- tended, 80-Mr. Sawin's opinions of, 143.
Ninepence a day low for murder, 53. No, a monosyllable, 63— hard to ut- ter, ib.
Noah enclosed letter in bottle, prob- ably, 107.
Noblemen, Nature's, 288. Nornas, Lapland, what, 130. North, the, has no business, 92- bristling, crowded off roost, 112- its mind naturally unprincipled, 325. North Bend, geese inhumanly treated at, 113-mentioned, 133.
North star, a proposition to indict, 96.
Northern Dagon, 237.
Northmen, gens inclytissima, 312. Nôtre Dame de la Haine, 278. Montaigne, a communicative old Gas- Now, its merits, 335. con, 106. Nowhere, march to, 336.
Monterey, battle of, its singular chromatic effect on a species of two- headed eagle, 85.
Officers, miraculous transformation in | Pharaoh, his lean kine, 264. character of, 60 Anglo-Saxon, come very near being anathema- tized, 61.
Pharisees, opprobriously referred to,
Old age, an advantage of, 241. Old One, invoked, 299. Onesimus made to serve the cause of impiety, 282.
O'Phace, Increase D., Esq., speech of,
Opinion, British, its worth to us, 250. Opinions, certain ones compared to winter flies, 273.
Oracle of Fools, still respectfully con- sulted, 76.
Orion becomes commonplace, 105. Orrery, Lord, his letters (lord!), 108. Ostracism, curious species of, 76. Ovidii Nasonis, carmen supposititium, 355.
Paley, his Evidences, 392. Palfrey, Hon. J. G., 76, 83, 84 (a wor- thy representative of Massachu- setts).
Pantagruel recommends a popular or- acle, 76.
Panurge, 249 - his interview with Goatsnose, 115.
Paper, plausible-looking, wanted, 305. Papists, female, slain by zealous Prot- estant bomb-shell, 132. Paralipomenon, a man suspected of being, 113.
Paris, liberal principles safe as far away as, 99.
Parliamentum Indoctorum sitting in permanence, 76.
Past, the, a good nurse, 90. Patience, sister, quoted, 56. Patriarchs, the, illiterate, 239. Patricius, brogipotens, 356.
Paynims, their throats propagandist- ically cut, 61.
Penelope, her wise choice, 69.
People, soft enough, 101-want cor- rect ideas, 126-the, decline to be Mexicanized, 320.
Pepin, King, 108.
Pepperell, General, quoted, 252. Pequash Junction, 367. Periwig, 111.
Perley, Mr. Asaph, has charge of bass- viol, 271.
Perseus, King, his avarice, 252. Persius, a pithy saying of, 81, note. Pescara, Marquis, saying of, 50. Peter, Saint, a letter of (post-mor- tem), 108.
Petrarch, exploited Laura, 366. Petronius, 249.
Pettibone, Jabez, bursts up, 287.
Pettus came over with Wilhelmus Conquistor, 286.
Philippe, Louis, in pea-jacket, 103. Phillips, Wendell, catches a Tartar,
Phlegyas quoted, 97.
Phrygian language, whether Adam spoke it, 51.
Pickens, a Norman name, 285. Pilcoxes, genealogy of, 218. Pilgrim Father, apparition of, 337. Pilgrims, the, 79.
Pillows, constitutional, 84. Pine-trees, their sympathy, 334. Pinto, Mr., some letters of his com- mended, 108.
Pisgah, an impromptu one, 130. Platform, party, a convenient one, 126. Plato, supped with, 107- his man, 113.
Pleiades, the, not enough esteemed,
Pomp, a runaway slave, his nest, 144 hypocritically groans like white man, ib. - blind to Christian priv- ileges, 145-his society valued at fifty dollars, ib. -his treachery, 146 -takes Mr. Sawin prisoner, ib. — cruelly makes him work, 147 — puts himself illegally under his tuition, ib. dismisses him with contume- lious epithets, 148-a negro, 224. Pontifical bull a tamed one, 61. Pope, his verse excellent, 51. Pork, refractory in boiling, 60. Portico, the, 364.
Portugal, Alphonso the Sixth of, a monster, 149.
Post, Boston, 69-shaken visibly, 71
bad guide-post, ib. too swift, ib. edited by a colonel, ib. — who is presumed officially in Mexico, ib. -referred to, 86.
Pot-hooks, death in, 115. Power, a first-class, elements of, 303. Preacher, an ornamental symbol, 98 -- a breeder of dogmas, ib. - earnest- ness of, important, 149. Present, considered as an annalist, 98 - not long wonderful, 105.
President, slaveholding natural to, 102-must be a Southern resident, 127-must own a nigger, ib. — the, his policy, 385- his resemblance to Jackson, 386.
Princes mix cocktails, 303. Principle, exposure spoils it, 77. Principles, bad, when less harmful, 64 when useless, 324. Professor, Latin, in —
- Scaliger, 355. Prophecies, fulfilment of, 309. Prophecy, a notable one, 85, note. Prospect Hill, 254.
Providence has a natural life-preser- ver, 265.
Proviso, bitterly spoken of, 110. Prudence, sister, her idiosyncratic tea- pot, 121.
Psammeticus, an experiment of, 51. Psyche, poor, 369.
Public opinion, a blind and drunken guide, 63-nudges Mr. Wilbur's el- bow, 64-ticklers of, 80. Punkin Falls "Weekly Parallel," 342. Putnam, General Israel, his lines, 255. Pythagoras a bean-hater, why, 114. Pythagoreans, fish reverenced by, why, 89.
Quid, ingens nicotianum, 359. Quixote, Don, 91.
Rafn, Professor, 313.
Rag, one of sacred college, 63. Rantoul, Mr., talks loudly, 55- pious reason for not enlisting, ib. Recruiting sergeant, Devil supposed the first, 50.
Religion, Southern, its commercial ad- vantages, 280.
Representatives' Chamber, 89. Rhinothism, society for promoting,
Rhyme, whether natural not consid- ered, 51.
Rib, an infrangible one, 119. Richard the First of England, his Christian fervor, 61.
Riches conjectured to have legs as well as wings, 96. Ricos Hombres, 276. Ringtail Rangers, 238. Roanoke Island, 308.
Robinson, Mr. John P., his opinions fully stated, 66-68. Rocks, pocket full of, 121.
Roosters in rainy weather, their mis- ery, 222.
Rotation insures mediocrity and inex- perience, 295.
Rough and ready, 138-a wig, 139- a kind of scratch, ib.
Royal Society, American fellows of, 342.
Rum and water combine kindly, 319.
Runes resemble bird-tracks, 314. Runic inscriptions, their different grades of unintelligibility and con- sequent value, 313.
Russell, Earl, is good enough to ex- pound our Constitution for us, 246. Russian eagle turns Prussian blue, 85. Ryeus, Bacchi epitheton, 360.
Sabbath, breach of, 27.
Sabellianism, one accused of, 113. Sailors, their rights how won, 262. Saltillo, unfavorable view of, 56. Salt-river, in Mexican, what, 56. Samuel, avunculus, 358. Samuel, Uncle, 228- riotous, 85 — yet has qualities demanding reverence, 100-a good provider for his fam- ily, 101 an exorbitant bill of, 132 -makes some shrewd guesses, 266- 270-expects his boots, 288. Sansculottes, draw their wine before drinking, 95.
Santa Anna, his expensive leg, 125. Sappho, some human nature in, 366. Sassy Cus, an impudent Indian, 253. Satan, never wants attorneys, 61 — an expert talker by signs, ib. — a suc- cessful fisherman with little or no bait, ib. cunning fetch of, 65— dislikes ridicule, 70- ought not to have credit of ancient oracles, 85, note- his worst pitfall, 282. Satirist, incident to certain dangers,
Savages, Canadian, chance of redemp- tion offered to, 149.
Sawin, B., Esquire, his letter not written in verse, 51 a native of Jaalam, ib. —not regular attendant on Rev. Mr. Wilbur's preaching, 51 -a fool, 52-his statements trust- worthy, ib. his ornithological tastes, ib.-letter from, 51, 116, 133 his curious discovery in regard to bayonets, 54-displays proper fam- ily pride, ib. -modestly confesses himself less wise than the Queen of Sheba, 58 the old Adam in, peeps out, 60-a miles emeritus, 116-is made text for a sermon, ib. — loses a leg, 117 an eye, 118-left hand, 119-four fingers of right hand, ib. - has six or more ribs broken, ib. — a rib of his infrangible, ib. — allows a certain amount of preterite green- ness in himself, 120-his share of spoil limited, 121-his opinion of Mexican climate, ib. acquires property of a certain sort, 122- his experience of glory, ib. - stands sentry, and puns thereupon, 124- undergoes martyrdom in some of its most painful forms, ib. - enters the candidating business, ib. - modestly states the (avail)abilities which qual-
ify him for high political station, 125-127 has no principles, 125-a peace-man, ib. — - unpledged, 126- has no objections to owning peculiar property, but would not like to mo- nopolize the truth, 127 - his account with glory, 128-a selfish motive hinted in, ib. sails for Eldorado, ib.-shipwrecked on a metaphorical promontory, ib. - parallel between, and Rev. Mr. Wilbur (not Plutarch- ian), 130 conjectured to have bathed in river Selemnus, 133- loves plough wisely, but not too well, ib. a foreign mission prob- ably expected by, 134— unanimous ly nominated for presidency, 135 his country's father-in-law, ib. nobly emulates Cincinnatus, 136- is not a crooked stick, ib. - advises his adherents, 137 views of, on present state of politics, 137-141 — popular enthusiasm for, at Bellers's, and its disagreeable consequences, 138-inhuman treatment of, by Bel- lers, ib. his opinion of the two parties, 139-agrees with Mr. Web- ster, 140 his antislavery zeal, 141 -his proper self-respect, 142-his unaffected piety, ib.- his not in- temperate temperance, 143 - a thrilling adventure of, 143-148-his prudence and economy, 144-bound to Captain Jakes, but regains his freedom, 145-is taken prisoner, 146-ignominiously treated, 147- his consequent resolution, 148. Sawin, Honorable B. O'F., a vein of humor suspected in, 220-gets into an enchanted castle, 223-finds a wooden leg better in some respects than a living one, 225 — takes some- thing hot, ib. his experience of Southern hospitality, 226-228 waterproof internally, 227-sen- tenced to ten years' imprisonment, 229-his liberal-handedness, 231 gets his arrears of pension, 232- marries the Widow Shannon, 234 — confiscated, 237-finds in himself a natural necessity of income, 238- his missionary zeal, 240-never a stated attendant on Mr. Wilbur's preaching, 271- sang base in choir, ib.prudently avoided contribu- tion toward bell, 272-abhors a covenant of works, 279-if saved at all, must be saved genteelly, ib. reports a sermon, 281-experiences religion, 283-would consent to a dukedom, 284-converted to una- nimity, 289-sound views of, 294 — makes himself an extempore mar- quis, 297-extract of letter from, 391-394-his opinion of Paddies, 393-of Johnson, 394.
Serbonian bog of literature, 89. Sermons, some pitched too high, 272. Seward, Mister, the late, his gift of prophecy, 254-needs stiffening, 385-misunderstands parable of fatted calf, ib.
Sextons, demand for, 55-heroic offi- cial devotion of one, 149. Seymour, Governor, 348. Shakespeare, 368-a good reporter, 75. Shaking fever, considered as an em- ployment, 122.
Sham, President, honest, 80. Shannon, Mrs., a widow, 230-her family and accomplishments, 234 — has tantrums, 235-her religious views, 280- her notions of a moral and intellectual being, 283- her maiden name, 284- her blue blood, ib.
Sheba, Queen of, 58. Sheep, none of Rev. Mr. Wilbur's turned wolves, 52.
Shem, Scriptural curse of, 148. Shiraz, Centre, lead-mine at, 287. Shirley, Governor, 252. Shoddy, poor covering for outer or inner man, 339.
Shot at sight, privilege of being, 288. Show, natural to love it, 56, note. Silver spoon born in Democracy's mouth, what, 81. Simms, an intellectual giant, twin-
birth with Maury (which see), 286. Sin, wilderness of, modern, what, 99. Sinai suffers outrages, 99. Skim-milk has its own opinions, 338. Skin, hole in, strange taste of some for, 123.
Skippers, Yankee, busy in the slave- trade, 282.
Slaughter, whether God strengthen us for, 62.
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