men, 10.

Arnold, 42.

Ashland, 106.

Astor, Jacob, a rich man, 91.

Astraea, nineteenth century forsaken by, 102.

Athenians, ancient, an institution of, 41.

Atherton, Senator, envies the loon, 60.

Austin, St., profane wish of, 43, _note_.

Aye-Aye, the, an African animal, America supposed to be settled by, 25.

Babel, probably the first Congress, 53
--a gabble-mill, _ib._

Baby, a low-priced one, 98.

Bagowind, Hon. Mr., whether to be damned, 63.

Baldwin apples, 125.

Baratarias, real or imaginary, which most pleasant, 102.

Barnum, a great natural curiosity recommended to, 49.

Barrels, an inference from seeing, 125.

Baton Rouge, 106
--strange peculiarities of labourers at, 107.

Baxter, R., a saying of, 35.

Bay, Mattysqumscot, 119.

Bay State, singular effect produced on military officers by leaving
it, 21.

Beast in Apocalypse, a loadstone, for whom, 83.

Beelzebub, his rigadoon, 61.

Behmen, his letters not letters, 76.

Bellers, a saloon-keeper, 111
--inhumanly refuses credit to a presidential candidate, 112.

Biglow, Ezekiel, his letter to Hon. J. T. Buckingham, 1
--never heard of any one named Mundishes, 2
--nearly four-score years old, _ib._
--his aunt Keziah, a notable saying of, 3.

Biglow, Hosea, excited by composition, 2
--a poem by, 3, 66
--his opinion of war, 4
--wanted at home by Nancy, 7
--recommends a forcible enlistment of warlike editors, _ib._
--would not wonder, if generally agreed with, 9
--versifies letter of Mr. Sawin, 11
--a letter from, 12, 57, 77
--his opinion of Mr. Sawin, 12
--does not deny fun at Cornwallis, 14, _note_
--his idea of militia glory, 17, _note_
--a pun of, 18, _note_
--is uncertain in regard to people of Boston, _ib._
--had never heard of Mr. John P. Robinson, 27
--_aliquid sufflaminandus_, 28
--his poems attributed to a Mr. Lowell, 33
--is unskilled in Latin, _ib._
--his poetry maligned by some, 34
--his disinterestedness, _ib._
--his deep share in commonweal, _ib._
--his claim to the presidency, _ib._
--his mowing, _ib._
--resents being called Whig, 35
--opposed to tariff, _ib._
--obstinate, _ib._
--infected with peculiar notions, _ib._
--reports a speech, 40
--emulates historians of antiquity, _ib._
--his character sketched from a hostile point of view, 52
--a request of his com