Birch, virtue of, in instilling certain of the dead languages, 100.
Bluenose potatoes, smell of, eagerly desired, 17.
Bolles, Mr. Secondary, author of prize peace essay, 15 --presents sword to Lieutenant Colonel, _ib._ --a fluent orator, _ib._ --found to be in error, 17.
Boston, people of, supposed educated, 18, _note_.
Brigadier-Generals in militia, devotion of, 38.
Brown, Mr., engages in an unequal contest, 63.
Browne, Sir T., a pious and wise sentiment of, cited and commended, 11.
Buckingham, Hon. J. T., editor of the Boston Courier, letters to, 1, 12, 33, 57 --not afraid, 13.
Buffalo, a plan hatched there, 115 --plaster, a prophecy in regard to, _ib._
Buncombe, in the other world supposed, 41.
Bung, the eternal, thought to be loose, 7.
C., General, commended for parts, 29 --for ubiquity, _ib._ --for consistency, _ib._ --for fidelity, _ib._ --is in favour of war, _ib._ --his curious valuation of principle, _ib._
Cæsar, tribute to, 66 --his _veni, vidi, vici_, censured for undue prolixity, 85.
Cainites, sect of, supposed still extant, 10.
Caleb, a monopoly of his denied, 15 --curious notions of, as to meaning of "shelter," 19 --his definition of Anglo-Saxon, 20 --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, 55 --cannot let go apron-string of the Past, _ib._ --his unsuccessful tilt at Spirit of the Age, 56 --the Sir Kay of modern chivalry, _ib._ --his anchor made of a crooked pin, 57 --mentioned, 58-61.
Cambridge Platform, use discovered for, 24.
Candidate, presidential, letter from, 74 --smells a rat, 78 --against a bank, 79 --takes a revolving position, _ib._ --opinion of pledges, 80 --is a periwig, _ib._ --fronts south by north, 81 --qualifications of, lessening, 85 --wooden leg (and head) useful to, 96.
Cape Cod clergymen, what, 24 --Sabbath-breakers, perhaps, reproved by, _ib._
Carpini, Father John de Plano, among the Tartars, 123.
Cartier, Jacques, commendable zeal of, 123.
Cass, General, 59 --clearness of his merit, 60 --limited popularity at "Bellers's," 111.
Castles, Spanish, comfortable accommodations in, 102.
Cato, letters of, so called, suspended _naso adunco_, 76.