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C. ,
his cow-bell curfew, light of the nineteenth century to be extinguished
at sound of,
cannot let go apron-string of the Past,
his unsuccessful tilt at Spirit of the Age,
the Sir Kay of modern chivalry,
his anchor made of a crooked pin,
mentioned.
_Calyboosus, carcer_.
Cambridge Platform, use discovered for.
Canaan in quarterly instalments.
Canary Islands.
Candidate,
presidential, letter from,
smells a rat,
against a bank,
takes a revolving position,
opinion of pledges,
is a periwig,
fronts south by north,
qualifications of, lessening,
wooden leg (and head) useful to.
Cape Cod clergyman,
what,
Sabbath-breakers, perhaps, reproved by.
Captains, choice of, important.
Carolina, foolish act of.
Caroline, case of.
Carpini, Father John de Piano, among the Tartars.
Cartier, Jacques, commendable zeal of.
Cass,
General,
clearness of his merit,
limited popularity at 'Bellers's. '
Castles, Spanish, comfortable accommodations in.
Cato, letters of, so called, suspended _naso adunco_.
C. D. , friends of, can hear of him.
Century, nineteenth.
Chalk egg, we are proud of incubation of.
Chamberlayne, Doctor, consolatory citation from.
Chance,
an apothegm concerning,
is impatient.
Chaplain, a one-horse, stern-wheeled variety of.
Chappelow on Job, a copy of, lost.
Charles I. , accident to his neck.
Charles II. , his restoration, how brought about.
Cherubusco, news of, its effects on English royalty.
Chesterfield no letter-writer.
Chief Magistrate, dancing esteemed sinful by.
Children naturally speak Hebrew.
China-tree.
Chinese, whether they invented gunpowder before the Christian era
not considered.
Choate hired.
Christ,
shuffled into Apocrypha,
conjectured to disapprove of slaughter and pillage,
condemns a certain piece of barbarism.
Christianity, profession of, plebeian, whether.
Christian soldiers, perhaps inconsistent whether.
Cicero,
an opinion of, disputed.
Cilley, Ensign, author of nefarious sentiment.
_Cimex lectularius_.
Cincinnati, old, law and order party of.
Cincinnatus, a stock character in modern comedy.
Civilization,
progress of, an alias,
rides upon a powder-cart.
Clergymen,
their ill husbandry,
their place in processions,
some, cruelly banished for the soundness of their lungs.
Clotho, a Grecian lady.
Cocked-hat, advantages of being knocked into.
College of Cardinals, a strange one.
Colman, Dr. Benjamin, anecdote of.
Colored folks, curious national diversion of kicking.
Colquitt,
a remark of,
acquainted with some principles of aerostation.
Columbia, District of,
its peculiar climatic effects,
not certain that Martin is for abolishing it.
Columbiads, the true fifteen-inch ones.
Columbus,
a Paul Pry of genius,
will perhaps be remembered,
thought by some to have discovered America.
Columby.
Complete Letter-Writer, fatal gift of.
Compostella, Saint James of, seen.
Compromise system, the, illustrated.
Conciliation, its meaning.
Congress,
singular consequence of getting into,
a stumbling-block.
Congressional debates found instructive.
Constituents, useful for what, 194.
Constitution,
trampled on,
to stand upon what.
Convention, what.
Convention, Springfield.
Coon, old, pleasure in skinning.
Co-operation defined.
Coppers, _caste_ in picking up of.
Copres, a monk, his excellent method of arguing.
Corduroy-road, a novel one.
Corner-stone, patent safety.
Cornwallis,
a,
acknowledged entertaining.
Cotton loan, its imaginary nature.
Cotton Mather, summoned as witness.
Country, our,
its boundaries more exactly defined,
right or wrong, nonsense about, exposed,
lawyers, sent providentially.
Earth's biggest, gets a soul.
Courier, The Boston, an unsafe print.
Court, General, farmers sometimes attain seats in.
Court, Supreme.
Courts of law, English, their orthodoxy.
Cousins, British, our _ci-devant_.
Cowper, W. , his letters commended.
Credit defined.
Creditors all on Lincoln's side.
Creed, a safe kind of.
Crockett, a good rule of.
Cruden, Alexander, his Concordance.
Crusade, first American.
Cuneiform script recommended.
Curiosity distinguishes man from brutes.
Currency, Ethiopian, inconveniences of.
Cynthia, her hide as a means of conversion.

Daedalus first taught men to sit on fences.
Daniel in the lion's den.
Darkies dread freedom.
Davis, Captain Isaac, finds out something to his advantage.
Davis, Jefferson (a new species of martyr),
has the latest ideas on all subjects,
superior in financiering to patriarch Jacob,
is _some_,
carries Constitution in his hat,
knows how to deal with his Congress,
astonished at his own piety,
packed up for Nashville,
tempted to believe his own lies,
his snake egg,
blood on his hands.
Davis, Mr. , of Mississippi, a remark of his.
Day and Martin, proverbially "on hand. "
Death, rings down curtain.
De Bow (a famous political economist).
Delphi, oracle of,
surpassed,
alluded to.
Democracy,
false notion of,
its privileges.
Demosthenes.
Destiny, her account.
Devil, the,
unskilled in certain Indian tongues,
letters to and from.
Dey of Tripoli.
Didymus, a somewhat voluminous grammarian.
Dighton rock character might be usefully employed in some emergencies.
Dimitry Bruisgins, fresh supply of.
Diogenes, his zeal for propagating certain variety of olive.
Dioscuri, imps of the pit.
District-Attorney, contemptible conduct of one.
Ditchwater on brain, a too common ailing.
Dixie, the land of.
Doctor, the, a proverbial saying of.
Doe, Hon. Preserved, speech of.
Donatus, profane wish of.
Doughface, yeast-proof.
Downing Street.
Drayton,
a martyr,
north star, culpable for aiding, whether.
Dreams, something about.
Dwight, President, a hymn unjustly attributed to.
D. Y. , letter of.

Eagle, national, the late, his estate administered upon.
Earth, Dame, a peep at her housekeeping.
Eating words, habit of, convenient in time of famine.
Eavesdroppers.
Echetlaeus.
Editor,
his position,
commanding pulpit of,
large congregation of,
name derived from what,
fondness for mutton,
a pious one, his creed,
a showman,
in danger of sudden arrest, without bail.
Editors, certain ones who crow like cockerels.
Edwards, Jonathan.
Eggs, bad, the worst sort of.
Egyptian darkness, phial of, use for.
Eldorado, Mr. Sawin sets sail for.
Elizabeth, Queen, mistake of her ambassador.
Emerson.
Emilius, Paulus.
Empedocles.
Employment, regular, a good thing.
Enfield's Speaker, abuse of.
England, late Mother-Country,
her want of tact,
merits as a lecturer,
her real greatness not to be forgotten,
not contented (unwisely) with her own stock of fools,
natural maker of international law,
her theory thereof,
makes a particularly disagreeable kind of sarse,
somewhat given to bullying,
has respectable relations,
ought to be Columbia's friend,
anxious to buy an elephant.
Epaulets, perhaps no badge of saintship.
Epimenides, the Cretan Rip Van Winkle.
Episcopius, his marvellous oratory.
Eric, king of Sweden, his cap.
Ericsson, his caloric engine.
Eriksson, Thorwald, slain by natives.
Essence-peddlers.
Ethiopian, the, his first need.
Evangelists, iron ones.
Eyelids, a divine shield against authors.
Ezekiel, text taken from.
Ezekiel would make a poor figure at a caucus.

Faber, Johannes.
Factory-girls, expected rebellion of.
Facts,
their unamiability,
compared to an old-fashioned stage-coach.
_Falstaffii, legio_.
Family-trees,
fruit of jejune,
a primitive forest of.
Faneuil Hall,
a place where persons tap themselves for a species of hydrocephalus,
a bill of fare mendaciously advertised in.
Father of country, his shoes.
Female Papists, cut off in the midst of idolatry.
_Fenianorum, rixae_.
Fergusson, his 'Mutual Complaint,' etc.
F. F. , singular power of their looks.
Fire, we all like to play with it.
Fish, emblematic, but disregarded, where.
Fitz, Miss Parthenia Almira, a sheresiarch.
Flam, President, untrustworthy.
Flirt, Mrs.
Flirtilla, elegy on death of.
Floyd, a taking character.
_Floydus, furcifer_.
Fly-leaves, providential increase of.
Fool, a cursed, his inalienable rights.
Foote, Mr. , his taste for field-sports.
Fourier, a squinting toward.
Fourth of July ought to know its place.
Fourth of Julys, boiling.
France,
a strange dance begun in,
about to put her foot in it.
Friar John.
Fuller, Dr. Thomas, a wise saying of.
Funnel, old, hurraing in.
Gabriel, his last trump, its pressing nature.
Gardiner, Lieutenant Lion.
Gawain, Sir, his amusements.
Gay, S. H.
, Esquire, editor of National Antislavery Standard, letter to.
Geese, how infallibly to make swans of.
Gentleman, high-toned Southern, scientifically classed.
Getting up early.
Ghosts, some, presumed fidgety, (but see Stilling's Pneumatology. )
Giants formerly stupid.
Gideon, his sword needed.
Gift of tongues, distressing case of.
Gilbert, Sir Humphrey.
Globe Theatre, cheap season-ticket to.
Glory,
a perquisite of officers,
her account with B. Sawin, Esq.
Goatsnose, the celebrated interview with.
God, the only honest dealer.
Goings, Mehetable, unfounded claim of, disproved.
Gomara,
has a vision,
his relationship to the Scarlet Woman.
Governor, our excellent.
Grandfather, Mr. Biglow's, safe advice of.
Grandfathers, the, knew something.
Grand jurors, Southern, their way of finding a true bill.
_Grantus, Dux_.
Gravestones, the evidence of Dissenting ones held doubtful.
Gray's letters are letters.
Great horn spoon, sworn by.
Greeks, ancient, whether they questioned candidates.
Green Man, sign of.

Habeas corpus, new mode of suspending it.
Hail Columbia, raised.
Ham,
sandwich, an orthodox (but peculiar) one,
his seed,
their privilege in the Bible,
immoral justification of.
Hamlets, machine for making.
Hammon.
Hampton Roads, disaster in.
Hannegan, Mr. , something said by.
Harrison, General, how preserved.
Hat, a leaky one.
Hat-trees in full bearing.
Hawkins, his whetstone.
Hawkins, Sir John, stout, something he saw.
Hawthorne.
Hay-rick, electrical experiments with.
Headlong, General.
Hell,
the opinion of some concerning,
breaks loose.
Henry the Fourth of England, a Parliament of, how named.
Hens, self-respect attributed to.
Herb, the Circean.
Herbert, George, next to David.
Hercules, his second labor probably what.
Hermon, fourth-proof dew of.
Herodotus, story from.
Hesperides, an inference from.
Hessians, native American soldiers.
Hickory, Old, his method.
Higgses, their natural aristocracy of feeling.
Hitchcock, Doctor.
Hitchcock, the Rev. Jeduthun,
colleague of Mr. Wilbur,
letter from, containing notices of Mr. Wilbur,
ditto, enclosing macaronic verses,
teacher of high-school.
Hogs, their dreams.
Holden, Mr. Shearjashub,
Preceptor of Jaalam Academy,
his knowledge of Greek limited,
a heresy of his,
leaves a fund to propagate it.
Holiday, blind man's.
Hollis, Ezra, goes to Cornwallis.
Hollow, why men providentially so constructed.
Holmes, Dr. , author of 'Annals of America. ,'
Homer, a phrase of, cited.
Homer, eldest son of Mr. Wilbur.
Homers, democratic ones, plums left for.
Hotels, big ones, humbugs.
House, a strange one described.
Howell, James, Esq. ,
story told by,
letters of, commended.
Huldah, her bonnet.
Human rights out of order on the floor of Congress.
Humbug,
ascription of praise to,
generally believed in.
Husbandry, instance of bad.

Icarius, Penelope's father.
Icelander, a certain uncertain.
Idea,
the Southern, its natural foes,
the true American.
Ideas, friction ones unsafe.
Idyl defined.
Indecision, mole-blind.
Infants, prattlings of, curious observation concerning.
Information wanted (universally, but especially at page).
Ishmael, young.

Jaalam, unjustly neglected by great events.
Jaalam Centre,
Anglo-Saxons unjustly suspected by the young ladies there
"Independent Blunderbuss," strange conduct of editor of,
public meeting at,
meeting-house ornamented with imaginary clock.
Jaalam, East Parish of.
Jaalam Point, lighthouse on, charge of, prospectively offered
to Mr. H. Biglow.
_Jacobus, rex_.
Jakes, Captain, reproved for avarice.
Jamaica.
James the Fourth, of Scots, experiment by.
Jarnagin, Mr. , his opinion of the completeness of Northern education.
Jefferson, Thomas, well-meaning, but injudicious.
Jeremiah, hardly the best guide in modern politics.
Jerome, Saint, his list of sacred writers.
Jerusha, ex-Mrs. Sawin.
Job,
Book of,
Chappelow on.
Johnson, Andrew,
as he used to be,
as he is: see Arnold, Benedict.
Johnson, Mr. , communicates some intelligence.
Jonah,
the inevitable destiny of,
probably studied internal economy of the cetacea,
his gourd,
his unanimity in the whale.
Jonathan to John.
Jortin, Dr. , cited.
Journals, British, their brutal tone.
Juanito.
Judea,
everything not known there,
not identical with A. D.
Judge, the,
his garden,
his hat covers many things.
Juvenal, a saying of.

Kay, Sir, the, of modern chivalry.
Key, brazen one.
Keziah, Aunt, profound observation of.
Kinderhook.
Kingdom Come, march to, easy.
Konigsmark, Count.

Lablache surpassed.
Lacedaemonians banish a great talker.
Lamb, Charles, his epistolary excellence.
Latimer, Bishop, episcopizes Satan.
Latin tongue, curious information concerning.
Launcelot, Sir, a trusser of giants formerly, perhaps would find less
sport therein now.
Laura, exploited.
Learning, three-story.
Letcher, _de la vieille roche_.
_Letcherus, nebulo_.
Letters,
classed,
their shape,
of candidates,
often fatal.
Lettres Cabalistiques, quoted.
Lewis, Dixon H. , gives his view of slavery.
Lewis Philip,
a scourger of young native Americans,
commiserated (though not deserving it).
Lexington.
Liberator, a newspaper, condemned by implication.
Liberty, unwholesome for men of certain complexions.
Licking, when constitutional.
Lignum vitae, a gift of this valuable wood proposed.
Lincoln, too shrewd to hang Mason and Slidell.
Literature, Southern, its abundance.
Little Big Boosy River.
Longinus recommends swearing, note (Fuseli did same thing).
Long-sweetening recommended.
Lord, inexpensive way of lending to.
Lords, Southern, prove _pur sang_ by ablution.
Lost arts, one sorrowfully added to list of.
Louis the Eleventh of France, some odd trees of his.
Lowell, Mr. J. R. , unaccountable silence of.
Luther, Martin, his first appearance as Europa.
Lyaeus.
Lyttelton, Lord, his letters an imposition.

Macrobii, their diplomacy.
Magoffin, a name naturally noble.
Mahomet, got nearer Sinai than some.
Mahound, his filthy gobbets.
Mandeville, Sir John, quoted.
Mangum, Mr. , speaks to the point.
Manichaean, excellently confuted.
Man-trees, grow where.
Maori chieftains.
Mapes, Walter,
quoted,
paraphrased.
Mares'-nests, finders of, benevolent.
Marius, quoted.
Marshfield.
Martin, Mr. Sawin used to vote for him.
Mason and Dixon's line, slaves north of.
Mason an F. F. V.
Mason and Slidell, how they might have been made at once useful and
ornamental.
Mass, the, its duty defined.
Massachusetts,
on her knees,
something mentioned in connection with, worthy the attention of
tailors,
citizen of, baked, boiled, and roasted (_nefandum! _).
Masses, the, used as butter by some.
Maury, an intellectual giant, twin birth with Simms (which see).
Mayday a humbug.
M. C. , an invertebrate animal.
Me, Mister, a queer creature.
Mechanics' Fair, reflections suggested at.
_Medium, ardentispirituale_.
Mediums, spiritual, dreadful liars.
Memminger, old.
Mentor, letters of, dreary.
Mephistopheles at a nonplus.
Mexican blood, its effect in raising price of cloth.
Mexican polka.