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. Bonaparte, N., a usurper, 83. Boot-trees, productive, where, 100. Boston, people of, supposed educated, 18, _note_. Brahmins, navel-contemplating, 74. Bread-trees, 100. 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. Bungtown Fencibles, dinner of, 26. Butter in Irish bogs, 100. 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. Canary Islands, 100. 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. C. D., friends of, can hear of him, 76. Chalk egg, we are proud of incubation of, 75. Chappelow on Job, a copy of, lost, 65. Cherubusco, news of, its effects on English royalty, 50. Chesterfield no letter-writer, 76. Chief Magistrate, dancing esteemed sinful by, 24. Children naturally speak Hebrew, 11. China-tree, 100. Chinese, whether they invented gunpowder before the Christian era, _not_ considered, 25. Choate hired, 113.