stolen, if not the _cattle_, at least the property of the great American Hercules, and will keep it, unless he rise in his might, and crushing the political thief, resumes his original rights. Now, Mr. White, I am disposed to rest here; though not quite so well satisfied as Jonathan Oldbuck was about the locality Of Agricola's camp, from those mysterious initials which the mischievous Edie Ochiltree so wickedly interpreted to mean "_Ailie Davy's lang ladle_," and not "_Agricola dicavit libens lubens_," as _Monkbarns_ would have it;--but do observe, sir, the singular coincidences between Cacus and Caucus; the one a three headed rogue--the other a sort of political Cerberus; the first slily taking away the cattle of another--the second insidiously cajoling the people of their rights; the former hiding them in a cave, where they were discovered by their bellowing--the latter betrayed by a bellowing from Maine to Georgia; and finally Cacus demolished by Hercules, and Caucus easily demolished by the Herculean force of public sentiment. I acknowledge, however, that I am not entirely satisfied, notwithstanding this "_confirmation strong_," and hope you will speedily relieve the perplexity of Your most obedient, NUGATOR. P.S. A friend facetiously suggests that Caucus is nothing more than a corruption,--Caucus, quasi cork us; that is, shut close the doors that nobody may hear us. REMARK. We will do all in our power to assist our esteemed friend Nugator in his etymological researches.--We remember to have read in a work of a New England author, some years since, an elaborate inquiry into the origin of the word which so much puzzles our correspondent. If our memory serve us faithfully, that writer fixes the nativity of the term in the city of Boston, and the date of its birth previous to the revolution. The circumstances out of which it sprang he asserts to be these. In that stormy period, when every class of citizens was agitated by the sentiments which exploded shortly afterwards in the thunders of revolution, public meetings were frequently held by the different trades and professions. For reasons which we now forget, particular attention was attracted to one called by the _Calkers_, a large body of citizens in so commercial a town. Their proceedings being peculiar, (perhaps in exclusiveness or secrecy,) caused this assemblage to be much talked of; and every subsequent meeting characterized by similar peculiarities in its formation or proceedings, was called a "_Calker's Meeting_." Gradually, in the lapse of time, although the term continued to be used, its origin was forgotten; and a knowledge of its etymological parentage no longer preserving it from corruption, an erroneous pronunciation, and consequently an erroneous manner of spelling it, gave to it the form and shape which it now wears--a change not at all surprising in regard to a word which was probably _unwritten_ during the first thirty years of its existence.