CONTENTS.

[A CHAPTER GRATIS AND EXPLANATORY]

[CHAPTER I.]

Make Ready—Fire—Departure.

FROM LONDON TO NEW YORK.

Preparations

LIVERPOOL—Embarkation Scenes

Scenes on Board

CAPE RACE

Pilot

NEW YORK

[CHAPTER II.]

Land of Stars and Stripes.

AT NEW YORK.

The First View

Custom House

Ferry Boat

First Impressions

Hospitality

American Hotels

Bar and Barbers

Bridal Chamber

Paddy Waiter

Feeding System

Streets and Buildings

Portrait Hatter

Advertisements

Loafing in Broadway

[CHAPTER III.]

Sights and Amusements.

AT NEW YORK.

Yacht Club and Dinner.

Railway Society to LONG ISLAND

Race Stand

Trotting Match

Metallic Coffin

American Horse

Hack Cabs and Drivers

Omnibuses

City Railway Cars

Travelling Railway Cars

Tickets for Luggage

Locomotive

Suggestions for Railway Companies

[CHAPTER IV.]

A Day on the North River.

FROM NEW YORK TO GENESEO.

Embark in Steamer on Hudson

Passengers and Anecdotes

Scenery of River

ALBANY—Disembark

A Hint for Travellers

Population and Prosperity

Railway through Town

Professor of Soap

CANANDAIGUA—Hospitality.

Early Education

Opposite System

Drive across Country—Snake Fences and Scenery

Churches—a Hint for the Highlands

Cheap Bait—GENESEO

[CHAPTER V.]

Geneseo.

AT GENESEO

Absence of Animal Life—Early Rising

View from the Terrace—Work of the Pioneer

Farm and System, Wages, &c.

A Drive—Family Scene

LAKE CANESUS

Plank road. Toll gates, &c.

Scotch Pikeman

[CHAPTER VI.]

Stirring Scenes and Strange Sights.

FROM GENESEO TO NEW YORK.

A Drive to BATAVIA—Railway Warning

Buffalo Railway Station and Yankee Cabby

Prosperity and Contrast

NIAGARA

ROCHESTER

A Live Bloomer

Advantage proved by Contrast

Reflections on Old Fashions

Pleasant Night

[CHAPTER VII.]

Construction and Destruction.

AT NEW YORK.

Cutter Yacht, "Black Maria"

Dinner on Board

Toddy and Chowder

Prosperity—Croton Aqueduct

Destruction of Dogs

Drive on the Bloomingdale Road

A Storm

[CHAPTER VIII.]

South and West.

FROM NEW YORK TO LOUISVILLE.

Ticket Station

PHILADELPHIA—Convenience

Luggage left behind

BALTIMORE—MAXWELL POINT

Canvas-back Ducks

Tolling for Ducks

Start by Rail—A Fix

HARRISBURGH—The Whittling Colonel

Start again. Pleasant Company

Inclined Planes—Canal Boat

Coaching Comfort

PITTSBURG

Railing through Forest, and Reflections

CLEVELAND—Mud-walk

To Sleep or not to Sleep

CINCINNATI—Statistics and Education

Porkopolis and Pigs

A bloody Scene

Ships at Marietta

OHIO—Levee and Literature

Embark on Steamer—Black Stewardess

Ibrahim Pacha and Fat

[CHAPTER IX.]

Scenes Ashore and Afloat.

FROM LOUISVILLE TO ST. LOUIS.

Fabrication of the Republican Bonbon

Wood Machinery

A Nine-inside Coach

Human Polecat

Breakfast and Cigar

versus

Foetor

Ferry Crossing—Travelling Beasts

Old Bell's and Old Bell

Cross Country Drive—Scenery

The Mammoth Cave

Old Bell and the Mail

Pleasant Companions

Rural Lavatory

Fat Boy and Circus Intelligence

LOUISVILLE and Advice

Ohio—A Bet at the Bar

A Dinner Scene and a Lady

Dessert and Toothpicks

Evening Recreation

CAIRO—Its Prospects

ST. LOUIS—Its Prosperity

[CHAPTER X.]

River Scenes.

FROM ST. LOUIS TO NEW ORLEANS.

MISSISSIPPI—Good-natured Weakness

Mississippi

v

. Missouri

Stale Anecdote revived

Marriage Certificate

Folly—Description of Steamer

Inspection Farce described

Corporal Punishment—Illustration

Captain of Mizen Top

v

. White Nigger

Scenery

Mississippi—Good night

Screecher & Burster—A Race

Captain leaves us

Bed—Alarm—Wreck

Brutal Heartlessness

River Wreckers

NEW ORLEANS

Wrecks, Causes and Remedies

Anecdotes of Blood

[CHAPTER XI.]

New Orleans.

FROM NEW ORLEANS TO HAVANA.

Situation and Bustle

Cotton, Tobacco and Sugar

Steamers, and Wages

Streets, Hotels, &c

A Friend in Need. Neighbourhood, Shell-road

Society and Remarks

Rough-and-Tumble—Lola Montez

A Presbyterian Church

The Gold Man

Autocracy of the Police

Law—Boys and Processions

Duel Penalties—Stafford House Address

Clubs

Spanish Consul and Passport

Parting Cadeau

Pilot Dodge

Purser Smith

Sneezing Dangerous—Selecting a Companion

HAVANA

[CHAPTER XII.]

The Queen of the Antilles.

AT CUBA.

Volante

Lively Funeral

A Light to a Cigar

Evening Amusement

Trip to MATANZAS—El Casero

Slave Plantation

Sugar Making

Luxuriant Vegetation

Punic Faith and Cuban Cruelty

H.M.S. "Vestal"

Bribery

Admiralty Wisdom

Cigars and Manufactory

Population—Chinese

Laws of Domicile—Police and Slavery

Increase of Slaves and Produce

Tobacco, Games, and Lotteries

Cuban Jokes

Sketch of Governors

The Future of Cuba?

[CHAPTER XIII.]

Change of Dynasty.

FROM CUBA TO BALTIMORE.

KEY POINT

Vulgar Hebrew

CHARLESTON, WASHINGTON

Night and Morning

Congress and Inauguration

General Jackson and Changes

Cabmen and City

Shopman and Drinking

Levees and Buildings

BALTIMORE and Terrapin

The Drama

Progress—Fire Companies

[CHAPTER XIV.]

Philadelphia and Richmond.

FROM BALTIMORE TO RICHMOND.

PHILADELPHIA and Hospitality.

Streets—Mint

Gerard College

High School

A Jail and a Cure for the Turbulent

Lunatic Asylum

NEW YORK and Embark

A Wild Paddy

CHARLESTON Arrival

Hotel and Hospitality

Climate and Buildings

Commercial Prosperity

Fire Companies

Miniature WEST POINT (

Vide

Note)

WILMINGTON Railway Accident

PETERBOROUGH and my Hat

RICHMOND Scenery and Prosperity

Powhattan's Tree, an Episode

A Lady Friend

Fire and Folly

Monkey Boy

Gerymander

Fire Company, Frolic and Reflections

[CHAPTER XV.]

From a River to a Race-course.

FROM RICHMOND TO NEW YORK.

Down the River

WILLIAMSBURG. Old Palace

A Governor and a Paddy

The College

Uncle Ben and his Inn

Reflections

SHIRLEY, Hospitality, &c.

BEANDON, Hospitality, &c.

Rural Election—A Cruise in a Calm

Choral Warblers and Family Altar

NORFOLK, Dockyard, &c.

Slave Servants, a Hint to the Foreign Office

Via

BALTIMORE to PHILADELPHIA—A Confession.

Race—Mac and Tac

NEW YORK

[CHAPTER XVI.]

Home of the Pilgrim Fathers.

FROM NEW YORK TO BOSTON.

Off by rail—Foxhunting Fire

BOSTON. Buildings and Hospitality

Neighbourhood and Names

The Drama

Spirit-rapping and Gulls

[CHAPTER XVII.]

Teaching of Youth and a Model Jail.

AT BOSTON.

Pilgrim Fathers

Education—Expenditure—Regulations, &c.

Phonetic System

A Model Jail—Telegraph and Fire—Dockyard

Water Supply, Prosperity, &c.

[CHAPTER XVIII.]

Canada.

FROM BOSTON TO QUEBEC.

Railroad and Scenery

MONTREAL, and a Welcome Face

Gavazzi—Excitement—Mob, &c.

QUEBEC and Neighbourhood Mrs. Paul and Miss Paddy

Ferry-boat and Friends

Rebellion Losses Bill

Moral Courage and Administrative Ability evidenced and acknowledged

Hint for Militia

Canadian Government

[CHAPTER XIX.]

A Trip to the Uttáwa.

FROM QUEBEC TO TORONTO.

Mr. Hincks—Mr. Drummond—MONTREAL

Up the OTTAWAY to LACHINE, ST. ANNE'S to BYTOWN and AYLMER

The CHATS FALLS

Canadian Highlanders

Conflagration, Rafts, Lumberers, and Teetotallers

The Struggle, the Goal, and the Return

AYLMER Prosperity

BYTOWN. Scenery and Advantages

Slides for Lumber—Mr. Mackay

Object of Councillor's Visit

Drive across Country

PRESCOTT and OGDENSBURG

KINGSTON

LAKE ONTARIO and a Nice Bed

TORONTO

[CHAPTER XX.]

Colonial Education and Prosperity.

AT TORONTO.

TORONTO. Population, Prosperity and Buildings

The Normal School

Education generally Canadian Prospects and Prosperity

[CHAPTER XXI.]

A Cataract and a Celebration.

FROM TORONTO TO NEW YORK.

Embark in Steamer

QUEENSTOWN & LEWISTOWN

A Drive, a Bait, and a Lesson

NIAGARA and Moonlight

BATAVIA, GENESEO, and 4th July

Hawking Carriages—ROCHESTER

ALBANY—Hands and Sandwiches

Dropped outside—NEW YORK

[CHAPTER XXII.]

Education, Civil and Military.

NEW YORK AND WEST POINT.

Free Academy

WEST POINT. Military Academy

Anecdote, &c.

NEW YORK


Here travelling ceases, and the remaining Chapters are devoted to the discussion of subjects which I trust may interest the reader.

[CHAPTER XXIII.]

Watery Highways and Metallic Intercourse.

Area of Lakes, and Tonnage thereon

Mississippi—Produce borne and destroyed

Mr. Douglas and Custom Houses

A Great Party Doctrine

Erie Canal—Barn-burners and Hunkers

Railways—United States and England

Telegraph

Systems of Telegraph

[CHAPTER XXIV.]

America's Press and England's Censor.

Issues of the Press

Wonderful Statistics

Character of the Press

Great Britain's Press

Low Literature of America

Barefaced Robbery—

Northwood

Specimen

English Items

Specimen

The Author of

English Items

SUBJECTS EXTRACTED:—

Relations with England

Sixpenny Miracles

Army Commissions—English Writers

American Spitting

Holy Places

English Friends

Original Sin

English Manners

English Church and Heraldry

Devotion to Dinner

Conclusion

Subsequent Career of Mr. Ward—The Offence—The Scene and the Death

Acquittal and Effects

[CHAPTER XXV.]

The Institution of Slavery.

Original Guilt

Northern Fanatics

Irritation produced

Northern Friendship questioned

Grounds of Southerners' Objections to the Abolitionists

English Abolitionists

Mrs. Stowe's Ovation

Treatment of Slaves

Irresponsible Power and Public Opinion

Sources of Opinion as to Treatment of Slaves—Law—Self-interest

Christianity

Habit

Causes of Indignation

Recrimination

Evidence from Authors—Press and Canada

Review of Progress of Slavery

Slave Population and Value

Question of Freedom

[CHAPTER XXVI.]

Hints for Master and Hopes for Slave.

PROPOSALS.

Free Soil

Fugitive Law

Territory of Refuge

TREATMENT DISCUSSED.

Corporal Punishment

Forfeiture and Testimony

System for Ultimate Freedom

The Blackest Feature in Slavery

VISIONARY DEPUTATION

Inveterate Slaveholder

Touchy Slaveholder, and Swaggering Bully

Clerical Slave Advocate

Amiable Planter

Recriminator

Abolitionist and Intelligent Slaveholder

A frightful Question

Closing Observations

Nebraska—The Christian and the Mussulman

[CHAPTER XXVII.]

Constitution of the United States.

Plan Proposed

Government and Qualification for Office

Elective Franchise

Frequency of Elections

Ballot

Effects of Elections under the Ballot

Remedy proposed

John Randolph, Sydney Smith, and Clubs

Payment of Members and its Effects

Scene in Congress

The Judiciary

Exclusion of Cabinet from Seats

Power of President

Election of President

Governors of States, and Power of Pardon

Conclusion and Testimony of Bishop Hopkins

[CHAPTER XXVIII.]

The Church, the School, and the Law.

Church Statistics

American Episcopal Prayer-Book

Methodist Episcopacy and Presbyterian Music

What exists at Home

Ismite Convention

Education Statistics and College Expenses

Pray read this—Law for Conveyance of Land

[CHAPTER XXIX.]

Inventions and Inveighings.

What is a Bay?

Dr. King—Fulton and Steam

Telegraph and American Modesty

Reaping Machine

Opinion of a Borderer

American Ingenuity

Fire-arms and Militia

[CHAPTER XXX.]

Adverse Influences.

The 4th July

Mr. Douglas and Congress

Miss Willard and John Mitchell

Who are the Antipathists?

[CHAPTER XXXI.]

Olla Podrida.

American Vanity

American Sensitiveness

American Morals

Territory and Population

Effect of Early Education

Phases of Liberty

Strikes

Intelligence

Energy

'Cuteness and Eggs

Enterprise—Lord-hunting

Hospitality—Political Parties

Know-nothings

The Future

My Endeavour

My Warning

Lord Holland, Hope, and Farewell

[NOTES.]

EXTENT OF TELEGRAPH IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

A SHORT SKETCH OF THE PROGRESS OF FIRE-ARMS

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"THE INQUIRING MIND WEARIES NOT IN THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE."
ANTONIO PEREZ. (Translation)