132.

Slaughtering nowadays is slaughter-
ing, 132.

Slavery, of no color, 47-corner-stone
of liberty, 87-also keystone, 92-
last crumb of Eden, 95-a Jonah,
96 an institution, 111 -a private
State concern, 144.

Slidell, New York trash, 309.

Tarbox, Shearjashub, first white child
born in Jaalam, 244.
Tartars, Mongrel, 226.

Taxes, direct, advantages of, 131.
Taylor, General, greased by Mr.
Choate, 140.

Taylor zeal, its origin, 138.
Teapots, how made dangerous, 347.
Ten, the upper, 288.

ident of Jaalam Bank, 298.

Smith, Joe, used as a translation, 99.
Smith, John, an interesting character,
106.

Smith, Mr., fears entertained for, 97
- dined with, 107.

Smith, N. B., his magnanimity, 104.
Smithius, dux, 356.

Soandso, Mr., the great, defines his po-
sition, 104.

Soft-heartedness, misplaced, is soft-
headedness, 350.
Sol, the fisherman, 56 soundness of
respiratory organs hypothetically
attributed to, ib.
Soldiers, British, ghosts of, insubordi-
nate, 256.

Solomon, Song of, portions of it done
into Latin verse by Mr. Wilbur, 354.
Solon, a saying of, 64.

Soul, injurious properties of, 296.
South, its natural eloquence, 326

facts have a mean spite against, 310.
South Carolina, futile attempt to an-
chor, 91- her pedigrees, 275.
Southern men, their imperfect notions
of labor, 228-of subscriptions, 231
too high-pressure, 239-prima
facie noble, 286.
Spanish, to walk, what, 58.
Speech-making, an abuse of gift of
speech, 87.

Spirit-rapping does not repay the spir-
its engaged in it, 338.
Split-Foot, Old, made to squirm, 239.
Spring, described, 331-333.

Star, north, subject to indictment,
whether, 96.

Statesman, a genuine, defined, 324.
Stearns, Othniel, fable by, 389.
Stone Spike, the, 255.

Store, cheap cash, a wicked fraud,
130.

Strong, Governor Caleb, a patriot, 68.
Style, the catalogue, 333.
Sumter, shame of, 263.

Sunday should mind its own business,
324.

Swearing commended as a figure of
speech, 53, note.

Swett, Jethro C., his fall, 376.
Swift, Dean, threadbare saying of, 71.

Tag, elevated to the Cardinalate, 63.
Taney, C. J., 294, 319.

ness, 89.

Thacker, Rev. Preserved, D. D., 341.
Thanks get lodged, 122.
Thanksgiving, Feejee, 227.
Thaumaturgus, Saint Gregory, letter
of, to the Devil, 108.
Theleme, Abbey of, 299.
Theocritus, the inventor of idyllic
poetry, 241.

Theory, defined, 319.

Thermopyles, too many, 308.

"They 'll say a notable bully, 261.
Thirty-nine articles might be made
serviceable, 63.

Thor, a foolish attempt of, 90.
Thoreau, 243.

Thoughts, live ones characterized, 370.
Thumb, General Thomas, a valuable
member of society, 84.

Thunder, supposed in easy circum-
stances, 120.

Thynne, Mr., murdered, 50.
Tibullus, 345.

Time, an innocent personage to swear
by, 52, note a scene-shifter, 104.
Tinkham, Deacon Pelatiah, story con-
cerning, not told, 221 - alluded to,
241 does a very sensible thing,
278.

Toms, peeping, 106.

Toombs, a doleful sound from, 310.
Trees, various kinds of extraordinary
ones, 129.

Trowbridge, William, mariner, adven-
ture of, 62.

Truth and falsehood start from same
point, 65-truth invulnerable to
satire, ib. compared to a river,
75 of fiction sometimes truer than
fact, ib. told plainly, passim.
Tuileries, exciting scene at, 85-front
parlor of, 303.

Tully, a saying of, 77, note.
Tunnel, northwest-passage, a poor.in-
vestment, 298.

Turkey-Buzzard Roost, 235.
Tuscaloosa, 235.

Tutchel, Rev. Jonas, a Sadducee, 317.
Tweedledee, gospel according to, 99.
Tweedledum, great principles of, 99.
Tylerus, juvenis insignis, 356-por
phyrogenitus, 357-Johannides,
flito celeris, 359-bene titus, 360.
Tyrants, European, how made to trem
ble, 230.

Universe, its breeching, 290.
University, triennial catalogue of, 73.
Us, nobody to be compared with, 231,
and see World, passim.

Van Buren fails of gaining Mr. Sawin's
confidence, 141-his son John re-
proved, 142.

Van, Old, plan to set up, 141.
Vattel, as likely to fall on your toes as
on mine, 267.

Venetians invented something once,
130.

Vices, cardinal, sacred conclave of,
63.

Victoria, Queen, her natural terror, 85
- her best carpets, 303.

Vinland, 316.

Whig party has a large throat, 72-
but query as to swallowing spurs,
140.

White-house, 112.

Wickliffe, Robert, consequences of his
bursting, 347.

Wife-trees, 129.

Wilbur, Mrs. Dorcas (Pilcox), an in-
variable rule of, 73- her profile, ib.
- tribute to, 342.

Wilbur, Rev. Homer, A. M., consulted,
44 his instructions to his flock,
52 a proposition of his for Prot-
estant bomb-shells, 63 - his elbow
nudged, 64- his notions of satire,
ib. some opinions of his quoted
with apparent approval by Mr. Big-
low, 67-geographical speculations
of, 68-a justice of the peace, ib.
a letter of, 69-a Latin pun of, 70
-runs against a post without in-
jury, 71- does not seek notoriety
(whatever some malignants may af-
firm), 72-fits youths for college,
73 a chaplain during late war
with England, 74-a shrewd obser-
vation of, 76-some curious specu-
lations of, 87-89 his martello-
tower, 88- forgets he is not in pul-
pit, 96, 116-extracts from sermon
of, 98, 99, 103-105-interested in
John Smith, 106-his views con-
cerning present state of letters, 107,
108a stratagem of, 113 - ventures
two hundred and fourth interpreta-
tion of Beast in Apocalypse, 114-
christens Hon. B. Sawin, then an
infant, 116 - an addition to our
sylva proposed by, 128 curious and
instructive adventure of, 130 — his
account with an unnatural uncle,
132 his uncomfortable imagina-
tion, ib.- speculations concerning
Cincinnatus, 133-confesses digres-
sive tendency of mind, 149 - goes
to work on sermon (not without
fear that his readers will dub him
with a reproachful epithet like that
with which Isaac Allerton, a May-
flower man, revenges himself on a
delinquent debtor of his, calling him
in his will, and thus holding him up
to posterity, as "John Peterson,
THE BORE"), 150 - his modesty,
215 disclaims sole authorship of
Mr. Biglow's writings, 216- his low
opinion of prepensive autographs,
217 a chaplain in 1812, 220 - cites
a heathen comedian, 221 - his fond-
ness for the Book of Job, ib.
preaches a Fast-Day discourse, ib.

-

is prevented from narrating a
singular occurrence, 222 - is pre-
sented with a pair of new spectacles,
240 his church services indecor-
ously sketched by Mr. Sawin, 283-

hopes to decipher a Runic inscrip-
tion, 297 a fable by, 298 -- deci-
phers Runic inscription, 312-318-
his method therein, 314-- is ready
to reconsider his opinion of tobacco,
317 his opinion of the Puritans,
329 his death, 341 - born in Pigs-
gusset, ib. - letter of Rev. Mr
Hitchcock concerning, 341-343
fond of Milton's Christmas hymn,
343 his monument (proposed), ib.
- his epitaph, ib. - his last letter,
343-346-his supposed disembodied
spirit, 352-table belonging to, 353

sometimes wrote Latin verses, 354
his table-talk, 302-369- his pre-
judices, 363 against Baptists, ib.
- his sweet nature, 376 his views
of style, 378-a story of his, 380.

Wildbore, a vernacular one, how to
escape, 88.

Wilkes, Captain, borrows rashly, 256.
Wind, the, a good Samaritan, 116.
Wingfield, his "Memorial," 277.
Wooden leg, remarkable for sobriety,
118-never eats pudding, 119.
Woods, the. See Belmont.

Works, covenants of, condemned, 279.
World, this, its unhappy temper, 223.
Wright, Colonel, providentially res-
cued, 56.

Writing dangerous to reputation, 219.
Wrong, abstract, safe to oppose, 80.

Yankees, their worst wooden nut-
megs, 311.

Zack, Old, 137.